www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

  Home>News Center>World
         
 

Al Qaeda under pressure for new strike -spy chief
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-02-11 09:04

Al Qaeda is under pressure to strike another "high-value" Western target and may be looking at attacking chemical plants or shooting down planes with surface-to-air missiles, a top German intelligence official said Tuesday.

"A substantial decline in activities in the next couple of years is highly improbable," Rudolf Adam, deputy head of German's BND foreign intelligence agency, told a security conference in Berlin.

"On the contrary, we would feel that pressure is mounting on al Qaeda to reassert its effectiveness and its ability to strike another really big high-value target" in order to remain visible, he said.

Al Qaeda, blamed for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has not succeeded in striking the West again since. But it or its affiliates have been held responsible for a series of attacks elsewhere, including in Indonesia, Morocco, Turkey, Kenya, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Adam said air transport remained a potential target, adding: "The next threat that we observe with great concern is the possibilities of shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, so called MANPADs."

Two such missiles narrowly missed an Israeli airliner taking off from the Kenyan port of Mombasa in November 2002, in an operation attributed to al Qaeda. They have also been used by insurgents in Iraq.

Adam said shipping, tourist sites and supply infrastructure such as oil pipelines, power stations, electricity grids and water supplies remained potentially at risk.

"We have unspecified hints that plans have been made or are still under way to target the chemical industry and chemical infrastructure," he said, without giving details.

Adam also said there was concern that al Qaeda might consider kidnappings -- a tactic it has not previously used -- as a bargaining chip to seek the release of prominent members captured during the U.S.-led war on terror.

"We have some disturbing evidence that kidnappings have been planned," he said.

Adam said the "first generation" of al Qaeda had been badly weakened in the war on terror, but even the capture or killing of its leader Osama bin Laden would leave behind a second generation of fighters, trained in Afghan camps, and a third generation currently being recruited.

"The cancer has already proliferated into innumerable metastases," he said.

 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

Wen calls for reining on excessive lending

 

   
 

China bans poultry imports from US

 

   
 

Car bombing kills 50 in Iraq

 

   
 

Sino-US defence officials hold talks

 

   
 

Rumors of fireworks display lead to stampede

 

   
  Al Qaeda under pressure for new strike -spy chief
   
  Suicide bomber kills 50 at police station in Iraq
   
  Head scarf ban backlash warning
   
  US: Al Qaeda operative sought civil war in Iraq
   
  Mystery surrounds missing Russian politician
   
  N.Korea says Pakistan nuclear confession a lie
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  News Talk  
  The evil root of all instability in the world today  
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 男人免费看片 | 高清国产美女一级a毛片 | 天堂8资源8在线 | 寡妇野外啪啪一区二区 | 国产国语在线播放视频 | 精品国产91在线网 | 杨幂国产精品福利在线观看 | 亚洲国产国产综合一区首页 | 免费国产成人高清无线看软件 | 亚洲欧美综合一区二区三区四区 | 亚洲精品一区二区三区在线看 | 国产在线视频精品视频免费看 | 免费观看欧美一级高清 | 欧美特级特黄a大片免费 | 草久在线观看 | 欧美一级免费看 | 久久亚洲国产精品 | 欧美日韩亚洲高清不卡一区二区三区 | 中文字幕视频免费在线观看 | 热99re久久国超精品首页 | 草草草在线视频 | 久久视频在线观看免费 | 点击进入不卡毛片免费观看 | 日韩精品午夜视频一区二区三区 | 国产成人久久精品 | 欧洲女同互慰在线视频 | 免费一级a毛片在线播放 | 国产精品久久久久久久专区 | 成人网在线视频 | 国产午夜精品理论片久久影视 | 另类视频欧美 | 国产精品吹潮在线播放 | 美女免费毛片 | 免费看欧美日韩一区二区三区 | 亚洲国产欧美91 | 久久伊人成人网 | 特级无码a级毛片特黄 | 毛片无码国产 | 国产精品视频久久久久久 | 美女拍拍拍爽爽爽爽爽爽 | 日韩精品视频在线 |