DUBAI, June 2: Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda movement will strike again against the United States and with at least the same force as on Sept 11, according to a spokesman quoted by a Sunday newspaper.

Al-Qaeda “will continue to work to strike against the United States”, the network’s spokesman Suleiman Abu Ghaith vowed in an article published on an Islamic website, Al-Hayat daily said.

The site, alneda.com, or “the call” in Arabic, could not be opened Sunday, but it regularly publishes views considered to be those of al-Qaeda.

The group “will continue to work to strike against Americans and Jews and to target them, be it individuals or infrastructure.”

“What is in waiting for the Americans will not be inferior to what the US has already gone through,” Abu Ghaith said.

“Let America be prepared to fasten its seat belt because, thanks to God, we are going to surprise it in a place where it is not expecting.”

The spokesman, who claimed responsibility in April for the September suicide hijackings, said the United States was targeted “because of what it does in the Islamic world and because, along with the Jews, it is the head of corruption and decadence and the reason for the injustice and persecution from which Muslims suffer.”—AFP