Italy threatened with mass destruction

August 2, 2004

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An Al Qaeda-linked group gave Italy another 15 days to withdraw its troops from Iraq before sending “waves of earthquakes to erase your country,” according to a statement sent to an Arabic newspaper today.

It was the fourth threat in two weeks against the key American ally.

The statement, signed by the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades and sent to the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, followed the expiration of a three-month truce purportedly made in April by Osama bin Laden to European states.

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