MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

AP – “SANAA, Yemen – A group linked to Al Qaeda claims it killed an American teacher in Yemen for Christian proselytizing.

Joel Shrum, a 29-year-old English language teacher from Harrisburg, Pa., had worked for two years in the central city of Taiz.

Yemeni officials say Shrum was killed in his car Sunday morning when assailants in military uniforms sped up next to him on a motorcycle, opened fire and then sped away. Witnesses say he was killed instantly.

A text message sent to journalists said, ‘This operation comes as a response to the campaign of Christian proselytizing that the West has launched against Muslims.’ It claimed Shrum was ‘one of the biggest American proselytisers.'” Read more.

Al-Qaeda makes ‘alarming’ advances in Yemen, U.N. envoy warns – “A reinvigorated al-Qaeda has made ‘alarming’ advances in Yemen, expanding its military control over several southern towns and launching a series of brazen attacks that threaten the U.S.-backed political transition there, a senior U.N. envoy warned the Security Council in a confidential briefing last week. ‘The scale of these attacks serves as a stark reminder of the security threat posed by al-Qaeda,’ Jamal Benomar, the U.N. special envoy for Yemen, told the 15-nation council Wednesday, according to a copy of the briefing notes obtained by The Washington Post. ‘Despite all counterterrorism efforts, al-Qaeda in Yemen has not retreated.'” Read more.