Incitement to fight "the Emirates and the Transitional" ... Al-Qaeda is in the service of the Brotherhood
English - Thursday 20 May 2021 الساعة 12:06 pm
Aden, NewsYemen
The recent visual release of al-Qaeda in Yemen embodied the extent of the great congruence in rhetoric and attitude with the Muslim Brotherhood, with the absolute hostility to the role of the Emirati and the forces allied to it, led by the Southern Transitional Council.
The clip, issued by the Al-Malahim Foundation, the media wing of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and titled "From the Field" to document the organization's recent attacks against points belonging to the security belt in Abyan governorate, it looked like an inciting speech issued by one of the kitchens of the Muslim Brotherhood in form, content, and even content.
The clip began with attacking the Security Belt Forces of the Transitional Council, referring to the date of its establishment and the UAE’s support for that, with footage of security incidents in Aden to show its "crimes", as the commentator's voice says in the video, including the famous incident of the killing of a young man by soldiers in Sheikh Othman in March 2020 AD, which was then met with widespread condemnation, and the Deputy Chairman of the Transitional Council, Hani Bin Brik, pledged to hand over the perpetrators.
Among the evidence provided by Al-Qaeda media to support its hostile narrative against the Belt Forces, an old video clip published by one of the Brotherhood websites in mid-2016 AD of the testimony of a woman in Aden complaining about the arrest of her son by security forces, followed by an audio comment from Al-Qaeda leader Khaled Batarfi and completing the incitement against the "Emirates" and the belt forces Al-Amni "who sold their religion for money," he says.
It was clear that the Al-Qaeda leader's speech coincided with the Muslim Brotherhood’s speech by talking about the “secret prisons” run by the UAE in Yemen for the torture of “Muslims,” expressing his astonishment at the silence about these “crimes that are condemned by Western organizations and the defense ministries of infidels and their news agencies.” He said that they "demanded an investigation into their (UAE) secret prisons in Yemen."
So the important chapter comes in the Al-Qaeda publication, which is the documentation of his terrorist attacks that he launched against points belonging to the Security Belt Forces in both Ahwar and Al-Wadia (Hadi's hometown) in Abyan on the 18 and 19 of last March, which resulted in the killing of 9 belt soldiers and 4 citizens.
What is interesting are the scenes related to the Ahwar attack, as the al-Qaeda video included footage of what he said were training by al-Qaeda militants on the attack in one of the areas of Abyan and possibly surrounding Ahwar, which is under the control of the Brotherhood, which reflects the strength and spread of al-Qaeda in these areas.
The video shows scenes of "the invasion" on the Ahwar point, and a review of the control of Al-Qaeda elements over the point after killing its members, seizing weapons and burning a military team affiliated with the point, with a comment by one of the attackers saying, "These Emirates crews are burning," accompanied by enthusiastic exaggeration of his colleagues.
Before leaving the crime scene, al-Qaeda operatives - and behind them the bodies of the point’s members - sent “messages to the Emirates” that included threatening one of them to reach the "Bin Zayed Towers", while the other of the Emirates vowed, "We are after you to every land and under every sky."
The video concludes with a short speech by Al-Qaeda leader Khaled Batarfi titled "A Message to Our People in the South," in which he said that he incites them "to rise up and revolt against this corrupt clique (referring to the Emirates and the transitional forces), and not to accept their practices and actions contrary to religion, morals and norms, and to withdraw Their children are from the support of these arrogant criminals.
He accused the two parties of the Emirates and the transitional forces of "fighting reformers among the mujahideen and preachers," referring to the success of the transitional forces in Abyan, Shabwa and Hadramout, with the support of the UAE, to expel Al Qaeda members.
Al-Qaeda leader called on the people of the south to "express their rejection of these practices by all legitimate methods of jihad and hostile marches," while threatening to "assist them and support them (the transitional and the Emirates) against the Muslims," as he said that this is "an explicit response and clear disbelief."
What is striking about this version is that the alleged message of the leader of al-Qaeda was not as recent as he portrayed it, rather it turned out to be an old message that Batarfi addressed in July 2017, before he assumed the leadership of al-Qaeda to succeed Qasim al-Rimi, who was killed in an American air strike in Marib in February 2020 , which raises the question about the motives Organize the re-broadcast of this message.
The transmission of the al-Qaeda leader’s message of incitement to confront the Emirates and the transitional with fighting or with “opposing” marches, he said, with the incitement campaign launched by the Brotherhood’s media kitchens against the transitional and holding it responsible for the deterioration of services in the southern governorates, especially the temporary capital, Aden, with calls for the people of these governorates to go out to The street is against it.
This coincidence reflects the extent to which the rhetoric between the Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda is identical, and the trend and hostility to targeting the UAE and the Transitional Council are identical between the two parties, with each party refraining from targeting the other on the ground, as is the case in Abyan.
