Via LWJ:
Ansar al Jihad, a newly formed Islamist terror group in Egypt, has sworn allegiance to al Qaeda’s emir.
Ansar al Jihad in the Sinai Peninsula made the announcement yesterday in a statement that was signed by “Your soldiers in Ansar al Jihad in the Sinai Peninsula.” The statement was released on the Sinam al Islam jihadist web forum and has been translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.
“To our beloved emir and honorable sheikh, Abu Muhammad Ayman al Zawahiri … from your soldiers in the beloved Sinai in the Land of the Quiver [Egypt], we give you allegiance for obedience in good and bad, in difficulty and ease, and altruism,” the statement said. “So, throw us wherever you wish…. We will never quit or surrender until the last drop of our blood [is spilled] in the Cause of Allah and until Islam rules by the help of Allah the Almighty.”
Ansar al Jihad called Zawahiri their “beloved Mujahid Sheikh” and asked “Allah to preserve you with His protection and preserve the commanders of jihad everywhere….”