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| Al-Muqrin sez he didn't bomb Riyadh |
| 2004-04-28 |
| An audiotape, attributed to senior al-Qaeda member Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, has warned that Americans will be targeted ‘everywhere’ and ‘more severely’ this year. "Muslims should stay away from American civilian and military places and gatherings," said the voice on the tape carried by Islamist websites, including www.al-ansar.biz. "We warn Americans against maintaining their presence in the Arabian Peninsula, and establishing bases, pursuing their occupation of Muslim countries, supporting the Jews in Palestine and the apostate and dictatorial governments in Islamic countries," added the voice purported to be that of Abu Hajer Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, who has taken over as al-Qaeda’s chief of operations for the Gulf, replacing Khaled Ali bin Ali Haj, a Yemeni, who was shot dead by Saudi police in Riyadh in March. "We continue to attack Americans everywhere in the world until they stop their aggression and withdraw their soldiers from Muslim territories," the voice threatened. "The Jews, Americans and the Crusaders in general remain the target of our next operations, which this year will be more severe," added the voice, however, the authenticity of the tape could not be verified. The tape also denied that the group ‘Mujahedeen in the Arabian Peninsula’ was responsible for car bomb attack on Saudi capital last Wednesday. The attack had been claimed earlier by an al-Qaeda linked group, which calls itself ‘The Brigade of the Two Holy Mosques in the Arabian Peninsula.' |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |