Al-Qaida Leader Threatens Saudi Arabia Over Mass Execution
The leader of al-Qaida is threatening Saudi Arabia over its mass execution of 47 people, many of whom were tied to the terror group.
Ayman al-Zawahiri delivered the message in a recording earlier this week that was reported by the SITE Intelligence Group on Thursday.
The seven-minute speech exhorted terrorists to launch new attacks against the interests of the kingdom’s ruling Al Saud family, which he called a “rotten regime that corrupted your religion.” Al-Zawahiri also offered his condolences to the families of the executed terrorists.
Saudi Arabia executed the prisoners on Jan. 2. Among them was Shi’ite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, whose death sparked new tensions between Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia and Shi’ite-power Iran after protesters in the Islamic Republic attacked two of the kingdom’s diplomatic posts.
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