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Posted on 07/06/2006 3:30:50 PM PDT by GMMAC
Attacks just beginning: London bomber
Cnews.canoe.ca
July 6, 2006
By JENNIFER QUINN
LONDON (AP) - One of the suicide bombers who struck London's transit system a year ago said in a video broadcast Thursday that the attacks were "only the beginning."
The video, broadcast by Al-Jazeera, showed Shehzad Tanweer delivering the warning shortly before the July 7, 2005, attacks that killed 52 people as well as the four bombers.
"What you have witnessed now is only the beginning," Tanweer, 22, said in the video.
Tanweer killed six people and himself aboard a London Underground train.
Ahmed al-Sheikh, an editor at Al-Jazeera in Doha, Qatar, would not say how or when the Arab broadcaster obtained the video. He said it was a long tape, and the station had shown only a portion of it.
Andy Hayman, head of Specialist Operations for the Metropolitan Police, said the video would become part of the continuing investigation of the bombings. "There can be no doubt that the release of the video at this time can only cause maximum hurt and distress to the families and friends of those who died on 7/7 and the hundreds of people who were injured in the terrorist attacks," Hayman said.
Prime Minister Tony Blair's office said it had no immediate comment on the video.
In September, Al-Jazeera played a video from another of the four bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan.
In that video, Khan claimed that the British public was to blame for the terror attacks because of their support for western governments which "continuously perpetuate atrocities" against the Islamic world. "We are at war and I am a soldier," Khan had said.
Khan's farewell message had been broadcast alongside a video of al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, warning of more attacks. They did not appear together on the recording, but analysts said it provided the strongest link yet between the terrorist network and the four London bombers.
Peter Clarke, who heads the anti-terrorist branch of the Metropolitan Police, said he believed Khan had probably recorded his so-called living will outside of Britain.
"The splicing of the footage with the comments of al-Zawahri and the release through the usual al-Qaida channels suggests it may well have been recorded overseas," Clarke said.
Clarke also confirmed that both Tanweer and Khan had made at least three trips to Pakistan before the bombings, making a final visit in early 2005. All four of the July 7 bombers were British. In a recent poll, 16 per cent of surveyed British Muslims said they believed the attackers were motivated by a just cause.
The poll, conducted for The Times newspaper and ITV News, found that 13 per cent of Muslims felt the bombers should be regarded as martyrs, and seven per cent felt suicide attacks on British civilians were justified in some circumstances. Pollsters surveyed 1,131 adults between June 1 and June 16. The margin of error was plus or minus three percentage points.
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Goodbye England. It was fun while it lasted.
"We are at war and I am a soldier," Khan had said.
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No, you were never a soldier; you were just a cowardly murderer. Now, you are just one of Satan's eternal guests.
Can't these monsters just spend their time killing each other? And free the world from their hideous belief system.
Pretty defeatist attitude. A small minority of British Muslims side with the terrorists and you're ready to give up on Britain? Are you French?
Sixteen percent is not a small minority, it's enough to cause major havoc and grief. If the slammites don't find a way to deal with this problem, they're ALL going to get heaved out of most if not all western countries.
Shaking in my boots Ali!
Ah, I can hardly wait till it's our turn, when a strike
is made against the terror states, then, then we can say,
"Get used to it, it's only the beginning.
It's what you wanted, have some more!"
I wonder how they will like it when independent operators
strike them and we say, "It's just radicals. It's just the
militant wing of the freeworld."
The infinitely funny part is that they don't think it can
happen to them.
OK, you're right. Let's give up. 84% of those polled give an anti-terrorist answer and it's the end of the world.
A recent poll indicates 13 percent of Britain's muslims consider their July 7th terrorists as martyrs.
Obviously every nation which allowed muslims to immigrate has made a huge and possibly deadly mistake.
Anybody that believes it unjustified to watch them very closely is a fool.
Really? Then how about we match you against one of our Marines in hand to hand combat? The guy who wins is a soldier. The guy who loses is an a##$hole.
An "anti-terrorist" response doesn't mean much.
Think of a slightly antisocial family that owns Canarios. If you ask them if they want their dogs to kill a neighbor, they will obviously say no. However, if the dog does kill a neighbor, they will justify themselves however they can.
Moderate muslims keep vicious dogs.
Just like the elite left and their third-world mascots.
"It's time we recognized the nature of the conflict. It's total war and we are all involved. Nobody on our side is exempted because of age, gender, or handicap. The Islamofacists have stolen childhood from the world." [FReeper Retief]
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Why does any country put up with this? Deport them all back to the nation of their origin. If they were born in the country to immigrants, send them all back anyway! Will we ever learn?
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