(London Telegraph) Al-Qaida has been blamed for a recent series of forest fires across Europe, as the head of Russia’s Federal Security Service claimed they were set by arsonists as part of the group’s low-cost attack strategy.
“One should note that setting fires to forests in the countries of the European Union is a new tendency in al-Qaeda’s strategy of a ‘thousand cuts’,” Alexander Bortnikov said, according to state news agency RIA Novosti, at a meeting of heads of security agencies.
“This method allows (al-Qaeda) to inflict significant economic and moral damage without serious preliminary preparations, technical equipment or significant expenses.”
Read other WND reports about the Al-Qaida wildfire threat:
2008
Bin Laden’s plan for ‘global fireball’
2007
Terrorists plotted setting U.S. fires
California fires spark suspicion of terror again
2003
Al-Qaida planned U.S. forest fires
More evidence of terror in fires
2003
