Al-Qaida threatens more American attacks

Al-Qaida has threatened more attacks on Americans and dismissed the US campaign to dismantle the terrorist group.

Al-Qaida has threatened more attacks on Americans and dismissed the US campaign to dismantle the terrorist group.

A spokesman for the terror organisation is branding the war on terrorism a "Hollywood script" without effect.

Sulaiman Abu Ghaith made the statement in Algerian newspaper El Youm.

"Al-Qaida still maintains its military, security, economic and informational structures," he said

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"Al-Qaida will organise more attacks inside American territory and outside, at the moment we choose, at the place we choose and with the objectives that we want," Abu Ghaith said.

The interview by the al-Qaida spokesman followed one posted on the internet on June 2 in which Abu Ghaith threatened attacks on Americans and Jews, targeting "both people and buildings."

The editor in chief of El Youmsaid the interview it published was carried out on Sunday via two intermediaries.

Editor H'Mida Ayachi said that El Youmformulated the questions that were faxed to an intermediary. A second intermediary actually asked the questions. He would not say where the interview took place.

Abu Ghaith said that al-Qaida "functions according to a rigorous, secret logic" and that it cannot be knocked out.

"The American campaign is but a Hollywood script with its victims thousands of innocent villagers killed without having been implicated in the battle."

PA