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To: DAVEY CROCKETT

Another terrorist habitat being constructed on US soil.

2,021 posted on 01/14/2007 4:05:36 PM PST by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him))

To: nw_arizona_granny

Russia asks Britain for permission to interview more than 100 people in spy poisoning case

MOSCOW – Moscow has asked Britain for permission to interview more than 100 people in connection with the poisoning death of a former KGB agent, a top Russian prosecutor was quoted as saying Friday.
Russia sent the request to Britain's Home Office, Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Zvyagintsev told the official newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta. He declined to name the people Russia wanted to interview, and it was unclear if any were considered suspects. The Home Office declined to comment.

http://www.signonsandiego.com:80/news/world/20070112-1412-russia-poisonedspy.html

2,022 posted on 01/14/2007 4:07:00 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT (Anytime GOD is taken away, you are left with an anti-christ, home, school, church etc.)

To: nw_arizona_granny

Al-Qaeda predicts US defeat
13/01/2007 21:28 - (SA)
Dubai - The Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda predicted on Saturday the "defeat" of US military forces in Iraq, in its first reaction to US President George W Bush's new strategy to end the ongoing conflict.

In a statement posted on the internet, it said Bush's change of tack - including 21 500 troop reinforcements - "is only a prelude to news of a defeat and a flight from the hell of Iraq".

"Increasing the number of troops will not in any way change the nature of the battle," added the statement, signed by "a spokesperson of the Islamic State of Iraq" - an entity declared by al-Qaeda in Iraq in mid-October.

"Reinforcements in the past had no effect and did not swing the battle in favour of the Crusaders."

The statement was seen by AFP on Islamist websites, but there was no way to firmly establish its authenticity.

Al-Qaeda is the global Islamist militant network led by Osama bin Laden.

It is held responsible for the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001 that prompted the Bush administration to launch its transnational "war on terror".

In a recording posted on the internet in mid-December, the head of an al-Qaeda-dominated group in Iraq offered to give US troops a month to withdraw without fear of attack.

Saturday's statement said the Islamic State of Iraq was "at its best and in good control of the situation".

It continued: "The media frenzy surrounding the security plan for Baghdad and the new Bush strategy will change nothing..."

"The enemy is trying to save face at least in Baghdad; the security plans for Iraq from now on are limited to Baghdad."

Bush's new Iraq strategy, announced on Wednesday in Washington, centres on putting more US troops in Baghdad to wrestle control of the capital from a stubborn insurgency.

It also calls for the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi government to assume control of all Iraqi provinces by November or risk losing US support.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Malaki has separately announced a security plan for Baghdad, which is expected to be implemented in the coming days.

http://www.news24.com:80/News24/World/Iraq/0,9294,2-10-1460_2054707,00.html

2,023 posted on 01/14/2007 4:10:00 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT (Anytime GOD is taken away, you are left with an anti-christ, home, school, church etc.)

To: Founding Father

Another terrorist habitat being constructed on US soil.

You are right, this makes me ill. Back in the 60's and 70's when I grew up in Atlanta. It was a wonderfull city of about 250,000 people now there are over 6 million.

2,024 posted on 01/14/2007 4:12:34 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT (Anytime GOD is taken away, you are left with an anti-christ, home, school, church etc.)

To: DAVEY CROCKETT

I have compassion for all who earnestly seek Almighty God.

It's difficult to find a cell in my body in support of any shred of violent, demonic Islam.

2,025 posted on 01/14/2007 7:08:54 PM PST by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIShe ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)

To: Quix; nw_arizona_granny; DAVEY CROCKETT; Founding Father

Will Saudis Ban the Letter ‘X'?

By YOUSSEF IBRAHIM
January 15, 2007

The letter "X" soon may be banned in Saudi Arabia because it resembles the mother of all banned religious symbols in the oil kingdom: the cross.

