Al-Qaeda Threatens To Kill British PM Gordon Brown

Now that al-Qaeda has threatened to kill him, I wonder if he will take the War on Terror seriously now.

Intelligence services are investigating a threat on an Islamist website to kill Gordon Brown, adding credence to warnings by the US security chief about the rising danger from home-grown European terrorists. Security experts fear the posting in Arabic on www.alekhlaas.net, referring to "the creation of the al-Qa'eda organisation in Britain", may be genuine. The site, which has been visited by more than 17 million people, also urges young Muslim men to rise up against infidels such as "(Prime Minister Gordon) Brown and (Tony) Blair". "You don't ignore this sort of thing," Pauline Neville-Jones, the former head of the British joint intelligence committee, told the BBC's Newsnight. "It may not be a threat from an existing cell ... but it does represent a move in the propaganda game and the propaganda game is not something we should ignore. This is after all a struggle over ideology." The warning comes as Michael Chertoff, the US head of homeland security, said he believed "terrorists are increasingly looking to Europe as both a target and a platform for terrorist attacks". In an interview on the BBC's World News America, Mr Chertoff said the US was concerned that Islamic terrorists from Europe could exploit the country's visa waiver scheme to launch a follow-up to the 9/11 attacks. Under the scheme, approximately 15 million people from 27 designated countries, including Britain, visit the US each year for up to 90 days without a visa.