'Al-Qaida prepares for Israel-Iran war'
By JPOST.COM STAFF
LAST UPDATED: 08/20/2010 10:25
Report: Al-Shehri warns against "the greater state of Israel."
Photo: Channel 10
Al-Qaida is ready to
exploit a war "by the Jews against Iran," the Sunni group's
second-in-command in Yemen, Saeed al-Shehri, said in an audio message
this month, according to the Daily Beast.
The mostly Shi'ite
nation of Iran is an enemy to Al-Qaida, and al-Shehri predicted that
after Israel attacked Iranian nuclear installations, Iran would blame
Saudi Arabia - which reports say may let Israel fly through its airspace to attack Iran - and use the opportunity to seize the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.
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Al-Shehri said Israel would then seize territory from surrounding Arab
nations to establish "the greater state of Israel," and the Sunni Arab
population of the Middle East would be trapped between the “Jews in the
Middle East and Iran in the Peninsula," the Daily Beast reported.
According to the Daily Beast, Al-Qaida would benefit from an Israel-Iran
war because if Israel attacked Iran's nuclear installations, Iran would
use its proxies to lash back at Americans in the Gulf, Iraq, and
Afghanistan.
The Daily Beast is a news aggregator and original content website owned by a former Wall Street Journal editor.