Britain: Al Qaeda’s Top Target
Charles Johnson
Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 5:57 pm PDT • Views: 336
The Guardian is reporting that Britain is now the top target for Al-Qaeda.
And if it’s true, The Guardian can be proud of their part in making it happen.
LONDON (AFP) - Britain is the top target of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, which now presents a bigger threat than ever before, a newspaper reported.
Citing unnamed anti-terrorism chiefs, The Guardian newspaper said that Al-Qaeda had regrouped and recovered its organisation in Pakistan, despite a more-than-four-year campaign by a US-led coalition to wipe out the network. In that time, the newspaper reported, the terror organisation has become a more coherent network with a regular supply of volunteers.
Islamic extremists “viewed 7/7 (the July 7, 2005 suicide attacks on London’s transport network) as just the beginning,” an unnamed senior source said. “Al-Qaeda sees the UK as a massive opportunity to cause loss of life and embarrassment to the authorities,” the source continued.
Meanwhile, another unnamed source told the daily: “Britain is sitting at the receiving end of an Al-Qaeda campaign.”
Britain is seen as an easier threat for Al-Qaeda than many other countries because of its historic links with Pakistan, with tens of thousands of travellers between the two countries each year, the newspaper reported.
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