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NEW 9/11 NIGHTMARE!

Al Qaeda issues orders to unleash hell 21 years after Twin Towers fell

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AMERICAN security services are bracing for a bloody new terror strike centered around the 21st anniversar­y of the 9/11 attacks as revenge for the recent CIA drone assassinat­ion of Osama bin Laden’s replacemen­t Ayman al-Zawahiri, intelligen­ce sources tell GLOBE.

In a stunning exclusive, experts associated with the government’s spy agencies tell GLOBE terror leaders’ intercepte­d communicat­ions reveal they’ve activated murderous, secret sleeper cells burrowed deep within America and ordered them to wreak havoc far and wide.

“It’s a tit for tat,” says Morgan Lerette, former Army intelligen­ce officer and author of Welcome to Blackwater: Mercenarie­s, Money and Mayhem in Iraq. “They’re not going to just sit back and let us kill their leader and let that go without at least making the threat of a reprisal.”

What makes the attack even more scary is lawmen will have a tough time identifyin­g members of the secret al Qaeda cells.

“These would be individual­s unknown to law enforcemen­t who were never placed on the FBI’s No Fly List, similar to the al Qaeda cells that were operating in America before 9/11,” Lerette says.

“I would expect that they’ve been here for at least a year to 18 months, living among us in anonymity. They’re probably on student visas or part of some other type of visitor program.”

Former Navy SEAL Rob O’Neill, who killed Osama bin Laden in a daring 2011 raid on the mass murderer’s Pakistan safe house, says an attack shouldn’t be a surprise.

“Al Qaeda likes anniversar­ies and now would be the time with Zawahiri’s death for them to make a move,” he says.

O’Neill also believes a plot would be difficult to uncover, adding: “It’s not like the terrorists advertise themselves as cardcarryi­ng members.

“It’s very difficult to say who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. That’s especially the case when they are using our freedoms against us to remain undetected.”

Thirsting for revenge after CIA drone took out Osama’s successor

The scary intercepte­d communicat­ions — while vague — point to kill-crazy jihadists attacking a series of highprofil­e targets in major cities across the country, including government centers, mass transit hubs and even sacred American landmarks.

“When it comes to al Qaeda, everything is a target,” says counterter­rorism expert Ryan Mauro. “They could just as easily strike fear into Americans by going after a hospital or a school as by attacking a government building or monument.

“Either way, the consequenc­es would be terrible.”

The dire alarm comes weeks after the CIA drone killed alZawahiri in a safe house in Taliban-controlled Kabul, Afghanista­n.

The bloodthirs­ty, 71-yearold leader had become a symbol of internatio­nal terrorism in the 11-plus years since bin Laden’s death.

According to sources, he was also a key planner of the 9/11 attacks that left 2,753 dead and the architect of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen that killed 17 sailors.

The FBI ranked him among its 25 most wanted and offered a $25 million bounty for informatio­n leading to his capture.

“His fingerprin­ts are on every major attack al Qaeda has pulled off against the U.S.” notes Lerette. “He was the brains while Osama bin Laden was the face and the funding.

“Al Qaeda is going to be angry [about his demise], and they’re going to blame America.”

An attack coming so soon after al-Zawahiri’s death would suggest al Qaeda’s new leader, who hasn’t been unmasked, “is more prone to attack the U.S. homeland than the prior one may have been,” Lerette points out.

Mauro believes al Qaeda’s leadership will likely want to make a bloody statement about al-Zawahiri’s death to show to the world the terrorist gang is still something to be feared.

“The pressure is extremely high on this anniversar­y more so than on others,” he says. “If they fail to show strength now, they risk fading away completely.”

Meanwhile, O’Neill has a chilling warning for the terrorists, saying: “We’ve proven that we still have men and women who are dedicated enough to find you.

“The death of Zawahiri proved that and so did the death of bin Laden. If you come after America we’re going to come after you.”

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Osama bin Laden’s death in 2011 left Al-Zawahiri in charge of the terror group
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Al-Zawahiri was a key planner of the 2000 USS Cole bombing, which killed 17 Americans
Ryan Mauro Al-Zawahiri was a key planner of the 2000 USS Cole bombing, which killed 17 Americans

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