Ezedine Abdel Aziz Khalil, a senior Al Qaeda aide

The top Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Bark al-Bagdadi has threatened to attack the heart of the US. In an audio recording released on the Internet, al-Bagdadi said that his splinter group is planning a terror operation. He claimed that al-Qaeda operatives were already on their way to the US, but no specific targets were revealed. Al-Bagdadi said the war by Islamic warriors against the US has just begun, and they will carry out more serious attacks than Osama bin Laden ever did. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that New York is not an al-Qaeda target because nothing can be a threat to the city at this time. Intelligence agencies also said that many terrorist groups often make threats about attacking the US, but most of them are just a bluff.