CNN's Brian Todd reports on new threats from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula bomb maker Ibrahim al-Asiri and another top militant.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released a video Tuesday calling on Muslims worldwide to carry out lone wolf attacks—particularly in the U.S.—and celebrated those who had already carried out individual acts of violence. Watch Video News from CNN news channel where An Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula senior leader praised attacks in the U.S “Lone wolves have proven and will always prove to be a strategic weapon,” AQAP official Khalid Batrafi said in the nearly 10-minute video published by the group’s media wing. Batrafi, who escaped from a prison in southern Yemen in April, praised past attackers including Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez—who killed four Marines and a Navy sailor last month in Tennessee’s Chattanooga—and the gunmen who killed 12 people in the 2014 Paris attack on Charlie Hebdo. Charlie Hebdo’s editor said this month that the French satirical magazine will no longer publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. “If you return, we will return,” Batrafi said in the video.
