Al-Qaeda in Yemen congratulated the Taliban terror group on Wednesday for its successful takeover of Afghanistan this week, vowing to continue its own jihad on the Arabian Peninsula.
“This victory and empowerment reveals to us that jihad and fighting represent the (Islamic law)-based, legal, and realistic way to restore rights (and) expel the invaders and occupiers,” Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said in a statement issued August 18, according to the SITE Intelligence group, a global terrorism monitor.
“On Sunday [August 15] AQAP fighters in Yemen’s central governorate of Bayda and southern province of Shabwa celebrated the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan with fireworks and by firing gunshots in the air,” local residents told Agence France-Presse this week.
Both AQAP and the Taliban are terrorist organizations based on Sunni Islam. The two groups have maintained close ties over the past two decades. The Taliban seized Kabul on August 15, quickly ousting the Afghan national capital’s U.S.-backed, democratic government from power. AQAP referred to the Taliban’s toppling of democracy in Kabul in its Wednesday press release.
“As for the game of democracy and working with simple pacifism, it is a deceptive mirage, a fleeting shadow, and a vicious circle that starts with a zero and ends with it,” the group, which is active primarily in Yemen, said.
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