A London charity, JIMAS, at whose conferences, Ali would speak published the translation of the al-Khaliq’s book.
He would give talks such as “Our Need for a Fiqh Suitable to Our Time and Place” at the 1997 conference in London.
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Or his “Cure for the Cancer” at the 2001 JIMAS conference.
The UK Islamic charity published the book calling on Muslims worldwide to “overthrow” peace treaties between Arab states and Israel.
Sheikh Abdur Rahman Abdul Khaliq’s book published by JIMAS, The Islamic Ruling on The Peace Process, that “the Jews are the enemies of the Islamic ummah (nation).”
I sense based on what Jamestown Foundation article said today it was translated by Ali who has given a lecture based on the book.
The US government’s National Commission for investigating the 9/11 attacks listed the book as one of a number of texts “espousing violence and hatred towards the west and reinforcing the victimization of Muslims as the hands of the infidels.”
“The Jews have been the enemies of the Islamic ummah since the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be on him, began his call to Allah; and their hostility to this ummah will continue till the Day of Resurrection,” the National Commission’s website quoted from the book. “…War or Jihad is an obligatory duty which remains in force till the Day of Resurrection.
According to another version of the book made available by a separate jihadist website (currently offline), Muslims are completely prohibited from making peace with non-Muslims “except when the kafir (infidel) is humbled and surrenders.” The jihadi website said its book “was translated by our brothers at JIMAS,” providing a link to the charity’s homepage.
Any peace made by Muslim countries with Israel contravenes the Quran and must be reversed, the text says.
“Their (the Jews) hostility to the Muslims continues, so much so that stones and trees call out to the Muslims saying: ‘O Muslim, here is a Jew behind you, so fight him,’” a chapter in the book declared, based on an Islamic hadith (reported saying of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad).
The author commands Muslims to “firmly believe in the invalidity” of peace agreements with Israel , and calls on them “to work towards overthrowing these treaties.”
The first round of letters was sent to ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Post, and the publisher of the National Enquirer and Sun. Letters were sent to Senators Daschle and Leahy in a second batch, using a much more highly refined product. The letters to the news organizations were mailed — coincidentally or not — on September 17 or September 18, either the day the Camp David Accord was signed in 1978 or the next day when it was approved by the Israeli knesset. Abdel-Rahman, the blind sheik, in the early 1980s, said: “We reject Camp David and we regret the normalization of relations with Israel. We also reject all the commitments that were made by the traitor Sadat, who deviated from Islam.” He continued: “As long as the Camp David Agreement stands, this conflict between us and the government will continue.”
At the time of the anthrax mailings, the Camp David Accord still dominated Zawahiri’s thinking. In Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet, Al-Zawahiri argued in the Fall of 2001 that the Camp David Accord sought to turn Sinai into a disarmed area to serve as a buffer zone between Egypt and Israel. He cites the peace treaty between the two countries, particularly issues related to the armament of the Egyptian Army inside Sinai. He claims that Egypt has restored Sinai formally but it remains in the hands of Israel militarily. Al-Zawahiri cites many examples about the US flagrant support for Israel, including the US pressure on Egypt to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty at a time when Israel publicly declares that it will not sign the treaty because of its special circumstances.
Despite this, Zawahiri says, the United States sympathizes with Israel and overlooks its actions. This means that the United States has deliberately left the nuclear weapons in the hands of Israel to threaten its Arab neighbors. Al-Zawahiri argues in his book that the western states have considered Israel’s presence in the region a basic guarantee for serving the Western interests.
Taking into account the fact that there was no mail postmarked with a Trenton postmark on Columbus Day, October 8, the letter to Senator Tom Daschle postmarked October 9 may actually have been mailed October 6. (The FBI, of course, may know the date it was mailed based on information that has not been disclosed.) (Some press reports, however, suggest that they are considering that the mailing may have been at anytime during the October 6-October 9 period). October 6 was the day Anwar Sadat was assassinated for his role in the Camp David Accord. President Sadat was assassinated on the national holiday called “Armed Forces Day.” He was killed during an annual holiday parade which marks the day, October 6, 1973, that Egypt made a critical successful surprise attack on Israel during the 1973 war.
