A purported Jihadist web site has posted dire warnings from Al Qaeda, which suggest an attack on the continental United States has been planned for the near future.
Curiously, it seems the Al Qaeda operative who posted the remarks online took his talking points from similar warnings issued by Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano last year. Napolitano was quoted as saying that security and intelligence efforts would be more focused on the shifting terrorist threat towards “lone wolf attackers.”
In the posting from Al Queda, the organization indicates that “lone wolf” operations would be one method used in the coming strikes against domestic U.S. interests.
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.”
Under a section of the post on the method of the attacks, the unidentified writer said the strikes would be “group and lone-wolf operations, in addition to the use of booby-trapped vehicles.”
Via: Washington Times
Al Qaeda, the organization responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 according to a government investigation, has been working closely with U.S. foreign intelligence operatives throughout the course of the Syrian uprising which began in 2012.
It is not clear if the Al Qaeda faction warning of strikes against U.S. homeland based targets is the same organization as the Al Queda group responsible for the 2001 terror attacks.
