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For those that seem to find excuses for Islamic Jihad massacre on US? Why would they bomb British (before Iraq war) ?Al-Qaeda 'planned more attacks' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1694918.stm The Indian authorities say a man arrested on suspicion of being linked to Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network has confessed to planning suicide attacks in Britain, Australia and India. http://www.beatlelinks.net/forums/showthread.php?t=13104 Al Qaeda planned attack on London (Sep 2001) Al-Qaeda planned to attack Heathrow airport - SpecialsWarOnTerror http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/28/1080412234118.html?from=storyrhs ... interrogation also revealed that al-Qaeda had originally planned to hijack 10 planes in the September 11 attacks, sending five against targets on the US ... London...

A collection of 9/11 tributes I’ll add to the list below, and if you have any you’d like to add to this (or any other sort of tribute/remembrance), please do so here. Either leave a comment with the link, or link to this post and send a trackback. 9/11: The 5th Year Anniversary Tribute Blood of Heroes September 11th, Uncensored From Brain Terminal: Crystal Morning: September 11th, 2001 From William Teach: 9/11 Plus 5 From Crusader: WTC Tribute More from YouTube: 911 tribute September 11th - Five Years Later: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 September 11th - Flash...

BRITISH police investigating a terror plot by Islamic saboteurs have found chemical warfare protection suits in a north London mosque. The discovery has shocked detectives, who believe the find confirms supporters of Osama bin Laden were planning a poison attack on civilian targets in Britain. Scotland Yard and MI5 detectives had kept the discovery of the nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) suits secret. They feared disclosing it would spark panic. Government ministers have warned any suggestion that the Finsbury Park mosque had been involved would have worrying racist overtones. Police initially revealed they had seized a cache of weapons, including...

Dad is a coward, a hypocrite and he deserves to rot in jail By Rajeev Syal In an exclusive interview, Donna Traverso tells The Times about the man who tore her family apart SHE knew him simply as Dad, a kindly presence in her life who would tell her that she was “his little girl” as she nestled in his muscular arms. Now Donna Traverso, 25, despises her former stepfather Abu Hamza al-Masri for shattering her family and abandoning her at the age of 5. In her first interview, she tells The Times how the Egyptian disappeared with her beloved...

The man who from safe and agreeably leafy north London suburbia offered his continual support to suicide bombers and refused to condemn the attacks of 9/11 and July 7, all the while ranting against the perfidies of western civilisation and its infidel cockroach minions, now wishes to return to the bosom of Satan as quickly as possible.

AFTER 9/11 plotter Zacarias Mous saoui was sentenced to life im prisonment, his family blamed - the British. Their son had had first arrived in London in the 1990s for an MA course in international business studies - and been radicalized and recruited for jihad at London's Finsbury Park mosque.

LONDON - A British jury convicted radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri on Tuesday of fomenting racial hatred and inciting his followers to kill non-Muslims. Al-Masri, 47, the former imam at London's Finsbury Park mosque, also was convicted of possessing a terrorist document and threatening or abusive recordings. Al-Masri, Britain's best-known Islamist orator, could receive a maximum sentence of life in prison. The jury of seven men and five women found al-Masri guilty on seven of nine charges of soliciting murder. He also was convicted on two of four charges of stirring racial hatred. Though asked to stand for the...

Mosque raid findings revealed As Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri is convicted of race hate crimes, police have revealed the details of a raid on north London's Finsbury Park Mosque in 2003. See items seized in the raid on Finsbury Park mosque in 2003 In pictures The Metropolitan Police faced criticism from some Muslim leaders when they took the controversial step of raiding the mosque in the early hours of 20 January 2003. But, after uncovering equipment which detectives believe may have been used in UK-based terror camps, senior officers believe their action was justified. Dozens of officers in...

A radical British imam was stockpiling protection gear for a weapons of mass destruction attack in a notorious North London mosque, British police revealed on Wednesday. London authorities told Reuters that the discovery of the WMD-gear actually happened in 2003, but could not be disclosed until Tuesday, after Abu Hamza al Masri was convicted of 11 charges related to terrorism - including soliciting murder and possessing a terrorist training manual. Hamza preached jihad at the notorious Finsbury Park mosque, where convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid and alleged 20th 9/11 hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui both worshipped. According to Reuters, 150 police staged...

Glen Jenvey worked for several military attachés covering terrorist groups, including al-Qaida and their members in Britain. His stings led to the capture of Abu Hamza al-Masri, a major terrorist and multiple other terrorists. He has been profiled and interviewed in major media across the globe, including in the US, UK, Russia, India, etc. Neil Doyle wrote a book entitled "Terror Tracker" about Mr. Jenvey. ... Glen Jenvey: The group is linked directly to terrorists associated with Abu Hamza, who's in jail due in large part to my efforts for British intelligence. The group is also tied to other clerics...

As Londoners recover from bombing attacks that left 50 people dead and 1,000 wounded yesterday, suspicion is focusing on a radical Muslim cleric who urged his flock to commit suicide bombing attacks in Britain and preached anti-Semitic hate from his mosque in Finsbury Park. Abu Hamza al-Masri went on trial in London this week, charged by British officials with incitement to murder and other terrorist offenses. But the activities of his followers - like convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid and the so-called 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui - suggest that Hamza's rhetoric may have helped spur new attacks. For years before...

