Posted on 08/14/2006 2:01:55 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
By Roya Nikkhah, Andrew Alderson and Julie Henry
The recruitment of Muslim students at British universities to take part in terrorist attacks is at the heart of the alleged plot to blow up passenger jets, it is feared.
A dossier of extremist Islamic literature has been uncovered by The Sunday Telegraph on the campus of a north London university, one of whose students has suspected links to the alleged terrorist attack.
Waheed Zaman, 22, a bio-chemistry student and the president of the Islamic Society at London Metropolitan University, was one of 24 people arrested last week. Material found at two portable buildings used by the society includes documents advocating jihad and a pamphlet on how to deal with approaches from the security services.
Prof Anthony Glees, the director of Brunel University's centre for intelligence and security studies, criticised university authorities for ignoring the threat to national security in their midst. "Institutions have not sought to address the problem: they have instead sought to undermine those who have raised the issue," he told this newspaper.
Extremist Muslim groups had been detected at more than 20 institutions, both former polytechnics and long-established universities, over the past 15 years, Prof Glees said.
Cassette tapes produced by al-Muhajiroun, the disbanded militant organisation that praised the "Magnificent 19" who carried out the September 11 2001 attacks, were also discovered at the university's portable buildings used as a prayer room and library.
Al-Muhajiroun was headed by Omar Bakri Mohammed, the radical London cleric forced into exile in Lebanon last year. The portable buildings are on land owned by the university, which also part-funds the Islamic Society.
According to security sources, "several" of the 23 people still in custody over the alleged plot last week are suspected of links to universities, appearing to confirm growing fears that campuses are providing Britain's biggest security threat.
Intelligence analysts warned Britain in the aftermath of September 11 that British Muslims of student age were being drawn to the cause of fundamentalism. Many of these men, often from middle-class families, are believed to have infiltrated British universities to recruit terrorists.
It can also be revealed that five of those arrested last week are suspected, like two of the 7/7 London bombers last year, of attending training camps in Pakistan to learn the use of explosives. According to security sources in Pakistan, some of those arrested last week had also had recorded "martyrdom messages" to be used for al-Qaeda propaganda.
Anti-terrorist detectives were continuing last night to question those arrested in London, Birmingham and High Wycombe on Thursday. Those detained, aged 17 to 35, are suspected of involvement in an alleged plot to blow up as many as 10 transatlantic airliners bound for United States cities. They are being quizzed amid growing evidence linking the alleged plotters to terrorists in Pakistan.
The authorities there have announced the arrest of two Britons, one of whom they consider a "key" suspect. Rashid Rauf, 25, the brother of Tayib Rauf, 22, one of those held in Britain, is among seven people held in Karachi and Lahore.
Under questioning in Pakistan, Rauf is alleged to have admitted meeting Matiur Rehman, a Pakistani terrorist suspect. If confirmed, it is the strongest indication yet that al-Qaeda may have been involved in the plot, which would have killed more than the 3,000 victims who died in the September 11 attacks on the US.
Police in Britain are believed to have found chemicals and other equipment for bomb-making at the home of at least one of the men arrested last week. Thames Valley police said they had seized computer equipment during raids at three internet cafés.
Although the security services in Britain are convinced that they have arrested the "main players" in the airline plot, officials in the US say that at least five suspects are still being hunted.
The family of Zaman has denied that he is involved in terrorism. There is no evidence that he put the extremist literature in the university's portable buildings.
Proof again that college students are some of the biggest idiots in the world.
Just the skills needed for making explosives
Isn't there a Georgia Tech student who was arrested awhile ago for terrorist ties?
Yes, they're not stupid. They are being trained to murder us through chemicals.
The Free World must come to the realization that once Islam has contaminated a person's soul, they can no longer be treated as human beings, and must be quarantined just as one must quarantine mad dogs. They are both equally unfit to live among civilized people.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192541,00.html
Syed Haris Ahmed, a naturalized citizen from Atlanta, is being held by federal authorities at an undisclosed location, known only to his family, his attorney and the government. He waived his right to arraignment with the right to revoke the waiver at any time.
But those 11 Egyptian "students" are not terrorists. Uh, huh.
"This is the first internatinal terrorism charge filed in Georgia," Nahmias said. "The charge against Mr. Ahmet is serious and involved national security, and it will be prosecuted with that in mind."
They never say what the exact nature of the crime is, at least not in that article.
Yeah, that was the reason for the nationwide BOLO . . . .
Two Georgia men facing federal terrorism-related charges in the United States — Ehsanul Islam Sadequee and Syed Haris Ahmed — are linked to the Canadian case for allegedly recording "casing videos" of the Capitol and other potential targets in Washington. Ahmed's lawyer, Jack Martin, said there may have been some connection between his client and the suspects, but he insisted it wasn't part of any terrorism plot.
Wikipedia (don't know how accurate)
A resident of Atlanta, Georgia, Syed Haris Ahmed was arrested by the FBI on March 23rd, 2006.
A mechanical engineering student at Georgia Tech, Ahmed emigrated from Pakistan to the United States with his family in 1997 at the age of 12 and subsequently became a U.S. citizen.
He was arrested after videotaping "significant commercial buildings". He was charged with providing material support to a terrorist group, and plead not guilty. All documentats in the case were initially sealed at the joint request of the court and Ahmed. Subsequent developments led to the indictment being unsealed at the government's request in late April 2006. After the 2006 Toronto terror arrests in June, Ahmed was publicly named as a suspected colleague.
In a bail hearing for the other U.S. resident charded in the matter, Ehsanul Sadequee, prosecutors alleged that Ahmed and Sadequee traveled to Washington, D.C. to make "casing videos" of the United States Capitol building, the World Bank, a Masonic temple and a fuel depot.
It seemed like it took years for Britain to expel the guy with the hooks. But expel him, they did.
I'm not aware of anybody being expelled from the US. Not aware of identifying a single person for incitement.
So as slow as the Brits are, they are out of the starting blocks.
The US is still in the starting blocks.
It's worse than that -- just the skills for making germ warfare phials.
And both U.S. and Israel will remain in the starting block if they continue to use the politicaly correct "same measured responses" that the enemy inflicted on them. This is WAR!! We should use EVERY technology at our disposal to eliminate the terrorists that perpetrated this war, even if it means the killing of innocents. In this case, the "innocents" aren't exactly innocent because they allowed the His b'Allah Terrorists to build bunkers under their houses in a residential area, bunkers as deep as three story buildings, allowing the amassing of weapons, and missiles and the launchings of them into Israel from these "residential homes". They have become "enemy combatants" against Israel because of this, and are no longer considered "innocent civilian casualties". They have aided and abetted terrorism.
What a coincidence!
There is no evidence that I did either.
We must both be innocent!
(muslim logic...)
There have been hundreds deported on immigration charges which is the preferred method.
Not aware of identifying a single person for incitement.
I am not sure you can detain someone just for incitement. If they’re an alien, incitement might violate their terms of admission or something else under the Patriot Act. But incitement by a US citizen is very difficult to prove.
I can only think of a small number of KKK and Arian Brotherhood types that were ever charged.
I think we all agree that you should not be able to incite violence, but we shutter at the thought the hate speech laws that Europe is living under.
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