""Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid (holy warrior).
"Put in their soft, tender hearts the zeal of jihad and a love of martyrdom.""
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani security forces were hunting a handful of Al Qaeda fighters on Wednesday believed to have been wounded in an air strike on an alleged militant training camp in South Waziristan a day earlier, army spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan said. Sultan said the army had information that five or six foreigners with Al Qaeda links were in the camp.
Among those who escaped was Abu Nasser, who holds a senior position in Al Qaeda, security sources said. The attack by rocket-firing helicopter gunships on Zamzola village killed up to 20 militants, intelligence officials said.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\01\18\story_18-1-2007_pg1_8
Masses protest Pakistani hit on alleged al-Qaida hide-out
Jan. 17, 2007
Hundreds of religious hard-liners chanting "Jihad!" staged rallies in a Pakistani town against an army airstrike on a suspected al-Qaida hide-out and claimed it had killed innocent laborers, police and witnesses said Wednesday.
In the protest, about 1,000 supporters of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) party marched through Tank, a city about 160 kilometers north of the scene of Tuesday's attack in the South Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border that the army said killed eight militants.
"They killed innocent laborers. There were no foreigners or [militant] training centers," witnesses quoted rally leader Maulana Tahir as saying.
Activists of the JUI, a pro-Taliban Islamic group in the provincial government, chanted, "Jihad! [holy war]" during the protest and "Death to Musharraf!" - referring to Pakistan's military leader, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, a key US ally.
A tribal militant vowed to take revenge for the airstrike, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported on its Urdu-language news Web site Wednesday. "We will take revenge within 10 to 15 days," the BBC quoted Baitullah Mehsud as saying.
Tuesday's operation has forced him to fight the Pakistani army, Mehsud said, according to the report. Mehsud is believed to be the leader of a band of militants from the area that was the scene of Tuesday's bombing. In February 2005, Mehsud was granted amnesty after promising that he would not attack security forces or harbor foreign militants.
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Note: We've covered this here already, but posting this article (snippets) for archival purposes.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070111.MAXIMUS11/TPStory/TPInternational/Europe/
POSTED ON 11/01/07
"First 'homegrown' terrorists convicted
Swede gets 15 years; related hearings to start Monday in Canada, U.K."
COLIN FREEZE
With a report from Reuters
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A teenaged Swede and his two accomplices yelled "God is Great" in a Bosnian courtroom yesterday, as they were convicted of plotting a suicide-bombing attack.
Mirsad Bektasevic, 19, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a planned terrorist strike in Sarajevo. He is better known as "Maximus," the code name he used to post messages on jihadist Internet forums."
The sentences represent the first successful prosecutions against members of an alleged global network of "homegrown" extremists, whose tendrils stretched from the Middle East to Western countries such as Canada.
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In the months after the Bosnian arrests in 2005, authorities moved to round up suspects in London, Copenhagen, Dhaka, Atlanta and, finally, Toronto -- where a total of 18 young suspects were arrested last June."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A variety of distinct terrorist conspiracies have been alleged, but in all cases the ringleaders stand accused of taking inspiration from al-Qaeda and from one another."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The extent of the network began to unravel in October of 2005, after Sarajevo police arrested Maximus. They searched his apartment and found martyrdom videos and a suicide bomber's belt laden with explosives. The plan was to strike an unspecified target in the capital of Bosnia, the war-torn European country that has long been a crossroads for extremists.
"These gentlemen were connected through websites, e-mail and mobile phones to other jihadists planning attacks in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe," Aaron Weisburd, director of a U.S.-based anti-terrorism Web service, told The Globe and Mail in an e-mail yesterday.
"They represent the 'new al-Qaeda.' ''
He added that Maximus was a "high-value" suspect whose case highlights the fact that "the Internet is a place, and terrorists dwell in that cyberspace and use it as a virtual safe haven."
Global anti-terrorism agencies are cagey about how their investigations are flowing together, but the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has said these investigations are linked.
Mr. Weisburd is acknowledged as a leading authority on extremist networks. His site, known as Internet Haganah, exists to expose jihadist activity on the Internet.
One suspect that Haganah has long tracked is Younis Tsouli, a 22-year-old arrested in Britain two days after the Bosnian suspects were rounded up. It is alleged that he is the hacker who went by the name Terrorist 007 on the Internet. Now charged with conspiracy to murder, plotting an explosion and stealing money, his trial is set to begin Monday in London.
Preliminary hearings for four young people charged in the Toronto case are also to begin on Monday. Like most of the 18 accused, the youngest suspects are charged with attending a terrorist training camp. A core group of seven adults further stands accused of plotting to detonate truck bombs against government targets.
The alleged ringleader of the Toronto plot was reportedly in contact with Terrorist 007 as well as two other young men now facing trial in the United States. The Atlanta-based suspects allegedly videotaped U.S. targets in Washington and sent the surveillance to Terrorist 007 in Britain."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A related case involving alleged extremists in Denmark is also under way."