Al-Qaida, Associate Terror Groups Plotting Strike against US Facilities
The US has said that al-Qaida and other terrorists outfits like the Taliban and their affiliate are plotting terror strike against American facilities and its nationals in South and Central Asia, reported PTI.
With US government facilities remaining at a high state of alert, the State Department issued a travel alert saying that the terror groups might strike by vehicle-born explosives, improvised explosive devices, assassinations, carjacking, rocket attacks, assaults or kidnapping, report said.
The State Department said that the US government was continually receiving information about terrorist outfits plotting strikes in South and Central Asia, possibly against American government facilities, or interests, said report.
“The resence of Al-Qaida, Taliban elements, indigenous sectarian groups, and other terror organisations, many of which are on the US Government’s list of foreign terror organisations, poses a potential danger to American citizens in the region,” it said.
According to travel alert, terrorists and their sympathisers have demonstrated their willingness and capability to attack targets where Americans or Westerners are known to congregate or visit.
Since October 2009, terrorists have executed coordinated attacks with multiple operatives using portable weaponry such as guns, grenades, RPGs and suicide vests or car bombs in Pakistan, the travel alert said, adding that US citizens have been victims in such attacks.
