Travel Alert [Europe]

Is there anything new in the German news regarding the jihad threat?

ADDING to post no. 18:

Note: Photo included.

PHOTO CAPTION: “German national Shahab D., who is better known as Abu Askar, in a propaganda video from 2009. Image from DPA/Welt.”

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NOTE The following text is a quote:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/10/british_german_jihad.php

“British, German jihadists involved in Europe plot killed in Predator strikes”
By BILL ROGGIO
October 7, 2010

SNIPPET: “Over the past month, US Predator strikes in Pakistan have killed at least three Western members of the cells assigned to carry out Mumbai-like terror assaults against targets in major European cities.

One Briton, who had been appointed to a top al Qaeda leadership position in the United Kingdom, and two Germans associated with the Hamburg cell were killed in airstrikes by unmanned US Predators or Reapers in Pakistan in September.

The Briton, who was identified as Abdul Jabbar, is thought to have been killed in a US airstrike in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan on Sept. 8. Jabbar, a British citizen who was originally from Jhelum in Pakistan, was said to have been appointed as the future leader of the so-called Islamic Army of Great Britain, according to the BBC.

“Intelligence agencies monitored a meeting of 300 militants three months ago in the Ambarshaga area of North Waziristan, attended by Jabbar and militants from the Taliban and al Qaeda,” the BBC reported. At that meeting, he was appointed the leader of the Islamic Army of Great Britain and was tasked with carrying out terror assaults in Britain, France, and Germany, using assault rifles and suicide vests.

Jabbar had earlier survived a drone strike on a militant training camp run by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a commander allied with the Haqqani Network, an Afghan Taliban faction considered one of the most effective forces battling Western troops in Afghanistan.

The two Germans have been identified as Shahab D., who goes by the name of Abu Askar, and Imran Almani, according to Welt Online.

Abu Askar was a native of Iran, but grew up in Hamburg. Askar attended the radical Taiba Mosque in Hamburg (formerly known as Al Quds), the same mosque that was involved in the 9/11 attacks. In early August this year, German officials closed the Taiba mosque, several weeks after a German named Ahmed Siddiqui was captured by US forces in Afghanistan. Siddiqui disclosed details of the Europe plot, and said it was ordered and financed by Osama bin Laden.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2264958/posts?page=23#23

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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/007000.html

06 October 2010
“END THE OCCUPATION!!! (OF AL-ANDALUS)”

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Thank you for the bump Ditter.

http://www.hudson-ny.org/1595/radical-muslims-want-to-kill-europeans

“Why Do Radical Muslims Want to Kill Europeans?”
by Khaled Abu Toameh
October 8, 2010 at 5:00 am

SNIPPET: “The Europeans are being targeted for the same reason the Americans are: for being “infidels” and enemies of Islam and for the Western values they represent. They are being targeted because of their failure to transform into Islamic countries. Those who think that solving the Israeli-Arab conflict will undermine Al-Qaeda and its allies do not know what they are talking about.”

http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers41/paper4083.html

Paper no. 4083

07-Oct-2010

“Al Qaeda—Taliban in Europe - International Terrorism Monitor—Paper No. 684”
By B. Raman

SNIPPET: “Al Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban are looking for an Afghanistan-focused operation in Europe, but there are no indications that trained persons for such an operation might have already been dispatched to Europe. The current Drone strikes in North and South Waziristan, in which some persons of German origin had been killed, are intended to pre-empt any new terrorist strikes in Europe by killing those trained or being trained for this purpose before they could be dispatched to Europe. The security alerts and travel advisories issued by the US and others indicate that despite the success of the Drone strikes, there is a fear that some trained jihadis might have already reached Europe. Ziercke, the head of Germany’s Federal Office of Criminal Investigation, reportedly said in a recent interview with the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel that there was evidence that at least 70 Islamic radicals from Germany had undergone military training in Pakistan, and that 40 of them are believed to have gone on to fight coalition forces in Afghanistan.”

well yes -

they say there’s no new information comming in neither from the US nor from internal sources so it seems the new warnings where generated on what has been known for longer...

or in other words ‘those issuing warnings have become more carefull’

or in yet other words ‘don’t go to europe for x-mas shopping we need your bucks here’

so it IS based on facts.