Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch calls for new attacks in US
Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen has called on followers to carry out more lone-wolf attacks in the United States, according to a report.
"We urge you to strike America in its own home and beyond," says a letter attributed to Ibrahim al-Asiri, the chief bomb-maker of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), CNN reports.
The American news network said it was unable to independently verify that the letter has been written by Asiri, who has a $5 million bounty on his head.
"He's without question the most dangerous terrorist operative that the United States faces today," said CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank. "Intelligence suggests that he is developing a new generation of explosive devices including a new generation of underwear and shoe bomb devices."
The letter, according to a translation by the US-based SITE monitoring group, states that "America is first."
A US counterterrorism official said the letter was "consistent with rhetoric” that the new leader of AQAP, Qassim al-Raymi, used upon taking over the terrorist group’s most active affiliate.
Raymi became the military commander of AQAP after its previous leader, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, was killed in a US drone strike in southeastern Yemen in June.
"All of you must direct and gather your arrows and swords against it," SITE quoted Raymi as telling sympathizers in an audio speech after succeeding Wuhayshi.
At a security conference in Aspen, Colorado, in June, National Intelligence Director James Clapper described AQAP as “probably our most concerning al-Qaeda element in terms of threat to the homeland.”
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