January 2, 2014 | Quoted by Adam Kredo, The Washington Free Beacon
Al Qaeda Threatens to Assassinate Iranian Military Leader
Al Qaeda said that it is planning to assassinate Iran’s top military general, underscoring tensions in the rocky relationship between Tehran and the global terror network.
Al Qaeda claimed in a recent statement to have sent two of its terrorist forces into Iran with the goal of killing Qassem Soleimani, the general of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
“We will not assassinate the commander of Iran’s Quds Force by gunshots, but we intend to kill him by a suicide attack,” al Qaeda was reported to have said in a late December statement reported on in the Iranian state-run media.
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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy’s (FDD) Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization, noted that the “tension” between al Qaeda and Iran “is undeniable.”
“This is a relationship that’s always been fraught with tension,” said Gartenstein-Ross.