“Death to Pharoah!” the young Army officer shouted. He and his confederates jumped off the truck shot into the reviewing stand where Sadat had been watching the annual parade. Sadat’s detention of Muhammad Shawqi al-Islambouli had spurred his brother, Khalid, to seize an opportunity presented on short notice to assassinate Anwar Sadat. Kamal Habib, founder of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and writer for the IANA quarterly magazine, who spent 10 years in prison in connection with the assassination, told academic Fawaz Gerges: “It was not a well-coordinated operation, and it succeeded by a miracle.” After leaving Egypt in the mid-1980s, Muhammad Islambouli operated in Pakistan recruiting Egyptian fighters for the war in Afghanistan, and headed a branch of Bin Laden’s Maktab al-Khidmat (‘Bureau of Services’) in Peshawar. Muhammad Islambouli was the subject of the December 4, 1998 Presidential Daily Brief titled “Bin Ladin Preparing to Hijack US Aircraft and Other Attacks” explaining that Bin Laden planned an attack on the US involving airplanes and that the motvation was to free the blind sheik and imprisonment of a Saudi dissident sheik.
In his Fall 2001 Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet, Zawahiri explained that the US support for Israel (at Egypt’s expense) was well-illustrated by the historic 33-day airlift to Israel after this October 6 attack. He argues that the US support for Israel made the difference between success or failure for Egypt. Al-Zawahiri describes how the United States shipped weapons, ammunition, and tanks to Israel for 33 days, with the goal being to compensate Israel for its war losses and to swiftly upgrade the combat capabilities.
He explained in his Fall 2001 book: “The animosity to Israel and America in the hearts of islamists is indivisible. It is an animosity that has provided the ‘al-Qa’dia’ and the epic of jihad in Afghanistan with a continuous flow of ‘Arab Afghans.’” Regarding the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Zawahiri adds: “Whoever examines the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty will realize that it was intended to be a permanent treaty from which Egypt could not break loose. It was concluded in an attempt to establish on the ground, by force and coercion, a situation whereby it would be difficult to change by any government hostile to Israel that comes after Al-Sadat.”
After 9/11, a young Egyptian woman came to live with my family. She was the daughter of a senior Egyptian official who worked at the UN. I don’t know much about foreign relations. But given that peace seems a good thing, as we walked along a local duck pond, we discussed how Sadat was a hero of historical proportion. Now I don’t know enough about foreign relations or history to know whether that is right or not. But in profiling Amerithrax, and having watched the tv detective Columbo for many years, I know when a motive seems to fit a person of interest and when the facts seem to point to the motive.
When Ed Lake wrote that Senator Leahy had no role in foreign relations, he apparently was just unaware that he had the single most important role in appropriations to Egypt and Israel as head of a Senate subcommittee.
The recent terrorism indictment issued against a California man shows links between a Philippine insurgent group and Islamic extremists tied to al-Qaida.
This is not the first connection we’ve seen between Philippine insurgent group and Northern California. The last involved an employee at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and had top access to labs there.
According to the evidence from a trial in Egypt in 1999, Bin Laden first arranged to purchase anthrax through the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (”MILF”) in 1997 (from a supplier in North Korea). In light of the detention by Philippine authorities of the former heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (”HVAC”) technician with top-level security clearance from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California — and because of the alleged contacts with MILF leaders — authorities needed to address whether the lab had virulent Ames and whether the individual had access to it.
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency launched anthrax research at the Livermore lab in 1998 precisely because of the Bin Laden anthrax threat. Research at the lab included, for example, work relating to biodetector sensors and decontaminating gels, as well as later work on the genetic sequencing of the Ames strain.
Philippine authorities announced at a press conference in December 2003 that the former Livermore employee, Michael Ray Stubbs, 55, and his brother, James Stubbs, 56, had been detained and were being deported to the US because they met with charity groups believed to be fronts for Al Qaeda.
The brothers were arrested December 13 in a Manila suburb. Authorities said they violated immigration rules by soliciting charitable funds while having only a tourist visa. They reportedly were in the Philippines visiting their wives, who are Filipina. Mujahid, a Muslim convert and a former teacher in California, had been in the country since February 2003. Immigration Commissioner and the Philippine Navy flag officer in command announced that African America brothers were arrested by a joint military and immigration team.
