Al Qaida har publisert en liste på 40 prominente amerikanere som de mener fortjener å dø.

Det er alt fra forretningsmenn, militære, diplomater, tenke-tank-ledere, melder NBC New York.

26 navn ledsages av bilde, og det er oppfordring til å spore opp deres adresse og personlig informasjon. Jihadister over hele verden bør drepe dem, heter det.

Noen av disse menneskene vil leve med en generell risiko, men det er noe annet å bli hengt ut med navn. Det gir en helt annen sårbarhetsfølelse. Man vet aldri helt når noen vil gjenkjenne en i et offentlig rom. Det gir feks. en helt annen sårbarhet under utenlandsbesøk.

Along with the hit-list is an invitation for jihadists worldwide to take matters into their own hands and target the named individuals.

The FBI has notified those individuals listed, as well as law-enforcement agencies nationwide.

According to the NBC New York report, the hit-list names 40 individuals – 26 with photographs – and a request to add home addresses in order to send parcel bombs.

While the FBI acknowledges that al-Qaida often posts threats on its websites which are not actualized, “what’s scary about this is how specific the individual information is,” said former New York State Homeland Security Director Michael Balboni in the NBC report.

“What you don’t know is: When does aspirational become operational in cases like this, involving a possible lone actor here inspired by a website… Part of this is a necessary precaution. You don’t want to scare people,” Balboni said. “But there is much more specific, individual targeting than we’ve seen before.”

Al-Qaida publishes hit-list of influential Americans