Al Qaida has sent a message to its network of sleeper agents in the Persian Gulf. Gulf intelligence sources said a taped message by Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden was meant to send orders to sleepers to carry out one or more unspecified attacks in Gulf Cooperation Council. The sources said the main target is believed to be Kuwait.
"We believe this was directed at Al Qaida's large sleeper network in Kuwait to move into action," an intelligence source said. "There's nothing more specific than this." Over the weekend, Bin Laden sent a message that was broadcast over the Doha-based Al-Jazeera satellite channel that warned of fresh attacks against the United States and its allies in Iraq. In that message, Bin Laden named one only Arab country -- Kuwait. |