Al-Qaeda has warned Prime Minister Gordon Brown that Britain faces a terrorist onslaught. The message came from Osama Bin Laden's number two Ayman al-Zawahri just two weeks after failed bombings in London and Glasgow
In a 20-minute speech entitled Malicious Britain And Its Indian Slaves, which was posted on a website used by al-Qaeda-linked groups, al-Zawahri said: "I say to Blair's successor that the policy of your predecessor drew catastrophes in Afghanistan and Iraq and even in the centre of London. "If you did not learn the lesson then we are ready to repeat it, God willing, until we are sure you have fully understood
Al-Zawhari also warned that Muslim outrage at the knighthood awarded to Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie would boil over into violence. He said a "very precise response" was being prepared to retaliate for the decision to honour the writer
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Site Intelligence Group, which monitors al-Qaeda messages, said the tape was produced by as-Sahab, the multimedia wing of al-Qaeda, to be distributed to extremist websites. A Downing Street spokesman, while not responding directly to al-Zawahri's remarks, said: "As the Prime Minister has said, we will not allow terrorists to undermine the British way of life
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"The British people will remain united, resolute and strong." The Foreign Office said it would maintain efforts to thwart terrorists: "We will continue to tackle the threat from international terrorism as a priority in order to prevent the risk of attacks on British interests at home and overseas, including from al-Qaeda
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He added: "These terrorists care nothing for the peoples of the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan. "Al-Qaeda has been killing civilians of all faiths, including many fellow Muslims, for years
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