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

Well thats no surprise. Al Qaeda will probably find many volunteers.
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.
Mayhap, the only solution.
Now now, those scorpions already told you they had stingers. If you get stung it is because they are scorpions.
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Must be those rascal “Asians”.
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.
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.
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