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Mumbai terror killers are British By David Murray and Michael Thurston The Sunday Mail (Qld) November 30, 2008 12:01am AT LEAST seven terrorists who took part in the bloody massacre in Mumbai that has left more than 190 dead and 295 injured have been linked to Britain. As fighting finally ended yesterday - 59 hours after the attack had begun - it emerged that some of the gunmen who attacked 10 sites in the city last week had ties to communities in Leeds and Bradford, intelligence sources said. They are the same areas that spawned three of the bombers who...

Massacre in Mumbai: Up to SEVEN gunmen were British and 'came from same area as 7/7 bombers' By Justin Davenport , Rashid Razaq and Nicola Boden Last updated at 5:39 PM on 28th November 2008 British-born Pakistanis among arrested militants British-born Pakistanis were among the Mumbai terrorists, Indian government sources claimed today, as the death toll rose to at least 150. As many as seven of the terrorists may have British connections and some could be from Leeds and Bradford where London's July 7 bombers lived, one source said. Two Britons were among eight gunmen being held, according to Mumbai's...

MUSLIM prisoners have launched a reign of terror inside a top security British jail. The fanatics are forcing fellow inmates to convert to Islam or face punishment beatings. One man who stood up to the thugs was branded with a lump of hot metal, according to a prison source.

BERLIN – Officials say German police carried out raids in three states searching for suspected supporters of a terror cell whose plans to attack U.S. targets in Germany were foiled last year. Federal prosecutors' spokesman Frank Wallenta says police made no arrests during Thursday's raids on the residences of several people suspected of acquiring detonators for three alleged terror plotters.

A failed suicide nail bomber left a note blaming the "disgusting" behaviour of Britons and the "war on Islam" for his attack, a court has heard. Nicky Reilly, 22, from Plymouth, last month admitted attempted murder and preparing an act of terrorism at Exeter's Giraffe restaurant in May. The Muslim convert's note insisted he was not "brainwashed or indoctrinated". On Friday, a court put back Reilly's sentencing until 30 January to allow doctors to assess his mental state. Defence barrister Kerim Fuad said several doctors were concerned that Reilly's extremist views, which had appeared to have dissipated, could be triggered...

An attempt by German Academia to provide outreach to moderate Muslims may have significantly backfired, with its leading light becoming an apostate. Muhammed Sven Kalish has written a paper asserting that the prophet Mohammed never existed at all, and that Islam started as a Christian heresy. Needless to say, the same people who threatened death on editorial cartoonists merely for depicting Mohammed are not pleased: Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany’s first professor of Islamic theology, fasts during the Muslim holy month, doesn’t like to shake hands with Muslim women and has spent years studying Islamic scripture. Islam,...

An NHS doctor accused of the Glasgow airport attack today admitted planning to set cars on fire to give Britain a "taste of fear". Bilal Abdulla, 29, an Iraqi, said he had wanted the incendiary devices to throw the spotlight back on the devastating effect of war on his homeland. He branded the British government "democratically elected murderers" and said he wanted Muslims to escape oppression and leave Britain. But Abdulla told Woolwich crown court in London that he knew the "horror and terror" of the July 7 attacks and had not wanted to injure or kill anyone. Going into...

THOUSANDS of Islamist militants in the UK are actively supporting jihadist activities at home and abroad, according to a leaked Government document. The secret report, obtained by a Sunday newspaper, states that Britain will remain "a high-priority target" for international terrorists aligned with al-Qaida for the foreseeable future, and warns of a network of extremist cells in the UK, with the main concentrations in London, Birmingham and Luton. The document – marked "restricted" – was reportedly drawn up by the intelligence branch of the Ministry of Defence, MI5 and Special Branch, and describes the threat from Islamist extremists as "diverse...

Al-Qaeda-linked extremists are planning attacks intended to cause mass casualties in the UK, a top British intelligence report has warned. The report, which has been prepared by the intelligence branch of the British Ministry of Defence, MI5 and Special Branch, warned that secret cells of al-Qaeda extremists based in London, Birmingham and Luton are planning attacks in the UK.

