Al-Qaeda to 'move fight' to Saudi Arabia

From the Daily Telegraph

A SUSPECTED senior Al-Qaeda operative who escaped from a US airbase in Afghanistan last July called on members overnight in a video statement to move to fight in Saudi Arabia, predicting they would soon overcome US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"You must have a precise programme in mind: we will soon conquer America (the United States) in Afghanistan and Iraq. We must then head directly towards the peninsula of Mahomet (Saudi Arabia)," Saudi Mohammad al-Qahtani, said in the video statement released on the internet.

"We will have acquired great military experience...We call on our brothers who are fighting at the moment in the peninsula of Mahomet to continue their fight. We will soon be there," he said.

Al-Qahtani was one of four Al-Qaeda members who escaped from the US Bagram airbase last July.

The escape of the four men, described by the US army as "dangerous combatants", is a source of embarrassment at the main US base in Afghanistan.

I am not sure why this guy thinks that they are winning in Iraq and Afghanistan, unless this is a desperate call for help among the al-Qaeda members that have been hiding in caves without TV or the Internet for the last couple of years.

It is interesting however, that they seem to be targeting Saudi Arabia, first the attack on the oil depot and now more promised attacks in the kingdom. Is their plan to further disrupt the oil supply? After all, this guy is a Saudi, I just don't get it.