Al-Qaeda offers US safe passage from Iraq
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THE leader of an al-Qaeda backed group offered US forces safe withdrawal from Iraq within a month if they left their heavy weapons behind, according to an audiotape posted on the internet today.
"We call on (President George W.) Bush not to waste this historic opportunity," said the speaker, identified as Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, head of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq, which was announced in October by al-Qaeda and groups affiliated to it.
The speaker said Washington would have two weeks to accept the offer.
LONDON (AP) — London’s police chief said Friday the threat of a terror attack in Britain is growing and warned that the Christmas holidays were an especially dangerous period.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said al-Qaida represented the gravest threat to Britain since World War II and was of an “unparalleled nature and growing.”
“The threat of another terrorist attempt is ever present,” he told British Broadcasting Corp. radio. “Christmas is a period when that might happen. We have no specific intelligence to do (with) that.”
He said al-Qaida posed a greater threat than the Irish Republican Army’s 1970-1997 failed campaign to force Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom and into the Republic of Ireland, which killed 1,775 people.
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