The New Media Journal | Al Qaeda Calls for Homemade Bomb Attacks in West

The New Media Journal | Al Qaeda Calls for Homemade Bomb Attacks in West: "The leader of al Qaeda's wing in the Arabian Peninsula called on militants to attack airports and trains in the West and said they could easily make bombs from household materials, the group's Internet magazine said.

The Islamist group has been trying to secure small victories to maintain its feared image after its leaders' threats to carry out large-scale attacks on Western targets have been discounted as words without deeds, analysts say.

Abu Basir Nasser al-Wahayshi, in an article in the e-magazine Sada al-Malahem, also urged militants to assault secular media figures and columnists who promote the policies of rulers in the world's top oil exporting region.

'You do not need to exert great effort or spend a lot of money to make 10 grams of explosives, more or less. Do not spend a long time searching for materials as they already exist in your mother's kitchen,' Wahayshi wrote in the article, posted on an Islamist website on Sunday.

'Make them (bombs) in the shape of a bomb you hurl, or detonate through a timer or a remote detonator or a martyrdom-seeker belt or any electrical appliance.'

Wahayshi said bombers should attack countries involved in wars in Muslim countries as well as government figures and security bodies in the Middle East.

Over the past two years, al Qaeda has been active mainly in Muslim countries like Algeria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen after carrying out the September 11, 2001 attacks on US cities.

Wahayshi urged followers to use knives or sticks to attack 'secular media figures and writers who mock the orders of religion and those who promote and justify (the actions) of infidel rulers.'"