LONDON: A minister in the Gordon Brown-led British Cabinet has warned that the country could be terrorized by radical young Muslims for the next 30 years. Security Minister Lord West told the Commons Defence Committee that there were no fast track solutions to countering the menace. “This isn't going to change just like that. To stop this radicalisation of extremists is going to take about 30 years, I would think. But it will become a virtuous circle. It will start getting better and better," the Daily Mail quoted him, as saying. The ex-Royal Navy chief, 60, also warned that security...

The award winning Channel 4 Dispatches series, lauded for their "Undercover Mosque" program, returns to U.K. mosques to see what has changed in the time since their last report. Their findings, disturbing, to say the least, beg the question - Is this happening in the United States as well? This video is a "must see" for anyone who wants to know what is really going on in Saudi funded Wahhabi mosques around the world. The video above is only 28 minutes long. The full version used to be found (in several smaller parts) at Robert Spencer's JihadWatch site, until YouTube...

Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a national database under government plans to extend massively the powers of state surveillance. Phone buyers would have to present a passport or other official form of identification at the point of purchase. Privacy campaigners fear it marks the latest government move to create a surveillance society.

Club bomb plotters hailed rickshaws to make their getaway’Justin Davenport, Crime Correspondent 10.10.08 Two alleged Islamist terrorists left car bombs packed with nails and petrol in London's West End and then escaped from the scene by hailing rickshaws, a court heard today.Bilal Abdulla, 29, and Kafeel Ahmed, 28, parked one of the cars outside the packed Tiger Tiger club in Haymarket and the other in front of a busy bus stop. The two Mercedes were left in the early hours of 29 June last year but failed to explode because the detonators did not work properly, Woolwich crown court...

Amid all the false media hubub about Sarah Palin being an alleged "book banner" comes much more serious news about the British publisher of "Jewel of Medina," a book about the child-bride of Islamic prophet Mohammed has been set afire: Three men arrested in north London on suspicion of terrorism continue to be questioned by police. They are suspected of attempting to set fire to a publisher's office in Lonsdale Square, Islington. The publisher, Gibson House, is due to release a controversial novel about the Prophet Muhammad and his child bride, entitled "The Jewel of the Medina."

HATE preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed vowed Brits will "pay" for outing his pole dancer daughter. The Muslim tyrant said the revelation Yasmin Fostok, 27, cavorts topless in London clubs was "an attack against Islam". The cleric, who is holed up in a Beirut bolthole after being booted out of Britain, vowed to take revenge. The tattooed party girl pole dances in clubs in London's West End and tours the country with raunchy troupe Ibiza Untouched. And according to a lover she is "very adventurous" in bed. Yasmin was brought up a strict Muslim and used to wear a veil and...

German commandos storm KLM airliner arresting two suspected 'terrorists' - local media. More soon.

A British Muslim was a senior al-Qaeda leader who kept a terrorist contact book containing telephone numbers and emails written in invisible ink... Rangzieb Ahmed, 33, from Manchester is accused of directing terrorism between April 2004 and Aug 2006. He allegedly travelled from Pakistan to Dubai where he met an associate in a hotel room to hand over three terrorist contact books containing telephone numbers and emails written in invisible ink. The other man, Habib Ahmed, 28, flew back to Britain separately but his luggage was secretly opened as he passed through Schipol airport in Amsterdam and the alleged code...

Jail for Danish 'terror T-shirts' Fighter and Lovers T-shirts The firm says its new range will not directly support the two groups Six people have been convicted in Denmark of raising funds for extremist groups by selling T-shirts with their logos on. A seventh was acquitted. Two of the defendants were sentenced to six months behind bars, while others received suspended jail terms. The Fighters and Lovers firm made and sold garments bearing the logos of the Palestinian PFLP and Colombia's Farc. Part of the proceeds were to be sent to the groups, which the EU says are terrorist organisations.

A militant Islamic sect banned by the Government as a threat to national security has launched a campaign to radicalise teenagers in east London, the Evening Standard can reveal. Al-Muhajiroun, headed by exiled cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, tonight begins a recruitment drive targeting young Muslims - despite being outlawed under terror laws introduced in the wake of the 7/7 suicide bomb attacks on London. Several members of the sect have been jailed in recent years for terror-related offences but there are fears the group is thriving again under a new name. The group has launched a website, Islam4uk.com. It is...

