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Is it for a non-palestinan native to come from a foreign land to do jihad (isteshhad fee sabiliah) against the Jews in Philistine that are slaughtring our fellow Muslim brothers within the blesed land?
Not the Palestinians alone are commissioned to practice Jihad which ought to be done until Palestine is liberated from the aggressors and occupiers. Rather, all Muslims are commissioned to practice it, because Palestine is a land of Islam, which all Muslims must guard it and protect it from aggression
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP124506
Special Dispatch Series - No. 1245
August 11, 2006 No.1245
"Syrian Cleric Influential in the U.S. on Hizbullah Al-Manar TV: Islamic Law Permits Destroying U.S, Israeli Facilities and Interests Worldwide"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "On August 8, 2006, Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV aired an interview with Syrian cleric Muhammad Said Ramadhan Al-Bouti. In the interview, Al-Bouti stated that Islamic law allows for the destruction of U.S. and Israeli facilities and interests throughout the world, as long as "innocent people are not killed in the process."
TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT:http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1230 .
In a previous appearance, on Syrian TV on November 11, 2005, Al-Bouti claimed that President George W. Bush's grandfather had written a book about the life of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, "published in 1831, [in which] he says: 'As long as the Muslims' empire is not destroyed, God will not allow the return of the Jews to the homes of their fathers and forefathers.' This book exists."
TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT:http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P931 .
Sheikh Al-Bouti has many followers in the West, particularly in the U.S., who often seek his advice via the "Fatawa" page of his multilingual website (http://www.bouti.com/bouti_e_fatawa.htm ), WHICH IS HOSTED IN THE U.S. [1]
On this page, Al-Bouti answers questions from his followers on topics ranging from the Islamic permissibility of U.S. 401K pension plans and advice to young Muslims vacationing in the U.S., through family relations, to jihad. Some notable questions from individuals in the U.S. have concerned issues such as why American Muslims should not join the U.S. Army; how a Syrian living in the U.S. can convert his friends to Islam; and what protocol Muslim women in the U.S. should follow in wearing the hijab.
On the topic of jihad, Sheikh Al-Bouti has answered questions regarding jihad against the Jews, the return of the Caliphate, donating funds to support jihad, and boycotting U.S.-made products. He has also answered questions on what Islam says about the People of the Book (i.e. Jews and Christians, to whom Al-Bouti refers as "infidels"), and on whether Osama bin Laden is "good or bad."
According to his website, http://www.bouti.com/index.htm , Sheikh Al-Bouti has been on the Faculty of Religion at Al-Azhar University in Cairo; Dean of Religion and head of the Department of Tenets and Religion at Damascus University, Syria; a member of the Royal Society of Islamic Civilization Research in Amman, Jordan; a member of the High Council of the Oxford Academy in the U.K.; and a frequent participant in conferences and symposiums throughout the world, [2] including in Europe and the U.S. - in addition to authoring over 40 books."
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"Hizbullah inspires Hamas with war-fighting tactics vs Israel"
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MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE Monday, August 14, 2006
TEL AVIV
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Iranian missiles ready to hit Tel Aviv says cleric
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 8/15/2006
Posted on 08/15/2006 2:46:15 AM PDT by markomalley
Iran will hit Tel Aviv with its medium-range missiles if attacked, said an influential senior cleric on Tuesday.
"If they (U.S. and Israel) militarily attack Iran ... They should be afraid of the day when our missiles with 2,000 km range will hit Tel Aviv," Ahmad Khatami told state television.
Khatami sits on the Assembly of Experts, the body of 86 clerics that constitutionally supervises the country's most powerful man, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Arms experts say Iran's Shahab-3 missiles have a maximum range of around 2,000 km (1,240 miles), meaning they are capable of hitting Israel as well as U.S. military bases in the Gulf.
U.S. officials accuse Iran of planning to equip its missiles with nuclear warheads. Iran says it has no desire to have atomic weapons and is only developing nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, such as electricity generation.
Iranian military commanders have repeatedly warned they would not hesitate to deploy the Shahab-3 missiles if Iran came under attack over its disputed nuclear programme.
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"Pakistani charity funded airline bomb plot: report (update)"
AFP via Yahoo ^ | 8/15/2006
Posted on 08/15/2006 3:11:39 AM PDT by markomalley
stepping back in time with piasa and taking a look at this thread again.
