Mohammed Zaki Alswij, a Houston Muslim leader who fled Saddam Hussein's Iraq nearly 30 years ago, wears his cleric's robes proudly as symbols of his religious stature and beliefs.
But he believes those robes may have been the reason Canadian immigration officials saw him as a potential danger and refused to let him into the country to visit his son and grandson.
Alswij, who said he moved here in 1987 after surviving an assassination attempt ordered by Saddam, said he and his wife and daughter were detained for two days last weekend after officials at the Vancouver airport told him he was considered a security threat.
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(WROC-TV) 6/10/2004 11:00 PM (WROC-TV)
Thursday evening, police brought what could have been an 'explosive' situation under control.
Officers chased a crime suspect down Bay Street. When they cornered him in a yard, some 39 of what police call "improvised explosive devices" fell out of a bag he was carrying. Police say the explosives could have done quite a bit of damage.
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ISLAMonline.net - General Board: ""Do we murder him because he's American, or let him live because he's Muslim???" " - "Name: IOL Watcher"
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June 12, 2004
Jeremy Reynalds
P O Box 27693
Alb., NM 87125-7693
Tel: (505) 400-7145
My "hobby" is tracking terrorists on the Internet and after doing so for a couple of years I believe it's time to launch a campaign against Yahoo - one of the leading internet purveyors of terror.
A friend suggested the phrase, "Do You Yahoo? Al-Qaeda Does!" His suggestion came as a result of Yahoo's long time hosting of a recently disabled group called "Global Islamic Media" (GIM), which up until a few weeks ago had over 6,000 members and was a reported mouthpiece for al Qaeda.
While GIM appears to be currently off line, it is possible that it could be operating under a slight variation of its previous name. For example. In the space of a few weeks, I found that the group's on line name changed from Global Islamic Media to Global Islamic Media Centre (note the spelling) to Global Islamic Media Center.
If you are wondering why I'm so steamed in view of the group apparently being off line, GIM was only one of many radical Islamic groups that continue to be hosted by the internet giant. Yahoo refuses to respond to requests for information as to why it hosted GIM and other similar radical Islamic hate groups, issuing only this statement to me a few weeks ago.
It came from Mary Osako, Mary Osako, Yahoo's Director of Communication. She said that those wishing to use Yahoo Groups "agree to not use the Service to upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. When notified of content that may be in violation of our Terms of Service, we are committed to reviewing each report and taking appropriate action, generally within 24 hours."
Interestingly, a series of rotating advertisements for American companies can also be found on many of the posts of these Islamic hate groups. Understandably, officials I talked to were less than thrilled about their company being connected with this sort of hate.
However, be aware that if you fight Yahoo, they play dirty. When my investigative efforts were recently covered by CNN (http://joyjunction.org/video3.htm ), while GIM went off line for a while before reemerging with one of those slightly different names referred to above, MY Yahoo accounts were disabled.
Let me explain about GIM. The group achieved recent notoriety in part because in Dec. 2003, Islamic militants discussed the possibility of a terrorist attack designed to affect the Spanish general election.
In a March 2004 Agence France Press (AFP) story, the news agency reported that Britain's Channel 4 News revealed that a Dec. 10 posting on GIM, which had previously carried statements purporting to be from Al-Qaeda affiliates, suggested that attacks could help bring about a Socialist election victory and the withdrawal of Spain's troops from Iraq.
According to Channel 4 News, the GIM posting was issued under the name of the Centre for Services to the Mujahideen and read, "The approaching general elections in Spain in March next year must be exploited to the extreme. We think that the Spanish government will not stand more than two blows, or three at the most, before it will be forced to withdraw (from Iraq) because of the public pressure on it. If its forces remain after these blows, the victory of the Socialist party will be almost guaranteed, and the withdrawal of Spanish forces will be on its campaign manifesto."
After the bombings, which killed 200 people and injured 1,500, Spain's conservative party was defeated. Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero who criticized President George W. Bush for the Iraq campaign, has withdrawn Spanish troops.
GIM's al Qaeda connection is routinely accepted by many analysts. Paul Eedle, a British investigative reporter who specializes in radical Islam, was interviewed by CNN in March. He commented, "The Global Islamic Media list .... puts out a stream of statements, 30 to 50 a month, explaining the group's strategy and claiming responsibility for its actions, including the Madrid (train) bombings ... "
According to Eedle, the Internet has been a wonderful creation for al Qaeda. "The Net creates a virtual meeting place, a glue that holds together al Qaeda, even though its leadership has been holed up in the mountains and is now surrounded."
So why does Yahoo al Qaeda? Only they know and they're not telling!