The group known by the acronym AQAP (al-Qaeda in the Arabic Peninsula) is considered the most dangerous branch of al-Qaeda still in operation. The group leader, Al-Awlaki, It already has a reward of six million dollars offered by the US for its capture.
Al-Qaeda’s leader in Yemen threatened the US President on Saturday, Donald Trumpand the multimillionaire Elon Musk, Due to the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The first video message since Saad bin ATEF al-Awlaki He took the group leadership in 2024, also included appeals for lonely militants to attack leaders in Egypt, Jordan and the Arab Gulf states because of the situation in Gaza.
The video shows images of Trump e Muskas well as the US Vice President, JD VanceSecretary of State, Marco Rubio, and the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegsethand also includes the logos of Muskincluding the Tesla electric car manufacturer.
“There are no limits after what happened and it is happening to our people in Gaza,” said Al-Awlakiwhich leads the arm of al-Qaeda in Yemen, considered one of the most dangerous, for whom “reciprocity is legitimate”.
Although it is believed that it has weakened in recent years due to internal conflicts and the suspicion that attacks from ‘drones‘Americans killed their leaders, The group known by the acronym AQAP (al-Qaeda in the arabic peninsula) is considered the most dangerous branch of al-Qaeda still in operation Following the murder in 2011, from founder Osama Bin Laden, who planned September 11, 2001 attacks in the US.
In 2022, an attack of ‘drones‘Americans in Afghanistan killed Bin Laden’s successor, Ayman al-Zawahriwhich also helped plan September 11, which began the decades of US war in Afghanistan and Iraq and fostered the rise of the Islamic State Group.
Al-Awlaki It already has a reward of six million dollars offered by the US for its capture, with Washington claiming that he is responsible for “publicly summoned attacks against the United States and his allies.”
Aqap, supported by Iran, launched missile attacks against Israel and commercial vessels sailing through the Red Sea corridor, as well as US war ships.
