Al-Qaeda urges attacks on Canadians
MONTREAL -- A new al-Qaeda manual posted on the Internet is calling
for terrorist attacks against Canadians, and specifies that
businessmen, politicians, scientists, soldiers and tourists should be
targeted, according to U.S. researchers.
Canada is one of six nations whose citizens are identified as "human
targets" in the Arabic-language publication, which is reported to be
the work of senior Egyptian al-Qaeda figure Saif al-Adel.
The manual, called The Al-Battar Military Camp, ranks Canadians as the
fifth most important "Christian" terrorist targets, behind Americans,
Britons, Spaniards and Australians. Italians were ranked sixth.
The manual was obtained and translated by the SITE Institute, a
terrorism research centre in Washington, D.C. It is the latest edition
of a publication that is said to be aimed at new al-Qaeda adherents
scattered around the world.
"This al-Qaeda magazine is published and circulated through the
terrorist group's Web site, along with other propaganda," Rita Katz,
executive director of the institute, told the National Post yesterday.
"It contains specific military guidance and instructions on how to
effectively target al-Qaeda's enemies. There are physical training
programs, diagrams of weapons and chapters dedicated to combat
strategy. Canadians should take very seriously the fact that their
country is identified as a top potential target by al-Qaeda."
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