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Worldwide Caution
April 10, 2007
Thanks. A few months ago i managed to catch the thread in the latest posts section on the site. I can see from the archives i’m a little bit late but it’s nice to know there is a group that is actually aware of this clear and present danger.
Most i talk to are oblivious to the facts and because of our selective vivid entertainment we envelop ourselves in, have unfortunately fallen back into 9/10 mode. I can’t even bring it up with a colleague or friend without being mocked, thats how bad i believe that frame of mind has gotten.
Sorry for my rant, but glad to be onboard!
-hunter
Welcome, and I give you fair warning...........once here, no one ever leaves. Best and most informative thread on FR.
placemark
Inconceivable!
I wonder if this tape was in transit when the failed London/Glasgow attacks occured and the ‘center of London’ reference was intended to refer to those (assuming that they would be successful)
bttt
Agreed and the reference to the 'center of London' is generic enough to cover a lot.
He's looking to incite people to rise up and possibly alluding to the "spectacular" event we have now seen several intelligence agencies mention.
That generated a lot of response, so his follow-up to maintain the momentum makes sense. Time will tell if frequency = pre attack troop rallying.
“Indian slave(s)” (not just a reference to Rushdie)
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2007/06/09/al_qaida_declares_holy_war_on_india/
Al-Qaida declares holy war on India
By Aijaz Hussain, Associated Press Writer | June 9, 2007 (excerpt)
SRINAGAR, India —A group claiming to represent the al-Qaida terror network declared a holy war on India over its partial control of the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir, Indian officials said Saturday. A statement and video was sent Friday to the Current News Service, in Srinagar, the main city of India’s Jammu-Kashmir state, in which a masked man standing next to an automatic weapon read the declaration.
“We declare righteous holy war against India on behalf of God the great in which Jammu and Kashmir will be the launch pad for holy war in India,” said the statement signed by Abu Abdul Rehman al-Ansari, purportedly the chief of al-Qaida Fil Hind or al-Qaida in India.
While this is the first time the group has been heard from since it announced its establishment in July, police said they were taking the threat seriously. . .
There have been allegations that Islamic militants fighting to wrest predominantly Muslim Kashmir from India have ties to al-Qaida, but these links have not been proven. . .
http://jurnalo.com/jurnalo/storyPage.do?story_id=47107
Bin Laden speeches found in terror suspect’s house in Bangalore
Tuesday 10 July 2007 13:30 (excerpt)
Inflammatory speeches by al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and propaganda against the United States and Britain have been seized by police from the house of a British terror plot suspect in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, a news report said Tuesday.
The material was found in three CDs that were seized along with a computer hard disk from the house of Kafeel Ahmed, who is suspected of being the person who drove a flaming vehicle into Glasgow airport, the Times of India newspaper reported.
While Kafeel Ahmed is in a hospital in Glasgow with burn injuries over 90 per cent of his body, his brother Sabeel Ahmed is being detained by the British police. Their cousin Mohammed Haneef is being questioned by the police in Brisbane, Australia. . .
The Times of India quoted police sources as saying that Kafeel Ahmed and his associates were believed to have visited Pakistan more than once to seeek approval for the Britain terror plot.
The police also suspect that al-Qaeda operatives have been at work in India recruiting young people.
“Al-Qaeda operatives have infiltrated the country in a big way and are acting as sleeper cells, spreading messages brainwashing youths. They have a long-term, methodical plan. It will not be long before these sympathisers turn operatives,” an official of Karnataka Police’s anti-terrorist cell was quoted as saying.
The official said al-Qaeda was targetting young educated Muslims who could be sent to the United States and Europe for terrorist activities. . .
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0710/p01s02-wosc.html
from the July 10, 2007 edition
Global terror’s India connection
The Glasgow attack is the first known act of global terror involving an Indian Muslim.
By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
and Mark Rice-Oxley | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
NEW DELHI and LONDON (excerpt)
When President George Bush visited this country of 150 million Muslims last year, he introduced his wife to the prime minister with a fact surely intended to amaze: “Not one Indian Muslim has joined Al Qaeda,” he said.
At a time when Muslim nations from Algeria to Indonesia have emerged as incubators for anti-Western extremists, India by some estimates the world’s second-most-populous Muslim nation has remained a unique case.
Yet reports from Britain suggest that, for the first time, an Indian Muslim is likely to be implicated in an act of international terrorism. Khafeel Ahmed, the man who police say crashed a Jeep into Glasgow’s airport on June 30, is an engineer from Bangalore, a city previously known only as the high-tech capital of the new India.
Until now, Indians’ disinterest in the global jihad had been largely taken for granted, experts say. In recent days, however, the nation has been left to try to piece together why a man who holds a PhD in aeronautics from India’s golden city was driven to such rage against the West and whether there will be more to follow. . .
WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. counterterror officials are warning of an increased risk of an attack this summer, given al-Qaidas apparent interest in summertime strikes and increased al-Qaida training in the Afghan-Pakistani border region.
On Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the editorial board of The Chicago Tribune that he had a gut feeling about a new period of increased risk.
He based his assessment on earlier patterns of terrorists in Europe and intelligence he would not disclose.
Summertime seems to be appealing to them, Chertoff said in his discussion with the newspaper about terrorists. We worry that they are rebuilding their activities.
Rushdie is a brave man.
Thanks nw for the heads up.
OAKLAND -- Operations at Oakland Airport were shut down for nearly two hours this morning after someone ran past the security screeners, officials said.
The security breach occurred at 9:05 a.m. in Terminal One, said spokeswoman Joanne Holloway. Alameda Sheriff's Sgt. J.D. Nelson said a man somehow bypassed the Transportation Security Administration screeners and ran into the terminal.