“Actually Mujahid’s name has been coming up in a lot of intelligence reports way back and he has been on the alert list since September 11 and this is based from international intelligence information as well as our local information. Surveillance shows that they [Stubbses] have been meeting with MILF and ASG [Abu Sayyaf Group] members,” said Immigration Commissioner Andrea Domingo.
“In fact, only recently, he has been in constant communication through cellular phone with a known ASG member detained in Muntinlupa, Ibrahim Sali, and he has been monitored as saying that he was a classmate of bin Laden in a theological seminary in Saudi Arabia, and they are so close that he even named his son Osama,” said Maj. Gen. Emmanuel Teodosio, Marines commandant. As for the MILF personalities allegedly met by the two, authorities refused to reveal their identities, saying there is an ongoing follow-up operation.
James Carl Stubbs Jr., who adopted the name Mujahid, was a teacher in California before traveling to Sudan, where he studied Arabic and converted to Islam. Intelligence officers alleged that in May 2003, Mujahid met with several leaders believed to be fronts of the al-Qaeda network in the country that were founded by bin Laden’s brother-in-law.
The fronts were reportedly being used as conduits to channel funds to terrorists cells allied with al-Qaeda in the Philippines. Mujahid said he met with various private organizations here to set up financing from US-based Muslim groups to build schools, homes and improve farms in Muslim communities in Mindanao. A solicitation letter and letters of endorsements for solicitation of funds were found on Mujahid.
Michael Ray Stubbs and James Stubbs denied any wrongdoing when they appeared at a news conference in handcuffs. James Stubbs, who became a Black Panther in the 1960s, called out that the allegations were a fabrication and noted his brother was not even muslim.
The brothers attended high school in Indianapolis before moving to California in the early 1980s. Their sister, Pamela Thornton, of Indianapolis, told The Indianapolis Star that her brother James has radical political ideas, but that neither of the brothers is a terrorist. Intelligence officers reportedly claim Stubbs is a computer expert who maintains suspiciously substantial bank deposits. For what charities was Michael Ray Stubbs and his brother soliciting?
Michael Ray Stubbs was a HVAC technician at Lawrence Livermore near San Francisco until March 2000. Since 1998 Lawrence Livermore scientists have participated in the Department of Energy’s program to improve response capability to biological (as well as chemical) attacks on the civilian population. A 1999 Internal Livermore communication (available on-line at the LLNL website) discussed the anthrax threat posed by Bin Laden and the program that had been launched at Livermore to combat the threat.
Did that lab have the virulent Ames strain that was used in the anthrax attacks in the Fall of 2001? In October 2001, Lawrence Livermore scientist explained on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” that they tested their decontamination method using the simulant BG in field tests conducted at Dugway.
Mr. Stubbs left the lab on medical leave with a back problem in March 2000. According to an Environmental Assessment relating to a proposed BL-3 lab being constructed there, the lab has worked with “a number” of different strains since the Spring of 2000. One on-line account, quoting a “Frequently Asked Questions” list reportedly faxed by the lab’s communications department, says that the lab had used “25 different strains.” Was one of those strains from the Spring of 2000 the US Army “Ames” strain that was used in the attacks? If so, was it avirulent or virulent (an avirulent strain has a key plasmid removed) Dead (irradiated) or alive? Was it obtained from the same Northern Arizona University lab that later sent the Ames strain to the University of California-run facility at Los Alamos in October 2001? (The shipment included a small number of live spores). The Lawrence Livermore lab worked on the genetic sequencing of the Ames strain with that Northern Arizona University lab. The Northern Arizona University lab helped the FBI in the genetic signature of the strain.
The DOE standard badge is the key to the complex. The standard badges in 2000 were blue for Q-cleared employees, yellow for L-cleared employees and gray for uncleared employees. Foreign nationals with Q- and L-clearances had a red strip on their badges behind their names, while uncleared foreign nationals had red badges. Michael Ray reportedly had the high security clearance — “Q level” — and a blue badge.