The new development came with the issuing of another mind-bending fatwa, or religious edict, by the infamous Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice — the group of senior Islamic clergy that reigns supreme on all legal, civil, and governance matters in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The commission's damning of the letter "X" came in response to a Ministry of Trade query about whether it should grant trademark protection to a Saudi businessman for a new service carrying the English name "Explorer."

Well, never mind that none of the so-called scholars manning the upper ranks of the religious outfit can speak or read a word of English.

But their experts who examined the English word "explorer" were struck by how suspicious that "X" appeared.

http://www.nysun.com/article/46707

2,026 posted on 01/14/2007 10:51:38 PM PST by LucyT

INSANITY RUNS THE ASSYLUM

2,027 posted on 01/14/2007 10:55:57 PM PST by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIShe ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)

Fingers in the Dyke: Dutch Fear Rising Ethnic Tensions

By Paul Belien

Created 2007-01-14 22:02

The Netherlands may soon witness an outburst of ethnic violence. An official report published last Wednesday states that “tensions between various ethnic and cultural groups of youths are seriously underestimated.” The report points out that the Dutch authorities fail to grasp the gravity of the problem. It warns the government in The Hague that if nothing is done the country will soon witness situations similar to those in France. There violent clashes, which erupted in late 2005, have led to the police abandoning immigrant suburbs to gangs of Muslim youths, who have now taken over effective control of more than 750 French urban neighborhoods.

Following the 2004 assassination of Theo van Gogh by a young Moroccan immigrant the Dutch minister of Integration, Rita Verdonk, installed four so-called “intervention teams for interethnic tensions.” The teams are made up of social workers whose task it is to advise local authorities on ways to deal with groups of unassimilated and criminal youths. In major Dutch cities many of the young people are not of indigenous Dutch extraction. In Amsterdam 55% of those under18 are immigrants, mainly Moroccan, Turkish or Antillean (West Indian). In Rotterdam the number has surpassed 50%. Everywhere this percentage is rising dramatically. Dutch society has failed to inculcate the children of immigrants with Dutch values. Perhaps the latter was simply impossible. There are 1 million Muslims on a total of 16 million inhabitants in the Netherlands. At over 6% of the population this is proportionally the largest Muslim immigrant population of all Western nations, except for France which has 6 million Muslims on a total of 60 million inhabitants. The Muslims are younger than the indigenous population and tend to be concentrated in the cities.

Dick Corporaal, the coordinating president of the intervention teams, told Dutch national radio on Wednesday that “multicultural tensions between youths threaten to lead to an uncontrollable situation.” He warned that the problem is not restricted to cities but is also beginning to affect towns in the more rural areas. “The municipal authorities have no idea about what is going on,” Corporaal said about the rising tension. He advised the government to devote more funds to youth work and to increase the number of intervention teams. He also accused the local authorities of treating all troublesome youths similarly, while according to him different approaches are needed when confronting the various groups: Moroccans, Antilleans, Turks and “Lonsdale youths” [The latter are indigenous Dutch hooligans]. Corporaal also emphasized that each ethnic group itself is not homogeneous and should not be dealt with as such.

The intervention teams recommend an expansion of the social worker approach to defuse the situation. This is a typically Dutch way of doing things, which is widely applied, even among Dutch troops in Afghanistan who prefer to have tea with the Taliban rather than fight them. Last year the police of The Hague sent officers on a “cultural training” trip to Morocco because, as Gerard Bouman, the The Hague police chief (who has meanwhile been promoted to head of the Dutch state security services), said, “Criminal Moroccan youths […] do not behave like indigenous Dutch. They rave about Moroccan culture. Hence, we have to know the latter, too.” In Morocco, the Dutch police officers discovered that their Moroccan colleagues were astonished to hear that the Dutch have problems with criminal Moroccan youths. In Morocco officers are known to beat the hell out of criminals.

Corporaal’s recommendations, however, do not seem to go down well with many ordinary native Dutch. A poll conducted by Elsevier, the largest Dutch weekly, indicates that 80% of its readers prefer a “harsh treatment” of troublemaking youths rather than “sending in more multicultural intervention teams.”

