Qaeda leader wants UK attacks

DUBAI – A prominent leader of al-Qaeda has called for attacks in Western countries particularly Britain in retaliation for Israel’s offensive in Gaza, arguing that London was behind the creation of the Jewish state.

‘It’s high time that this criminal country, I mean Britain, paid the price of its historic crime,’ Abu Yahya al-Libi said in a video posted on an Islamist website.
Libi, whose group was behind deadly attacks in Britain in 2005, is one of the top leaders of al-Qaeda believed to be hiding in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Libi told British people to expect reprisals for the Israeli ‘annihilation camapaign’ in Gaza. ‘We are not fooled by the policies of courtesy. A wolf is a wolf even dressed as lamb,’ he said in an apparanet reference to demonstrations in Western countries calling for an end to the three-week Israeli offensive. In the 31-minute video, Libi also repeated calls for attacks on other Western countries including the United States. ‘Make them taste the bitterness of war and the tragedies of homelessness and the misery of horror,’ he said in a call to militant fighters. ‘They should not be secure while our people (Palestinians) are scared. – Nampa-Reuters