Both terminals reopened their security screening operations at 10:52 a.m., Holloway said, and flights are beginning to resume. Security lines are extremely long, she said, snaking out of both terminals and down the sidewalks in front of the airport. Delays are expected to continue for sometime, Holloway said. Travelers should check with their airline or visit www.flyoakland.com for more information on their flight status, she said.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/10/BAG68QU1TP4.DTL&feed=rss.news
Imam Accused in JFK Plot Wanted Help From Iran
July 10, 2007
A Shiite imam accused of plotting to blow up fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport wanted to seek Iranian backing for the terrorist plot. The disclosure came yesterday in a court decision denying bail to the Trinidadian-based cleric, Kareem Ibrahim.
Mr. Ibrahim, 62, is one of four men arrested last month on charges connected to the plot. At the time, American law enforcement officials said Mr. Ibrahim encouraged his co-conspirators to seek funding for the attack from outside their home countries of Trinidad or Guyana. While American authorities have not provided more details, a judge in Trinidad wrote that evidence, including tape recordings, suggests Mr. Ibrahim intended to seek backing for the plot from individuals in Iran or Britain.
In those recordings, Judge Prakash Moosai wrote, Mr. Ibrahim "refers to an Iranian brother' passing through Trinidad and Tobago, and of sending a trusted brother' to Iran to speak to the top men of the revolutionary movement there about the plan." The judge's decision does not clarify whether "the revolutionary movement there" refers to the government of the Islamic Republic. Nor does Judge Moosai state whether the plotters actually disclosed the plan to contacts in Iran or simply considered doing so. Mr. Ibrahim also spoke of contacting "brothers in England," the decision said.
Mr. Ibrahim's alleged efforts to find foreign backing mark the second Iran connection to surface in a case that initially appeared confined to the Western Hemisphere. At the time of his arrest, another of the defendants, Abdul Kadir of Guyana, was preparing to travel to Iran to attend an Islamic conference, according to news reports. Two of Mr. Kadir's children were studying in Iran at the time of his arrest, according to reports.
Excerpted
In other news:
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1036768720070710
seems like everything is clear although they haven’t said what was in the bag...
- Saad al-Houssaini, a Moroccan militant arrested in March in a police raid on an internet cafe in Casablanca, lived in Iran before the 2003 Casablanca suicide attacks in which 45 people died, according to police sources in Rabat. Al-Hossaini, an explosives expert, is suspected of involvement in the attacks.
The man allegedly left Afghanistan in 2001 after US troops invaded the country following 9/11 and travelled to Iran, where he received training in a camp of the Revolutionary Guards, the Pasdaran, together with Salafite militants close to al-Qaeda.
According to Moroccan police al-Houssaini, who studied chemistry at the university of Valencia in the 1990s, was specifically trained in Iran in the preparation of bombs for suicide attacks.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1095235068
Pakistan: Death of radical mosque leader a 'sad moment' says Grand Mufti
10 July
Islamabad - The Grand Mufti of Pakistan, Rafi Usmani has referred to Tuesday's killing of the radical mosque leader, Abdul Rasheed Ghazi, as a sad moment. In an interview with Pakistani television channel, the Mufti, who was part of the negotiating team that was trying to bring about a peaceful end to the crisis between the government and Islamabad's Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), said that those who fought for Allah are martyrs while those who died as part of their their jobs because their commanders had asked them to do so, are not.
The Pakistan army has said that at least 50 militants have been killed in the operation and eight soldiers. The military stormed the mosque compound early Tuesday morning after 11 hours of talks between Ghazi and the government failed. The Grand Mufti told Adnkronos International (AKI) that the talks failed after the draft accord reached by the two sides had been rejected by Pakistan's president General Pervez Musharraf.
Pakistan's interior ministry officials confirmed that Ghazi had been killed and that his body was found at the basement of the mosque. The interior ministry spokesperson said that he was initially injured and was asked to lay down his weapon but as he refused and tried to resist, he was killed.
Meanwhile many parts of Pakistan including the tribal areas of Swat, Maland and Bajaur, which lie along the border with Afghanistan, have been rattled with attacks on Pakistani security officials. There have been no reports of casualties so far. Reports also said that armed supporters of the militants in the Lal Masjid had blocked the Himalayan Karakorum Highway linking to China in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province. They had reportedly taken positions on the mountains along the Silk Route near Batagram.
In recent days, the army has redeployed thousands of troops in northwestern Pakistan where pro-Taliban militants opposed to Musharraf have been carrying out a string of attacks said to be linked to the mosque siege. In his final telephone interview on Pakistan television channels before he was killed, Ghazi said that the Pakistani government had not told the truth about those in the mosque and the amount of weaponry that they had with them.
"The government talked to us not to resolve anything but to break us. The government did a lot of propaganda about our weaponry. I want to tell that we have just 14 AK-47 guns and most of them are licensed," Ghazi said in the interview. The Pakistani authorities had said that there were hardcore militants inside the mosque and that they were well-armed with rocket launches and grenades and that they had been using women and children as human shields.
"I know I would be killed so I want to clarify that the government had given information against us, Ghazi said in his last recorded interview telecast on local Pakistani channels. There were religious political clerics who approached me but only to terrify me with the government's wrath," he said. "God would ask them on the Day of Judgment on their role," he said. "I want to thank the press with whom I have spent a good time and they always presented my point of view, Ghazi said.
In other interviews before he died, Ghazi reportedly said that if he was killed, there would be a strong reaction against the Musharraf government.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1095408190
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