January 22, 2010

What does this mean? That a terrorist attack against the UK is not imminent, but is highly likely. Um, I'm not sure the distinction eases my fears any.

BBC:

The UK terror threat level is being raised from "substantial" to "severe", Home Secretary Alan Johnson has said.

The new alert level means a terrorist attack is considered "highly likely". It had stood at substantial since July....

Mr Johnson stressed there was no intelligence to suggest a terrorist attack was imminent.

The decision to raise the threat level was made by the UK's Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC).

Given the recent events at Fort Hood and Little Rock, I'd be mindful of home-grown jihadis. Even though the Brits are much better at keeping an eye on domestic terrorists, the numbers of would-be jihadists in the UK are astronomical -- literally thousands and thousands of young men with sympathies toward al Qaeda. And with those kinds of numbers, it's really hard to keep tabs.

UPDATE: The Times has a different take on what this is connected to:

"The Times understands that the decision to raise the threat level is connected to the conference on Afghanistan taking place at Lancaster Gate, London, next Thursday.

Sources said there had been intensive discussions throughout the day relating to intelligence suggesting a possible attempted “spectacular” by an al-Qaeda affiliated group."

November 16, 2009

(Manchester, England) Early this morning, around 40 officers from the North West Counter Terrorism Unit raided at least four properties in the Greater Manchester area.

Five men have been arrested and further arrests are possible.

The 4 AM raids were conducted by unarmed officers who now are searching the properties. Police said the raids are related to an alleged overseas terror threat and not due to any danger in the Greater Manchester area. The names of the arrested suspects have not been released.

Police said it was a "low-key operation." Heh, I disagree. If the feds roust my pristine glutes out of the sack at 4 AM, I'd be highly-keyed. (Links)

October 19, 2009

Listen carefully as the protester notes that while he personally wouldn't kill Geert Wilders, that Islam calls for the death penalty for all those who insult any of the prophets. That right after dropping the names of Theo Van Gogh.

But, you know, this isn't a threat.

Thanks to James.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention this earlier but "uptight" reminded me of it. The interview was by Press TV -- Iran's English language news service.

September 01, 2009

It's what they're not telling you in this article that's telling. First, they let you know what happened:

The discovery of bomb-making notes on a train sparked a bank holiday security alert.

Armed police were called in to search two trains at Luton station on Monday night after cleaners found documents describing "how to make a bomb", Bedfordshire Police said.

The notes were found at 8.23pm while one of the trains was at Bedford Station, and it left for Luton with around 50 passengers before the staff could raise the alarm.

Police took off the passengers at Luton, searching that train and another one which had also arrived from Bedford.

That on Sunday a group of "Asian youths" attacked the police in Luton.

These "Asian youths" really being a bunch of young Muslims. A number of Omar Bakri Mohammad's followers call Luton their home. It was these followers and fellow-travellers of al Mujahiroun who protested the homecoming of British troops calling them 'baby killers'.

Nothing to see here folks. Move along.

August 05, 2009

Imam Anwar al-Awlaki is hands down the most popular public al Qaeda supporter in the English speaking world. His sermons justifying the radical Islamist vision of the Taliban, al Shabaab, and al Qaeda are viral among jihadis and their sympathizers the world over.

Although an American citizen -- formerly of Colorado and once the Muslim Chaplain at George Washington University -- he lives in Yemen. After being released from a Yemeni prison for his overtly pro-al Qaeda sermons, al-Awlaki continues to preach violent jihad online.

Most recently, al-Awlaki posted a message congratulating the "mujahidin" for killing members of Yemen's Army. Those "mujahideen" belonged to al Qaeda.

Now, al-Awlaki will be a key note speaker at a "human rights" fundraiser. While he will not personally be at the event -- one can only hope that he would be considered persona non grata in the UK -- he will be delivering his sermon via video.

The annual Ramadan fundraiser for "Cageprisoners" featured such "human rights activists":

Sami El Haj - Al-Jazeera, former Guantanamo prisoner
Mustafa Terry Holdbrooks Jnr - Former US Military Policeman who embraced Islam in Guantanamo
Binyam Mohamed - Former Guantanamo prisoner, speaking publicly for the first time since his release
Imam Anwar al-Awlaki - Eminent Islamic Scholar (video message)
Ahmed Ghappour - Lawyer for the legal charity Reprieve, who represent over 30 prisoners in Guantanamo
Moazzam Begg - Director, Cageprisoners, former Guantanamo detainee
Yvonne Ridley - Journalist, Patron, Cageprisoners, speaking about the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and her visit to Bagram
Amir Sulaiman - Acclaimed poet of the spoken word, reciting his works and some poems from Guantanamo
Mustafidh Gani - Shariah Graduate and Teacher

Followed by prayers led by:
Moussa Zemmouri (Former Guantanamo prisoner)

If "Cageprisoners" is really so concerned about "human rights" and the plight of Guantanamo deatainees, then why is it featuring al Qaeda's most famous English speaking apologist?

The answer, of course, is that Cageprisoners is just a front for the kind of radical Islam embraced by al Qaeda and the Taliban in Britain. It always has been.

The fundraiser will be held at Kensington Town Hall, presumably a public facility. And if you scroll down to the bottom of the announcement page, you realize that now one of radical Islam's front groups has corporate sponsorship.