A KEY al-Qaeda operative responsible for recruiting the shoe bomber Richard Reid and one of the September 11 hijackers helped to kidnap five British children from their Norwich home and take them to Libya, a court was told yesterday. Djamel Beghal, 39, is serving ten years in a French prison for plotting a suicide attack on the US Embassy in Paris and was described as so dangerous that even other al-Qaeda members thought him beyond the pale. While he was living in Leicester in the late 1990s Beghal, an Algerian, met Azzedin Journazi, from Libya, at a city mosque and...

Hamas link to London mosqueNick Fielding and Abul Taher, February 13, 2005 A MUSLIM leader appointed to help to run the recently reopened Finsbury Park mosque in north London is a former military commander of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organisation. Mohammed Kassem Sawalha is one of five trustees appointed to give the mosque a fresh start. The mosque was closed last year after becoming a centre of Islamic militancy under Abu Hamza al-Masri, the radical cleric facing charges in Britain and America. Sawalha’s link with Hamas emerged after he was named as a co-conspirator in an American court case involving...

Furious Muslims turn on Finsbury Park cleric By Justine Smith And Bobby Pathak THE hate preacher exposed in yesterday's Mirror has been kicked out of Finsbury Park mosque by outraged moderate Muslims. Ranting Abu Abdullah agreed to leave after being confronted by community leaders, who were backed by riot police. Earlier, the cleric was chased out of another mosque and attacked by worshippers when he tried to hijack a prayer meeting. Abdullah took over Friday prayers at Finsbury Park from hook-handed Abu Hamza, who is in jail awaiting trial on charges including soliciting murder. Appalled by his venom, peace-loving Muslims...

Muslim women should breed children to become suicide bombers, according to lecture given by the radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri. Hamza, who has been indicted by the US on 11 terrorism charges, makes the plea on an audio tape that has been circulating among his followers. The tape is currently being studied as part of the legal attempt to extradite Hamza to the US. On the recording, Hamza refers to a suicide bombing in Israel and says: "Last week we seen a mother...she put happiness in the hearts of every Muslim on earth and for years to come. "She...

Right-wingers and Muslims clash 2.49PM, Fri Jun 4 2004 Right-wing protesters waving Union Jack flags clashed with police and Muslims during Friday prayers outside a London mosque. Around 20 men, claiming to be from a group called the United British Alliance jeered and shouted anti-Muslim slogans from behind fences set up by police outside the Finsbury Park mosque. There were scuffles after a few protesters seemed to infiltrate the street in which prayers were being held, outside the north London mosque where radical cleric Abu Hamza was based before his arrest. The clashes were quickly broken up, and prayers were...

Muslim cleric inspires anger, awe in Britain BY MATTHEW MCALLESTER STAFF CORRESPONDENT May 11, 2004 LONDON -- Death was on Abu Hamza's mind. "Seek the way of death, try to do actions that subject you to death," the Muslim cleric told his audience, mostly young men, as they sat at Friday prayers. "If you die to defend your religion, you are a martyr. ... Die honorably, don't die humiliated." This was not Gaza or Fallujah. This was Finsbury Park in north London, on a road outside a mosque that was raided by anti-terrorism police over a year ago and has...

May. 2, 2004. 04:57 AM RANDY QUAN FOR THE TORONTO STAR A masked member of Abu Hamza al-Masri?s entourage keeps an eye on media and police observing the radical cleric?s incendiary Friday sermon on the street outside the shut-down Finsbury Park mosque. Jihad in LondonMuslims fear backlash as police intensify crackdown to thwart `inevitable' terrorist strike in Britain Radical cleric p SANDRO CONTENTALONDON?On Fridays, in front of north London's Finsbury Park mosque, what begins as a call to prayer ends up sounding like a battle cry to jihad, or holy war.A hooded muezzin calls out in the middle of the...

U.S. allows Muslim 'fox in the henhouse' Guest panelist threatened America, openly supported terror groups Posted: March 20, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: WorldNetDaily is pleased to have a content-sharing agreement with Insight magazine, the bold Washington publication not afraid to ruffle establishment feathers. Subscribe to Insight at WorldNetDaily's online store and save 71 percent off the cover price. By Kenneth R. Timmerman © 2004 Insight/News World Communications Inc. The congressionally funded United States Institute of Peace hosted an event yesterday in Washington on reforming Islam, with a guest panelist who has threatened the United States and openly supported...

Madrid bomb suspect linked to UK extremists Richard Norton-Taylor and Rosie Cowan Wednesday March 17, 2004 The Guardian (UK) The Metropolitan police and security services were last night investigating links between a prime suspect in the Madrid bombings and Islamist extremists in London. A senior police source told the Guardian there were definite links between terrorists in the two cities. Intelligence officers also believe that Jamal Zougam, arrested by Spanish police in connection with the bombings, has contacts with a number of individuals of north African origin who are at large in the UK. "It is known there are well-established...