SANAA, 13 Jul -- In an interview published in al-Qaeda new magazine ‘Inspire,’ the leader of al-Qaeda wing in Yemen, Abu-Basir al-Wahishi was quoted as saying “the president of Yemen is a professional liar, especially when it comes to lying in order to extort money. Such lies bring in dollars from the Americans. They are gullible and he is creating for them fake victories,” adding “Sheik Anwar al-Awlaki, may God preserve him, said: The distinctive mark of the Yemeni government is lying. They are lying to their people. They are lying to the outside world. They are lying to everyone.They have been lying for thirty years. They lie against their people in an exposed fashion and this proves to us their inability to defend themselves let alone others and that the matter is out of their hands now. Thus, they have nothing else to do but lie and claim that we have killed so-and-so and imprisoned so-and-so. This is all in order that foreign assistance keeps flowing in.” “God will give us victory and what awaits America in the coming days is greater and worse than what has passed by the Will of God,” he said, and mocked Yemeni government claims of preemptive strikes against Al-Qaeda hideout in the southern town of al-Majalah in Shabwa last year saying “what are these accurate operations that have killed tens of children and women? If the pilot was ignorant of military matters he would still be able to tell the difference between tents of bedouins and military sites, but it is American hate and lust for killing others. These bombings will not deliver anything to the Americans and won’t weaken us.”