An al Qaeda spokesman using public facilities and funded by British corporations.

It's as if 9/11 and 7/7 never really happened.

UPDATE: One of the speakers, Yvonne Ridley, responds in the comments section. She notes that Imam Anwar al-Awlaki "never been charged or convicted of anything".

I never said that he had.

However, any one that disputes that al-Awlaki is a supporter of al Qaeda doesn't know Anwar al-Awlaki. Or is a liar. If I believed for an instance that Ms. Ridley had the intellectual capacity to spot truth from lies, I might accuse her of being the latter of the two. As it is, I just think she's crazy.

Look at al-Awlaki's most recent blog posting in which he, personally, congratulates al Qaeda for a recent attack.

(Update by Jane: this WaPo article details Awlaki's connection to 9/11 highjackers al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi, funding of al Qaeda through the US branch of a Yemeni charity and his visits with intermediaries of bin Laden and "Blind Sheik" Omar Abdel Rahman while Awlaki was still in the US. The FBI also determined that Awlaki continued working with al Qaeda after he left the US in 2002 .)

As Ridley well knows, al-Awlaki is by far the most popular "scholar" amongst the English speaking Salaafi jihadi crowd. His series of sermons expounding on al-Ayyiri's Constants on the Path of Jihad are key in understanding the jihadi mindset, which is why, again, they are considered an essential component in Jihad 101 -- at least, among those with limited Arabic skills.

For further evidence, I would point Ms. Ridley to NEFA's recent expose on the influence of al-Awlaki's sermons on would-be terrorists in the West.

No, he's never been charged with any specific offense. But he is a backer of violent jihad. For instance, his support of the designated terrorist group al-Shabaab -- a group that has pledged loyalty to Osama bin Laden.

Thousands of al Qaeda supporters have never been charged with anything.

If al-Awlaki would disavow al Qaeda and condemn them -- without any reservations -- then I would happily retract the accusation that he supports them.

But Ms. Ridley already knows that this isn't going to happen. She and her friends at Cageprisoners may feign that al-Awlaki has been wrongly accused and that the real issue is Guantanamo, but this is all obfuscation.

The same kind of obfuscation we see in her comments to me, where she praises Obama for promising to close Gitmo. You throw a bone to the peacenicks in order to make yourself seem like one of them.

But what she fails to mention is that her group, Cageprisoners, believes Obama has secret detention facilities all over the world where thousands of Muslims are routinely tortured.

From the very same announcement of the fundraiser which Ms. Ridley will be participating in, and which her comments are meant to defend:

However, we at Cageprisoners - and the former prisoners and their families - knew the devil was in the detail of what had not been said. The secret and extraordinary renditions programme had not been mentioned; the military detention facilities - like the ones in Abu Ghraib, Kandahar or Bagram - had not been mentioned; and, the proxy detention and torture sites had not been mentioned. To add, it appears that closing Guantanamo before the 20th January 2010 deadline may be too tall an order after all. The fact is that imprisonment without charge or trial is still very much a thing of the present.

Yvonne Ridley herself is key in understanding the odd coalition of Islamist fanatics and leftwing activists. She is both.

She is an apologist for terror. Her ex-husband, Daoud Zaaroura, was a terrorist with the PLO. After being held captive by the Taliban, she turned an apologist for them.

She ran for an MP slot on the Respect Coalition -- a failed political party made up of Communists, peace activists, Muslims who believe there is a worldwide conspiracy against them, and led by the man who never met a terrorist he didn't like, George Galloway.

Again, take a look at the people Cageprisners calls "victims" and who the group agitates for release. From a previous post about Ms. Ridley:

Take a gander at the prisoners they're trying to get set free and you'll see names like Johnny Walker Lindh (admitted American Taliban), Jose Padilla (suspected in a plot to commit "dirty bomb" attacks), and, unsurprising, the blind mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing, Sheikh Omar Abdur Rahman.

Here's a woman who finds it difficult to condemn the former leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, but who has no problem condemning any war fought anywhere by any one against Muslim fanatics -- even if that war itself is being fought by less fanatical Muslims.

But really, what should we expect from a woman who's hatred of American runs so deep that even al Jazeera fired her for being an extremist?

When al Jazeera thinks you're an extremist, you just might be an extremist.

And how did she know that I mentioned her name in this post in the first place? Let me suggest that she's the kind of person who Google's her own name, routinely.

The woman is so paranoid, that she actually thinks the CIA gave enough of a crap about her that they wanted her dead.

The CIA. Wanted her dead.

That's the kind of person we're talking about here. That's the kind of organization we have in Cageprisoners.

To reiterate: Cageprisoners will be featuring a known al Qaeda supporter as a key note speaker in an upcoming fundraiser. The money is used to agitate for the freeing of convicted terrorists, like Omar Abdur Rahman. The group is using a public facility for this and now has corporate sponsorship.

This cannot be a good thing.

Related:
And So the Lies About Aafia Siddiqui Begin
Taliban apologist Yvonne Ridley speaks at UC Irvine
Meet Yvonne Ridley, A Former "Guest" of the Taliban
Another American Al-Qaeda in Yemen

July 23, 2009

And by "insulting Islam" they mean "boinking a married woman".

A married Muslim woman has been warned by police that she could be murdered after her lover was attacked with sulphuric acid.

