Al-Qaeda’s franchise in North Africa on Tuesday urged Muslims to storm US embassies and kill American envoys in Muslim countries in protest over a film insulting Islam, a monitoring group said. “We call on Islam’s youths to take after the lions of Benghazi (in Libya) by pulling down America’s flags that are flying over all of its embassies in our capitals,” said Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, according to IntelCenter.
AQIM urged people “to burn them (the flags), to stomp them underfoot, and to kill its (US) ambassadors and representatives or expel them and purge our land of their filth in revenge for the honour of the best of mankind,” referring to Islam’s Prophet Mohammed. The jihadist group’s written statement was dated September 15, IntelCenter said, a few days after protests began in Muslim countries over a US-produced film deemed insulting to Islam and its prophet.
