WILL AL QAEDA STRIKE ISRAEL NEXT?

Jordan terrorists: Israel next

A statement claiming responsibility for Wednesday’s bombings in Amman said Israel would be targeted next. Three simultaneous bomb attacks on U.S.-owned hotels in the Jordanian capital killed at least 60 people. “Al Qaida in Iraq” claimed responsibility in a statement on a Web site. The group said the attack proved that Israel “was within range” and that “it would not be long” before Israel was targeted.

"Al-Qaeda Strike on Israel Looming" - Margot Dudkevitch (Jerusalem Post)
It is only a matter of time before Israel becomes the target of a large-scale attack launched by al-Qaeda, said Dr. Yoram Kahati, senior research fellow at the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies. "The threat is coming closer. An attack in Jordan should serve as a red light [warning] that an attack in Israel is only a matter of time. Six months, a year, or three, it will happen, it will be large-scale and launched in a central, populated area," he said. Unable to confront the West's modern military technology, al-Qaeda has turned the "art" of suicide bombing into an effective human weapon, Kahati says, realizing that terror causes damage, harms economies, and creates fear.