The 24-year-old Muslim man had the acid poured down his throat and was stabbed and beaten with bricks by four men.

He is not expected to live after suffering 90 per cent burns in the London attack, which blinded him and left his tongue destroyed.

The Danish victim, who is of Asian origin, is said to have ‘insulted’ her strictly religious relatives, which includes women who wear the hijab.

Thanks to Hot Air's link thingy.

July 07, 2009

Prince Charles and The Duchess of Cornwall will join senior MPs, survivors and family members of the victims for the ceremony which takes place on the fourth anniversary of the terror attacks.

The Prince of Wales is expected to speak at the event, before laying a wreath and meeting bereaved families.

Sir Trevor Mcdonald has been invited to the unveiling, where he will read out the names of the victims before a minute's silence.

Each of the 52 victims is represented by a three metre high pillar, with the pillars arranged in four groups which represent the locations of the bombings.

A plaque with the victims' names has also been placed in the grass banks at the eastern end of the memorial.

Although it scarcely needs mentioning, many Americans share the pain of Britain's loss. And, for what it's worth, I'm just as sickened and outraged now as I was four years ago. Never forget.

June 29, 2009

Via Daily Mail:

This is the shocking picture of a young, white schoolboy being converted to Islam by a cleric linked to a radical Muslim hate preacher.

The bewildered 11-year-old, who gives his name as Sean was filmed repeating Arabic chants and swearing allegiance to Allah.

The boy is prompted throughout by controversial cleric Anjem Choudary, a follower of exiled hate-preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed.

Hat Tip: Tim at Opinion Bug.

May 27, 2009

A couple of weeks old, but still relevant given that: a) I just got back from the UK; b) most Brits are clueless about extremism in the Somali community; c) two of the 7/7 bombers were Somali immigrants who were congregants at the Finsbury Park Mosque; d) most Americans are clueless about al Qaeda's role in Somalia; and d) so's your face!

Apologies if someone else posted it.

Also: FREE JAWA NOW!

H/T: Samir Khan.

April 10, 2009

Harry's Place brings us the good news that the American born Anwar al Awlaki will be speaking in London. If you follow the English speaking jihadis, you'd know that the American born Awlaki is by far the most popular pro-al Qaeda cleric with street cred.

If that wasn't bad enough, the event will be held in a government owned facility.

British tax dollars hard at work!

March 31, 2009

This story is interesting in that it quotes someone saying that Shelle Roma "was an isolated, self-motivated person" when she distributed leaflets at the local mosque praising al Qaeda and calling on Muslims to join the global jihad. Yet the article fails to mention the fate of her husband, Amjad Mahmood, who was also charged with distributing the leaflets. In fact, it mentions him only in passing:

The pamphlet contained an essay, "The Call", encouraging jihad.

The eight-page essay mentioned the 9/11 attacks and the war on terror, and repeatedly asked: "Will you go to Jihad (holy war)?"

It ended: "Jihad: the choice is yours." ...

Judge Clement Goldstone QC said Roma had "sought to distribute them in two ways, by leaving them in your home for anyone who wanted to help themselves too, and, more significantly, by giving them to your husband to distribute outside the mosque to which normal, practising Muslims had gone to pray".

Thanks to the "bros".

March 10, 2009

Via Theo Spark

Around 20 men in Islamic dress yelled 'terrorists' and held placards denouncing the soldiers as 'butchers of Basra' and 'baby killers' as they marched through Luton in Bedfordshire.

Other signs described the 200 men and women from the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment as 'Criminals, Murderers Terrorists'.

February 21, 2009

After being released from Guantanamo, Binyam Mohamed will be sent to the UK next week. Which is, er, odd, since he's Ethiopian.

Just some poor Ethiopian in Afghanistan to study Islam swept up in the fog of war. Right.

I'm sure the British Left will turn him into a minor celebrity. For all the rest of you in the UK, apologies in advance.

According to Military Families United (thanks to Terresa) Mohamad is accused of:

* Training at various Al-Qaida training camps, where he specialized in firearms and explosives

* Being taught by senior Al-Qaida leaders how to falsify documents

* Receiving money by Al-Qaida leaders to travel to the United States

* Implementing plans to blow up high-rise apartment buildings in the United States

* Holding meetings with Saif al Adel (a top level al Qaida planner and leader) and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (Mastermind of 9/11 attacks)

* Attempting to illegally enter the United States on April 4, 2002 but was turned away due to his forged passport

You know, there's a real easy way to solve the problem of what to do with low level al Qaeda operatives: After a short and swift trial kill them all, exactly as the Geneva Conventions allow us to do.

Feasible? I dunno, but it just feels so right.

UPDATE: The Long War Journal has a great background story about Mohamad, subtitled the false martyr.

Something that kept bothering me about Robert Mackey's post at the NY Times blog as I was reading it was why he kept emphasizing the possibility that Mohamad had been tortured, with no mention whatsoever of the things the alleged al Qaeda terrorist was accused of? I just chalked this up to liberal bias given that this is the New York Times, but, it turns out, there's more to the story.

