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Al-Qaeda Group Threatens to Attack World Cup

By on April 9, 2010
The North African terror group al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has threatened to attack this summer’s World Cup games in South Africa.

You can read in a statement the group published in a recent issue of the Jihadi online magazine “Mushtaqun Lel Jannah” (Longing to Paradise).”How amazing could the match United States vs. Britain be when …  …the whole stadium is turned upside down and the number of dead bodies are in their dozens and hundreds…”
In addition to the U.S. and U.K. teams, the teams representing France, Germany and Italy are also on the group’s list of targets.
The group says they will use some undetectable explosive that will be able to circumvent security checkpoints at the game. All the security checks and X-ray machines would not be capable of detecting how those explosives made it into the stadium.
this threat announcement is forcing any observer to go back to reports published recently, and stating that South Africa’s National Intelligence Agency, senior police forces and American agents jointly conducted an operation, which led to the arrest of a number of suspects linked to the group in Somalia and Mozambique working on a plot to carry out bomb attacks during the games…

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