Meanwhile, in order to reduce tensions between immigrant youths and white native hooligans, a Dutch high school, the Hoofdvaart College in Hoofddorp, which lies between Amsterdam and Haarlem, has prohibited the wearing of Lonsdale cloths by pupils. Lonsdale is a British clothing brand whose sweaters and jackets are said to be popular with the far right because the brand name includes the letters NSDA, one letter short of NSDAP, the German acronym for Hitler’s Nazi Party. According to the school, wearing Lonsdale is a “provocation and is offensive to others.” Two years ago, however, a report of the Dutch state security services found that the majority of those wearing Lonsdale gear are not far right fanatics.

The official Dutch worries about rising hostility in immigrant communities towards the hitherto predominant culture in the Netherlands are also discernible in the fifth annual report of Tjibbe Joustra, the National Anti-Terrorism Coordinator. Late last month the government submitted the report to the Dutch Parliament. Joustra writes that he is especially worried about the rise in so-called “living room marriages” (informal Islamist weddings conducted at home). This phenomenon is “more widespread” than previously thought, the report says. Last week Joustra’s spokesman said “We knew these weddings occurred in certain circles, but we have indications that they are also on the rise elsewhere.” He referred to a growing group of underage Dutch girls, 16 or 17 years old, who convert to Islam in order to marry young Muslim men with whom they have fallen in love. “The women get isolated from their families. The isolation leads to radicalization.” The report of the National Anti-Terrorism Coordinator says there were a number of “living room marriages” within the Hofstad Group, the circle around Mohammed Bouyeri, Theo van Gogh’s assassin.

Joustra’s report sees the rise of “living room marriages” as one of many indications of the growth of radical Islamism, especially Salafism, in the Netherlands. According to Joustra Salafists are very active among youth groups in the main Dutch cities, but also increasingly in other parts of the country. “We are aware now that young people can radicalize very fast,” Joustra’s spokesman said. “This can happen within a couple of months.”

Source URL:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1837

2,029 posted on 01/15/2007 1:49:28 PM PST by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him))

To: All; milford421

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1768134/posts

Alleged Shoplifters Create Blast to Escape, Injure Four in Georgia Wal-Mart
FOXNEWS ^ | Monday, January 15, 2007

Posted on 01/15/2007 6:32:34 PM PST by BenLurkin

STOCKBRIDGE, Georgia — Four men evading arrest for shoplifting at a neighborhood Wal-Mart triggered a small blast in the store using swimming pool chemicals in an incident that left four others hospitalized, authorities said.

Authorities said one of the men was seen by a store employee placing a toy inside his pants. As the employee went for help, the men headed to the section where the pool chemicals were stocked and mixed a chlorine-based chemical with another item, said Lt. Jason Bolton of the Henry County Police. The chemical reaction created a small explosion and filled the store with white smoke.

"They made their escape in the chaos that ensued," Bolton told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for a Monday story. "It's just hard to believe they did something like this to shoplift something as insignificant as a toy."

Four people, including an employee, were hospitalized for respiratory problems following the incident Sunday night. Three others were treated by emergency workers outside the store.

Bolton said the men turned a shoplifting misdemeanor into more serious charges, including "one of terroristic acts."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...

2,030 posted on 01/15/2007 6:43:03 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect you loved ones.)

To: All; nw_arizona_granny

WAR HAS CLEARLY BEEN DECLARED BY ISLAM - ON US
Another speaker says Muslims cannot accept the rule of non-Muslims. “You cannot accept the rule of the kaffir,” Dr Ijaz Mian tells a meeting held within the mosque. “We have to rule ourselves and we have to rule the others.”

Well I watched this programme, as did many others,I had a good idea what to expect but I was still shocked, it is quite clear now that war has been declared on western civilization by Islam.

This documentary must make it clear to even the dimmest politician that there is a real and present threat to our societies in the west.