The New York Times was involved in the lawsuit on behalf of the al Qaeda terrorist trying to get the British courts to release classified materials. From the Long War Journal article mentioned above:The outrage over Mohamed's detention was fanned earlier this month when the British High Court denied a petition seeking the release of classified documents detailing his case. The petition had been filed by news outlets such as the New York Times and the Associated Press, acting at the urging of Mohamed's civilian attorney and human rights groups. All of these parties believe that the classified US intelligence documents, which were shared with the British government, verify Mohamed's allegations of torture. Two judges from the High Court denied the petition, however, citing a threat by US authorities to cut off vital intelligence cooperation if the United Kingdom released the classified documents without American acquiescence.All the news that fit to print!

What is it the Times fails to mention, exactly? That Mohamad admitted to his lawyer of being an al Qaeda trained terrorist. His defense lawyer stipulated the following at his hearing:

2. The detainee arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan, in June 2001, and traveled to the al Farouq training camp in Afghanistan, to receive paramilitary training.

3. At the al Farouq camp, the detainee received 40 days of training in light arms handling, explosives, and principles of topography.

4. The detainee was taught to falsify documents, and received instruction from a senior al Qaeda operative on how to encode telephone numbers before passing them to another individual.

He went to the poppy growing capital of the world .... as rehab.

February 17, 2009

Well worth the watch.

h/t I-slam to Pieces

January 19, 2009

RudyFox sends in this news about a Muslim working in a senior position for the British government. Azad Ali works for the Treasury Department and is President of the Civil Service Islamic Society. He has been described in the past as a "moderate", the kind of person the government hopes will help tackle extremism in the Muslim community. He was once the chairman of the Muslim Safety Forum and is the current head of its counter-terrorism committee.

But in his spare time Ali blogs at "Between the Lines". What does he think of the terrorist organization that is Hamas?

Hamas is a true resistance movement that is standing up for the rights of the Palestinians, whereas Fatah and specifically Abu Mazen have capitulated to the colonial mindset.

In that same post he claims that Abdullah Azzam, one of the founding fathers of al Qaeda, provides 'balance' for the proper understanding of jihad. All of this in the context of a discussion over whether or not it's okay to kill American and British soldiers. Something he never fully answers, but the implication of the post is that it is a duty of Muslims to fight jihad in Iraq and Afghanistan, but not necessarily support acts of terror in other places.

Which may mean, as he insists, that he doesn't support "terrorism" (narrowly defined), but it does still make him a traitor. I'm not sure what other word to use to describe someone who sides with the enemy of his country in a time of war. It also only holds true that he's not a terrorist if one narrowly defines terrorism. But, even using this definition, he's still a traitor.

Unsurprisingly, he also ran a website called Muslims for Ken, ie Ken Livingston, the former Left wing mayor of London, friend of Hugo Chavez, and antisemite.

In another one of his blogs, named after himself, he claims its unbelievable that most Muslims in Britain don't support sharia which, implicit in the post, he does. In fact, he suggests that the survey showing this is really some kind of anti-Muslim conspiracy. In another he claims that the war on terror is really war against Islam. Throughout the blog he claims that violent jihad is an essential element of Islam and that Muslims that disclaim this kind of jihad are lying or have sold out.

It's good to read that he has been suspended and that he may be fired. But one can't help but wonder how many others are out there who hold similar views but who don't openly espouse them under their own name online?

Scary.

December 19, 2008

Sabrina Larbi-Cherif 22, shown in video, and her 19-year-old sister Sabrina were found blungeoned at their flat.

Forensic tests revealed the pair, who lived at Jupiter Apartments near the city centre, died of stab wounds.

The Algerian-born sisters moved to England with their parents 10 years ago. The suspect, 28, is due before city magistrates on Saturday morning. Police have not released his name.

The sisters were British nationals and had only lived in their flat for a few weeks. Their family live in the Wembley area of north-west London.

Another article states:

"Officers revealed the women - believed to have been killed at the weekend - had been so severely attacked they were relying on post-mortem examinations to establish how they were killed.

Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Mirfield, head of West Midland Police's major investigation unit, said: 'It was a chaotic and sustained attack. 'There was a substantial amount of blood inside many of the rooms.'

November 28, 2008

Via LGF, two British citizens are said to be among the Islamist terrorists responsible for the massacre of civilians in Mumbai:

Two British-born Pakistanis were among eight gunmen seized by Indian commandos who stormed buildings to free hostages, Vilasrao Deshmukh, the chief minister of Mumbai, reportedly said.

The Foreign Office earlier said it was investigating reports on NDTV, a local television news channel, that the terrorists - who swarmed luxury hotels and other tourist sites in the city - included “British citizens of Pakistani origin”.

If the children of Pakistani immigrants to Britain were involved, then all signs point toward a terrorist organization with training camps Pakistan's uncontrolled regions. The attack doesn't seem very al-Qaedaish to me. Not enough explosions. And LeT is saying it wasn't them. That leaves only about a dozen groups which train "mujahideen" in Pakistan, the majority of them being offshoots of the Taliban, subdivided regionally, and of al Qaeda, subdivided by ethnicity.

But as Howie said in a private discussion amongst us:

Splitting hairs about exactly who and what is not very useful. They all share money, training and tactics.

So it may not be al-Qaeda proper. But it's all the same. Like al-Shabaab is not al-Qaeda proper, but they are an "al-Qaeda" type and allied group.

Not sure how to put it but it's the same face, different name.

I guess al-Qaeda's name explains it best. "The base" But the base is just one part of "the movement".

