Training camp: Stills from the video show men preparing for jihad
Posted on 11/21/2007 8:46:49 PM PST by Stoat
A Muslim extremist took part in a campaign to recruit and train "jihadists" after flying to Britain posing as a student.
Pakistani-born Abdul Rahman, 25, arrived in the UK on a student visa, but spent just one day at university before dropping out.
He then joined up with a gang of radical young Muslims who aimed to scout, recruit and encourage others to take up arms in a holy war.
Disturbing video footage showed the group taking part in an arduous 'Al Qaeda training camp' in the Lake District in preparation for the jihad.
Rahman was last night facing up to six years in jail after he admitted helping a terrorist suspect flee the country.
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Training camp: Stills from the video show men preparing for jihad
Two men creep through the snow in a practice mission
Sleeping: A trainee takes a nap in a car
He admitted handing the suspect, who was subject to a Government control order, around £500 to help him buy plane tickets to flee the UK.
The court heard that after the suspect got away, police raided Rahman's house, where they found video footage of him taking part in the Lake District training camp.
The film referred to one as a suicide bomber whilst two others were seen crawling, commando-style, through the snow and undergrowth near Langdale, Cumbria, praising Allah and the Chechen Mujahideen.
In Rahman's house, police found hunting knives, two-way radios, GPS equipment and propaganda - including a document referring to terrorist finishing schools called How Can I Train Myself for Jihad?
Yesterday Rahman admitted two offences under the 2006 Terrorism Act and pleaded guilty to a further charge of helping a terror suspect defy a control order.
The case illustrated the weaknesses of control orders, said one senior police source outside court.
He added: 'There is real concern these orders are not worth the paper they are written on and do nothing in real terms to protect the public.
"Despite these orders, suspected terrorists are able to move around the UK and even leave the country to go and fight jihad elsewhere."
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Abdul Rahman is the first person in Britain to be convicted of a charge of disseminating terrorist information
Manchester Crown Court heard that Rahman started a pharmacology degree in 2000 at a university in Pakistan close to the Afghanistan border, but dropped out after a year.
He moved to the UK in 2004 on a student visa and registered to begin a biotechnology degree at Abertay University in Dundee. After his first day, he left for Manchester telling tutors he had financial difficulties.
Parmjit Cheema, prosecuting, said Rahman took a job in a mobile phone shop and mixed with radical Muslims, sharing a house with some of them.
She said: "Their particular interest, it would appear, was the perceived assault on Islam in Afghanistan and the need as they saw it to provide resources and fighters for that conflict."
She said Rahman played a vital role supporting jihadists in Pakistan and acting as a "pipeline" to the UK.
In January this year he met up with a 22-year-old man, known only as AK for legal reasons, who had just been served with a control order.
Rahman gave him £480 to flee the country. Before taking a flight to Lahore via Tehran, CCTV filmed AK at Birmingham Airport after he had ditched his usual traditional Muslim attire for Westernised clothing.
Detective Chief Superintendent Tony Porter, of Greater Manchester Police Counter-Terrorism Unit, said: "This man provided support to people determined to carry out terrorist acts.
"He was clearly intent on drawing others into his network."
Rahman will be sentenced today.
Please say an extra prayer for our dear British Friends, as their great nation is under attack both from within and without, as is ours.
Since 9/11 people have forgotten how wicked they really are and how fortunate we are to have a leader like George Bush determined to hunt them down and eradicate them.
One would think there would be more support in Europe for closing off the borders to these people than there is.
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The film referred to one as a suicide bomber whilst two others were seen crawling, commando-style, through the snow and undergrowth near Langdale, Cumbria, praising Allah and the Chechen Mujahideen.
In Rahman’s house, police found hunting knives, two-way radios, GPS equipment and propaganda - including a document referring to terrorist finishing schools called How Can I Train Myself for Jihad?”
One would think. However, these people can now vote. This situation is not so very different from that in the U.S.
This is the weakness of democracies.
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Well, to be honest this looks more like a pair of wannabe goofs crawling through the snow dressed in (snicker!) black. Perhaps there’s more to it than the films show but putting these clowns up against a determined Girl Scout troop, I’d bet on the girls. IMHO.
From the article:
She said Rahman played a vital role supporting jihadists in Pakistan and acting as a "pipeline" to the UK.
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Detective Chief Superintendent Tony Porter, of Greater Manchester Police Counter-Terrorism Unit, said: "This man provided support to people determined to carry out terrorist acts.
"He was clearly intent on drawing others into his network."
Apparently there's considerably more going on than what's shown in the videos.
Consider also that the 9/11 attacks were not perpetrated by hardened, highly trained commandos but by some disaffected middleclass jerkoffs with boxcutters and a very few flying lessons. What they didn't have on their own was provided by their connections and their organization.
But I did have to giggle when they called themselves "commandos." ;-)
Stoat is requesting prayers!
Agreed, but I would wish to politely suggest that what's important is not whether they are actually true commandos, as judged, for example, by the training standards of the Army Rangers, the Navy Seals or the British SAS, but what's important is that they THINK they are.
And that gives them the motivation and the impetus to do some damage.
I have no doubt that any true commando or any other highly trained warfighter will say that a huge part of being a professional in that field is having a proper frame of mind.
I would wager that such a true professional would look at those idiots crawling around in the snow and on the one hand snicker at their amateurish antics, but their frame of mind would make anyone pause.
As many military officers have said in regards to the war on terror, what makes it really hard for us to fight is that we are fighting people who are not afraid to die. That changes the entire equation.
Thank you so much! :-)
I hope Vanessa Redgrave is getting a clue.....
Never. She’s a Communist to the core.
Liberals want to be willfully ignorant; unfortunately.
Praying 24/7 when and where I can, Stoat.
“As many military officers have said in regards to the war on terror, what makes it really hard for us to fight is that we are fighting people who are not afraid to die.”
OPINION:
That’s correct.
The jihadi embraces darkness and death.
We embrace The Light and life.
I know that God hears you :-)
The jihadi embraces darkness and death.
We embrace The Light and life.
And I know that God is on our side.
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