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Al-Qaeda threatens 'stunning blows' against US, Israel 05/20/03: (ABC Australia) Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror network has threatened to deliver devastating blows to the United States and Israel, a Saudi-owned weekly reports. "The next strikes will stun the Americans and Israelis," Abu Mohammad al-Ablaj, "coordinator of the al Qaeda-affiliated Mujahedeen Training Centre," said in an email published by London-based Al-Majallah on Friday. "The upcoming strikes will throw the enemy off balance. They will target the rear of the snake (the United States), which Abu Abdullah (bin Laden) said should be hit," he wrote. "These strikes will hearten the faithful and disconcert the infidels," he said, applauding Monday's triple suicide bombings in Riyadh which killed at least 34 people, including nine bombers. The threats came as US President George W Bush said in his weekly address that half of the Al Qaeda leadership had been eliminated. "From Pakistan to the Philippines, to the Horn of Africa, we are hunting down Al Qaeda killers," he said. "So far, nearly one-half of Al Qaeda's
senior operatives have been captured or killed," he said, However he warned that the battle against terror was still far from over. "These two battles were important victories in the larger war on terror. Yet the terrorist attacks this week in Saudi Arabia, which killed innocent civilians from more than half a dozen countries, including our own, provide a stark reminder that the war on terror continues."
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