The Middle East Media and Rearsch Institute, MEMRI, har oversatt et intervju hvor en som utgir seg for en av Osamas løytnanter varsler et angrep i Irak som vil slå hele verden med frykt. Det snakkes om 100.000 døde.

Memri overvåker og oversetter relevant informasjon fra den arabiske verden.

Al-Qa’ida Commander in Iraq: ‘A Terror Attack Against the U.S. With 100,000 Deaths is Imminent; We Ordered the Riyadh Bombing’

Al-Qal’a (The Fortress) an Islamist Internet forum, posted the first of a two-part interview with a person who introduced himself as Abu Salma Al-Hijazi, one of the Al-Qa’ida commanders closest to Osama bin Laden. [1] The interview was conducted in Iraq, south of Faluja. The article notes that Al-Hijazi was surrounded by five masked men carrying missiles as well as personal weapons. The article was posted by Abu Saqr Al-Najdi; no other details were given. The following are excerpts from the interview:

He further stated that the attack will be carried out in a way that will “amaze the world and turn Al-Qai’da into [an organization that] horrifies the world until the law of Allah is implemented, actually implemented, and not just in words, on His land… You wait and see that the balance of power between Al-Qai’da and its rivals will change, all of a sudden, Allah willing.”

En fersk FN-rapport slår fast at Al-Qaida fortsatt arbeider for å få fatt i kjemiske og biologiske våpen, og er beredt til å bruke dem, men har problemer med den tekniske ekspertisen.