“I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim.” — Muhammad (Sahih Muslim 19.4366)
“Qaeda claims attack on Italian embassy in Yemen,” from Reuters (thanks to Twostellas):
DUBAI, May 3 (Reuters) – An al Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility on Saturday for a failed mortar attack on the Italian embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa three days ago.
“Al Qaeda Organisation in the Arabian Peninsula – Yemen Soldiers Brigades – claims responsibility for the blessed operation … on the morning of Wednesday April 30, 2008, (that attacked) the Italian embassy building in Sanaa with two mortar shells,” the group said in a statement posted on an al Qaeda-affiliated website.
It said the attack was aimed at expelling infidels from the Arabian Peninsula, home to Islam’s holiest sites….