Al-QAIDA: We will kill you all

If we can't beat Israel, we'll blow everyone else up.




8 Jan 2009
Daily Star
by TOM SAVAGE

AL-QAIDA: WE’LL ATTACK BRITAIN TO AVENGE GAZA

AL-QAIDA fanatics have threatened “overwhelming” attacks on the west over Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

They have warned they are poised to unleash death and destruction on both Britain and America.

The threat came just a day after the 100 highest-profile Jews in the UK were warned to increase their security after being told they were at risk.

The new plot was uncovered on Al-Firdaws, a website closely linked to Osama bin Laden’s terror network.

In the past it has carried interviews with Ayman alZawahri, al-Qaida’s No 2, who yesterday also called for attacks on Western interests.

Al-Firdaws’ administrator, named “The Base”, warned: “A new overwhelming attack is going to occur very soon. I remember over two years ago Sheikh Osama said that they were preparing already for a very huge attack in the USA, and they just were waiting for the relevant time.

“Now, this time is very similar to the time of 9/11 ... Israel was attacking the Palestinians, many angry demonstrations are happening in the Arab world, everyone feels hatred and they seek revenge.

Warrior

“I think the Mujahideen cannot find a better time to strike than this time.”

He added that a “trusted Holy Warrior” had told him: “The attack is coming really very soon, and everyone must be prepared for it.”

Security sources said they were taking the threats seriously, and emphasised Britain was “almost certain” to be dragged in to any plots.

One warned: “This isn’t just kids gossiping and making idle threats, these people are the real deal.

“Their contacts go right to the top of al-Qaida. We need to sit up and pay attention.”

The website said attacks should coincide with the inauguration of Barack Obama as US President on January 20. In 2007 the site carried a Q&A session with al-Zawahri, 57.

The Egyptian – one of the world’s most-wanted men – yesterday lashed Obama for failing to stop Israel’s attacks on Gaza. He branded it a “crusade against Islam and Muslims”.

And he raged: “Fight the Zionist Crusader campaign. Strike its interests everywhere you can reach them.”

Other extremists have discussed a “hit list” of leading British Jews – thought to include music producer Mark Ronson, 33, and Foreign Secretary David Miliband, 43.

Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar has also called for the murder of Jewish children around the world.







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