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Posted on 11/10/2006 1:06:56 AM PST by Mrs Ivan
A woman is appearing in court charged with hoarding terrorist handbooks, including weapons manuals and poison information, on her computer.
Unemployed Samina Malik, 22, of Southall, west London, faces four offences under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Among the documents she is accused of possessing are the al Qaida Manual, The Terrorists' Handbook and The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook.
She is also accused of holding a sniper rifle manual, a firearms and rocket-propelled grenade handbook and a document entitled How To Win Hand To Hand Fighting.
The offences are alleged to have taken place on October 27.
The Metropolitan Police said Malik faces charges under two sections of the Terrorism Act 2000 and she will appear before City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London.
The first charge alleges that she possessed information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism on her computer hard drive.
This was claimed to include The al Qaida Manual, The Terrorists' Handbook and The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook.
Further information included manuals for a 9mm pistol and an anti-tank weapon, a document on mines and demolition and a folder of other items.
Possession of items such as these is an offence under Section 57 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Malik is also alleged to have possessed "miscellaneous jottings" which may have been held for a purpose connected with terrorism; collected information, manuals and handbooks and they would be useful to a terrorist; and possessed "miscellaneous jottings" likely to be useful to a terrorist.
What a nice collection.
Love, Ivan
Today this nebulous law is used against a Muslim terrorist sympathizer, and we all cheer.
Tomorrow, it could be used to prosecute a Countryside Alliance member with a subscription to the Shooting Times.
We can pursue the war on terrorism vigorously and successfully without resorting to charges of thoughtcrime.
-ccm
That is an interesting point.
If the mere possession of such materials constitutes a terrorist crime, many military and former military members need to destroy their technical and field manual libraries.
I have to go and clear some stuff off my hard drive.
Seriously though - we're probably not getting all the facts in the article (indeed the paper probably couldn't print them). The jury will get all the details.
Thought provoking comments BUMP!
You have a wonderful author, Gerald Seymour, who has written several books that have disaffected English yutes converting to Islam and trying to do harm as only a muzzie can. "A Line in the Sand" takes place in England and "The Unknown Soldier" in Saudi Arabia. The most disconcerting thing about these books is the fact that profiling just Arabs may, in fact, not be the best course of action since the muslim religion appeals to so many who are weak-minded, disaffected, or who just want revenge upon a society they feel has done them 'wrong'.
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"We can pursue the war on terrorism vigorously and successfully without resorting to charges of thoughtcrime."
We have had all the tools we needed, even prior to the so-called "USA-PATRIOT" act, an abomination if ever there was one. MOSTLY what we need is the motivation to use the tools we have, just as with illegal border crossers, and NOT trash the Constitution any more. Yet now, WE have thought crimes and the Bill of Rights is toilet paper, even more than when it was just being trashed by the war on some drugs. It's not just the Brits anymore...
Do you also have a copy of The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook?
I would hope they have something more on her than her choice of reading materials.
Unemployed Samina Malik, 22, of Southall, west London, faces four offences under the Terrorism Act 2000.
No First Amendment in England.
How did the authorities discover what was on her computer, and what business is it of theirs anyway? I can't believe the nonsense the West is resorting to for security. Shouldn't there have been some other, more convincing evidence that she is a threat, than her curiosity?
No, but when I was younger I had a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook.
And if I want a copy of the Mujahideen Poisons Handbook, then by God that's my right as a free American, unless I act on the information therein.
-ccm
Thank you for that info, Mrs. Ivan. The story was written up to sound just about as innocuous as possible. Sort of "naive 'twenty-something' depressed about personal problems..."
The media morons are going to get us all killed.
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