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Iraq Qaeda seeks Western hostages to free cleric 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq called for the kidnapping of Westerners to swap for a Muslim cleric jailed in the United States, according to an Internet audio tape issued on Thursday.
"I call on every holy fighter in Iraq to strive during this holy month (Ramadan)... to capture some dogs of the Christians so that we can liberate our imprisoned sheik," said the speaker, identified as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir.
He accused U.S. jailers of "torturing" Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman, held over links to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York.
The speaker also called for attacks on U.S. military camps in Iraq using "unconventional bombs such as biological and dirty bombs."
More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060928/ts_nm/security_iraq_qaeda_dc;_ylt=AmFvdkgzS0e2YHMmmGVltnqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OTB1amhuBHNlYwNtdHM-
57 posted on 09/28/2006 8:32:11 AM PDT by hegemony
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London Muslims plan protest against police anti-terror raid
HindustanTimes ^ | June 7, 2006
Posted on 06/08/2006 10:38:16 AM PDT by NeoOldCon
London Muslims plan protest against police anti-terror raid
Press Trust of India
London, June 7, 2006
Anger at police treatment of British Muslims is growing in east London where people plan to hold a protest this weekend, with some even urging the community to stop cooperating with the authorities.
Members of the area's large South Asian population feel they are being unjustly targeted by the police in the fight against terrorism.
They cite a massive raid on a house in Forest Gate last Friday in which two British Muslim brothers were arrested, one of whom was shot.
Both men remain in custody but neither has been charged and investigators at the property on Lansdown Road have seemingly failed to find any evidence of a possible terrorist plot.
"People in the community are angry about the raid, they are angry about the shooting, they are angry about the lack of evidence and they are angry that the two men have been detained for so long without charge," John Rees, national secretary of the anti-Iraq war political party Respect said.
Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 23, and 20-year-old Abul Koyair were due to learn on Wednesday whether the authorities planned to press charges, ask to hold them for longer or set them free.
Angry at the situation, scores of largely Muslim locals packed a community centre near the brothers' house on Tuesday evening to hear speeches criticising police and government tactics by Rees, Yvonne Ridley, a journalist and fellow Respect member, and Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee.