Posted on 07/09/2005 10:21:17 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
CAIRO, Egypt - An Islamic Web site posted a statement purporting to be from an al-Qaida-linked group Saturday in which it claimed responsibility for the bombings that killed at least 49 people in London and promised more attacks in the city it described as the "capital of the infidels."
The claim purportedly from the Abu Hafs al Masri Brigade was logged on an Islamic Web site where similar claims for responsibility have appeared in the past. The statement's authenticity could not be verified.
Experts say the group has no proven history of attacks and said it had claimed responsibility for events in which it was unlikely to have played any role, such as the 2003 blackouts in the United States and London that resulted from technical problems. In recent months it has also made threats that its operatives would strike in Europe if countries there did not withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Iraq.
"Our words have not gone with the wind and our strikes have not stopped. Thanks to God, a group of Mujahedeen from the Abu Hafs al Masri Brigades launched strike after strike in the capital of the Kufr, the infidels," the statement said.
"Blessed is this conquest. The coming days will show a greater expression of jihad (holy war) against those who declared war against Islam and Muslims," it said. "We will not keep quiet or stay idle until Islam is safe in the lands of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine."
The statement was posted on a Web site run by Mohammad al-Masaari, a well known Saudi Islamic activist living in exile in London.
Another group, calling itself The Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe issued a claim of responsibility for the London attacks on Thursday, hours after the blasts ripped through the London underground and one bus.
Mideast experts on radical Islamic groups also took issue with the group's authenticity, saying the language it used was not "Islamic."
The group's statement opened with an address to "the Nation of Islam and the Nation of Arabism to rejoice for vengeance over the Zionist Crusader government of Britain."
The authenticity of the first claim was disputed by Islamic expert Mishari al-Thaidi in an essay published Saturday in the London-based Asharq Al Awsat newspaper.
"What strikes attention here is addressing the Arab nation. The Jihadists have never recognized Arab nationalism," al-Thaidi said. "This is close to pan-Arab or Baathist terminology."
Others say the reference might be have been a deliberate attempt to mislead British and European counterterrorism teams by suggesting Arabs and not Muslims of other nationalities were behind the attacks.
Both groups claim to have been behind the bombs on commuter trains in Madrid in March 2004 which killed 191 people.
The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades are named for the alias of Mohammed Atef, Osama bin Laden's top deputy who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan in November 2001.
On April 15 last year bin Laden warned that al-Qaida would hit in Europe if the European nations did not withdraw from Iraq. He offered a three month "truce" to European countries in a tape broadcast on Arab satellite networks.
Sand-Nazi wannabees.
Islam exists to kill!
Hey! I resent that.
Everybody knows DC is our capital.
No love for Islam--the religion of violence. Islamic cockroaches sure come out of the wall when it's feeding time.
Three years ago, I made a modest suggestion that is worth repeating today.
Terrorists, and their national sponsors, launched an asymmetric war under the lame assumption that being unidentifiable rendered them immune to retribution
Well... not really.
I would outline on a map of every active muslim capital, one square mile, starting with the square mile containing the seat of government.
With every act of mass murder (more than one victim) if the murderer can be identified as to nationality, one square mile of his nation's capital will be rendered to rubble.
If no nationality can be determined, the next best thing would be the capital of the nation where the mass murderers issue a statement of responsibility, be it Brussels or Cairo.
It is guaranteed that a real effort will be made after the first few half dozen events, to either kill the murderers themselves, or expel them from their country.
The only expense to the US (and any other nation that cares to participate), is the cost of producing thousands of JDAMs or MOABs. A modest reduction in ongoing current military spending.
Already I can see the smartass asking: what if the killers issue ther statement from London? or Buffalo? Ah... I also have that covered.
Basic common sense would require, as a prerequisite, the destruction of every muslim arms depot ...er mosque, and the expulsion of every documented and undocumented muslim from the US and Britain.
Some things the Romans got right.
Ok so kill all the members of this group too.
One of ems bound to be behind it.
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