Jordan's King Abdullah
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Al-Qaeda threatens Jordan's King Abdullah
Iraq's al-Qaeda publishes statement calling on supporters in Jordan to watch our for king, warns he will encounter the same fate as his great-grandfather, who was assassinated
Al-Qaeda in Iraq issued an explicit threat against Abdullah king of Jordan Friday, and called on the organization's members to assassinate him.
A statement posted on the organization's website Friday read: 'We say to Abdullah the mortal, wait a bit and ... you will soon experience the same fate as your traitor great-grandfather."
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Abdullah's great grandfather Abdullah Ben Hussein was assassinated by a Palestinian while entering the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on July 20, 1951.
The current threat against the Jordanian king joins a series of previous threats issued by the organization lately against world leaders, including the pope and American President George W. Bush.
On Wednesday, Iraq's al-Qaeda wing condemned Pope Benedict's visit to Turkey as part of a crusade against Islam aimed at pulling Turkey away from the Muslim world.
"The visit of the Pope in reality is meant to add momentum to the crusader campaign on the land of Islam after the failures of crusader leaders," the al Qaeda-led "Islamic State in Iraq" said in a statement posted on the Internet.
