Al-Qaeda affiliate calls for strikes on U.S. targets such as D.C. restaurants

From:  The Washington Post

Al-Qaeda affiliate calls for strikes on U.S. targets such as D.C. restaurant
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/12/AR2010101204536.html



Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen urges followers to strike U.S. targets, including restaurants in Washington, in a new edition of an English-language publication that the group posts online.

In a section that suggests ideas for attacks inside the United States, the publication says that using firearms to carry out "a random hit at a crowded restaurant in Washington D.C. at lunch hour for example might end up knocking out a few government employees" and attracting widespread news media attention.


U.S. counterterrorism officials said they were taking the threat seriously. "When specific locations are mentioned as possible targets, that's always a concern," said a U.S. counterterrorism official. "This terrorist publication is filled with the kind of hatred you see in other extremist propaganda." . . . .