Al-Qaida calls for more attacks on US embassies

Al-Qaida calls for more attacks on US embassies
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Summary Yemen al-Qaida has called for more attacks on US embassies in Muslim countries.

The statement, posted Saturday on Islamic militant websites, suggested al-Qaida was trying to co-opt the wave of angry protests in the Muslim world over a film produced in the United States denigrating the Prophet Muhammad.Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula said the killing this week of Ambassador Chris Stevens in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was the best example for those attacking embassies.It said protesters aim should be to expel the embassies of America from the lands of the Muslims and called on protests to continue in Muslim nations to set the fires blazing at these embassies.
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