 An Al-Qaeda front group in Europe threatened on Tuesday to launch bloody attacks in France in response to the election of "crusader and Zionist" Nicolas Sarkozy as president. | I'll bet that comes as news to him. |
| Makes me wonder if they fired their press release writer much like KCNA did a while back ... |
"As you have chosen the crusader and Zionist Sarkozy as a leader ... we in the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades warn you that the coming days will see a bloody jihadist campaign ... in the capital of Sarkozy," the group's "Europe division" said in an Internet statement addressed to the French people. The campaign will be "against all those who allow themselves to follow the policy" of the US administration, said the statement whose authenticity could not verified.
The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades takes its name from an Al-Qaeda commander killed during the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. The group previously claimed responsibility for the July 2005 terror attacks in London, as well those in Madrid in March 2004 and in Istanbul in November 2003. Just after the London bombings, the group warned European nations to pull their troops out of Iraq within a month or face more attacks like them.
| The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades don't seem to have had anything to do with London -- those were home-grown, Lashkar-e-Taiba-trained dipsy doodles, working under a Qaeda controller; the Madrid booms were courtesy of the infant Moroccan Islamic Combat Group, not Abu Hafs; and the Istanbooms were courtesy of al-Qaeda working through the Great Eastern Islamic Heroes Front, or whatever they hell grandiose name they call themselves. Abu Hafs al-Masri brigades appear to exist only on the internet, claiming the credit for other people's atrocities. |
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