Al Qaeda vows to free jailed militants in Yemen

As the jihad winds grow, al-Qaeda vows to free jailed militants in Yemen, citing Qur’an and Muhammad for religious confirmation

Inal Irsan for Reuters reports Sunday, Jan. 13, on al-Qaeda vows to free jailed jihadist terrorists and take revenge against Yemen government for terrorists killed in action during jihad attacks in the past.

Dozens of al Qaeda militants are serving jail terms in the Arabian Peninsula country for involvement in bombings against Western targets and clashes with the authorities.

"By God we shall not rest ... until we free our brothers and sisters from the prisons," the group said in an e-magazine posted on an Islamist Web site late on Saturday.

"The blood of Muslims will not go wasted," it said in an article signed by a man who identified himself as Abdul-Aziz.

"The Prophet (Mohammad) ... has ordered that we free detainees," it said in the first edition of the magazine it called "The Echoes of Epics.”…

Note, by way of inter-faith dialogue, a contrast between that call to lawless violence and “remember [pray for] those in prison as if in jail with them…” Of course, Christians are typically jailed for religious acts of giving and sharing, not religious massacres.

Yemen, the ancestral homeland of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, joined the U.S.-led war on terrorism after the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities.

The magazine also carried an interview with a Saudi al Qaeda fugitive it identified with the alias Abu-Humam al-Qahtani.

He reiterated the group's long-standing goal of blocking oil supplies from the oil exporting region, ejecting "infidels" from he Arabian Peninsula and targeting Western interests.

The militant, who appeared to be a junior al Qaeda member, was explaining why he had chosen to fight in the Arabian Peninsula instead of joining combatants in Iraq or Afghanistan.

A police vehicle patrols the vicinity of a state security court during the final hearing of the trial of two Yemeni men charged with spying for Egypt in Sanaa January 13, 2008.

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