Al-Qaeda’s “support network and its potential for recruitment in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait remain intact” despite security crackdowns, said a BND report cited by Die Welt.

It said the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, currently headed jointly by Germany and the Netherlands, is a possible target.

The report said a new generation of militants were now leading Al-Qaeda, which carried out the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, and that it had found other means of financing its operations.

The BND also said that Osama Bin Laden, who founded the network, was still alive and living in Pakistan near the Afghan border.

It said a new group called Al-Muhawidun, led by Thalet Ben Aziz, was organizing operations.

The German Foreign Ministry has warned people against unnecessary travel to Djibouti and Tanzania, following what it said were indications that attacks are being planned there.

“The risks are greatest around foreign embassy buildings, but also in public places, hotels, holiday sites and areas of interest to tourists,” it said.

It also warned against travel to East Africa and urged caution in Morocco, where a series of suicide attacks in Casablanca on Friday left 41 people dead.

“The terror attacks in Riyadh on May 13 and in Casablanca on May 16, as well as other attacks in the recent past, point to the continuing danger of terrorism around the world,” it said.

The Washington Post, meanwhile, said in a report that the Saudi bombings and other recent attacks were conducted by “regular Al-Qaeda folks” who have moved into positions of authority because previous leaders have been killed or captured.

Al-Qaeda may be unleashing “as many strikes as possible in a short period of time” to prove it is still viable, the report said, citing US officials and terrorism experts.

“I think they’re back — we’ve seen the hiatus,” a counterterrorism official was quoted as saying, referring to the lack of attacks during and following the war on Iraq.

The report said that Al-Qaeda’s head of training, Abu Mohammed Masri, was hiding in Iran, a charge Iran has denied.

French political analyst Olivier Roy blamed the Casablanca attacks on Al-Qaeda and saw them as a sign of the network’s strike capacity and resolve.

“This is definitely an offensive,” Roy said in Paris on Saturday.

“These attacks are a response to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,” he argued, citing a string of messages attributed to Al-Qaeda leader Bin Laden that called on Muslims to unleash jihad on the United States and its allies.