"From al-Qaida to al-Qaida-ism"

This is curious. This warning comes from Qassim al-Rimi who, according to THIS is supposed to have been killed several times over.

Perhaps we are being told that al-Qaeda is no longer the enemy (because they are our 'ally')

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula warns Americans to "mind your own internal affairs"

The military leader of al Qaeda's Yemeni branch says Americans will not be safe unless their leaders respect the security of other nations and do not attack or oppress them.

CBS,

2 June, 2013

In a message addressed "to the American nation," Qassim al-Rimi, commander of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, said: "your security is not achieved by despoiling other nations' security or by attacking and oppressing them."

The six-minute English-subtitled audio, posted on a militant website late Saturday, implored Americans to "leave us with our religion, land and nations and mind your own internal affairs."

Al-Rimi said the bombing of the Boston marathon in April, and the recent sending of ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg "indicate that the control of your security has broken away." The video was produced by al Qaeda's media arm, al-Malahem Foundation.

CBS News correspondent John Miller, a former FBI assistant director, said on "CBS This Morning" last week that the threat of terrorism has evolved from direct al Qaeda planning to "al Qaeda-ism." The next high-profile attack is not likely to be carried out by someone trained in person by al Qaeda, but instead by someone inspired online by their ideas.

"This is much harder to detect," Miller said.

Meanwhile, a security official in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, said security guards thwarted a car bomb attack on the liquefied gas export terminal in Balhaf, in the southern Shabwa province on Sunday.

The official said the car exploded before it reached its target, killing only the attacker, who was believed to be an al Qaeda militant.

The security official, speaking on condition of anonymity according to regulations, said gunmen also attacked a nearby gas pumping station on Sunday, exchanging fire with security guards but withdrawing without causing any damage.

Pipelines carrying oil and gas from Marib province to Balhaf and other terminals in Yemen's mostly lawless south have been repeatedly attacked by al Qaeda militants and armed tribesmen who maintain cordial ties with al Qaeda, while other tribal chiefs there are suspected of being allied with former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The attacks appear to be aimed at disrupting a national dialogue carried out by the new government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to map out the country's future.

The U.S. considers the local al Qaeda branch the world's most active. The U.S. has helped Yemen intensify its campaign against militants.

Two drone strikes killed seven suspected al Qaeda militants in southern Yemen on Saturday, a local official said, nine days after U.S. President Barack Obama said he would only use such strikes when a threat was "continuing and imminent," Reuters reports.

And then it gets even more curious...

Al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch opens complaints department

RT,

3 June, 2013

An Al-Qaeda branch in northern Syria has opened a complaints department in one of the cities it controls. The militant organization apparently aims to show the local residents that it can act as a civilian government.

The branch operating in the provincial capital city of Raqqa posted a notice last week, suggesting the public turn to them with possible grievances.

"Anyone who might have a complaint against any element of the Islamic state, whether the Emir or an ordinary soldier, can come and submit their complaint in any headquarters building of the Islamic state," the notice said as cited by The Telegraph newspaper. "The complaint should be in writing, provide details and give evidence.”

The militants, whose long-term goal is to turn Iraq, Syria and Lebanon into a single Islamist state, pledge to try any violations at a Sharia court.

Vladimir Kremlev for RT

Earlier the Al-Nusra Front, the prominent Islamist force fighting to topple the Syrian government, admitted that it is in fact a branch of the Iraqi-based Al-Qaeda in a statement.

Over the years Al-Qaeda has showed a surprising amount of bureaucratic work for an organization supposed to be a loose network of independently-operating terrorist cells. In the latest example a letter was found in Mali’s Timbuktu, which criticized Al-Qaeda-linked guerrilla leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar for failing to report his expenses, answer his phone in a timely manner, or carry out attacks as ordered.

The attempts to impose the strict version of Islam are met with disdain in Syria, which had been for decades a moderately secular state. In Raqqa the Islamists attempted and failed to impose a smoking ban, according to local activists. But the militant group denies this ever happened.