Al Qaeda Would Nuke US…….. If We Could
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Al Qaeda leader Mustafa Abu al-Yazid: We’d use nuclear weapons against the U.S. if we could
Al Qaeda would not hesitate to use Pakistan’s nuclear weapons on the United States – if only it could get its hands on them, the terrorist group’s leader in Afghanistan said in a recent interview.
“God willing, the nuclear weapons will not fall into the hands of the Americans and the Mujahideen would take them and use them against the Americans,” Mustafa Abu al-Yazid said in an interview televised on the Al Jazeera news network, according to Reuters.
But Abu al-Yazid also said that the terrorist group is willing to make a 10-year truce with the United States – if the Obama administration would just agree to pull all American troops out of Muslim countries, and withdraw support for Israel and pro-Western Islamic regimes.
Western fears over the security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal have been amplified by the recent incursions in the Swat Valley by al Qaeda’s allies, the Taliban. An estimated 2 million refugees have fled the region in the wake of the fighting and the United Nations launched an appeal for $543 million in humanitarian aid to stem the crisis, Reuters reported.
Even as 46 suspected Taliban members were killed in military strikes across the region Sunday, analysts still worry that the turmoil in the region could destabilize the rest of the nuclear power.
And then, al-Yazid said, Islamic militants will strike.
“The strategy of the organization in the coming period is the same as in the previous period: To hit the head of the snake, the head of tyranny – the United States,” al-Yazid told Al Jazeera.
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