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Al-Qaida looking to target Europe, minister warns
    2018-12-25  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

TERROR group al-Qaida is “resurgent” and looking to carry out attacks on passenger planes in Europe, U.K. Security Minister Ben Wallace has warned.

In an interview with British newspaper The Sunday Times, Wallace said al-Qaida — the group behind the infamous World Trade Center attacks that killed almost 3,000 people in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001 — “still aspire for aviation attacks” and is developing technology to bring down planes.

“The aviation threat is real,” Wallace said in the interview. “Al-Qaida have reorganized. They are pushing more and more plots towards Europe and have become familiar with the new methods.”

The rise of IS has overshadowed the al-Qaida threat in recent years — particularly after its most prominent leader, Osama Bin Laden, was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan in 2011.

But Wallace said the danger had never truly diminished.

“Al-Qaida sat quietly in the corner and tried to work out what the 21st century looked like while IS became the latest terrorist boy band,” he said. “But they have not gone away.”

British intelligence chiefs are also concerned about U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, with Wallace saying it will create a “new safe haven for Islamists to launch attacks on the West.”

(SD-Agencies)

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