No longer can these politicians claim that Islam is a Religion of peace
No longer can Islam claim that it is just a small minority of muslims that think this way
Lord Ahmed cannot separate himself from this disclosure
The MCB can no longer claim to be a moderate organization

The intent is clear, our destruction and the furtherment of Islam.

The British public must now be aware of this, if they are not then they are remarkably stupid, the British public must now act and act decisivley to rid our country of this clear and present evil.

http://uppompeii.blogspot.com/2007/01/war-has-clearly-been-declared-by-islam.html

Please use the link and read the comments.

2,031 posted on 01/15/2007 7:45:44 PM PST by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him))

The German courts get it right:

German schools ban Muslim head scarves

15/01/2007 - 3:53:06 PM

A German court today upheld a ban on Muslim teachers wearing head scarves in the schools of a German state under a law that says teachers' attire must be in line with 'Western Christian' values.

A Berlin-based Islamic group had complained about the law, which authorities in the conservative-run state of Bavaria have used to ban head scarves while allowing Roman Catholic nuns to continue to wear their habits in schools.

However, the Bavarian Constitutional Court ruled today that the application of the law in the southern state neither violated religious freedoms nor was discriminatory.

Under Germany's federal system of government, education is almost totally under the control of authorities in its 16 states. Authorities in several of them, including Baden-Wuerttemberg and Hesse, have introduced similar head scarf bans.

A lawyer for the Islamic Religious Community, the plaintiff in the Munich case, said some of its members were considering an appeal to the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany's highest.

Conservative politicians welcomed the verdict.

An Islamic head scarf represented a "deliberate separation from western values, and that is not compatible with our constitution", Wolfgang Bosbach, a federal lawmaker for Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, said on N24 television.

The Bavarian law, introduced in November 2004, forbids teachers from wearing during lessons clothes or other items that seem to express views "incompatible with the basic values of the constitution and its educational goals including western Christian educational and cultural values".

Judge Karl Huber insisted the Bavarian law did not favour the Christian faith. But because teachers must transmit the values of the constitution, the religious feelings of students and parents must be considered, the court said.

Albin Dannhaeuser, head of the Bavarian teachers association, said he hoped the ruling would put an end to political debate about religion in the state's schools. He said there are currently only two Muslim female teachers in Bavaria, both of whom wear hats to sidestep the head scarf ban.

http://www.eecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=170249720&p=y7xz5x3xx&n=170250329

2,032 posted on 01/15/2007 7:49:24 PM PST by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him))

Pakistan 'nuclear' kidnap foiled
Police in north-west Pakistan say they have foiled a bid to abduct six officials working for the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).

Police say the gang seized the staff south of Peshawar late on Sunday, but were stopped at a security checkpoint.

Three would-be kidnappers were shot dead in the gunfight, while two others were arrested. Police say they have yet to establish a motive.

PAEC set up an office in the area after high-grade uranium was discovered.

Series of raids

According to local sources, at least 20 armed men raided the PAEC office in the village of Banda Daud Shah in Karak district on Sunday night.

The kidnappers took the officials there hostage and set off with them towards the Orakzai agency in the nearby tribal areas.

However, they were stopped at the checkpoint after exchanging gunfire with security forces. All the hostages were freed.

According to the police, the kidnappers were from one of the tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.

They said those involved had been identified, but refused to give further details.

It is the latest in a series of incidents targeting governmental and non-governmental organisations in the area.

In recent months, dozens of vehicles and more than 50 people have been hijacked or kidnapped by criminal gangs, BBC correspondents say.

Police blame most of the incidents on criminals, although they say tribesmen have also disguised themselves as Taleban fighters to carry out the raids.

In addition, some of the stolen vehicles have been used in bombings, the authorities say.

Most of the raiding tribesmen are said to come from the Taleban stronghold of North Waziristan.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/6264173.stm

Published: 2007/01/15 17:15:34 GMT

© BBC MMVII

2,033 posted on 01/15/2007 8:23:56 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect you loved ones.)

