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12 terrorists hunt Danish cartoonists
WASHINGTON A dozen young terrorists have departed Afghanistan, bound first for Iran and then Europe, where their mission will be to hunt down the Danish cartoonists responsible for drawing anti-Muhammad sketches, according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. The report was passed on by Hamid Mir, the Pakistani journalist who has interviewed al-Qaida leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri and who just visited the no-man's land along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. While there, he was told by Taliban sources in south Waziristan that 12 young men nine Afghans and three Pakistanis are on their way to Europe to kill the Danish cartoonists. While some carry Afghan passports and others carry Iranian passports, all will travel through Iran on their way to Europe, he reports. All 12 have recorded the video messages that will be aired publicly if they hit their targets. In his most recent audio communiqué, aired on Al-Jazeera last week, Osama bin Laden called for a global Muslim boycott of American goods similar to the recent boycott of Danish products after the publication there of caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. He also said the artists who drew those offending cartoons should be handed over to him for trial and punishment. Days before that television broadcast, Mir predicted an imminent communiqué from bin Laden to be released on the Arab television network. Aftenposten: Twelve terrorists are headed to Denmark to assassinate the artists behind the controversial caricatures of the prophet Mohammed published in newspaper Jyllands-Posten. This claim stems from Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir, newspaper Politiken reports on its web site, citing discussion of the case in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. According to Danish terrorism expert Lars Erslev Andersen, it is highly unlikely that the terrorists, if they are en route, will ever arrive in Denmark, though he conceded that the threat is certainly unpleasant for those concerned. Denmark's intelligence service PET said that they were constantly monitoring the threat situation in regard to the artists. Posted by: Steve 2006-05-04 |
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