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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/10/008629print.html
October 20, 2005
British Muslim group declares new jihad
Sheikh Omar Bakri is still spreading his message of peace. From Ynet News, with thanks to Jihad Watch News Editor Eric Schwappach:
A declaration of war on Britain and the West is continuing to be issued by British Muslims in the United Kingdom, as the pro-jihad message of Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, recently banned from Britain, is echoed by his followers who have remained behind.
Bakri, who is now based in Beirut, once headed the al-Muhajiroun group, linked to the 2003 terror attack on the Mike’s Place Bar in Tel Aviv. The suicide bomber behind that attack was a British Muslim.
Using internet sermons, recordings, videos and documents, followers of Bakri, who say they are in touch with the Lebanon-based preacher, call on British Muslims to join al-Qaeda and to carry out acts of terrorism.
Ynetnews has monitored late night chat room sessions on the Paltalk chat network, used by Bakri six months ago to declare war on Britain.
“We’ve always had these two camps,” said the chat room’s administrator, “Mizaan,” in the early hours of Tuesday morning, in a room called “The Muslims in the UK.”
Mizaan, who told listeners “that is my real name,” said: “There is the camp of Islam and the camp of Kuffar (non-Muslim). Today we still have these two camps. And today there is the camp of Islam behind Sheikh Osama Bin Laden, the emir (leader) of jihad today, and we have the camp of kuffar led by George Bush with his cross. So yes we are two distinct groups, and we should never stand with the kuffar.”
“Islam is better than everything and it will rule over the whole world, whether the kuffar likes it or not,” declared Mizaan.
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Posted at October 20, 2005 08:17 AM
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"James Bond goes Japanese? Tokyo eyes MI6-style spy agency"
Japan Times ^ | Friday, October 21, 2005 | TSUKASA ARITA
Posted on 10/20/2005 6:38:37 PM PDT by Flavius
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The idea of a Japanese James Bond may sound hilarious, but serious discussions are under way in Japan on whether to create a secret intelligence service along the lines of Britain's MI6 to conduct overseas espionage.
The deliberations were triggered by a proposal from a panel of experts under Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura that was tasked with coming up with ways of strengthening the country's international information-gathering systems.
The five-member committee is headed by Yoshio Omori, a former chief of the Cabinet Information Research Office, and includes military critic Kensuke Ebata.
The group came up with the proposal last month after reaffirming that Japan's current system information-gathering capabilities are not commensurate with its international standing."