If I don't hear from some of you before tomorrow (my online time will be limited), have a Great 4th of July.
May God watch over the many Americans who can not make it home while they bravely serve their nation overseas.
Posted on 06/30/2007 8:15:09 AM PDT by UKrepublican
Burning Car In Airport Terminal Updated: 15:59, Saturday June 30, 2007
A car has driven into the terminal building at Glasgow airport and caught fire. More follows...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Mohammed Asha: Surgeon 'who turned radical'
Um Abed, the mother of Marwah, 27, said: "We are stunned. Mohammed and Marwah are not the type to be interested in political Islam."
They said the plight of Asha's people in the West Bank would not have turned him to terror.
But one friend of Asha, 26, claimed last night that the doctor came under the spell of radical Islamists after moving to Britain.
The friend, who asked not to be named, said: "I saw him in the summer of 2006 on a visit to Jordan.
"He seemed really influenced by Islamist ideologies in Britain, even physically he looked different with a long beard, looking like an Islamist extremist." A 'Mohammed Asha' has also been recorded writing on the Internet in vitriolic terms about Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Mohammed Haneef:
He had a one-way ticket to India and had not booked any time off with his hospital superiors.
Haneef was arrested after police traced calls between his phone and that of at least one of the other bomb plot suspects. The pair are said to have had lengthy conversations.
But staff were surprised when he suddenly announced he was rushing off to India to be with his wife Firdous Arshiya and their baby.
"He said he was going home for seven to 10 days," said one doctor.
"But he was rostered to be working this week and he had not booked any holidays between June 4 and August 10. He didn't mention anything to me about the leave so maybe it was a quick decision to go to India."
Bilal Abdulla : Mystery man 'who hated the West's crusade'
To his hospital colleagues, Bilal Abdulla was a mystery man who seemed to lack interest in being a doctor.
His devotion to Islam always came first and he would disappear for long periods during the working day to pray or to log on to Arabic websites.
He told fellow staff nothing of his previous life in Iraq, claiming instead that he was Jordanian.
But yesterday suspicions were growing that he had direct links to Al Qaeda and had formed a terror cell inside the NHS.
Shiraz Maher, who knows the doctor well, told Sky News: "He was very angry about the West, particularly Britain and America and the invasion of Iraq.
"He saw it as the classic idea of a crusader war engineered by the West to impose Western views on an Islamic country.'
It was claimed yesterday that Abdulla was recruited by Al Qaeda in Iraq and ordered to travel to Britain.
Abdulla, who studied medicine in Baghdad, came from a family of Wahabist Muslims, an ultraconservative form of Islam that promotes Sharia law.
If I don't hear from some of you before tomorrow (my online time will be limited), have a Great 4th of July.
May God watch over the many Americans who can not make it home while they bravely serve their nation overseas.
We do now CindyDawg, thanks.
Al Qaeda’s chilling warning: ‘Those who cure you will kill you’
A senior Al Qaeda figure in Iraq warned a British cleric back in April of plans to attack British targets, telling him “those who cure you will kill you”, The Times is reporting.
The claim comes as police question eight suspects, all of whom appear to be doctors or have medical links, in connection with the botched car bombings in London and Glasgow.
Canon Andrew White told the newspaper that he met the unnamed Al Qaeda leader, who had travelled from Syria, on the sidelines of a religious reconciliation meeting in Amman, Jordan.
Canon White said that he had passed the warning along to a senior official at the British foreign ministry, but not the specific words.
When contacted by AFP a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman would only say: “The official in question doesn’t recall the conversation that is supposed to have taken place.”
According to Canon White, the Al Qaeda leader “talked to me about how they were going to destroy British and Americans. He told me that the plans were already made and they would soon be destroying the British.”
“He said the people who cure you would kill you.”
Canon White said that the man who delivered the warning, who was in his 40s, said at the time that the plans would be carried out in the coming weeks, and would target the British first.
He did not learn the man’s identity until after the meeting and did not disclose it.
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/04/1969233.htm?section=justin
And thank you for all of your contributions on and off of this thread.
Have fun:’)
With past threats of airborne liquid explosives, chemical and radiological bombs, as well as plots involving cyanide gas, etc, there's a lot to look out for.
These people have a habit of learning from their failures, and retrying failed attacks.
Ocean's 11 of terror: The seven terrorists hand-picked by Al Qaeda to bomb London
Stay safe, and have a great 4th.