UPDATE: There’s been a number of rumors over the past several months that terrorists may use the ‘lull’ between the election and the new President entering office to launch an attack either on US soil or against US interests. In course with a number of al Qaeda’s manifests of targeting the west, the current financial crisis may instigate attacks that will target some aspect of financial importance whether it be maritime shipping lines, any one of the world-wide stock exchanges, physical financial institutions, energy sources (oil) or other infrastructure. TAM-C analysts have picked up chatter on jihadi websites in both...

Cologne is bracing for violence this weekend as far-right supporters from all over Europe gather for an "anti-Islamification congress" and rally defending the continent against an "immigrant invasion." Those attending the event starting Friday in the west German city include Filip Dewinter, head of Belgium's far-right Vlaams Belang party, and Andreas Mölzer, the Euro MP once ejected from Austria's Freedom Party for being too extreme. Also adding his support to what organisers call Europe's "shared, thousand-year history", identity and "Western values and Christian traditions" will be Mario Borghezio from Italy's anti-immigration Northern League. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the veteran head of...

LONDON (Reuters) – A schoolboy, said by prosecutors to be the youngest Briton to be convicted of a terrorism offence, was jailed for two years on Friday for his part in what prosecutors called a worldwide plot to target non-Muslims. Hammaad Munshi, 18, was found guilty last month of being part of a cell that spread extremist propaganda and provided practical guides on how to make poisons and suicide vests.

While the indigenous Christian Europeans don't reproduce, in 2-3 generations Europe will be majority muslim. The same is true for Russia much to my regret. He actually says "I am the victim." Have a view.

British Muslims are guilty of a "victim mentality" and should take greater responsibility for their lives, a Muslim Labour MP has argued. Sadiq Khan also said more British Muslims must tackle sexism, learn English and condemn forced marriages. Muslim youth organisation the Ramadhan Foundation said Mr Khan was out of touch with grassroots Muslims. 'Liberal anxiety' In his report, entitled Fairness, Not Favours, Mr Khan said: "We need to take more responsibility for our own families, ignore those who propagate conspiracy theories, and above all we need to leave behind our victim mentality. He also claimed that Muslims in Britain...

Britain is a long way from being “screwed,” but the unwillingness of our government to act against barefaced extremism has ensured that we’ll be living with the threat of Islamist terror for a long time to come. If we’re lucky, the security services will continue to thwart attacks, and the terrorists will continue to make bombs that fail to detonate....

"A HATE fanatic has boasted that Muslims will one day conquer Britain — by having more BABIES. Speaking at a rally marking 9/11, Anjem Choudary bragged that a birth explosion would let followers of Islam take control of the country. Undercover Sun investigators secretly recorded Choudary telling a young and impressionable audience that they would eventually rule under strict Sharia law. And our team listened in chilled silence as he predicted: “Islam is superior and will never be surpassed. The flag of Islam will rise over Downing Street.” Lawyer Choudary also said it would be easy for vast numbers of...

Aggressive surveillance has damaged the effectiveness of Osama bin Laden's network. Nevertheless, anti-terrorism officials remain wary of the evolving nature of the threat. The trial of eight Britons charged with plotting to blow up transatlantic flights ended in London this week with a mixed verdict. But to anti-terrorism officials, two things are clear: The 2006 plot was an ambitious effort by Al Qaeda to match the carnage of the Sept. 11 attacks. And it failed. Today's seventh anniversary of the attacks on the United States finds anti-terrorism officials optimistic that they have damaged Osama bin Laden's network and its offshoots,...

The first story excerpted below illustrates again why we can not turn over the apprehension and punishment of Islamic terrorists who are non-citizens to the civilian criminal justice system that failed us so markedly after the 1993 World Trade center bombing. Although three men were convicted in Britain, others went free. We need to have the military services of the United States and our allies deal with these butchers on a war footing and under wartime rules.

U.S blamed for ruining airline bomb plot trial by forcing police to act too soon The U.S. government have also been accused of scuppering the trial of eight men accused of plotting to bring down transatlantic planes with bombs disguised as drinks bottles. Washington pressed Pakistan into making arrests connected to the case before all the legal evidence had been gathered, counter-terror officials have claimed. Three men were yesterday convicted of planning to kill thousands by detonating home-made bombs at a series of targets including Heathrow Airport.... Tanvir Hussain in his 'martyrdom' suicide' video An official close to the investigation...