2,034 posted on 01/15/2007 8:42:18 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect you loved ones.)

The Eurasia Daily Monitor, a publication of the Jamestown Foundation.org

PUTIN UPHOLDS NON-EXISTENT RULE OF LAW IN RUSSIA

The main news in Russia at the start of the new year comes, rather unusually, from the courts and law-enforcement agencies. At the top of the list is the arrest of a group of suspects in the murder of Andrei Kozlov, first deputy chairman of the Central Bank, last September (see EDM, September 21, 2006). Kozlov had led the campaign against “dirty banks,” and now Alexei Frenkel, the head of the mini-empire of banks specializing in money laundering, stands accused of arranging the murder (Vedomosti, January 12). The connections between these banks and organized crime have never been concealed very well, but prosecutors showed surprisingly little interest in investigating it (Ezhednevny zhurnal, January 12).

Russian President Vladimir Putin can be satisfied that his personal order to get to the bottom of this audacious crime has been fulfilled, but he knows that Russia’s reputation has suffered greatly from a chain of political murders last autumn that shocked public opinion in the West (Vedomosti, December 29). A new PR campaign aimed at rehabilitating the idea of the “rule of law” has been launched, with Putin congratulating the State Prosecution on its 285th anniversary and praised its efforts at upholding the law and its role as a “solid pillar of the state” (Newsru.com, January 12). The praise is well earned, since Deputy General Prosecutor Alexander Zvyagintsev proudly reported that a 110-page request for interviews and searches had been sent to the United Kingdom in connection with the murder of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko last November (Rossiiskaya gazeta, January 12). This counter-strike is supposed to quell the accusations that Russian special services executed that high-profile crime, much to Moscow’ chagrin (Ezhednevny zhurnal, January 12).

Seeking to broaden this PR offensive, last week Putin held a meeting in the Kremlin with the awkwardly named Council for Facilitating the Development of Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights, a state-controlled non-governmental organization. In his opening remarks Putin criticized the poor conditions in Russian prisons and even pointed to the “problem of physical abuse of those waiting for their trial in pre-trial detention centers.” Emboldened by this opening, the carefully selected representatives of various NGOs complained about the mounting legal and bureaucratic obstacles for their work (Nezavisimaya gazeta, January 12). In response, former Supreme Court judge Tamara Morshchakova argued that judicial independence was non-existent, noting, “Any official can dictate any decision in any case” (Gazeta.ru, January 11).

Such a blunt statement coming from an insider instantly reveals the falsity of official propaganda and the scale of judicial suppression by the triumphant bureaucracy. It becomes clear that the re-opening of a 1997 case against Andrei Vavilov, former deputy finance minister and currently a member of the Federation Council, has little to do with the struggle against corruption (Nezavisimaya gazeta, January 12). Rather, it is linked with the dirty struggle among various Kremlin clans. For example, Minister of Communications and Information Technologies Leonid Reiman, a long-time Putin associate, remains invincible despite multiple revelations of his sleazy business deals (Vedomosti, May 25, 2006; Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2005). And it is excessively clear that new accusations against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev are driven by Putin’s irreducible enmity against the former oligarch now imprisoned in a Siberian labor camp (Vremya novostei, December 28).

One peculiar twist in this saga of simulated adherence to the rule of law took place in Courchevel, a French ski resort favored by the Russian rich-and-famous for relaxing in the first week of January and celebrating Orthodox Christmas. This year, however, the French police interrupted their partying and detained 26 people, including Mikhail Prokhorov, the CEO and co-owner of Norilsk Nickel, for several days as part of an investigation targeting illegal prostitution (Moskovsky komsomolets, January 12). The Russian nouveau riche have become used to the idea that a few millions dollars could buy them the right to drive at any speed and entertain themselves in every exotic way -- and they are unpleasantly surprised that this sort of behavior is not welcome in Europe anymore (Gazeta.ru, January 11).

