ANOTHER ONLINE "PAL" OF RUSTY'S FOUND GUILTY ON TERROR CHARGES

SNIPPET: "And thus ends the saga of "Shiekh Umar Rabie, Emir of al Qaeda in the UK". I haven't commented publicly on this for some time because I was involved in the case. I testified at Ishaq Kanmi's terrorism trial last year and was asked not to comment publicly, but now that he's plead guilty that commitment has passed.

I don't think I'm giving away too much when I say that long before UK authorities had "The Blackburn Resistance " under surveillance, they were on our radar screens.

Why? Because a year before the "Emir of al Qaeda in the UK" threatened to kill Britain's Prime Minister on what was then the most credible and connected jihad forum, he had made a similar threat on another forum. The earlier threat, though, was not only against British politicos, but against any one who had voted for Tony Blair or Gordon Brown.

And so "Umar Rabie" was on our radar screen. Eventually four members of the "Blackburn Islamic Resistance Movement" were arrested, three of whom have been convicted on terrorism related charges."

SNIPPET: "AN AMERICAN website moderator alerted police to a terror plot due to a message posted on the internet by a Blackburn man, a court heard.

The moderator of the Infovlad forum website told Preston Crown Court he contacted the Metropolitan Police when a user named Sheikh posted that he would carry out a suicide mission in London.

The user’s IP address was traced to 23-year-old Ishaq Kanmi, of Cromwell Street, Audley, Black-burn, the court heard....

The moderator, who was giving evidence under the pseudonym of Rusty Shackleford after an order was granted to protect his identity, said: “Another moderator deleted the post, but I saved it and gave it to the police.

"I called someone at the Metropolitan Police and emailed to someone working in the counter-terrorism unit.”

He added that, after reading a BBC report that a Britain had announced he was the UK al Qaida leader, he emailed the former Infovlad user to ask if he was the same person.

The moderator told the court: “He replied ‘yes’ and there would be an announcement. It got my attention.”"

SNIPPET: "Kanmi is scheduled to be sentenced at a later time. One wonders how he is enjoying Belmarish prison so far?"

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ON THE INTERNET:

THE JAWA REPORT - blog: "ANOTHER ONLINE 'PAL' OF RUSTY'S FOUND GUILTY ON TERROR CHARGES" (May 12, 2010)

TIMES ONLINE.co.uk: "ISHAQ KANMI FACES JAIL FOR SOLICITING MURDER" by Russell Jenkins (SNIPPET: "Using the pseudonym Umar Rabie, the head of al-Qaeda in Britain, he issued a two-month deadline calling for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, together with the release of all Muslim captives from Belmarsh Prison. He was arrested by police at Manchester airport as he waited to board a flight for Finland in August 2008. Among his luggage were electronic storage devices containing terror material that he intended to distribute abroad. It can be reported for the first time that Kanmi was travelling to Helsinki with Abbas Iqbal, 24, one of the two brothers, called The Blackburn Resistance..." SNIPPET: "Kanmi was also in phone and internet contact with Krenar Lusha, 30, who was convicted...") (May 11, 2010)

INTERNET HAGANAH.com: "And So Ends The Glorious Blackburn Islamic Resistance, Not With A Bang, But With A[nother] Guilty Plea" (SNIPPET: "Adios Umar Rabie.") (May 10, 2010)

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