Hijack link to bin Laden (MORE ON FOILED ATTEMPT ON UK)

The Evening Standard ^ | August 30, 2002 | Anthony France and Hugh Muir

[MadIvan]

The man arrested in Germany with links to Bin Laden is Morroccan. The hijackers are mostly Saudis. Egyptians have been implicated too. Now another one, from Tunisia. It's the entire Middle East that this cancer has spread - the regimes there are either too cowardly or too complicit to stop it. Therefore, we must brace ourselves to take on the Muslim world.

They regard us as weak, decadent, spoilt by a liberal culture - and in some senses they are right. But we are stronger than they. Our ideas do not lead to subservience to the will of a mullah. Our ideas lead to the freedom of the individual, a freedom which will always be more powerful than any of the hateful, soul-denying ideologies we have faced in the past: Nazism, Communism and now Islam.

But let's not deny it, we are still at war, and will be for some time.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Your assistance, Your Pinging Majesty, would be most appreciated. ;)

Best Regards, Ivan

[Dog]

Ivan what happened to the others that were with this guy....sorry I am just getting up to speed here ....been working...if you could help ....thanks.

[MadIvan]

That's unclear at the moment, Dog - apparently they were let go. But at least we have their names now. And we ought to throw them all in prison under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.

This would be a good time to throw the bastard who tried this in with some of the lads from the Yard - I am sure given suitable methods of persuasion he'll be singing like a bloody canary about his other Al Qaeda friends.

Regards, Ivan

[1234]

...what happened to the others that were with this guy?

reported that after questioning, free to travel, etc.....

[Catspaw]

I don't know if the story's unclear about this, or I'm reading it wrong, but was the potential hijacker on the plane and taken off, or was he stopped before he boarded the plane?

[Grampa Dave]

Ivan, do you think that this will finally start to wake up some Brits who still think that Americans caused 9/11 and that Saddam is great!

Thanks for your support since day one.

[ohioman]

As usual, you are spot on.

[Dog]

We can never let our guard down can we.

Ivan any idea what the target could have been in your country???

[MadIvan]

He apparently got stopped before boarding the plane. Apparently the Al Qaeda talent pool is limited - they don't know that rule number 1 of hijacking is not to keep a loaded gun in your carryon.

Mental giant, he is not.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ivan, do you think that this will finally start to wake up some Brits who still think that Americans caused 9/11 and that Saddam is great!

Grampa, just as there are some people in Berkeley who will never wake up, people who read the Guardian here will never wake up either. The true underclass in both America and Britain is the pathetically idiotic Left. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[tom paine 2]

More justification for armed pilots.

[xJones]

The conference - which attracts up to 3,000 Muslims from across Europe - is organised by Salafi.com, an Islamic online book shop. One of the key aims of the conference is to try to dispel the notion of links between Islam and terrorism.

Whoopsie! Er, (cough, cough) we swear by the prophet's camel, we didn't know anyone from Sweden was coming. (damned fool got caught!)

I'll just bet the all 3,000 of those miserable buggers are going to be thoroughly photographed, I.D.ed, etc. What a wonderful opportunity to get so many of them together.

[MadIvan]

Ivan any idea what the target could have been in your country???

It could have been anywhere in London. I have heard that Al Qaeda wanted to hit Big Ben. If you think you've seen me angry on here before, if that turns out to be the case, you "ain't seen nothin yet".

These people are asking for war with the wrong people.

Regards, Ivan

[Travis McGee]

Radical Islam is an insane murder cult, "moderate" Islam is its Trojan Horse in the West.

[MadIvan]

More justification for armed pilots.

So long as their orders are shoot to kill, fine.

Regards, Ivan

[Billthedrill]

Yipes. Don't suppose I could talk you fellers into testing a very large bomb on that conference these boys are attending...could I?

If we're still dithering in the U.S. about allowing airline pilots to pack heat we've only ourselves to blame if one of these guys pulls that here.

[Black Agnes]

If they hit Big Ben, you should put them all in the 'Big Bin'.

[Travis McGee]

What would happen in the UK if they flew a 747 into Big Ben or Parliament or Buckingham Palace?

[MadIvan]

If they hit Big Ben, you should put them all in the 'Big Bin'.

If they hit Big Ben, I am sure that would be the final straw for a lot of people who are less sweet tempered than I.

Regards, Ivan