Al-Qaeda Issues Hit List of Prominent Americans

(Washington Times) Eli Lake and Jerry Seper - A website associated with al-Qaeda is calling on "lone wolf" agents to target and kill 40 prominent Americans at their homes in the U.S. On Thursday, new al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, who helped plan the Sept. 11 attacks, said, "We seek...jihad against the apostate invaders with their head being crusader America and its servant Israel, and whoever supports them." Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, as we succeeded "in killing bin Laden, we certainly will do the same thing with Zawahri."


2011-06-17 00:00:00

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