And if British born Pakistanis were involved, you can bet that they were indoctrinated into the Salfi jihadist worldview at home and down at the local mosque. And judging from their ages, it's probably a good bet that they found a virtual community online which shared their jihadi views and encouraged this type of atrocity.

Britain has big problems. Wouldn't want to be in their shoes.

UPDATE: It gets worse. Gateway Pundit notices another article which claims that 7 of the terrorists were British.

Seven? Hmmm. I'd suspect with a number that large that Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama'aah had something to do with it on the British recruiting side.

UPDATE II: Oh, so Lashkar-e-Toiba wasn't involved?

Sources have told NDTV that data from GPS revealed terrorists sailed from Karachi harbour on November 12 or 13. Their phone was used to call Lashkar commander Yusuf Muzamil in Muzaffarabad.

UPDATE III: Hmmmm, Allah emphasizes something I didn't: that the British terrorists may have been from, "the same area as the London bombers." That would be the greater Leeds area. The Indians are playing this angle down.

November 24, 2008

Zia Ul Haq, convicted for his part in an al Qaeda bombing plot to blow up downtown London, received stand up comedy training while in prison. There's no question that listening to his routine would be considered torture.

Thanks to Writer Mom LGF.

November 05, 2008

Iranian born British military translator convicted of spying for Iran:

James was arrested in December 2006, just two months after he had made contact with Colonel Mohammad Hossein Heydari, an Iranian military assistant based at Tehran's embassy in Kabul.

He began sending the colonel coded e-mails, and told him: "I am at your service," the court heard.

SOURCE

October 21, 2008

In Birmingham, where else.

Via The Times: Five people have been arrested in Birmingham in a series of dawn anti-terror raids, police said today.

West Midlands Police swooped on five separate residential addresses and two business addresses in and around the city to arrest the men, aged between 29 and 36, under the Terrorism Act, 2006.

"The arrests - on suspicion of being involved in the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism - took place at approximately 6am this morning at five addresses in the Birmingham area," a police spokesman said. "As part of the investigation, two business properties were also searched."

August 25, 2008

Where did "Mr. Big" find clients for his fake Bulgarian passports? A mosque. How come he thought he could get away with it?

The cocky crooks were convinced they were untouchable, knowing police raids could inflame racial tension

By phone our investigator spun him the yarn that he was an Islamic extremist seeking travel documents for a cell of Muslim radicals trying to evade capture by the law.

The 29-year-old boss was still happy to do business and said: “I can help. We can make as many passports as you want.”

Cops found images of underage children on a computer, along with binoculars on a window sill overlooking a junior school.

August 19, 2008

British terror cell, composed mostly of college & high school students, may have wanted to kill the Queen. Aabid Hussain Khan, who is now 23, had pictures, maps and details of royal residences from information available on the internet:

A terror cell caught with details of bomb-making and suicide vests may have been plotting to attack the Queen and members of the Royal family, it can be disclosed.

The cell, which included Britain’s youngest ever terrorist, arrested on his way home from his GCSE chemistry exam, was found with information about the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh along with the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex and the Princess Royal.

Khan, who's online handle was "Ocean Blue" was also in communication with Mohammed Atif Siddique, a 21 year old from Edinburgh, Scotland, convicted of possessing "extremist materials".

In fact, Siddique helped run a jihadi website which distributed materials on how to make IEDs and other potential terror weapons, was active on jihadi forums, and planned to become a suicide bomber.

Hat tip:See-Dub

Oh, and today's Jawa theme: Ralph Wiggum.

Update by Howie: Oooops Rusty and I had the same subject this AM. I moved my post to the Moisture Farm.

July 03, 2008

Via BBC:

A terror suspect said to have "direct links" with Osama Bin Laden has been freed on bail, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) has said.

The Algerian, who can be identified only as "U", has been released from Long Lartin high-security prison, in Worcestershire.

He had spent more than seven years in jail awaiting deportation.

from the same BBC article: He had been in custody since February 2001, when he was picked up at Heathrow airport attempting to board a flight to Saudi Arabia with a false passport.

Doha (a.k.a. "The Doctor," Rachid, Amar Makhlolif, and Didier Ajuelo) was arrested in February 2001 while trying to travel from London to Saudi Arabia on a fake passport. Six months later, the U.S. filed an extradition request after a Federal grand jury indicted Doha as a co-conspirator in the LAX plot

Also via The Independent:

By 1995, the number of Algerians claiming sanctuary in this country had risen to 1,865. Most of those were genuine asylum seekers, but not all. Among those who became a regular visitor to the Four Feathers and to the Finsbury Park mosque in north London was Abu "The Doctor" Doha, who has since been identified as al-Qa'ida's main recruiter in Europe. Mr Doha, now 37, was a senior figure in an Algerian terror group called the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC).

More on Abu "The Doctor" Doha here and here.

The La Times knew who "U" was on June 29th.

Regardless it seems that al-Qaeda's main recruiter and operative on Europe will be allowed to go free. Although he has been indicted in the US, we have declined extradition and prosecution. The UK refuses to deport him to Algeria for fear they may abuse him. So it looks like the British taxpayer will provide a flat and feed al-Qaeda's #1 operative in Europe for the rest of his days, Pending appeal of course.

