Al-Qaeda's military chief in Yemen said Washington has been giving the jihadist network "1,000 reasons" to strike the US mainland, in an audio message released on Monday.
"By killing al-Ambari ... you have given us 1,000 new excuses and reasons to attack you in your homeland," the military chief of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), known as Qassim al-Rimi, said addressing Americans in a message posted on a Jihadist forum.
Jamil Nasser Abdullah al-Ambari, a local leader of Al-Qaeda, was killed in March by Yemeni forces, who have reportedly been supplied with US intelligence and other support for operations against the network.
It was the first time that AQAP admits the killing of Ambari, 25, who headed its cell in the southern province of Abyan and figured on a Yemeni government list of most wanted militants. Rimi said a second militant was killed with Ambari in an air raid in Abyan on March 15, naming him as Amin al-Maqalih.
Yemen said at the time that an air raid against a "terrorist cell" in the Moudia district of Abyan had killed two senior Al-Qaeda members.
[Source: Al-ManarTV]
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