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Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 4:49:21 pm PST
A new message from Al Qaeda claiming responsibility for the atrocities in Turkey also contains threats against the US, Britain, Italy, Japan, and Australia: Al-Qaeda threatens Aussie attacks.
"We say to the criminal Bush and his valets among the Arabs and foreigners, in particular Britain, Italy, Australia and Japan: you will see the cars of death with your own eyes in the centre of the capital of tyranny," al-Qaeda said in an Arabic-language statement emailed to the London-based Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi."They will not be limited to Baghdad, Riyadh, Istanbul, Djerba, Nasiriyah, Jakarta," the statement said, reeling off a list of previous deadly bombings in its warning to US President George W Bush.
The message claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack, which targeted two synagogues in the heart of Istanbul.
"Abu Hafz al-Masri Brigades struck a mortal blow after having kept Jewish intelligence agents under surveillance and determined that five of them were in two synagogues in the centre of Istanbul," al-Qaeda said.
The Abu Hafz al-Masri Brigades - al-Qaeda, named after its military chief killed in US operations in Afghanistan in November 2001 and a copy of whose statement the newspaper sent to AFP, implicitly warned of car bombings in the United States.
The statement also drew up a list of demands of the US and its allies, as well as calling for militants to join the anti-US resistance in Iraq.
"This is a golden opportunity for them (the allies) to understand the message and withdraw from the coalition of the Crusades against Islam and Muslims," it said.
"If they have not understood the language of words, that of the cars of death could explain it to them," said the statement.
It said al-Qaeda demanded the United States "put an end to the war they are waging against Islam and Muslims in the name of the war on terror and withdraw from all Muslim lands desecrated by Jews and Americans, including Jerusalem and Kashmir".
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