This naïve and cynical attitude mirrors quite closely the prevailing mood in the Kremlin, which remains confident that its pretence of enforcing the rule of law would be accepted as a bona fide commitment. Putin’s courtiers have no doubt whatsoever that reality can be ignored when managing domestic opinions, so long as they maintain firm control over the media and make sure that “petro-rubles” trickle down to those who earn ten times less in a year than an average oligarch burns in Courchevel in a day. Putin himself shows no doubt in the readiness of his European counterparts to swallow his reassurances in upholding the law as long as he also provides guarantees for delivering oil and gas. He should, however, feel a pang of doubt -- and not only because of the overreaction in Europe to his hydrocarbon quarrels with Belarus.

The year 2006 saw a strong surge in the activities of the Russian secret services. “Special operations” are now perfectly legitimate thanks to the legislation approved by the Russian parliament, and what remains in the shadows is certainly outside the reach of any investigation or journalist’s curiosity (Novaya gazeta, January 11). Public opinion in Russia remains mute about this scary specter and appears ready to turn the page on the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. For the West, however, Litvinenko’s poisoning illuminated the inner logic of Russia’s retreat from democracy where the secret service “projects” are covered by the Kremlin and paid by Gazprom.

--Pavel K. Baev

2,035 posted on 01/15/2007 8:49:39 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect you loved ones.)

To: All; milford421

[THIS IS A MUST READ, HAS HIS EARLY HISTORY, A LOT THAT I HAD NOT READ BEFORE]

AZZAM THE AMERICAN

The making of an Al Qaeda homegrown.

by RAFFI KHATCHADOURIAN

Issue of 2007-01-22

Posted 2007-01-15

The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070122fa_fact_khatchadourian?page=1

Adam Gadahn, the first American to be charged with treason in more than fifty years, was born in Oregon , grew up in rural California , and converted to Islam at the age of seventeen. He is now twenty-eight. No one who knew him before his religious awakening ever thought that he would join Al Qaeda, and many people who knew him after he did are still perplexed. And yet, in a short time, Gadahn has become one of Osama bin Laden's senior operatives. (He is believed to be hiding in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan .) He is a member of Al Qaeda's "media committee," and his responsibilities are thought to include those of translator, video producer, and cultural interpreter. Primarily, though, Gadahn is a spokesperson, a role he performs with tremendous conviction. He has addressed the United States in five videos, most of which reach a wide audience on the Internet and, in some form or another, have been discussed on the evening news. Last year, shortly before the fifth anniversary of September 11th, Al Qaeda's leadership featured Gadahn in a video titled "An Invitation to Islam." The video began with an introduction from Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda's main theoretician, who referred to Gadahn tenderly as a brother and as "a perceptive person who wants to lead his people out of darkness into the light." Zawahiri implored his Western audience to listen to Gadahn, even to follow his example. Al Qaeda had never before given one of its members, let alone an American, an endorsement so intimate and direct.

continued:

2,036 posted on 01/15/2007 8:52:59 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect you loved ones.)

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014834.php

January 14, 2007
"We shall kill all Thai Buddhists"

Thai Jihad Update. "One beheaded, two killed in Thai Muslim south," from Reuters:

YALA, Thailand (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim militants beheaded a Buddhist man and shot dead two civilians in southern Thailand on Sunday as an uprising shows no signs of abating.

The head of the 40-year-old farmer was found next to his body and that of his 35-year-old wife at the entrance of their rubber plantation in Yala province, police said.

Both had been shot and a handwritten note next to the bodies said, "We shall kill all Thai Buddhists," they said.

In the same province, a 74-year-old man was shot dead while riding his motorcycle, police said. Two teenagers, also on a motorcycle, had shot the man.

On Saturday, suspected militants shot dead police Sergeant-Major Pak Petmalai, 47, as he headed for work at a station near his home.

[...]

