The al Qaeda network has published a new military strategy urging supporters toward fresh attacks and listing Jews and Americans as prime targets, Germany's ZDF television reported Friday.
It cited a roughly 50-page document, entitled "Targets in cities," which it said had been published on a variety of websites and called on supporters to turn the countries of "infidels" into "war zones."
The declaration was signed by Abdulaziz al-Mukrin, which ZDF said was the new al Qaeda leader for the Arab world.
ZDF said German and US intelligence services were treating the document as authentic and a development on a previous al Qaeda paper last year that spoke of attacks in countries such as Poland and Spain.
The latest text refers to the deadly Madrid train bombings on March 11 which killed 191 people.
"The entire European economy suffered as a result of the blessed attacks in Madrid," it said, according to ZDF's translation into German.
"It was a double strike against the economies and the governments of the crusaders, Jews and infidels."
Describing a "military diplomacy, written in blood and decorated with body pieces," the paper offers a list of targets.
Top of the list are Jews, followed by Christians. Americans are mentioned first in the latter category, then Britons, Spaniards, Australians, Canadians, Italians and others.
Other suggested targets are listed as "businessmen, diplomats, politicians, intellectuals, scientists, rabbis, missionaries and tourists."
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