I'm reading Europe too - although I think the feds are jittery about a hit here as well.
In the statement, the Abu Hafs Masri brigade listed four targets for the next phase of their operations:
1. Expansion of the conflict, by distributing operations throughout the world. The Brigades claim that they want to lead America into a third “swamp” similar to Afghanistan and Iraq. They suggest that Yemen will become this new theatre of operations.
2. Shaking investor confidence in the American economy
3. Expose the plans of the Jewish Crusaders
4. Cause the enemy to spread out their forces, and then wear them down.
Did al qaeda really extend the original truce offer to say, Britain also? I just cannot fathom the jihadis doing that to Britain. Offering a truce to the other Euoropean nations with less forces in Iraq and elsewhere I can understand, but not England.
Imagine how they would drool over a near simultaneuous attack on Britain and the U.S.
I would really like to know if we really did avert a serious attack stateside around the 2003/2004 holidays (because that would tell me that another attack attempt in Europe is all but certain since we received a similar warning last summer/late fall).
But then again the warning to Muslims says that Muslims should head toward Muslims states in the West preferably; what Muslim nations are actually in the West? Please, don't anyone throw a globe at me, I cannot think of one Muslim nation in the West.