You too! Have a great one. ;oP
http://www.bigpond.com/news/breaking/content/20070704/1969233.asp
Al Qaeda’s chilling warning: ‘Those who cure you will kill you’
bookmark to catch up tomorrow.....
BTW, No sign of these guys yet either, despite the rants and chest pounding:
Suicide Bomb Teams Sent to U.S., Europe
Here a cute little look at a RoP site: The jihad fields are calling
The lights are on but nobody's home. little birds have visited the premises.
That site is hosted in Malaysia, within the capital. Common rehosting trend with internet jihadi sites as Aaron and others have been getting them closed under breach of contracts with their IP.
Take care Fred,
USF
Thank you for all of your posts on this thread. They have kept me very busy!
However we must remain alert to what is transpiring around us.
Thanks for the link, Fred. I wish I could say I’m shocked, but nothing these monsters do surprises me any more!
the archbishop of Canterbury? Say no more...
Car bomb sleeper cell of terror ‘clean skins’
By IAN BRUCE, Defence Correspondent
The Jeep crashed through Glasgow Airport terminal on Saturday
They have three things in common; they work for the NHS, are “clean skins” - people with no known extremist connections or previous convictions brought together for a specific operation - and they have not previously come up on the intelligence radar.
The first eight people arrested around the globe in this dramatically fast-moving counter terrorism operation allegedly formed a low-profile sleeper cell. Mobile phones seized from the Mercedes cars which failed to detonate in London’s West End on Friday have helped officers unravel an international network operating quietly within a narrow corridor along the M6 motorway.
Seven doctors or medical students have been arrested in England, Scotland and Australia in connection with the attacks. All worked in NHS hospitals. Dr Hamish Meldrum, the British Medical Association chairman, said: “Like others we were shocked to hear of the recent attempted bombings.
“The news that members of a caring profession may be involved in these atrocities was even more appalling.
“Overseas doctors have made an invaluable contribution to the NHS over the years and it would be dreadful if the trust that exists between patients and doctors, whatever their background, was harmed by these events.”
Working for the NHS provided the ideal cover. Although their car bombing attempts failed, the ramifications have already been felt with heightened security and a number of controlled explosions on suspicious packages and vehicles across the UK.
CIA sources said none of the main bombing suspects in British or Australian custody has shown up on US terrorist databases. The implication is that all are “clean skins”.
The American lists of potential al Qaeda sympathisers includes tens of thousands of names gleaned from interrogations of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and from the files of intelligence services from Jordan’s Mahabarat internal security agency to Britain’s MI5.
It also includes every potential terrorist name and alias known to the CIA, the FBI and the US National Security Agency, the biggest covert surveillance organisation in the world.
However, a US counter- terrorism source added yesterday that the bungled attacks on Glasgow airport and in London coincided with “indicators of increased movement of money and people from known al Qaeda camps in the ungoverned tribal territories of Waziristan on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border.”
He refused to go into detail about a possible link between the stepped-up activity and the bomb threats in the UK, but said that White House reluctance to pressurise Pakistan into striking the training camps along the 1500-mile frontier had left al Qaeda “more secure than it has been at any time since before 9/11”.
A spokesman for the US Department of Homeland Security said the weekend incidents in Britain had “heightened existing concerns”, but denied that there had been knowledge of specific threats against the UK before the bombs were discovered.
“It is not just what happened in England and Scotland that has us watching closely. We have had concerns based on intelligence indicators for some time, “ he added.
Bruce Hoffman, a counter-terrorism expert at Washington’s Georgetown University, said he considered al Qaeda involvement in the UK incidents “likely”.
The terror network had made a strategic investment in Britain in recent years, creating ties to an infrastructure of groups and individuals that are difficult to fit into an effective intelligence profile, he claimed.
“By drawing on a large pool of potential operatives, al Qaeda not only breaks any coherent attempt at profiling, but also demonstrates the diversity of its movement.”
Mr Hoffman also criticised those who dismissed the failed plots as the work of amateurs. “They didn’t work, but I think of all the al Qaeda plots we’ve seen, the sophistication of this one lies in its simplicity. The plotters used available materials. Where they tripped up was in the detonation of the devices. That’s a trickier business.”
A UK intelligence source agreed with Mr Hoffman. “The Provisional IRA usually tested their improvised bombs in some remote corner of rural Ulster before unleashing them.
“Arabs or Asians setting off gas canisters for practice in more heavily-populated Scotland might draw unwanted attention in the current climate.
“Their bombs were untested, luckily for everyone at the airport. The danger is, they might get it right next time.”
Ah, thanks for the insite.
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