June 22, 2008

(London, England) Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, hate preacher Abu Qatada, is living a life of luxury in London.

The terrorist-recruiter was released from prison this week and now is forced to stay in England because, if he is deported to Jordan, he might be tortured which is contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights.

In the meantime, 47-year-old Abu Qatada has a sore back so he qualifies for £150 a week incapacity benefit. That amount, of course, will be added onto £45,000 a year in child benefit, income support, housing benefit and council tax credit.

The income allows Abu to live in an £800,000 four-bedroom Edwardian house which, unfortunately, he can't leave because he's on house arrest. And, by the way, the house arrest for Qatada costs taxpayers £1million-a-year. In total, terrorist martyr-maker Abu Qatada is personally soaking the British citizenry for something around £50k ($100,000) per year plus the cost of keeping him on house arrest.

So, in the minds of the British authorities, Abu Qatada is not an al-Qaeda terrorism hate preacher deserving punishment and deportation, he's an average Brit with a bad back deserving of a taxpayer-funded annuity.

Burns my ass and I'm not British.

June 17, 2008

Abu Qatada al-Filisṭînî is out of jail. I only have a few thoughts to add to APs commentary here.

Abu Qatada is a specially designated foreign terrorist. When Mohammad Atta's apartment in Germany was searched after 9/11, police found 19 video tapes of Qatada's preaching violent jihad against the US.

We once battled Abu Qatada who's supporters ran a website for him while he was in jaill. Jawa 1, Abu Qatada 0.

But up against the pussies in the British legal system: Abu Qatada 1, pussy British judges 0.

Way to go douchebags. Way to go.

Oh, and those "control orders" have such a great track record, don't they?

Related:
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US Company Hosting Specially Designated Terrorist
You Make the Call
Al Qaeda Leader Exchanged for British Hostage?
Videotape Released by Kidnappers of Alan Johnston
Cleric Sought in London Terror
New Video of Kidnapped BBC Reporter

June 11, 2008

Above: British hostage Kenneth Bigley shortly before he was murdered by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

The British, working under the theory that Muslim youths in the U.K. are turning to radicalism as a result of disenfranchisement and not having their voices heard, begin subsidizing a group which runs a website devoted to letting these youths vent. What could possibly go wrong? Sun:

One member wrote of suicide missions: “If you can blow dozens of people up at the same time, great, absolutely great.”

And in another vile message a member PRAISED a beheading video of British hostage Ken Bigley.

It said: “I like the beheading videos of the prisoners of war – especially the Daniel Pearl and Ken Bigley one.”

Thanks to Pam.

Two Somalian eHadis have been arrested in Britain. Apparently they had quite a large collection of terrorist propaganda videos which they were distributing through a website they ran.

If any one knows the website they operated, please let me know. There are several that we have been keeping tabs on with a direct relationship to Somalia's al Qaeda affiliate, al Shabab, and their version of the Taliban, The Islamic Courts Union. But just because they are Somali does not necessarily mean they were only supporting terrorism in Somalia, it's just a guess. The jihad is global in scope and support for it knows no geographical limitations.

And once again we see the connection between the online jihad and the physical jihad: they two were raising money for terrorist organizations online.

Leicester Mercury News:

A man from Leicester will appear in a London court today charged with supporting terrorism overseas.

Musse Said Yusuf, 31, of Higgs Close, Rowlatts Hill, is accused of running a website which published terrorist literature, and of owning instructional videos for the purpose of terrorism. He was arrested when counter-terrorism police raided a family home in the street, off Coleman Road, on May 28. ,,,

Officers then searched the building and took away items including three computers. Neighbours told how they had seen officers looking under the family's cars and in the garage...

The dawn raid in Leicester was carried out alongside one at a home in East London on the same day, where a second man was detained. Police said Yusuf was charged last night - two weeks after arrest - with Ahmed Said Mohammed, of Southcott House, Devons Road, Poplar, London. The 32-year-old is accused of having money for the purpose of terrorism.

April 26, 2008

The British press is under a gag order not to reveal the name of al Qaeda's main fundraiser and go between in Britain. The man, identified only as "G", was one of five who had successfully challenged in the British High Court the government's powers to freeze terrorist suspects assets.

For instance, this Times piece:

The man, who can be identified only as G, is one of five people who challenged the Treasury’s powers to freeze terrorist suspects’ bank accounts in a successful High Court action...

The judge banned publication of G’s name but The Times is aware of his identity, which is published on a United Nations Security Council list of terrorist suspects linked to al-Qaeda and the Taleban.

Under U.N. Resolution 1267 and its subsequent addendums, the Security Council:

obliged all States to freeze the assets, prevent the entry into or the transit through their territories, and prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale and transfer of arms and military equipment, technical advice, assistance or training related to military activities, with regard to the individuals and entities included on the Consolidated List.

Al Ghabra's activities are described by the U.S. Treasury Department:

Al Ghabra has organized travel to Pakistan for individuals seeking to meet with senior al Qaida individuals and to undertake jihad training. Several of these individuals have returned to the UK to engage in covert activity on behalf of al Qaida. Additionally, Al Ghabra has provided material support and facilitated the travel of UK-based individuals to Iraq to support the insurgents fight against coalition forces....

