Al Qaeda has claimed that it was behind the attack on Denmark’s embassy in Pakistan in which eight people killed & more than 30 injured. An Internet statement, signed by Al Qaeda’s leader in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, said that the attack was a “revenge against the infidel government of Denmark which published degrading drawings of the Prophet & refused to apologise but continued … & was followed by leading crusader states, organisations and figures”.

The attack was in line with a pledge of revenge by Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the group said in the statement, posted on Islamist websites. Its authenticity could not be independently verified. The statement said a recorded message from the Al Qaeda suicide bomber who carried out the attack would be issued.