{"id":3810,"date":"2014-09-04T05:41:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T05:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2014-09-04T05:41:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T05:41:17","slug":"al-qaeda-chief-declares-new-branch-in-indian-subcontinent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/09\/04\/3810\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda chief declares new branch in Indian-subcontinent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/dr.ayman-alzawaheri.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri declared Wednesday in a video message that the global Islamist extremist movement has launched a new branch to lead its struggle in the Indian sub-continent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the video, found in online jihadist forums by the SITE terrorism monitoring group, Zawahiri said the new force would &#8220;crush the artificial borders&#8221; dividing Muslim populations in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Al-Qaeda is active in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where its surviving leadership are thought to be hiding out, but Zawahiri said &#8220;Qaedat al-Jihad&#8221; would take the fight to India, Myanmar and Bangladesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;This entity was not established today but is the fruit of a blessed effort of more than two years to gather the mujahedeen in the Indian sub-continent into a single entity,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Founded by Osama bin Laden, who was killed in Pakistan by US commandos in May 2011, Al-Qaeda has long claimed leadership of the jihadists fighting to restore a single caliphate in Muslim lands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But since the death of its figurehead, it has been somewhat eclipsed, first by its own offshoots in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and now by the so-called &#8220;Islamic State&#8221; fighting in Iraq and Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While still regarded as a threat to the West, the group has never managed to repeat the spectacular success of the September 11, 2001 attacks by hijacked airliners on New York and Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But, in launching &#8220;Qaedat al-Jihad in the Indian sub-continent,&#8221; in a video partly in his native Arabic and partly in the Urdu of his presumed Pakistani base, Zawahiri attempted to regain some of the limelight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;It is an entity that was formed to promulgate the call of the reviving imam, Sheikh Osama bin Laden. May Allah have mercy upon him,&#8221; Zawahiri said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He called on the &#8220;umma,&#8221; or Muslim nation, to unite around &#8220;tawhid,&#8221; or monotheism, &#8220;to wage jihad against its enemies, to liberate its land, to restore its sovereignty and to revive its caliphate.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said the group would recognize the overarching leadership of the Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar, be led by Pakistani militant Asim Umar, and employ a spokesman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <em><strong>Alarabiya<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri declared Wednesday in a video message that the global Islamist extremist movement has launched a new branch to lead its struggle in the Indian sub-continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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