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India is our next target, Al-Qaeda issues warning CD
Published on Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 14:37, Updated on Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 17:15 in 
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New Delhi: Al Qaeda has issued an open warning to India saying that the country should be “ready” to see a series of terror attacks. The says it will also target Israel, Russia and the United States.
The threat is contained in a new video featuring Adam Yahiye Gadahn—an American al Qaeda member. He says Indian and American diplomatic missions all over the world are their legitimate targets.
Intelligence sources have describe the Qaeda threat as an "extended threat". This is the first time India and another country/countries are all mentioned together by the outfit.
Sources in the home ministry told CNN-IBN that the “threat cannot be taken lightly” although all security systems are in place. A high level meeting is likely to review the security measures against the terror warning. Intelligence agencies are looking into the origin of the CD, which contained the al-Qaeda video
"We shall continue to target you at home and abroad just as you target us at home and abroad," Adam Gadahn, a wanted American member of Al-Qaeda, said in the video.
In the video, he accuses India of killing more than a hundred thousand Muslims in Kashmir with America's US blessing. The video, one-hour and 17 minutes long also has Gadahn warning that President Bush to withdraw his troops from Muslim lands or he can expect worse than September 11.
Responding to the threat message by al-Qaeda, Home minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal said, “we are confident that the country is prepared to handle any kind of threat by the terror outfit.”
The minister however denied receiving any official statement on the same. “Despite reports from the media, we haven’t received any official confirmation regarding the threats. But our country our paramilitary forces our security forces are ready to combat any attack of any kind,” he added.
Earlier, in a TV18 network exclusive, National Security Advisor, MK Narayanan told Karan Thapar that al Qaeda was looking for an opportunity to strike in India and had even done the necessary reconnaissance for it.
“We are concerned. We are all the time on the lookout for al Qaeda's movements here. We know that on a couple of occasions they have done a reccee and gone back. But they have not yet done something, which is terrorizing in a big way,” he said.
The firmer security advisor hinted that the al-Qaeda groups have in the past surveyed various areas in India. “There was a team that had come once to India and done a reccee and gone back, but the programme they had never worked out,” he added.
Narayanan said that the LeT is also an “integral part of al Qaeda. In a sense you can always say that the al Qaeda is present in India.”
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