Overview

• Sa’ad bin Atef al-Awlaki released a 34-minute propaganda video on June 8, his first since becoming AQAP leader in March 2024.
• He explicitly called for the assassination of President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and senior advisers including Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth and Elon Musk.
• The video also urged American Muslims to attack Jewish communities as revenge for the Gaza conflict.
• Al-Awlaki encouraged lone-wolf militants to target leaders in Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf Arab states over the Gaza war.
• The US State Department continues to list AQAP as a foreign terrorist organization and has maintained a $6 million bounty on al-Awlaki.