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ADAM GADAHN grew up on a farm in Riverside County, California; as a teenage slob he was obsessed with heavy metal music. Today he is known as “Azzam the American” — al-Qaeda’s own Lord Haw-Haw — who stars in a video telling fellow Westerners that they must convert to Islam or be sent “straight to Hell without passing Go”. Dressed in flowing white robes and turban, Gadahn, 28, delivers a long lecture on the errors of Christianity and Judaism before setting out a critique of US foreign policy ranging from the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima to the...

Note: Photo included. Trio not guilty of helping 7/7 London bombers Jury clears men of conspiring with four bombers over London 2005 explosions that killed 52 Rachel Williams guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 28 April 2009 17.01 BST Three British Muslims were today cleared of helping the 7 July bombers choose their targets by carrying out a reconnaissance mission in London seven months before the attacks that killed 52 people and injured almost 1,000. A jury at Kingston crown court unanimously found Waheed Ali, 25, Sadeer Saleem, 28, and Mohammed Shakil, 32, all from Beeston, Leeds, not guilty of conspiring with the four...

The al-Qaeda leader who is thought to have devised the plan for the July 7 suicide bombings in London and an array of terrorist plots against Britain has been captured by the Americans. Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a former major in Saddam Hussein’s army, was apprehended as he tried to enter Iraq from Iran and was transferred this week to the “high-value detainee programme” at Guantanamo Bay. Abd al-Hadi was taken into CIA custody last year, it emerged from US intelligence sources yesterday, in a move which suggests that he was interrogated for months in a “ghost prison” before being transferred...

LONDON, JANUARY 7: All of 22 years and a staggering inheritance of £121,000. That is the mystery UK authorities are figuring out over Shehzad Tanweer, one of the suicide bombers who carried out the London attack on July 7, 2005. Tanweer, of Pakistani origin, lived and worked in an impoverished suburb of Leeds in the Midlands has left behind the fortune, and, no will. The sum is all the more staggering given his humble family origins and that his income came from his job in a basic fish-and-chip shop. Tanweer was among the group of suicide bombers who travelled down...

The New York Times is baffled. In one of their chin pulling, deeply empathic investigations into the backgrounds of the four savage London jihadis -- oh, excuse us, of those cricket loving, charming young men -- it troubles the Times to report they found no explanation for the bloody London subway bombings carried out by these young men. No explanation, why? Well, for starters, one of these young lads, Mr. Tanweer, was "infinitely likable", and "...He was a good lad, so down-to-earth," said a friend who played cricket with him the day before the bombing..." This would be perfect for...

Terrorism links find Pakistan again in eye of stormBy Imtiaz Gul Jul 17, 2005, 15:03 GMT Islamabad - Despite ebullient U.S praise for its anti-terror efforts since becoming a key member of the international coalition against terrorism, Pakistan still finds itself in the eye of the storm for its past links with radical militant groups in the region. This time, the south Asian nation is under renewed focus after British officials investigating the July 7 London bombings revealed one of the suicide bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, had stayed at a religious seminary in Lahore this year. The seminary, known as Markaz-e-Tayyaba,...

London bomber's uncle defends nephew's 'sacrifice': report(Updated at 2110 PST)LONDON: The uncle of Shahzad Tanweer, one of the four London bomb suspects, has defended his nephew's actions as a desperate "sacrifice" in an interview with the British tabloid newspaper. "These suicide bombers are desperate people," Bashir Ahmed told the Sunday paper. "They are not getting their rights. They can see that their brothers are not getting their rights, so they take extreme action." "This lad has made a name for himself in the world. Muslims call it a sacrifice, the Europeans call him a terrorist," he was quoted as saying....

Why did Shehzad Tanweer do it? And what - if anything - can be done to prevent other British-born Muslims from following his example? Consider his brief life story. He was born in Yorkshire in 1983, just after Geoff Boycott retired from Test cricket. He was not poor; his father, an immigrant from Pakistan, had built up a successful takeaway food business, selling fish and chips and driving a Mercedes. He was not uneducated, assuming you regard a degree in sports science from Leeds Metropolitan University as education. Nor, I suspect, would he have failed the "cricket test" famously devised...

THis is the kind of brain Numbing stupidity we have to combat... THE uncle of suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer last night told the News of the World the 22-year-old's murderous act did not make him a terrorist. In a searingly frank and shocking exclusive interview, Bashir Ahmed claimed Tanweer was a "desperate" young man "driven" to commit the atrocity by the West's treatment of Muslims. And he BLAMED Tony Blair and George Bush for the July 7 bombings, warning: "There will be more." "These (suicide bombers) are desperate people," said Ahmed. "They can see that their brothers are not getting...

Police have released a CCTV image of the four London bombers as they set out from Luton on their bombing mission. They have also confirmed the names of all four men for the first time. Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Germaine Lindsay, 19, Hasib Hussain, 18, and Shahzad Tanweer, 22, were pictured in Luton at 0720 BST on Thursday 7 July. Three bombs exploded on the London underground at 0850 BST, and one on a bus at 0947. Fifty-five people died, including the four bombers. The picture was released in an attempt to find out more about their final movements. Peter...

Anger Burns on the Fringe of Britain's Muslims By HASSAN M. FATTAH LEEDS, England, July 15 - At Beeston's Cross Flats Park, in the center of this now embattled town, Sanjay Dutt and his friends grappled Friday with why their friend Kakey, better known to the world as Shehzad Tanweer, had decided to become a suicide bomber. "He was sick of it all, all the injustice and the way the world is going about it," Mr. Dutt, 22, said. "Why, for example, don't they ever take a moment of silence for all the Iraqi kids who die?" "It's a double...

LEEDS, England, July 15 - At Beeston's Cross Flats Park, in the center of this now embattled town, Sanjay Dutt and his friends grappled Friday with why their friend Kakey, better known to the world as Shehzad Tanweer, had decided to become a suicide bomber.

Shehzad Tanweer, one of the four suspected suicide bombers behind the 7/7 London serial blasts, is said to have lived in the house of Osama bin Laden, located nearly 30 miles from Lahore. According to The Mirror, Tanweer spent time at Markaz-e-Dawa, a madarasa in north Pakistan where Osama lived until he went on the run in the early 1990s. “It appears Tanweer spent some time at Markaz-e-Dawa and at another militant seminary in the city,” the paper quoted a source as saying. The paper further said that at the madarasa, Shehzad might have fallen into the clutches of Jaish-i-Muhammad...

The teenage terrorist who blew up a double-deck bus in Tavistock Square, London, killing 13 people including himself, was caught on closed-circuit television two and a half hours earlier. Hasib Hussain, bearded and wearing jeans and a jacket, was pictured at Luton railway station as he and three other bombers headed for the 7.20am train to London last Thursday. In his rucksack was the 10lb bomb that exploded at 9.47am on the No 30 bus shortly after three other bombs went off in Underground trains. Hussain, 18, a nondescript character, troublesome at home in Leeds and an under-achiever at school,...