A New al Qaeda Threat?

Al-Qaeda (AQIM) Leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar

New al Qaeda Threat -- Bill Gertz, The Washington Times

A jihadist website posted a new threat by al Qaeda this week that promises to conduct “shocking” attacks on the United States and the West.

The posting appeared on the Ansar al Mujahidin network Sunday and carried the headline, “Map of al Qaeda and its future strikes.”

The message, in Arabic, asks: “Where will the next strike by al Qaeda be?” A translation was obtained by Inside the Ring.

“The answer for it, in short: The coming strikes by al Qaeda, with God’s Might, will be in the heart of the land of nonbelief, America, and in France, Denmark, other countries in Europe, in the countries that helped and are helping France, and in other places that shall be named by al Qaeda at other times,” the threat states.

The attacks will be “strong, serious, alarming, earth-shattering, shocking and terrifying.”

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My Comment: Here we go again. Jason Burke (The Guardian) has a good analysis how great is the terrorism threat from Al Qaeda to the west now? That link is here.