Al Qaeda Claims Attack on Israel Embassy

Crush the bastards already.

Al-Qaida claims Mauritania attack J Post hat tip wolf

An al-Qaida affiliate purportedly claimed responsibility for a shooting attack on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania's capital, saying it had carried out the assault in response to Israeli policies in the Gaza Strip, an Arab television station reported Saturday.

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"I call on every sincere and zealous Mauritanian... to hurry to aid Islam in their land and to expel from it the embassy of the trespasser Jews," Ayman al-Zawahiri said on the videotape released on February 13, 2007.

The statement by Zawahiri was one of the first times that Mauritania had been the focus of a public address by a core al-Qaida leader, indicating a possible increase in interest in the sparsely populated, dune-enveloped nation.