According to a report from The New Arab, the leader of the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has slammed Saudi Arabia for its normalization deal with Iran.
In a video released earlier this week, AQAP head Khalid Batarfi said Riyadh was conceding defeat in Yemen by normalizing with Iran. Batarfi claimed AQAP is the only force left fighting for Sunnis in Yemen against the Houthis, who are Zaydi Shias.
The US-backed Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has fought on the same side as AQAP against the Houthis, and weapons sold to the Saudis and the UAE have ended up in the hands of the terror group in Yemen.
A report from The Associated Press in 2018 found that the Saudi-UAE coalition hired al-Qaeda members to help fight against the Houthis. The AP report said: “Coalition-backed militias actively recruit al-Qaeda militants, or those who were recently members, because they’re considered exceptional fighters.”
Before the Obama administration backed the coalition against the Houthis in March 2015, the US was cooperating with the Houthis against AQAP. In January 2015, The Wall Street Journal reported that the US had “forged ties” with the Houthis as part of a strategy to “maintain its fight against a key branch of al-Qaeda.”
AQAP’s complaints about the Saudi-Iran normalization deal come as a peace deal between Riyadh and the Houthis seem near. The warring sides have been engaged in Omani-mediated talks and recently exchanged thousands of prisoners.
Incredible. So US policy was to play both sides. How to describe such behavior? Satanic?
Par for the course?
Not really. You must understand the imperial position. There is not much choice but to try and seed discord and war. You really don’t expect these imperial maggots to work for a living, do you? Divide and conquer is the shortest path to contain economic development of rivals and ensure Anglo-American imperial dominance. It isn’t ‘evil’, it’s simply parasitic.
Sanctimoniousness – the quality of being hypocritically devout sanctimony hypocrisy.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/sanctimoniousness
AQAP has be n always Western paid outfit. Prior to 2017 Saudis paid for it. After June 2017 Saudis cut off funding to ISIS once funneled through Wahhabi establishment. AQAP was funded a bit longer for as ling as it supported the “recignized” Yemen government. After Hadi stepped down, and Saydis pursued ceasefire in Yemen, AQAP has a new brief. It is now a spoiler and it will be very instructive to see how will it affect cakculus in the South Yemen.
One thing is sure — Saudis are not paying any more. WHO IS PAYING for their existence? Whose interests they serve now?
You see, whenever you here phrases like AQ in Arabian Peninsula, or AQ in Maghreb or AQ in Mesopotamia — these are fake, invented names. Al-Qaeda does not exist and even in its hay day in Afghanistan NEVER HAD NAMING CONVENTIONS. These are traits of Western organizing. Various Islamic groups, if home grown, usually have a recognizeable sponsor and financier, and a lical name. They do not have a glibal corporate offices to assign namez to regional sub-groups. Fakeness if this is mind-boggling.
Whoever is funding this is wasting money. Nations and clans accross Arabian peninsula have reached consensus in Iran. Some dead-end mercenary group will not get followers.
Prior to 2017 the Saudies released prisoners on deathrow in Lieu of Execution to go and join ISIS/Deash.
Saudi Arabia Sent Death Row Inmates to Fight in Syria in Lieu of Execution
Ah, the US and IS have found common ground.
Peace – our mutual enemy.
wow you just defined the entire New American Century in two short sentences
history books beware!
Looks like someone needs some more money sent their way to get on board with not fighting a lost fight.
No funds from Saudis… However, Ukraine is open accepting application paid by US money…!
Waste of money. But for the zealotic would be universe masters — what is money? For as long as this invention buys power, and with power real riches roll in —,why not spend it. In fact the only limit is the populstions’s capacity to pay it off.
So Al Qaeda has teamed up with Biden and Israel?
Day will come when US and Israel will have to pay reparations for what they have done and are doing in Libya, Syria Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.Cycle of history
Yeah right-how about Libya,Syria, and Iraq paying reparations for their expulsion of their indigenous Jewry.
here is a little story re Jews = the sovereign country of Muslim Iran literally has as many Jews living there as any other country on the planet has – and about 20 years ago Israel offered the Iranian Jews a chance to repatriate from Iran to Israel – and to a man, every single Iranian Jew said, “what are you high? we enjoy a peaceful life here free of discrimination” – long story short = Jews in Iran are not demonized because of their religion the same way that they are demonized in the rest of the world.
Bagdhad synagogue was bombed by Israel to get the Jews out of iraq. Yemeni jews and their chidden were airlifted by Israel . Some of those kids ended up with orphanage and with foster never seeing their family again.
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
OK let’s pretend that uncle sam did not demolition all 7 of the World Trade Center buildings and then blame that on 19 Arab al-Qaeda muslim ‘terrorists’.
the Iranians are not stupid and they had absolutely nothing to do with that =
because they are not stupid…. i remember when at least half of the 19 Arab “high-jackers” came forward after the fact and said, “hey i did not high-jack a boeing 767 and suicide it into a giant WTC tower! – how dare you blame that on me!”
oh wait, this article is about evil Persian muslims and how they relate to our western leaders’ idea of how a real muslim should behave.
I’ve tried to analyze this statement over and over again. Even fed it to my computer for even deeper analysis. But all I got was “Who cares.”
Careful Al-Qaeda. You revealing who is pulling your strings in Washington and London.
Muslims = sons of god, killing other sons of god, in the name of god.
The BS of religions, they are equally worthless.
“Wahhabi Islam [the official ideology of the Saudi monarchy] is fully in sync with ISIS.” and why they support it, The Saudies released large numbers of prisoners on death row under condition that they go fight in Syria.
SAUDI ARABIA SENT 1239 DEATH ROW INMATES TO FIGHT WITH AL QAEDA IN SYRIA WITH A FULL PARDON AND MONTHLY SALARY
Zionism is linked to Wahhabism, when it comes to religions, these are not old religions, both are rather new, both support Isis/Deash which goes to show the hypocrisy of the West when it comes to eliminating terrorism and it’s supporters, and which is why they’re referred to as vassal states.