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 Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:42 am Post subject: Al-Qaeda threatens to target Delhi |
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Al-Qaeda threatens to target Delhi
Monday, August 6, 2007 : 1905 Hrs
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New Delhi, Aug. 6 (PTI): International terror group Al-Qaeda has threatened to target Delhi accusing India of "killing more than 100,000 Muslims in Kashmir with US blessing" : but the Government said there was "no confirmed news" till now of any such threat.
In a new video released by Al-Qaeda, a narrator said "the targeting of Tel Aviv, Moscow and Delhi" is also "our legitimate right".
"There is no confirmed news of any such threat till now. However, our forces and the state machinery are always ready to face such threats. Our forces are alert to avert any such attempt," Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal said in a statement.
He went on to appeal to the people not to worry about such threats.
In the video, Adam Gadahn, a wanted American member of Al-Qaeda, singled out US missions in oil-rich Gulf Arab states as potential targets.
"We shall continue to target you (US) at home and abroad just as you target us at home and abroad," he warned in the video, posted on LauraMansfield.com, an American website which monitors terrorist groups.
Asked about the Al-Qaeda threat, Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta said "we assess everything threadbare and everyone should refrain from making a larger-than-life image of such threats, which can also prove to be wrong at times."
"I am not talking of any specific input. Whatever input we get, we look at it with diligence," he told reporters.
Efforts were on to get more details about the video from western intelligence agencies, with whom New Delhi shared a security liaison.
The terror threat comes barely within a week after National Security Advisor M K Narayanan said during an interview that an Al-Qaeda team had once come to India and done a recce and gone back but the programme on which they worked had never materialised.
"The fact that they may carry out forays in India is something we are prepared to guard against," he said.
Warning that Al-Qaeda would like to punch a hole as far as the Indian Muslim community was concerned, he said "we are all the time on the look out for Al-Qaeda movements. We know that on a couple of occasions, they have come and done a recce and gone back. They have not yet done something."
The one-hour 17-minute video was shown about two months after Gadahn warned in another Internet video that US President George W. Bush should withdraw all his troops from Muslim land or face attacks worse than September 11.
The video included clips from old speeches by Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and his aide Ayman al-Zawahiri. But much of it focused on the suicide bomber who killed one US diplomat and four other people outside the US consulate in Karachi in March 2006.
The video also showed images of the September 11, 2001 attacks and other attacks claimed by Al-Qaeda, including the 2005 London bombings.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200708061963.htm
accusing India of "killing more than 100,000 Muslims in Kashmir with US blessing"
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