'Australians top target in RI'

'Australians top target in RI'

AUSTRALIA: Australians have been named in an al-Qaeda terror manual as the main targets for terrorist attacks in Indonesia, it was reported here on Wednesday.

The Australian newspaper said the 11-page manual, Targeting the Cities, specifies which foreign nationals to target in Muslim nations, such as Americans in Saudi Arabia, French in Algiers and Australians in Indonesia.

It did not say where or how it had obtained the document.

The manual, purportedly written by a senior Al-Qaeda member Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, ranks Australians fourth on a list of overall targets behind Americans, Britons and Spaniards, and followed by Canadians and Italians. --AFP