How an Al-Qaeda Offshoot Sees the U.S. Election
29th March 2016
Donald Trump would mark a “drastic change” in U.S. foreign policy, a newspaper linked to an al-Qaeda affiliate reported this weekend.
Would that it were true.
A comprehensive report on the American presidential election published Saturday in al-Masra, an online publication connected to the terrorist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, predicted that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump would emerge as their parties’ nominees. Mrs. Clinton would largely maintain President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, reporter Adil al-Ahmad wrote, while Mr. Trump would alter the nation’s direction, in a translation released Monday by SITE Intelligence Group.
One can only hope.
“Amidst expectations of the victor for the presidency of the United States of America, it seems that the features of the next period of the conflict will be ruled by the results of these elections,” the al-Masra outlet reported, according to the SITE translation. “As for the victory of Hilary Clinton, it will be an extension of the policy of Obama and the Democrats in the region, while the victory of Trump will be a drastic change in American policy towards Muslims, since the hostility that Trump bears and the Islamophobia from which he suffers will have a huge impact in the conflict in the Middle East region and the Muslim countries in general.”