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Posted on 09/01/2006 8:57:29 PM PDT by nwctwx
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Monday, 4th September 2006
"Three in death 'plot' inquiry
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http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/184346.php
August 16, 2006
"More Bakri, Birmingham, Ties to Terror Plot Uncovered (Updated)"
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Jeremy Reynalds
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Whatever Happened to Trevor Brooks?
Radical Muslim Apparently in Hiding
With the fifth anniversary of 9/11 just around the corner, you need to be concerned about what happened to Trevor Brooks.
Why? Because he’s the former Jamaican electrician Trevor Brooks (also known as Omar Brooks, Abu Izzadeen and Abu Baraa) who hates those of us who don’t share his radical Islamic belief system.
Let me explain. Brooks was the man who in a July 7 anniversary meeting of the British terror bombings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings ), held in a community center in the city of Birmingham, dubbed the 7/7 bombers as being “completely praiseworthy.
The bombings killed 52 people and injured more than 770 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/london_blasts/what_happened/html/default.stm ).
Brooks has also glorified the horrifying events of 9/11 and openly admitted he wishes to die as a suicide bomber.
On other occasions he has arrogantly mocked non-Islamics and mimicked the dying Kim il Sun (the Korean who was beheaded in Iraq by al Zarqawi). Perhaps worst of all, he was the man who referred to a “7/11 attack” a week before the Mumbai 7/11 terror bombings killed 207 and injured over 700 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11_July_2006_Mumbai_train_bombings ).
Brooks is also a leader of the now banned al Ghurabaa group (an offshoot of the banned Al Mujahiroun group, led by Omar Bakri – an Islamic radical who fled Britain when he was about to get arrested and now lives in Beirut, Lebanon.
Brooks also regrets having spent 17 years as a Christian before converting to Islam, as, like his fellow followers, he looks down on the kuffar (non-believers) as pigs and sheep.
The “Followers of Ahl Sunnah Wal Jamaah,” (ASWJ) one of the new names for these banned UK-based banned groups, has met regularly online in a chatroom belonging to the New York-based Paltalk network.
Before my last article, Brooks was the group’s most regular speaker and ranted about how it was every Muslim’s duty to kill the Queen of England, as well as breaking British anti-terror laws by preaching to listeners verbiage like this.
“…(Regarding) the jihad fought by al Qaeda, fought by OBL (Osama bin Laden), fought by Sheikh Abu Musaab Zarqawi we are obliged to support them in every single way however we can physically, financially and verbally… those who are prevented to fight physically …they must continue to support that war against kuffar financially with their money and this is a “fard” (obligation) it’s not a favor ….they must do it…”
Happily, since my last article Brooks has disappeared below the radar screen. The Paltalk group was suspended for a while as Bakri fled his apartment in the devastated area of central Beirut for the safety of a plush hotel in the hills, but when it came back online – using a new name – Brooks was conspicuous by his absence.
Tongue in cheek I asked the intelligence organization VIGIL (which has over 40 hours of recordings of Brooks breaking the law), if Vigil was perhaps at home fixing himself a suicide bomb with which to bid us farewell.
But Vigil spokesperson Dominic Whiteman told me by e-mail, “Brooks is running scared. Just before the Lebanon crisis broke out, we had Brooks in a one-on-one on the Paltalk network, after we had rattled him in front of his group. We asked him whether he was going to flee Britain like Bakri, or go to jail like Abu Hamza. He was so rattled that he forgot to use his disguise of Abu Baraa, and popped up as Omar Brooks, which got our recording team celebrating because he’d just gone and put another of his names to his crimes. His responses to our question showed a man at the end of his tether, just waiting for that knock on the door.”
Whiteman said he didn’t think it likely that Brooks is preparing for a suicide attack.
He wrote, “On the ASWJ private message board a seemingly dispirited Brooks posted a message about two weeks ago, saying that he really missed his nightly preaching and was far away. However, he said he would come to London to give a talk to his followers at the start of September.”
Whiteman called Brooks’ response “rather pathetic.” He added that Brooks “only received one reply, and that was a message of support rather than an acceptance of attendance, from a junior member of the group. Brooks has either been ostracized by the group’s other leaders or, more likely, realizes that his game is up and is running scared still. I don’t blame him – the British Crown Prosecution Service is already investigating him and after his 7/11 pronouncements on video, it appears likely that not just the British authorities will be wanting him behind bars.”
It seems that Bakri chooses men in his own image to run his groups in Britain while he is in exile. While there is no doubt that these radicals inspire impressionable young people to wage jihad (Islamic holy war), it is clear that when the bombs are falling and they get stressed out, they personally fail to live up to the demands of their own rhetoric.
When Bakri and Brooks are faced with the option of either confronting or retreating they hide or flee. They flee and hide, (fortunately) not having the manliness or the courage to turn their exhortations into actions.
I have a suspicion that neither Bakri or Brooks will come out of their apparently self-imposed fear-filled exile to answer the charges continued in this article. But I am willing to be proved wrong!
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Families Of Kidnapped Persian Jews Sue Khatami In US Court
PR NewsWire/Yahoo ^ | September 9, 2006 | Press Release
Posted on 09/09/2006 5:47:52 PM PDT by ncountylee
NEW YORK, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Jewish-Iranian families have filed suit in an American federal court against former President Mohammad Khatami over charges that he is responsible for the kidnapping and torture of their missing family members. The families, currently residing in Los Angeles and Israel, contend that Khatami instituted the policy of imprisoning their relatives without trials and refusing to provide them any information concerning their whereabouts. The Jews were arrested on different occasions during the years 1994 through 1997, as they sought to leave Iran across its border with Pakistan.
