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June 7, 2012
London: Advertisements have appeared on several jihadist web forums with
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula offering training for suicide bombers to
target the US, Israel and France, a media report said today.
The advertisements ask for volunteers to get in touch via e-mail with
details about their own experience and proposed targets, and were posted on a
variety of jihadist forums, including Al-Fidaa, Shmoukh al-Islam and Honein.
"The aim of this training is to continue with our brothers who are
seeking to carry out operations that make for great killing and slaughtering of
the enemies of Islam," the advertisement attributed to Yemen-based
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying.
"It is clear now that the individual jihad, or what is called the
lone wolf, has become more widespread and its features have started showing ,
in summary, it is a complete jihadist operation to be carried out by a single
bomber," the ad said.
The ad said that the targets of the attacks were "those who are
fighting the Muslims and Islam" and specifically pointed to
"economic, military and media interests of the enemy." "Their
identity must be, according to priority, American, Israeli, French and
British," the ad said of the volunteers.
Al-Qaeda and its regional offshoots often use jihadist Internet forums
to post statements claiming responsibility for attacks, and to communicate with
followers. A number of top al-Qaeda leaders have been killed in the US drone
strikes recently. On Monday al-Qaeda's second-in-command Abu Yahya al-Libi was
killed in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan. Al-Libi was targeted in a pre-dawn US
drone strike in North Waziristan, a Taliban and al-Qaeda stronghold along the
Afghan border. (PTI)
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