Al-Qaeda official tells west to prepare for 'worst nightmare' and directs 'lone wolf' attacks towards easyJet and British Airways

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Independent UK:

Rose Troup Buchanan

Dec. 29 2014

 

An al-Qaeda official has warned that the West should prepare itself for more ‘lone wolf’ attacks as the latest edition of the terrorist organisation’s magazine singles out UK airliners British Airways and easyJet as targets.

 

Inspire magazine, founded in 2010, is purportedly published by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and seeks to influence possible Islamic radicals through publishing interviews and instructions with leading extremists in English.

 

Writing in the latest edition, published on Christmas Eve, Sheikh Nasr Al-Ânisi tells readers ‘lone wolves’ are the “West’s worst nightmare. They instill [sic] fear around the world.”

 

He claims: “Because some deaths are caused by a thousand cuts. And a small blood clot paralyses the whole body.”

 

Al-Ânisi added: “Allah the Almighty has facilitated for them capabilities that are absent to other Muslims: reaching the heart of the enemy’s land and other targets.”

 

(Snip)