Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

Abu Obeida Yusuf al ‘Annabi, a member of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s shura, said the group pledged fealty to Ayman al Zawahiri. “We pledge to you to be obedient, and we consider ourselves one of the arrows of Islam,” he said.

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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