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Poison warfare suits found in mosque raid
Herald Sun ^ | January 27, 2003 | LEO SCHLINK in London
Posted on 01/27/2003 6:11:52 AM PST by conservativecorner
BRITISH police investigating a terror plot by Islamic saboteurs have found chemical warfare protection suits in a north London mosque.
The discovery has shocked detectives, who believe the find confirms supporters of Osama bin Laden were planning a poison attack on civilian targets in Britain. Scotland Yard and MI5 detectives had kept the discovery of the nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) suits secret.
They feared disclosing it would spark panic.
Government ministers have warned any suggestion that the Finsbury Park mosque had been involved would have worrying racist overtones.
Police initially revealed they had seized a cache of weapons, including a stun gun, an imitation rifle and a gas canister.
Detectives last night confirmed that the protective suits were being tested to establish if there was any trace of ricin or any other poison.
The Finsbury Park mosque has a notorious reputation because of its use by radical Muslim clerical Abu Hamza to preach holy war against Britain and the US.
Two of Hamza's devotees include failed suicide bombers Richard Reid - who tried to detonate a shoe bomb while flying from Paris to the US - and Zacrias Moussaoui, who the FBI claims was to have been the 20th hijacker in the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001.
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Posted by: Neil on Friday, August 11, 2006 - 03:19 PM
It seems that Home Secretary John Reid was trying to send a message that something was in the air when he made a speech on Wednesday warning that the UK was facing the greatest sustained threat to national security since the Second World War. Some questioned whether there were political motives behind the announcement, but now we know different.
Bringing down airliners with bombs has long been a goal of British al-Qaida supporters. The two British would-be shoe-bombers, Richard Reid and Sajid Badat, are the two best known cases. Less well-known is the case of an Algerian, Abbas Boutrab, who was convicted late last year in Northern Ireland.
His story may well provide insights into yesterday's events which paralysed the air industry. He was working on a new generation of bombs being developed by militants that are designed to evade airport scanning equipment. Boutrab was apparently caught, by chance, in the midst of constructing a bomb that could be concealed inside an electrical device such as a personal music player.
One of the documents he was found in possession of was a guide produced by British al-Qaida supporters, which described how to make a wide variety of innovative devices. The document was encrypted and password-protected, but further examination showed that it had been produced by a group of British militants connected to the radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza.
Boutrab never cracked under questioning and it remains a mystery as to whether he was working alone, or with others. Experience would suggest that he would have been working with a wider network of support cells and probably other would-be bombers on a plot to simultaneously destroy more than one aircraft.
Multiple co-ordinated attacks is an al-Qaida trademark. Since 9/11, and in the face of increased security measures adopted by airlines and airports following the Lockerbie disaster of 1988, which was caused when a bomb exploded in an unaccompanied piece of luggage on the Pan-Am flight, the network's explosives specialists have been working to produce plans for new types of bombs that can evade these measures. Hence the decision to prevent passengers carrying hand luggage on to planes which many people criticised yesterday as a draconian step.
Several different plans have been worked on, though all share similarities, in that the new bombs are constructed from several different components that are designed to be assembled inside an aircraft toilet and detonated.
In June, I obtained several documents which contained actual construction plans for these new kinds of devices. One of the advantages for the bombers is that only a small explosion is needed to destroy an aircraft. All that is required is that the charge be powerful enough to pierce the pressurised hull of an aircraft. In theory, only a few grammes of explosive is needed.
The documents show how that can be concealed inside seemingly innocent items, such as medicine capsules. It also spells out ways to disguise the smell of the explosive to evade scanners and sniffer dogs, by adding a compound that acts as a masking agent. There have also been experiments with liquid explosives.
One line read: "Detonate inside the plane's toilet and do not make the mistake of the shoe-bomber."
The details of the plot bear all the hallmarks of an updated version of a plan hatched by al-Qaida in 1995. Called Project Bojinka, it was a plot to destroy a dozen airliners mid-flight, en route from the Far East to the USA.
It was devised by Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, who would later go on to mastermind the September 11 attacks in the USA.
The plan centred on using "micro-bombs" composed of an undetectable liquid explosive, which would be carried in hand luggage. The bombs would be detonated with timers.