Apart from the financial and logistical support activities that led to his designation, Al Ghabra maintains contact with a significant number of terrorists, including senior al Qaida officials in Pakistan...

Al Ghabra is also in regular contact with UK-based Islamist extremists and has been involved in the radicalizing of individuals in the UK through the distribution of extremist media.

Why it is that a British judge ordered that al Ghabra and four others identity be kept secret when they are so well known is a mystery.

Al Ghabra's name appears on a list put together by the Security Council which directs that his assets are to be frozen and which Britain is obliged to follow. His passport number is even public information. Here is how that information appears on the list of individuals known to be al Qaeda or Taliban operatives:

QI.A.228.06. Name: 1: MOHAMMED 2: AL GHABRA 3: na 4: na
Title: na Designation: na DOB: 1 Jun. 1980 POB: Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic Good quality a.k.a.: na Low quality a.k.a.: na Nationality: British Passport no.: British passport number 094629366 National identification no.: na Address: East London, United Kingdom Listed on: 12 Dec. 2006 Other information: na

The list may not be complete and some of the information as to their whereabouts may be outdated, but it is likely that the four other individuals involved in the lawsuit are on that list. Please feel free to leave corrections in the comments or e-mail me directly.

The fact that I was able to identify G so easily makes one wonder if these kind of gag orders are effective? And, in fact, doesn't the public have a right to know who the UN has designated a terrorist? Especially when that terrorist may be living next door or down the street?

April 24, 2008

Part of me wants to cry for this child, the other part of me is just glad the SOB is dead. Too bad he had to kill so many before he sent himself to hell.

Inshalllah, the child's mom has remarried someone with an ounce of decency, will be a good father, and the kid will never know what a murderous monster her biological sperm donor really was.

April 22, 2008

It's not so much that Mudassar Arani defends terrorists--even terrorists need a lawyer. It's not so much that Mudassar Arani's firms has made millions of dollars defending terrorists--what's wrong with making a buck? It's not so much that Mudassar Arani supports terrorism--at least she believes in her client's cause.

I think what really bothers me is the fact that British taxpayers are footing the bill for this terror loving bottom feeder!

The Sun:

A LAWYER whose firm has raked in £2.4million representing terror suspects appeared at a rally alongside extremists...

She gave a speech minutes after hate preacher Choudary, 41, gleefully told followers an Islamic flag would one day “fly over the White House and Downing Street” when martyrs triumphed in a holy war.

Arani’s firm, which has acted for hook-handed Abu Hamza and the 21/7 bombers, has coined in a fortune in taxpayers’ cash through legal aid in the past.

April 19, 2008

Clilck on over the the BBC's website and watch the video. The whole thing. Near the end you'll notice a video shown to the BBC by Glen Jenvey of a radical Muslim who is was also a baggage screener at an airport in Britain. He suggests that if a terrorist ever came through his line with a bomb, he'd wave said terrorist through. Scary, no?

Some of you might recognize the website referred to in the video, Sawt ul Islam, as we've discussed it here from time to time. It's run by the followers of Omar Bakri Mohammad.

UPDATE: The security guard segment of the video added.

If you don't get around to watching the entire BBC video above, it pretty much blows away the notion that big brother is watching all radical Islamist websites, let alone your porn viewing habits. They just don't have the manpower. The very video used to convict Abu Izzadeen which prosecutors claimed they found on a DVD had been widely available on the al Muhajaroun website for years before the police "found" it.

But it gets worse. Jenvey actually gave the video to the police. They ignored him.

April 18, 2008

Yesterday we reported that Abu Izzadeen and six other men were found guilty in the UK on terror related charges. One of those convicted, though, had skipped bail, fled, and went into hiding. Shah Jalal Hussain turned himself in today.

BBC:

Shah Jalal Hussain, 25, was found guilty of terrorist fund-raising on Thursday and will be sentenced alongside five other men shortly.

He surrendered at Kingston Crown Court a day after his conviction and was arrested by police.

He had been given bail but went missing from his home when the jury began deliberations on 8 April....

He faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment after a court heard of his support, in November 2004, for al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

He was also recorded calling for a jihad-style war against coalition forces occupying Iraq.

He can be seen in the following video speaking on 9/11. He laughs at the thought of people jumping to their deaths from the Towers. It's too bad the Brits don't have the death penalty any longer

April 15, 2008

How bad is it in the UK? Bad enough that MI5 needs domestic spies to keep tabs on terrorists in Scotland.

I'll be heading to Scotland next month. Since Nessie sightings are becoming increasingly rare, maybe I should spend my time trolling for jihadis?

April 10, 2008

Why does Umar Islam claim he wanted to blow up civilian airlines over the Atlantic in 2006? I'm quoting his own words here:

Allah (SWT) loves us to die and to kill in his path. And any one who tries to deny this better read their Quran and they will not be able to deny this.

Video & commentary below.

It kind of makes the whole the-Bible-has-violence-too equivocation argument rather moot, doesn't it? It seems to me that Saudi bloggers interested in refuting that Islam inspires violence could better spend their time and efforts convincing their co-religionists and compatriots of this proposition rather than calling Westerners 'racist' [whatever that means when applied to followers of a belief system] who make the same point.

