“Today, you have attacked us in the middle of our household, so wait for what will befall you in the middle of yours … We will blow up the earth from beneath your feet.”
“Senior Yemen al Qaeda leader threatens U.S. attacks: site,” by Raissa Kasolowsky for Reuters, February 23:
DUBAI (Reuters) – A senior member of al Qaeda’s Yemen wing who the Yemeni government said it killed has emerged on an internet forum, threatening to carry out attacks in the United States.
Yemen declared an open war on al Qaeda on its territory last month after the group’s regional off-shoot claimed responsibility for a failed bomb attack on a Detroit-bound plane in December that grabbed the world’s attention.
“Today, you have attacked us in the middle of our household, so wait for what will befall you in the middle of yours … We will blow up the earth from beneath your feet,” Qasim al-Raymi, the wing’s military commander, said in an article posted earlier this month on a website used by Islamist militants. […]
In his article, Raymi said U.S. assistance to Yemen has strengthened the militants’ popularity among local tribes.
Addressing the U.S. government, he wrote: “You united us with our people … the catastrophe unites those it befalls.”…
And Western analysts and bright lights like Kelley Beaucar Vlahos actually buy this rhetoric.