DUBAI: Al Qaeda in Yemen has said that its attack on a Saudi border point earlier this month was in revenge for providing US drones with “land and sky” to target militants, SITE Intelligence said.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula had already claimed responsibility for the July 5 operation in which six militants, and five officers on the two sides of the border were killed.
After initially saying the attack was in revenge for Islamist “female captives” held in Saudi prisons, the jihadist group now says it was also for the “disgraceful actions” of Saudi authorities by helping US drone strikes, the US-based monitoring group said.
In a statement posted online Thursday, AQAP accused Saudi Arabia of “opening the land and sky of the Peninsula of Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) to American drones,” SITE reported.AFP
