FYI: Still has nothing to do with Islam…

Dubai (AFP) – An internet posting on Monday, attributed to a senior al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, warned that last weekend’s deadly bombings in Stockholm were “only the beginning”, and threatened attacks against Nato and Europe.

In an audio recording on the Shumukh al-Islam Islamic website, a man identified as Abu Suleiman al-Nasser, a leader of the al-Qaeda affiliate in Iraq, warned that the Sweden attacks were “only the beginning of a new era in our jihad”, or holy war.

Suleiman, who is “war minister” of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), warned Nato countries to “withdraw their troops from Afghanistan immediately and unconditionally”, and to “stop their war against Islam”.

Otherwise, “you’ll have no security” and “expect that we will strike at the heart of Europe”, the speaker warned in the nearly two-minute recording.

In a separate communiqué signed in his name, the previously unheard of Partisans of Islamic Jihad urged jihadists to try to wreak havoc during the Christmas and New Year holidays in the West with false reports of imminent attacks.

From September, 2007: Al-Qaeda in Iraq offers $100K reward for murder of Swedish cartoonist, Lars Vilks…

(BBC)– The purported head of al-Qaeda in Iraq has offered a reward for the murder of a Swedish cartoonist over his drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
The $100,000 (£49,310) reward would be raised by 50% if Lars Vilks was “slaughtered like a lamb” said the audio message aired on the internet.

The speaker, said to be Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, threatened a new offensive during the holy month of Ramadan.

Last month’s cartoon showed Prophet Muhammad’s head on a dog’s body.