Qaeda warns of "Christian-Shiite alliance"
AQAP leader urges Sunnis to take up arms
An al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader warned Sunni Muslims of a rising "Christian-Shiite alliance" against them in an audio message released on jihadist forums late on Friday.
Abu Sufyan al-Azdi called the participation of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Iran's former foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki at a conference on terrorism in Yemen "is the biggest proof of the Christian-Shiite alliance."
"America and Iran became one alliance against the Sunni people in the area," added the Saudi AQAP leader, who was formerly imprisoned for six years at the U.S. detention centre in Guantanamo, in a 16-minute audio message.