Friday, February 25, 2011

Libya: Al-Qaeda in North Africa fully supports the protesters

Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has assured the protesters Libyan its full support, promising to "do everything possible to help" the insurgency against Colonel Gaddafi. "We declare our support and assistance to the Libyan revolution and its legitimate demands, and we assure our people that we are in Libya with you and we will not let you down," said a statement posted on jihadist websites Wednesday, according to the central monitoring Islamist websites SITE Intelligence Group, based in the United States, Thursday, February 24.

AQIM, welcoming the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, says it's time for "the impostor, the sinner and the bastard in the heart of stone" from a similar fate to that of its neighboring peers. The English translation of the AQIM communiqué does not mention the establishment of an Islamic emirate of Al-Qaeda, led by a former Guantanamo detainee, at Derna in eastern Libya, as had been assured Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Libya, Khaled Kaim.

The locals had denied the allegations.

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