And as I mentioned in my post about Schism earlier, Abu Islam isn't some lone nut: between March 29 and April 4th there were 33 attacks in the name of Islam killing 133 people

Thanks to Mrs Abe Froman

April 05, 2008

"We don't kill innocents" watch: Members of a British Muslim terrorist cell discussed taking their wives and children on suicide missions to blow up transatlantic jets.

March 21, 2008

Nothing like giving into demands of jailed alQaeda terrorists. Lets make it easier for them to radicalize more bro's. They were having much luck with the white population. Gawd, how idiotic. Regular Jawa readers will recognize these names. Some background on them is at bottom of post.

Mirror UK

Two al-Qaeda terrorists have been moved from their jail after one complained it was "99 per cent white".

Dirty bomb plotter Dhiren Barot, 35, and Bluewater conspirator Omar Khyam, 26, both whined about their treatment at Frankland prison, Co Durham. Now prison bosses stand accused of giving in to their demands.

Government security adviser and Tory MP Patrick Mercer raged: "I think we have to remember who's in charge. These people have been convicted of hideous crimes. It's not up to them to dictate how they serve their sentence."[...]

Barot has now returned to Belmarsh jail, in South East London, which he was removed from nine months ago after radicalising other inmates. There, he was reunited with hate preacher Abu Hamza, 49, and July 21 ringleader Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29.

One insider said: "He was taken out because of his influence over some Muslims. Now he's back mixing with them again. Because of his notoriety he wields huge clout over other prisoners, some of whom are on remand and could go free He's a card-carrying al-Qaeda plotter. Nothing would make him happier than seeing somebody he encouraged carry out one of his own plans."

Dhiren Barot was Hindu and later converted to Islam. He wrote the chilling "jihad text", The Army of Madinah in Kashmir. Barot was radicalised by "Hook" Hamza. He was a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden who he met in 2004. The Islamic zealot, of Brent, North London, plotted to build a radioactive bomb, hijack tankers and blow up New York Stock Exchange.

Related:

Alqaeda's NY Wishlist
Three terrorist indicted
Inform on Hamza get screwed
Hamza has one more appeal..
Hamza having hard time..

Omar Khyam was converted by fanatical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed at meetings near his home in Crawley, West Sussex. He plotted to bomb Bluewater shopping centre, Kent, after travelling to Pakistan and meeting Taliban chiefs in Afghanistan

Related:

Omar Khyam life
*Omar the goat humping Bakri Mohammed archives

*You will run across a couple names in the archives such as Jewish convert to Islam Joey Cohen aka Yousef al-Khattab and Samir Khan aka Inshallahshaheed. The following post by Rusty regarding these two I will link directly. It helps connect the dots so to speak. What you say? Connect what dots? heh

An American Alqaeda Devotee in New York

March 06, 2008

Abu Waleed's last appearance at The Jawa Report was on a video praising the 9/11 hijackers and laughing at their victims.

Abu Waleed, who is allegedly to have fraudulently claimed about $500,000 worth of disability benefits from the British government, has been caught on film encouraging others to do the same:

A radical Muslim preacher has been filmed talking about fraudulently claiming benefits and giving advice on how to cheat the Government....

"Obviously when you have the incapacity benefit, you want to make sure you walk with a limp when you leave the house just in case there's someone taking pictures.

"Obviously you don't need to tell them that, the Department of Work and Pensions."

February 29, 2008

A + B = time to get the hell out of Dodge?

A) British MP George Galloway "says the Taliban are not his enemy". Traitor?

B) Not to be outdone by their Taliban brothers, British Islamists likely to try to kill Prince Harry on his return home. Kabul, London; 6 of one, half dozoen of the other.

Thanks to Larwyn.

February 24, 2008

You think Parviz Khan-- the British jihadi who plotted to take hostage then murder Muslim veterans of the Iraq war -- was alone in his sick notion that it was his duty to teach his young children to behead infidels? Think again:

Muslim fanatics in Britain are using sick cartoons, videos and computer games to groom kids as potential SUICIDE BOMBERS....

We discovered fanatics in the UK are picking out vulnerable kids in mosques, youth clubs and on the internet.

They then ply them with computer games such as one called The Suicide Bomber, in which players score points for blowing up women and children. Another game, Fly Into The Trade Centre, encourages kids to direct passenger planes into buildings.

February 18, 2008

Update on this trial. Daily Mail:

Parviz Khan was jailed for life today for his involvement in the kidnap beheading plot of a British Soldier. Overwhelming evidence was presented and this was most disturbing.

"A secret bugging device in his home recorded his attempts to teach his 5 year old son how to perform a beheading."

Some of us teach our sons how to fish, this guy teaches his son how to behead. My dear God how many more are teaching their kids this!

Take for instance the recent video posted here of alQaeda using a young child to behead a "spy".

More:

Khan boasted to friends that he was waging financial war on the West while "bleeding" a monthly total of 1,699 Euro in benefits from the British taxpayer

It also emerged last week, in proceedings which could not be reported until today that Khan wanted to burn the soldier's body and parade his head on a stick.

"In mitigation, Michael Wolkind QC, defending Khan, told the court that his client's plot had been a "mixture of fanaticism and fantasy".[...sure..ed]

"His plan might have changed had British foreign policy changed," he said. "He might have withdrawn if the British troops were withdrawn."

Read the rest of
"Life for a Muslim Fanatic" for complete details of sentences handed down to others involved in the plot.