Al Qaeda video vows more Denmark attacks

By Firouz Sedarat

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda issued new threats against Denmark in an Internet video released on Friday, saying an attack on the Danish embassy in Pakistan was the start of its retaliation for perceived insults to the Prophet Mohammad.

The Internet video featured senior al Qaeda leader Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, who was reported to have been killed last month. The compilation was dated August 2008, although it was made up of segments recorded at various dates.

The video profiled a suicide bomber who it said carried out the June 2 attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad, which killed six people, in response to the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad by Danish newspapers.

The cartoons sparked riots in the Muslim world in 2006 after originally being printed in a Danish newspaper in 2005. One, reprinted in a Danish newspaper earlier this year, depicted the Prophet Mohammad wearing a bomb in his turban.

"We have warned previously, and we warn once more, the Crusader states which insult, mock and defame our Prophet and the Koran in their media and occupy our lands, steal our treasure and kill our brothers that we will exact revenge at the appropriate time and place," said Abu al-Yazid.

"The Danish embassy and prior operations is but the beginning ... if you don't end your errant ways and aggression," the Egyptian militant leader said in the video posted on Islamist websites.

The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) said it believed the video to be authentic and that it strengthened its conclusion that al Qaeda was behind the Islamabad attack.