Hi everyone...
I read this and i thought it was worth posting here...

It's something you don't often
hear from the leaders of a terrorist group
known for violence: We're sorry.
But that's just what the head of al Qaeda
in the Arabian Peninsula said in a video
message Sunday, apologizing for a
hospital attack in Sanaa earlier this month
that left dozens of people dead.
The attackers were directed not to assault
the hospital or mosque in an attack
against a Yemeni Ministry of Defense
compound on December 5, but one
fighter made a mistake and attacked the
hospital, leader Qassim Al-Raimi says in
the video.
"We confess to this mistake and fault. We
offer our apologies and condolences to
the families of the victims," Raimi said in
the video, which was published by al
Qaeda media outlet Al-Malahim. "We did
not want your lost ones; we did not
target them on purpose. This is not of our
religion or our morals."
It's unusual to see "such a
direct, fast, public apology"
from al Qaeda, CNN National
Security Analyst Peter
Bergen said.
"Al Qaeda leaders seem to
be waking up to the fact that
if they position themselves
as the defenders of Muslims, their large-
scale killing of Muslim civilians needs to
stop," Bergen said.
The apology comes after Yemeni
government officials released surveillance
video showing the hospital under attack.
The surveillance footage showed patients
nervously looking out of the hospital
windows, then running after an explosion.
In another clip, patients and staff huddle
in a hallway. They watch as an attacker
walks calmly toward them, activates an
explosive and lobs it in their direction.
"We saw what the Yemeni channel
broadcast: a gunman entering a
hospital . ... We did not order him to do
so, and we are not pleased with what he
did," Raimi said. "Moreover, it wronged us
and pained us, because we do not fight in
this manner."
The U.S. government has designated al
Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as a
foreign terrorist organization and says the
group has orchestrated "numerous high-
profile terrorist attacks."
Sunday's apology, though rare, isn't the
first time al Qaeda or its affiliates have
apologized.
In November, Syrian rebels with al Qaeda
ties apologized for mistakenly beheading
a wounded rebel fighter after assuming
he supported Syrian President Bashar al-
Assad.
In 2009, an al Qaeda spokesman released
a video message offering condolences to
"unintended Muslim victims" killed in
attacks.
And in 2007, Bergen said, former al Qaeda
chief Osama bin Laden said that Muslim
victims killed by al Qaeda in Iraq "are not
the intended targets."
Behind the scenes, Bergen said, leaders
of the group have expressed concerns
about the impact such attacks would have
on the group's reputation.
"We know from the documents recovered
at the bin Laden compound in Abbottabad
by U.S. Navy SEALS in May 2011, al
Qaeda's leaders were often writing to
each other privately and also to groups
they are associated with about the need
to minimize civilian (Muslim) casualties
and often wrote about the damage to the
al Qaeda brand that killing civilians had
achieved by al Qaeda operations in Iraq,"
Bergen said. "But the straightforward
public apology ... is a new development."
In Sunday's message, Raimi said the
group would financially compensate
families of victims in the hospital attack.
But the militant leader also stressed that
the group's fighters wouldn't shy away
from going after targets that have ties to
American drones. That's why they hit the
Defense Ministry compound that day, he
said.
Since the attack, Yemeni government
officials have repeatedly stated there are
no drone operations based at the
compound.
Raimi said places that help American
drones by spying, providing information
or offering intelligence are legitimate
targets.
"We have a long list of these places. In
case they continue, we will continue. We
will reach them, because we defend
ourselves," he said. "We made a mistake.
We accept responsibility and we are
continuing with our Jihad."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DY5MZ_HyZiuM&v=Y5MZ_HyZiuM&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DY5MZ_HyZiuM%26desktop_uri%3D%252Fwatch%253Fv%253DY5MZ_HyZiuM

SOURCE www.cnn.com/2013/12/22/world/meast/yemen-al-qaeda-apology/index.html?sr=fb122313alqaedasorry11a

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What can i say...

frankly speaking, if they are truely sorry for this they should turn themselves in and be tried in a court of law cause that's what the families of the victims would want...

Then i will believe them.

Its like killing someone and asking forgiveness from jesus.

shameful. .

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Foolish man!

Majority of these assailants are aware of the fact that, whenever they launch an attack on the politicians or government, the civilians suffer the most....
I read a report of AFGAN in which alqeada coercively ask for the support of the AFGAN pple or face brutality...
They keep killing their MuSLim brothers , all for nothing.......islam doesnot support unlawful killing....killing an unarmed civillian is the worst crime any warrior could commit... ALQEADA,
Al-Shabaab,Takfir wal-Hijra, Ansar al-Sharia, Ansar al-Islam, Armed Islamic Group of Algeria, Osbat al-Ansar,Boko Haram, Caucasus Emirate, East Turkestan Islamic Movement,Egyptian Islamic Jihad,Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami,Harkat-al-Jihad al-Islami in Bangladesh
ﻣﻦ ﺃﺟﻞ ﺍﻟﺴﻼﻡ (for the sake of peace).... Please stop this indiscriminate killings...
Every terrorist group usually start with the intent of liberating their pple... Buh they always end up killing and displacing these same pple...

This stuff should be in foreign affairs or something nau.....anyways regarding d topic,shows they still have a quark of mercy and conscience within them.

Long Live Al- Qaeda