On Friday evening copies of the complaint and summons were served on Khatami at a reception in Arlington, Virginia hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Khatami has twenty days to file an answer denying the allegations or default the case.
The plaintiffs, who are not U.S. citizens, brought the suit under special laws - the Alien Torts Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act - which permit foreigners to sue their tormentors for torture and kidnapping in American courts. The lawsuit filed in the New York District Court is being represented by attorneys Robert Tolchin of New York, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of Jerusalem and Pooya Dayanim of Los Angeles. The plaintiffs are seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages against Khatami for his role in the on-going disappearance of their loved ones.
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Paintball imams spread militancy
Times Online ^ | 09/10/06 | Abul Taher and Ali Hussain
Posted on 09/09/2006 5:57:28 PM PDT by Pikamax
Paintball imams spread militancy Abul Taher and Ali Hussain
Activity days are 'front' to recruit young Muslims
THE party of youths pulled on their blue overalls, snapped shut their visors and, taking aim with their paintball guns, prepared for four hours of licensed mayhem.
But the men who pursued each other last Sunday morning through the wooded grounds of Delta Force’s paintballing park near Congleton, Cheshire, had little in common with the stag parties and company teams nearby.
Instead of listening to corporate pep talks between sessions, the young Asian men were instructed by an imam dressed in fatigues on the need to unite Muslims worldwide in an international empire.
One senior member of the group, who is a member of Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HT), which Tony Blair has proposed should be banned, insisted that devout Muslims should refuse to vote in British elections.
HT, a group that preaches against the existence of Israel, has been described as a “conveyor belt to terrorism” by critics even within the Muslim community, though it says it eschews violence. It is banned in several Arab countries, and banned by the National Union of Students from British university campuses"
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"Hospital Superbug 'Out Of Control' As Child MRSA Cases Rise To 150"
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 9-10-2006 | Beezy Marsh
Posted on 09/09/2006 5:52:24 PM PDT by blam
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"9/11 babies old enough to ask for dad (must read)"
Yahoo ^ | 9/9/06
Posted on 09/09/2006 6:04:05 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
9/11 babies old enough to ask for dad
By SARA KUGLER, Associated Press Writer
Sat Sep 9, 12:03 AM ET
NEW YORK
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Man accused of trying to board Yemen-bound plane in Michigan with knife hidden in book
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) — A man with a one-way ticket to Yemen attempted to board a plane with a knife hidden in a book, authorities said.
Mohammed Ghanem, 21, of Hamtramck, was jailed Saturday on $500,000 after being arraigned on a charge of possessing a weapon in the sterile area of an airport.
Ghanem was arrested Thursday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after Transportation Security Administration officers detected the knife “artfully concealed” in the book, airport spokesman Michael Conway said.
Have a good evening Godzilla.
THANK YOU very much JellyJam.
Adding these threads to your post Jellyjam.
Thanks to Jet Jaguar for the ping to the top url.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698656/posts
"Man Charged After Trying to Board Yemen-Bound Plane With Knife"
FOXNews.com ^ | September 09, 2006 | AP
Posted on 09/09/2006 6:50:47 PM PDT by callthemlikeyouseethem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698653/posts
"Man Accused of Having Knife in Airport (...and a one-way ticket to Yemen)"
ABC News ^ | 9/9/2006 | AP
Posted on 09/09/2006 6:46:04 PM PDT by grimalkin
What I want to know is: If this guy was arrested Thursday, why is this being reported late Saturday? Very fishy.
You know, the book and knife story sounds familiar, but maybe I'm thinking of something in the ME.
It could be we're just getting the suspect's name today.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20060909/NEWS99/60909007&filter=0
I'll look back on TM and see if we have a plane incident posted that day...I think we do, but there has been so many interesting plane incidents going on lately.
Hoping Bermuda is spared. We once traveled there and it is quite beautiful with pink sandy beaches second to none. Coincidentally our trip there was just after a hurricane that year and snorkeling was poor as there was lots of debris in the water. It was one of those vacation places where we felt relatively safe walking around on our own.
I guess don't know the answer JellyJam.
I could only speculate as to why there was a delay in reporting.
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That does sound beautiful, MamaDearest.
Yemen to buy 32 MiG fighters from Russia
China moving into America's backyard
War between the US and Mexico?
3 Muslims indicted for exporting military equipment and US government secrets to Yemen
Tracking over the road trucks from Canada
Feds find radioactive material in VY shipment
This is from May of 2002, but worth a 2nd look and keeping in mind
Customs alerts borders on missing cyanide - Concerns about border security heightened this week as federal officials in Mexico searched for nearly eight tons of sodium cyanide missing from a truck that was hijacked May 10. Meanwhile, the U.S. Customs Service issued alerts at border posts along the Southwest, said spokesman Jim Michie, speaking to the Dallas Morning News. "We are working closely with Mexican authorities, law enforcement as well as their customs people," he said.
In February, four men linked to al-Qaeda were arrested in Rome with cyanide and city maps. Authorities suspected they planned to poison the U.S. Embassy's water supply, the paper reported. The Mexican truck was taken about 100 miles north of Mexico City. Trace amounts of sodium cyanide can be deadly when inhaled or ingested. It is used for silver mining and for gas chamber executions.
"All the beauty we need to see is right here in this country."
DITTO.
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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22485_LGF_Exclusive-_Inside_Khatamis_CAIR_Dinner
Saturday, September 09, 2006
"LGF Exclusive: Inside Khatami's CAIR Dinner"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LGF operative grayp attended the speech by Ayatollah Mohammad Khatami at the Marriott Crystal Gateway in Arlington, Virginia; here’s her citizen journalist’s report on the CAIR-sponsored event:"
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22485_LGF_Exclusive-_Inside_Khatamis_CAIR_Dinner#comments
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