Terrorist group Al Qaeda’s members in Yemen, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula , strongly rebuked (IS) Islamic State in a video released Friday, declaring IS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi’s statement of an Islamic caliphate to be illegitimate.
According to CNN, the statement delivered by one of Al-Qaeda’s top member — Harith bin Ghazi, he is a significant setback to (IS) efforts to assume leadership of the global terrorist movement a week after groups in Egypt and Libya joined the (IS).
Islamic State and al Qaeda’s top leadership in Pakistan had an unpleasant falling out earlier this year, and al Qaeda and ISIS armed forces have been fighting each other in Syria, but Al-Qaeda had until now remained above the fray, calling for both sides to reconcile and pull resources to strike the US.
But when ISIS leader Baghdadi declared in an audiotape released last week that his Islamic State (IS) had expanded to Yemen, as well as other Middle Eastern countries, it was too much for the AQAP (Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) leadership to stomach.
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