Call to kill Western envoys
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An American al-Qaida militant has called for more attacks on Western diplomats in the Arab world, praising the killers of the US ambassador to Libya on September 11 last year, a US-based monitoring group said yesterday.
Western nations shut embassies across the Middle East and North Africa early this month, after a warning of a possible militant attack. Many have reopened, and the UK and Germany reopened their embassies in Yemen’s capital Sanaa yesterday after being closed for about two weeks due to a terrorism threat.
The United States closed 19 of its diplomatic missions in the Middle East and Africa after it intercepted a message between al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri and Yemen’s al-Qaida offshoot about plans for a major attack. The US has reopened all the posts except its Sanaa embassy.
Adam Gadahn, a California-born convert to Islam with a US$1 million US price on his head, appealed to wealthy Muslims to offer militants rewards to kill ambassadors in the region, citing bounty set for killing the US ambassador to Yemen, Washington-based SITE monitoring group said.
“These prizes have a great effect in instilling fear in the hearts of our cowardly enemies,” Gadahn said in the 39-minute video recording in Arabic posted on websites used by Islamist militants, according to SITE.
“They also encourage hesitant individuals to carry out important and great deeds in the path of Allah,” he said, in an English transcript on SITE.
The Yemen-based branch of al-Qaida last year offered 3 kilograms of gold for the killing of the US ambassador in Sanaa or 5 million rials (US$23,350) for an American soldier in the impoverished Arab state.
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