August 18, 2009

Jihad Magazine Warns of Terror Attacks in Europe (bumped)

Over at Jihad Watch today, Robert links a report that claims:

In an astounding revelation, Al-Qaeda extremists have claimed that home-grown terrorists are plotting to attack targets in Britain.

According to reports, in an internet magazine read by thousands of Islamic extremists Al-Qaeda has labeled Britain and Europe as a bigger enemy than the United States.

It further says that the strikes are being planned by terrorists living in Britain and others overseas, and warns of “spectacular attacks”, 'The Sun' reports.

Pop quiz: Al Faisail's "official" website is run by whom? That's right, New York City's only Jewish al Qaeda supporter, Joseph "Youssef al-Khattab" Cohen.

And the magazine being promoted by Khattab? None other than Charlotte, North Carolina's favorite son, Samir Khan's Jihad Recollection.

So, the the publisher (Khan) and promoter (Cohen) of the magazine containing the alleged threat of a "spectacular attack" are both here in the United States, not in Britain as Robert surmises.

But what of "Abu Talha", the pseudonymous author of the article cited above and entitled, "The raison d’être for Europe’s potential of Jihadi assault"? And whom Spencer surmises is British?

He's American.

Note to "Abu Talha": Hi Zack. Say hi to Rani for me. Is she really as ugly as they say?

Anyway, below is the full text of the article which has caused so much excitement overseas.

You'll see that it is less a warning of impending attacks in Europe and Britain than it is an analysis of why it is more likely that al Qaeda will focus on attacking Europe in the future rather than the US. It's a good window into the jihadi mindset: no matter what Europe does to appease the political demands of Muslims, it will remain in the crosshairs of violent Islamists so long as it does not rectify perceived injuries of over a thousand years ago. This is the kind of backward mentality we are dealing with here.

But before I put the text of the article below the fold, let me once again plug Jarret Brachman's warning about the increasing sophistication of Samir's English language jihad outreach campaign. I'll quote just a little of it:

Here’s my conclusion: the USG can not allow this kind of growth in jihadi sophistication to continue unabated in the United States. This is incitement of terrorism, no matter how many exculpatory qualifications they load up in their websites.

That is, at some point law enforcement and policymakers are going to have to make a choice: must we wait until after someone inspired by Khan and company acts upon his incitement, commits an act of terror, and leaves innocents dead in their wake to consider his activities criminal?

If that is the case, then the lessons of 9/11 have truly gone unlearned.

Text of Zakariya "Abu Talha" al-Amrekee's article below.

An attack on the West is usually pictured as on some American building or base but the reality is that America has not been attacked at home by Al-Qa`idah since the attacks on New York and Washington. However, Europe has been on its toes since day one and it never ceases to be a target in its homeland. Shaykh Mustapha Abu al-Yazid said in an interview with al-Jazeera that the reason for the decline in spectacular attacks is not that the Mujahideen are unable to reach America but rather a matter of strategy. Attacks in Europe hold much more strategic and political advantages for the Mujahideen. It goes way beyond what Obama stated as proximity because what is distance when the difference is a few hours on a plane? Although proximity helps keep operations less expensive and less risky, the factors that decide the location is really the goals and aspirations of the coordinators for such an attack.

Europe owes the Muslim Ummah equal to or more than the Untied States in terms of crimes they have committed, blood they have spilt, haughty insults
towards the Islamic religion and dismantling of the Islamic Caliphate. For example, if Denmark was attacked due to its crime of insulting our beloved Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, such an operation would be in retaliation of the Messenger of Allah’s honor and would have no place in America. Europe carries the responsibility of bringing the Caliphate to an end, they are the ones who established the state of Israel and they have stolen many lands from the Muslims foremost among them al-Andalus. Thus, we can say that Europe is more of an enemy than America but they are not the head of Infidelity such as America and they do not have as much power and control over Muslim territory as much as their allied partner does. Consequently, in one front, there is a fight against America and her NATO allies on Muslim soil which was made possible through the attacks of 9/11, and on the other hand is the war of retaliation upon Europe at home.

Recent attacks in Europe such as Glasgow, Madrid or the continuous massive arrests in the UK show relentless activity from both the youth of international jihad movements and homegrown citizens. In fact, Europe has been a Jihadi hub since the 90’s from the events of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the attacks in France by the Algerian Armed Group on the underground train. The Jihadi
operations in any targeted European country outnumber the attacks on America and the trend has continued and from what we can see, it seems it will continue in the future unless if the European Union collectively decides to adhere to the demands of the freedom fighters. Event after event is starting to spell out that if Europe continues upon its current trends and direction, it will eventually face generations of angered Muslims who will either adopt the war of attrition or stick to an exploding campaign of carrying out ‘spectacular attacks’. If such a day does come, then it should not come as a surprise to anyone, especially the terrorism analysts, due to the climate of hatred towards Europe’s past and present. Since such a campaign was foiled in Canada, then what to say about the already-triggered explosion of the Muslim youth that hasten towards revenge for the sake of Islam and martyrdom in Allah’s path?