{"id":24556,"date":"2010-11-10T23:46:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T06:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=24556"},"modified":"2010-11-10T23:46:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T06:46:56","slug":"bin-laden-names-commander-to-lead-al-qaidas-assault-on-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/bin-laden-names-commander-to-lead-al-qaidas-assault-on-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Bin Laden Names Commander to Lead al-Qaida’s Assault on West"},"content":{"rendered":"
Osama Bin Laden has appointed a new commander to spearhead al-Qaida’s offensive against the West.<\/p>\n
Known to Western intelligence services by the alias Saif al-Adel, or “Sword of the Just”, al-Qaida’s new chief of international operations is believed to have conceived the wave of planned strikes that set off terrorism alerts across Europe recently, as well as last month’s mid-air parcel bomb plot.<\/p>\n
American and Pakistani sources have disclosed that al-Adel is running several similar operations as part of a war of attrition to persuade Western public opinion that the war against terrorism is unwinnable. This would clear the road for al-Qaida to capture power in fragile states such as Somalia and Yemen.<\/p>\n
via Bin Laden names commander to lead al-Qaida’s assault on West<\/a>.<\/p>\n