Counter-terrorism officials are said to be "dismayed" by the outcome of a trial in which eight men were accused of a plot to blow up transatlantic planes. Three men were convicted of conspiracy to murder but the jury did not convict any defendant of targeting aircraft. One man was cleared of all charges. The BBC's Frank Gardner said there had been "astonishment" in Whitehall as the evidence was considered to be strong. Prosecutors have until the end of the month to consider a retrial of the men. Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain were convicted of conspiracy to...

Excerpt - Three men accused of plotting to use liquid bombs to blow up jets flying from Heathrow airport have been found guilty of conspiracy to murder. Of the eight people on trial over the alleged plot to attack transatlantic airliners, three were found guilty of one of the charges against them, four had no verdict given and one was acquitted. ~ snip ~

A jury in the U.K. has found three men guilty of conspiracy to murder in the trans-Atlantic airline "liquid bomb" plot. Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain were found guilty of plotting to kill "persons unknown," but not necessarily on planes.

A new al-Qaida video identifies the Saudi purportedly behind a suicide bombing at the Danish Embassy in Pakistan, and he is shown warning in a taped last testament that more attacks will punish Denmark over newspaper caricatures of Islam's founder. In the 55-minute video posted on the Internet late Thursday, the alleged bomber is referred to both by a nom de guerre, Abu Ghareeb al-Makki, and by his real name, Kamal Saleem Atiyyah al-Fudli al-Hathli. He appears in an explosives vest as he recounts his plan for the attack. "As for my final message to the worshippers of the cross...

The Russian-backed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov will inaugurate the "largest mosque in Europe" on October 17 in Chechnya, the Russian official news agency Novosty reported. Over 10,000 worshipers will be able to pray inside the mosque, which will be named after the president's father, Ahmad Kadyrov, who was killed in 2004. "The largest mosque in Europe... will by inaugurated on the first day of the International Peacemakers' Conference, titled 'Islam - Religion of Peace and Progress,'" the grand mufti of Chechnya, Sultan Mirzayev, told the press. Mirzayev underlined that approximately 50 countries have already approved their participation in the three-day...

The Russian-backed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov will inaugurate the "largest mosque in Europe" on October 17, the Russian official news agency Novosty reported. Over 10,000 worshipers will be able to pray inside the mosque, which will be named after the president's father, Ahmad Kadyrov, who was killed in 2004. "The largest mosque in Europe… will by inaugurated on the first day of the International Peacemakers' Conference, titled 'Islam – Religion of Peace and Progress,'" the grand mufti of Chechnya, Sultan Mirzayev, told the press. Mirzayev underlined that approximately 50 countries have already approved their participation in the three-day conference. The...

How did cash from the network's telethons for children end up in the hands of the 7/7 London bombers? Those familiar with the BBC’s bias towards and promotion of the Islamic faith and its regular apologias on behalf of Islamic extremism will have barely raised an eyebrow at the news that £20,000 from one of the corporation’s charity appeals ended up in the hands of the Muslim terrorists who murdered 52 people in London in 2005. The money, raised by the BBC’s Children in Need telethons, was given to a “community school” in the northern English city of Leeds —...

A former Italian president says his country had allowed Palestinian terror groups to roam free in exchange for not attacking Italian targets. Francesco Cossiga's admission confirmed claims of such a deal revealed last week in an interview in the Corriere della Sera newspaper with Bassam Abu Sharif, the former chief of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In a letter published Aug. 15 in Corriere della Sera, Cossiga described a "secret 'non-belligerence pact' between the Italian state and Palestinian resistance organizations, including terrorist groups" such as the PFLP. The deal, he said, had been devised by Prime Minister...

London, Aug.19 (ANI): A terror cell caught with details of bomb making and suicide vests may have been plotting to attack Queen Elizabeth and members of the Royal family. According to The Telegraph, the cell, which included Britain's youngest ever terrorist; was found with information about the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh along with the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex and the Princess Royal. Also on the list were Princess Michael of Kent, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and The Duke and Duchess of Kent.  Aabid Hussain Khan, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, had...

(IsraelNN.com) In a letter appearing in the weekend edition of the respected Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, former Italian President Francesco Cossiga revealed that the government of Italy agreed to allow Arab terrorist groups freedom of movement in the country in exchange for immunity from attacks in Italy. Cossiga wrote that the government of the late Prime Minister Aldo Moro reached a "secret non-belligerence pact between the Italian state and Palestinian resistance organizations, including terrorist groups," in the 1970s. According to the former president, it was Moro himself who designed the terms of the agreement with the foreign Arab terrorists....