The plan failed after terrorists involved in the plan were arrested during the planning phase, otherwise a massive death toll would have resulted.
The big question now is whether there are other cells still at large – either inside or outside the UK. In recent years, there are indications that al-Qaida planners want to launch a series of simultaneous attacks in different countries, to go a step further than 9/11. What we've seen may be part of a wider plan involving perhaps other European countries.
Police sources have said that the attacks were not planned for yesterday, so the threat looks set to remain for several days.
Neil Doyle
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"Tolerance has made UK a breeding ground for militants"
Posted by: Neil on Sunday, August 13, 2006 - 10:53 AM
ON THE NET...
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Saleh confirms Iran’s right to possess nuclear energy
Yemen Times Staff
"Iranian Foreign Minister in a meeting with his Yemeni counterpart."
SANA’A, Aug. 13
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"A man attacked after defaming Hezbollah"
By: Hamdan Dammag
SANA'A, Aug 12
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A (Yemeni) Judge Sympathetic to U.S. Frees 19 of Its Enemies; Islamic Law Allows Jihad
Wall Street Journal ^ | August 14, 2006 | GREG JAFFE
Posted on 08/14/2006 9:19:53 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
SANA, Yemen -- The U.S. has spent millions of dollars in Yemen to help the government crack down on Islamic extremists who want to wage violent jihad against nonbelievers.
There is just one problem with the strategy: It is not clear that jihad is illegal in Yemen.
Last month a Yemeni judge, sitting on the state's special terrorism court, ruled that 19 defendants who had traveled to Iraq to kill American soldiers and fight alongside al Qaeda there had done nothing wrong. The defendants -- 14 Yemenis and five Saudis who had been caught with guns and fake Iraqi passports -- made no attempt to deny their connection to al Qaeda in Iraq. They openly praised Osama bin Laden, and bore wounds from fighting American and Iraqi troops.
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His argument: "Islamic Sharia law permits jihad against occupiers" of Muslim lands.
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In an interview, Judge al-Baadani says he has no doubt that the 19 men he acquitted were dangerous and misguided. During the trial he scolded them for sneaking off to Iraq without the approval of the president or their parents. But, he says, no laws prohibit Yemenis from fighting Western forces in Iraq. If such laws were enacted or enforced by the courts, they would only drive more Muslims to al Qaeda, he argues. By contrast, he says that under Yemeni and Sharia law it is against the law to attack U.S. or Western targets outside of occupied lands. That reading would make last week's foiled attacks on commercial airliners flying out of London illegal.
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August 15, 2006
Italy: Over 13,000 potential terrorist targets "under control"
Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: "Italy: Over 13,000 Potential Terrorist Targets 'Under Control,'" from AKI, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
Rome, 14 August (AKI) - Security services in Italy are keeping under surveillance some 13,664 potential terrorist targets and have deployed some 19,559 operatives to do the job, the Interior Ministry announced on Monday. In the wake of last week's foiled bomb plot at London's airports securty measures in Italy have been "additionally reinforced," the ministry said in its latest report on security in the country.
Security at potential targets such as airports has come under greater scrutiny, and with British authorities arresting alleged Muslim extremists in connection with with the plane bombing plot, Italian police have also stepped up controls at "meeting points used by the Islamic community, call centres, Internet points and Islamic butcher shops," the ministry report said....
Over the last year security agents had identified 82,752 terrrorism suspects, reported 1,508 to the judicial authorities and arrested 618. In addition deportation procedures were in place for 2,012 foreign citizens, of whom 55 have already been expelled from Italy.
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I hope not, but it's a distinct possibility.
I agree.
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Was hoping there was news related to this - but I dont see anything.
More prayers for him and his family.
Simply nauseating.
Terror case coming apart
......He said the photos of the Mackinac Bridge were innocent tourist snapshots taken while the men were stuck in traffic.....
http://www.mlive.com/news/sanews/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1155648027145100.xml&coll=9
I'm just not buying this. Look at the U.S. map. After purchasing the phones in Wisconsin they drove to Michigan instead of south back home to Texas. If they were planning to take the phones back to Texas to sell them why did they go so far out of their way. Were they on vacation? Were they going to visit anyone in Michigan? It doesn't make sense.
I'm not buying it either.
I'd also like to see the pics they took of the bridge.
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