Snip: CHARLES CLARKE has ordered the extradition of a British computer expert to the US after the FBI said that he was a key al-Qaeda fundraiser. The Home Secretary’s decision yesterday on Babar Ahmad, 31, is intended to show how new extradition laws will lead to fast-track removal of terror suspects. Critics argue that this case again shows how Britain’s rules for dealing with Muslim extremists remain the most disorganised in Europe.
The French Government has been waiting ten years for Britain to hand over a suspect in the 1995 Paris Métro bombings.
Not all Muslims want to integrate
Snip: What they've reaped, alas, is a generation of Muslims, many of whom view their neighborhoods as colonies amid enemy territory - and who demand this autonomy be recognized. In Britain, imams have pressed the government to designate part of Bradford as being under Muslim law. In Belgium, Muslims in the Brussels neighborhood of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek consider it to be under Islamic jurisdiction. In Denmark, Muslim leaders have sought similar control over parts of Copenhagen. In France, an official met with an imam at the edge of Roubaix's Muslim district out of respect for his declaration that it was Islamic territory. In many cities, police have stopped patrolling certain enclaves, the authorities having effectively ceded control to local religious leaders.
Muslim and Mexican Nightmare growing in America
Snip: How deadly is Islam? Check this out from the Quran: Sura 5, verse 85 describes the inevitable enmity between Muslims and non- Muslims: "Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt though find the Jews and Pagans." Sura 9, verse 5, adds: "Then fight and slay the pagans whenever you find them. Convert or kill all nonbelievers." Sura 2, verse 193 states: "Fight them until Islam reigns supreme." Sura 8, verse 12 states: "Instill terror in the hearts of unbelievers…cut off their heads and cut off the tips of their fingers."
Media blamed for negative image of Muslim faith
Snip: A new report published by a Californian market research company on behalf of the Kuwaiti government found the US and European media were in part responsible for 32 per cent of people in the US and western Europe holding unfavourable opinions of Islam.
Snip: ITALIAN police had arrested three suspected Algerian Islamic extremists on suspicion of aiding and abetting international terrorism, Ansa news agency reported today.
Ansa said police viewed the suspects as "potentially operative". It said they were seized early yesterday in the southern port city of Naples.
2,000 potential suicide bombers sought
Snip: Bangladesh authorities are searching for some 2,000 potential suicide bombers from three banned militant groups who were trained by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
They have assembled in the country to destabilize democracy," said a police officer. "All the country's law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been ordered to put concerted efforts into capturing the members of the suicide squad."
Shoot to kill becoming a rule regading suicide bombers
Snip: WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- An international police chiefs group has followed U.S. Capitol Police with guidelines telling officers to shoot suspected suicide bombers in the head.
The International Association of Chiefs of Police issued its guidelines last month and the National Bomb Squad Commanders Advisory Board is telling its members that shooting a suspect in the head is the right course of action, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
The chiefs' organization says officers should look for "multiple anomalies," such as a heavy coat in warm weather or a backpack with wires sticking out and if the suspect doesn't cooperate, aim for the head so any bomb on the suspects torso wouldn't be hit.
British police have dealt with 250 suicide bomber scares since July 7
Snip: British police have dealt with 250 suicide bomb scares since the July 7 London bombings, police chief Sir Ian Blair said. On at least seven occasions officers have been on the brink of shooting to kill, the Metropolitan Police commissioner told Channel Four News Tuesday night.
Thanks to MamaDearest for pointing to this article:
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http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17275290%255E1702,00.html
"Italy 'arrests terror suspects'
From correspondents in Rome"
17nov05
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "It said they were seized early yesterday in the southern port city of Naples and northern city of Brescia.
There was no immediate confirmation of the report.
Ansa said the Algerians had been in contact with a cell from Algeria's Salafist movement, which is thought to have links to al-Qaeda. Ansa did not say where they were being held.
Italy, a US ally with troops in Iraq, has received numerous Internet threats purported to be from Islamic militants, who have vowed to strike Italian interests."
Excellent links, MamaDearest.