More than 1,900 people have been killed in three years of violence in the south and peace efforts by the country's new military rulers have had little impact in curbing the unrest.

Posted at January 14, 2007 01:51 PM

2,037 posted on 01/15/2007 8:57:21 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect you loved ones.)

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2007/01/014839print.html

January 15, 2007
Failed second wave of UK bombings not a "copycat" attack, but planned well in advance: chief prosecutor

And if the attacks were as carefully planned as the evidence indicates, who may have recruited, funded, and trained the bombers? "Militants plotted second wave of UK bombs, court told," by Michael Holden for Reuters:

LONDON (Reuters) - An Islamist cell tried to carry out suicide bombings on London's transport system just two weeks after attacks that killed 52 people and wounded about 700, a prosecutor said on Monday.

The "extremist Muslim plot" was not a hastily arranged copycat scheme but a long-planned operation, chief prosecutor Nigel Sweeney said as six British men went on trial over the failed attacks of July 21, 2005.

He said the attackers aimed to cause maximum injury by detonating home-made bombs packed with metal, which they carried in rucksacks onto the public transport system.

"It was simply the good fortune of the traveling public that they were spared," Sweeney told the court.

The targets -- three underground trains and a bus -- echoed those in the deadly attacks by four young British Muslims who blew themselves up in London two weeks earlier, on July 7, 2005.

The failed second set of attacks caused panic and triggered a huge manhunt, leaving Londoners unclear if they were a botched and quickly assembled attempt to imitate the original carnage.

But Sweeney told the high-security Woolwich Crown Court: "The evidence in this case shows that this conspiracy had been in existence long before the events of July 7."

The six men are all originally from Africa and in their 20s.

Sweeney said the 9th-floor flat of defendant Yassin Hassin Omar in north London was the bomb-making factory. The detonator was triacetone triperoxide (TATP) and the main charge was held in buckets surrounded by screws, tacks, washers and nuts.

"The purpose is, of course, to increase fragmentation when the bomb explodes and maximize the possibility of injury, fatal or otherwise, to those in the vicinity," Sweeney told the court.

FAILED TO EXPLODE

Sweeney said the 5 kg (11 lb) bombs were made of hydrogen peroxide, nail varnish and flour used to make chapatis, or unleavened bread. They were carried in rucksacks with wires connected to the detonators hidden under clothing.

He said that between May 9 and July 5, the group bought 442 liters of hydrogen peroxide. One supplier sold them 218 liters, nearly half of its total sales of the chemical in that period.

Sweeney said four of the defendants successfully fired their TATP detonators but the main charge failed to explode, possibly because the proportion of hydrogen peroxide was not quite right.

TATP is an explosive chemical which can be made from commonly available household products. Nicknamed "Mother of Satan," it is highly volatile and liable to explode prematurely if subjected to friction, impact or change of temperature.

All the main suspects on trial were apprehended just over a week after the failed attacks.

Muktah Said Ibrahim, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, Hussein Osman, Yassin Hassin Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Adel Yahya are all charged with conspiracy to murder. They deny the charges.

The prosecutor said Osman had told police after being arrested in Italy that the bombings were a deliberate hoax to make a political point. Sweeney rejected the "hoax" defense.

Sweeney said Mohammed was seen trying to set off his bomb facing a woman with a pushchair and was wearing a top with New York on it, "no doubt connected with the events of 9/11."

He said home-made films featuring images of beheadings of Western hostages and other attacks, including those on September 11 in New York, were found in two of the defendants' flats.

They are also accused of "conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property."

Posted at January 15, 2007 05:38 PM

2,038 posted on 01/15/2007 9:00:13 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect you loved ones.)

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2007/01/014836print.html

January 15, 2007
Muslim Council of Britain fuming over mosque documentary

We noted last week that documentary footage of jihadist preaching inside British mosques would soon air in Britain -- and it's airing tonight. But oddly enough, the Muslim Council of Britain, the "moderate" group, is unhappy. You would think that a group of moderate Muslims would be cheering the exposure of jihad sympathizers among them, but they're instead sounding all the familiar themes of selective quotation, etc. etc. etc. But you know, in most circumstances, no matter how selectively one quotes not much can be made of the result.

