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US Designates Ansar al-Sharia as Al Qaeda Alias.
US Designates Ansar al-Sharia as Al Qaeda Alias
By Samuel Rubenfeld The U.S. State Department said Thursday it changed its designation of al Qaeda as a foreign terror organization to include Yemen-based Ansar al-Sharia as an alias. European Pressphoto Agency A photo made available April 1, 2012, shows an alleged militant of the extremist Ansar al-Sharia group carrying a machine gun at a checkpoint in the southern town of Azan, Yemen. Ansar al-Sharia is simply an effort for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, to rebrand itself with the intention of manipulating people to join its cause, the State Department said in a statement. The United Nations also listed Ansar al-Sharia on its al Qaeda sanctions blacklist on Thursday, meaning the group now faces a worldwide asset freeze, a travel ban and an arms embargo. The group has taken responsibility for multiple attacks against Yemeni forces, including a series of assaults in southern Yemen that killed 100 people, many of whom were Yemeni soldiers, the State Department said. “We are determined to eliminate AQAP’s ability to execute violent attacks and to disrupt, dismantle and defeat their network,” the State Department said. Earlier Thursday, a drone air strike killed five suspected Ansar al-Sharia members as they traveled in a car in the southern Yemeni province of Shabwa, AFP reported, citing a local tribal chief and witnesses. The U.S. is the only country in the region with drones, and in recent months it has carried out several strikes on al Qaeda targets in the country. This year alone, the U.S. has conducted 33 airstrikes against AQAP in Yemen, according to statistics kept by the Long War Journal. During a visit to the U.S. last month, Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi acknowledged that drone strikes in his country take place with his approval. http://blogs.wsj.com/corruption-curr...l-qaeda-alias/
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