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Web site declares al-Qaeda's founding in UK: report
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 1/15/08 | Luke Baker

Posted on 01/15/2008 9:48:22 PM PST by NormsRevenge

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's intelligence services are investigating an Islamist Web site that says it is establishing a branch of al Qaeda in Britain, BBC television reported on Tuesday.

According to the report, security experts fear a posting on the site, www.alekhlaas.net, declaring "the creation of the al Qaeda organization in Britain" may be genuine.

"You don't ignore this sort of thing," Pauline Neville-Jones, the former head of the British joint intelligence committee, told the program.

"It may not be a threat from an existing cell... but it does represent a move in the propaganda game and the propaganda game is not something we should ignore. This is after all a struggle over ideology."

The posting urges young Muslim men to rise up against infidels such as "(Prime Minister Gordon) Brown and (Tony) Blair." It was put up on January 2.

Britain's Home Office (interior ministry) and security services were not immediately available to comment on the TV report or site.

In July 2005, Islamist suicide bombers killed 52 people in coordinated attacks on London's public transport system.

Last June, two men attempted to blow up cars loaded with gas canisters, fuel and nails outside a London nightclub, and a fuel-laden car was driven at speed into Glasgow airport before the assailants were subdued by passers-by.

Newsnight said there was no way of knowing how serious the declaration on the Web site was, although it mirrored the language used on other well-know militant sites that have carried declarations by al Qaeda and its affiliates in the past.

The site hosts a catalogue of Islamist messages, musings and writings, and has been visited by more than 17 million people.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alekhlaas; alqaeda; britain; declares; ekhlaas; founding; globaljihad; internet; islam; jihad; jihadpropaganda; rop; website

1 posted on 01/15/2008 9:48:23 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Got news for them. They’ve been there a long time already.


2 posted on 01/15/2008 9:50:12 PM PST by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: NormsRevenge

Well thats no surprise. Al Qaeda will probably find many volunteers.

3 posted on 01/15/2008 9:59:39 PM PST by camerakid400
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To: NormsRevenge

I’m deeply saddened that the nation that gave us Churchill, Nelson, and Thatcher has come to this. Maybe Dr. Savage is right when he says that only the soccer hooligans will save England by bashing these jihadis upside the head in the streets.


4 posted on 01/15/2008 10:05:20 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: NormsRevenge
It really doesn't surprise me, considering what Finsbury Park has been declaring for years against the British. How many other cells associated with local mosques in England are there that recruit jihadists for terror attacks?
5 posted on 01/15/2008 10:14:02 PM PST by TheBlueMax (A nation that believes in nothing will always lose to an enemy that believes in something.)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

Mayhap, the only solution.


6 posted on 01/15/2008 10:15:35 PM PST by doc1019 (Rabbit and the Hare … Fred ‘08)
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To: camerakid400

Now now, those scorpions already told you they had stingers. If you get stung it is because they are scorpions.


7 posted on 01/15/2008 10:48:03 PM PST by weegee (Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
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To: NormsRevenge
FYI - Just got this email:

Uncle Jee from Jamaat Needs You!

Adil Zarnosh of Masjidi & MuslimDot Team of Muslimdot.com are working together to provide free websites for Mosques all over the United Kingdom.

We will be developing 1000 Mosque websites in total.

For this mammoth project we require a donation, we need 1000 members or more to donate 20.00-50.00, as the 50.00 is the cost for the website per Mosque, including all server fees, domain costs, development, support etc. Of course the Mosques will not pay any charges.

If you register your names for the donations we will be paying back the donation provided by you over a period of 2 to 3 years. And insha Allah gives you more incentive to donate to this very beneficial project.

You can donate directly on the masjidi website at www.masjidi.com

The Mosque websites will also be connected onto a central network to increase productivity, unity, creativity and efficiency.

Donate Directly:

10.00 - Minimum Donation

20.00 - Small Donation

50.00 - Needed Donation

100.00 - MashaAllah Donation

200.00 - SubhanAllah Donation

To make a donation and register your donation, either by Cheque, cash or Transfer please contact: developer@masjidi.com

8 posted on 01/15/2008 11:04:51 PM PST by gandalftb (Ruthless action may be only clarity...quickly, awake (Capt. Willard, Apocalypse Now))
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To: NormsRevenge

Must be those rascal “Asians”.


9 posted on 01/16/2008 5:06:21 AM PST by HenpeckedCon
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To: NormsRevenge

Step 1 - Get a job working for British Intelligence.

Step 2 - put up a website advocating jihad, get people to register and participate.

Step 3 - gather logins and ip addresses, maybe put a rootkit in some downloads.

Step 4 - get promoted.


10 posted on 01/16/2008 5:21:35 AM PST by ko_kyi
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To: ko_kyi

I think the British government has more important things to do, like hauling people into court to prosecute them for using pounds and ounces instead of the metric system.


11 posted on 01/16/2008 5:26:55 AM PST by Richard Kimball
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