September 06, 2008	Saturday	Ramazan 05, 1429

CAIRO, Sept 5: Al Qaeda’s top commander in Afghanistan warned of more attacks against the West in a video posted on the web that paid tribute to a suicide bomber said to have carried out the June bombing of the Danish Embassy in Pakistan.

The blast killed six, including one Danish citizen, and caused widespread destruction in the Islamabad neighbourhood. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility soon after the attack, saying it was carrying out Osama bin Laden’s promise to exact revenge over the publishing of a blasphemous caricature in Danish papers.

It was the deadliest strike against Denmark since the reprinting of the cartoon earlier this year.

In the new, 55-minute video posted late on Thursday, Al Qaeda’s commander in Afghanistan Mustafa Abu al-Yazeed warned “once more the Crusader states that insult, mock and defame our Prophet (peace be upon him)... that we will exact revenge at the appropriate time and place.”

Abu al-Yazeed, an Egyptian also known as Abu Saeed Al Masri, said the embassy attack in Islamabad was “but the beginning” and called on the Muslim youth in the West to “retaliate” against the “enemies of Islam and Muslims in whose midst they live.”

The video’s authenticity could not be independently verified. It was posted on a militant web forum commonly used by Al Qaeda to issue videos and bore the logo of the terror group’s Al Sahab media arm.

The video also showed the last testament of the Saudi bomber purportedly behind the embassy attack, known by his nom de guerre Abu Ghareeb Al Makki. His real name was given as Kamal Saleem Atiyyah Al Fudli Al Hathli.Al Makki is shown wearing an explosives vest and headscarf as he recounts his plan. He then gets into a car, followed by a computer-animated segment that reconstructs the attack.

The unusually elaborate and lengthy video was made as a documentary and included segments from statements by Danish, Dutch and US officials, as well as Saudi and Jordanian royals, incorporated with remarks by various Al Qaeda figures.

“As for my final message to the worshippers of the cross in Denmark, I tell them, Allah permitting, this isn’t the first nor the last retaliation,” Al Makki says.—AP