Al-Qaeda Threatens UAE, Israel
Referring to reports on Israeli plans to establish espionage and military bases on Yemen’s Socotra Island with, AQAP said it would target Zionists and “UAE mercenaries” if they enter the island.
It also accused the United Arab Emirates and the so-called Sothern Transitional Council (STC) of selling out Yemen “like recent UAE-Israel deal sold out Palestine”.
The group called on Yemenis to rise up against Emirati-Israeli plots.
Socotra, some 350 kilometers south of Yemen in the Indian Ocean, is the name of the largest island of a Yemeni archipelago, where a number of smaller islands are still uninhabited.
Last month, reports revealed that Israel, in cooperation with the UAE, is to build intelligence-gathering bases on a Yemeni island in a strategic area overlooking the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
It also said that a delegation of Israeli and Emirati intelligence officers had already arrived on the island very recently and examined various locations for establishing the planned intelligence bases.
