The Al Qaeda network has published a
new military strategy urging supporters toward fresh attacks
and listing Jews and Americans as prime targets, Germany’s
ZDF television reported Friday.
It cited a roughly 50-page
document, entitled “Targets in cities,” which
it said had been published on a variety of websites and
called on supporters to turn the countries of “infidels”
into “war zones.” The declaration was signed
by Abdulaziz al-Mukrin, which ZDF said was the new Al
Qaeda leader for the Arab world. ZDF said German and US
intelligence services were treating the document as authentic
and a development on a previous Al Qaeda paper last year
that spoke of attacks in countries such as Poland and
Spain.
The latest text refers to
the deadly Madrid train bombings on March 11 which killed
191 people.
“The entire European
economy suffered as a result of the blessed attacks in
Madrid,” it said, according to ZDF’s translation
into German.
“It was a double strike
against the economies and the governments of the crusaders,
Jews and infidels.”
Describing a “military
diplomacy, written in blood and decorated with body pieces,”
the paper offers a list of targets. Top of the list are
Jews, followed by Christians. Americans are mentioned
first in the latter category, then Britons, Spaniards,
Australians, Canadians, Italians and others.
Other suggested targets are
listed as “businessmen, diplomats, politicians,
intellectuals, scientists, rabbis, missionaries and tourists.”
Terrorists might try to bomb
buses and rail lines in major US cities this summer, according
to a government bulletin issued to US law enforcement
officials.
The FBI and Homeland Security
Department sent a bulletin on Thursday saying terrorists
could attempt to conceal explosives in luggage and carry-on
bags, such as duffel bags and backpacks.
The bulletin cites uncorroborated
intelligence as indicating that such bombs could be made
of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and diesel fuel, similar
to what was used to blow up the Oklahoma City federal
building in April 1995.
