From The Copenhagen Post
Terrorist organisation al-Qaeda has indicated last month's bombing of the Danish embassy in Pakistan was carried out by one of its Saudi operatives - an effective PR stunt, according to one expert.
In a television interview to Pakistan's Geo-TV on Tuesday, terrorist group al-Qaeda's no. 3 man Abu Mustafa al-Yazid confirmed that his organisation was responsible for the 2. June bombing of the Danish embassy in Pakistan.
But experts say that while the news itself is no surprise, the real purpose of the televised interview was to reiterate al-Qaeda's position as a widespread, international terrorist organisation. Al-Yazid's assertion that a Saudi man from the holy city of Mecca was the suicide bomber was unexpected for many experts, who wondered why the group did not use a Pakistani for the job.
'They probably want to send the message that they aren't some little terror cell in a single country, but that al-Qaeda should still be considered an international brigade,' Hans Jørgen Bonnichsen, former head of Danish intelligence service PET, told Berlingske Tidende newspaper.
Bonnichsen said he believed al-Qaeda was currently on the defensive, but called the PR stunt 'incredibly effective'.