"TV documentary accused of misrepresenting UK Muslims," from Arabic News (thanks to Doc Washburn):

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) is accusing Channel Four commercial channel of attempting to foment division and sectarianism among Britain's 1.8 million Muslim community.

A documentary, being screened Monday, goes undercover at mosques to find what it in its advance publicity are "preachers condemning integration into British society, condemning democracy and praising the Taliban for killing British soldiers." MCB said the Dispatches program "mischievously tried to prove that key Muslim institutions are teaching the exact opposite to Islam commanding Muslims to deal positively and peacefully with those around us."

The producers were "resorting to the dishonest tactic of selectively quoting from some recorded speeches for the purpose of misrepresentation," MCB secretary general Abdul Bari said.

"Their aim is to attach guilt by association. This continuing demonization of British Muslims and the risible attempt at promoting sectarianism among British Muslims will be firmly rejected," Bari said.

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2007/01/014830print.html

January 14, 2007
UK preacher in secret web call for jihad

It isn't as if what he says under his own name is all that different. By Abul Taher in the TimesOnline, with thanks to Sr. Soph:

ONE of Britain’s most vocal, extremist preachers has been using a false name on a secret website to incite Muslim followers to go on jihad, or holy war, in Somalia.

Anjem Choudary, former spokesman of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun, has posted a statement on a jihadist internet forum telling followers they must join the “divine call of jihad” in the African state.

His call in the password-protected site came days before America mounted air raids on suspected Al-Qaeda units in southern Somalia and news emerged that seven British passport holders had been captured in Somalia by Ethiopian troops....

Choudary is a well-known figure on the forum called Followers of Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama’aah Muntada (Followers of the Prophet and His Companions). The site, which has about 700 members, is visited by some of Britain’s most notorious Muslim extremists, members of groups such as Al-Ghurabaa and the Saved Sect, offshoots of Al-Muhajiroun and banned after the London bombings on July 7, 2005. Applicants have to be recommended by a member.

Choudary, who uses the pseudonym Abou Luqman, declares in the forum: “The Ethiopians, with . . . support (from the Christian crusader regimes) and backed by illegitimate Israel (Zionists), have violated the blood of Muslims in Somalia. By committing such an act of terrorism the Muslims in Somalia and nearby lands have responded to the divine call of jihad.”

He then reminds followers of their duty to fight jihad: “The obligation of supporting jihad all over the world is fard ayn (an individual obligation) . . . This honourable act must be carried out according to your own capabilities because our beloved prophet Muhammad said strike the mushrik (infidels) with your wealth, hands and tongue.”

In traditional Islamic theology, jihad is fard kifaya, a community obligation, from which some are free if others are taking it up. It becomes fard ayn, incumbent upon everyone to participate in some way, if a Muslim land is attacked.

The forum has videos and images produced by Al-Qaeda that call on Muslims to join the jihad. Images of corpses of Ethiopian soldiers are captioned “dead kuffar (infidel) bodies”.

Forum members routinely quote the last wills of Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, two of the London bombers. There are also videos by Omar Bakri, the founder of Al-Muhajiroun who has been banned from Britain. In these, he claims to have lectured in Beeston, Leeds, the home town of three of the bombers.

Forum members also analyse British news. In one posting, George Galloway, the Respect MP, is ridiculed for criticising Omar Brooks, the Muslim extremist who heckled John Reid, the home secretary, in east London. One posting says: “What a dog this Galloway guy is . . . (he) can go to hell.”...

Choudary, 39, a trained lawyer from Ilford, east London, has in the past called for the execution of Pope Benedict.

Patrick Mercer, Tory spokesman for homeland security, said: “Choudary must be closed down. It’s appalling that the Home Office has not done anything against this man so far.”

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