Al Qaeda

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the leader of al Qaeda’s Islamic State in Iraq, threatened to attack Iran if it did not stop supporting the Shia lead government. “We are giving the Persians, and especially the rulers of Iran, a two month period to end all kinds of support for the Iraqi Shiite government and to stop direct and indirect intervention … otherwise a severe war is waiting for you,” he said in an audiotape.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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