A schoolboy who joined a cell of Islamic fanatics targeting the Royal Family has become Britain's youngest convicted terrorist. Hammaad Munshi, now 18, became obsessed with terrorism while aged 15 and studying for his GCSEs. Instead of revising he spent hours secretly surfing jihadist websites and distributing material as part of a 'conspiracy to wipe-out' non-Muslims. A computer expert, the teenager set up a website giving advice on how to make bombs, detonators, Napalm and using machine guns. He was arrested at the age of 16 as he walked home from school in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, following a GCSE exam....

The cell, which included Britain's youngest ever terrorist, arrested on his way home from his GCSE chemistry exam, was found with information about the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh along with the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex and the Princess Royal. Aabid Hussain Khan: gathered details of Royal residences Also on the list were Princess Michael of Kent, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and The Duke and Duchess of Kent. Aabid Hussain Khan, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, had compiled pictures, maps and details of the opening hours of official residences from information...

Denmark: Terrorism Trial Begins New York Times, United States The defendants, 22-year-olds whom the prosecutors describe as Islamic militants, have acknowledged making the explosive

Militant Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah could launch damaging terrorist attacks in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, according to a report by the country's security services. Around 900 Hezbollah militants have moved to Europe and have formed in 'sleeper cells'. Such Hezbollah-linked cells could be present in Italy, France and The Netherlands as well as in Germany, said the report. Unlike European countries such as Spain or Britain, Germany has not suffered a major recent attack on its own soil. But Germany's Federal Criminal Police (BKA) chief Joerg Ziercke said on Sunday that investigators had foiled seven plots, including attacks planned...

Italy: 5 arrested on suspicion of planning attacks ROME - Police broke up a suspected terror cell Saturday and arrested five North Africans, including the alleged leader who Italian officials said recruited Islamic extremists for attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Italian police has arrested four Tunisians and a Moroccan on suspicion of recruiting Islamic fighters for Iraq and Afghanistan. ... Police say the recruits were trained in Bosnia.

Europe must realize: Jihadism is an ideology, not a theology World Defense Review - Aug 7, 2008 The Jihadists in Sudan, for example, have clearly displayed racism in Darfur. c. New theories are claiming that the root causes are socio-psychological ...

<p>Police on the Greek island of Santorini have shot and injured a knifeman who decapitated his girlfriend and walked around the streets with her head.</p> <p>Terrified residents of the popular tourist island barricaded themselves into their homes and called the police.</p>

MI5 is using a fleet of sophisticated surveillance aircraft to search for unidentified Britons who fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. The manhunt has been ordered because it is feared the committed and highly trained fighters may have returned home to plot terror attacks in the UK. Planes with eavesdropping equipment are now flying over British cities searching for returning Afghan fighters. They are attempting to identify suspects using ‘voice prints’ of fighters with British accents picked up by RAF Nimrod spy planes monitoring Taliban battlefield radio signals. The revelation comes after the former SAS commander in Afghanistan yesterday confirmed...

Well, can it? Before you answer, take a look at the short VIDEO, available on YouTube by Dale Hurd. Hurd begins with the by-now-familiar news that Britain's top judge and the Archbishop of Canterbury have both publicly declared themselves in favor of instituting some elements of sharia law in Britain. Hurd also notes that British authorities have been bending over backwards to cater to Muslim sensitivities. In Scotland, over a police advertisement which portrayed a cuddly puppy called Rebel, Islamic authorities declared the advertisement "offensive" and police officials fell over themselves apologizing for their insensitivity. He also notes how unevenly...

Excerpt - A jury trying three men accused of helping the 7/7 London bombers plan their attack has failed to reach verdicts. Waheed Ali, Sadeer Saleem and Mohammed Shakil visited the London Eye, the Natural History Museum and the London Aquarium while allegedly pinpointing potential targets during the trip seven months before the 2005 atrocity. The trio, from Beeston, Leeds, stood trial charged with conspiring with the four bombers and others unknown to cause explosions between November 17, 2004, and July 8, 2005. But following the three month trial at Kingston Crown Court, a jury of eight women and four...