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9 September 2007

FANATICS' INTERNET TRAINING

Websites teach murder

By Daniel Jones

Fanatical British Muslims are using the internet to plot a fresh wave of terror to mark the sixth anniversary of 9/11, The People can reveal.

We have infiltrated a string of vile websites that spell out in chilling detail how to bring carnage to the UK.

Crude bomb-making instructions have been circulated on the web for years. But we found expert videos showing wannabe killers how to create home-made bombs, chemicals and poisons for mass murder.

Some are even based on stolen guides written for US and British military chiefs.

Five days ago, German cops smashed an alleged Islamic fundamentalist cell recruited through the internet.

But despite the setback, al-Qaeda increasingly use websites to give lessons in terror as they are harder to track than fanatics travelling to foreign training camps.

The sites we found include step-by-step guides to making:

1. Suicide bomb belts similar to the ones used in the 7/7 London attacks;
2. Car bombs packed with gas canisters like those used in the botched attempts to blow up a London club and Glasgow airport in June; and
3. Deadly ricin poison and DIY chemical agents.

Others include manuals with titles like The Mujahideen Explosives Handbook and The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook.

Security analyst Charles Shoebridge said: "Academic interest aside, there seems little point in possessing these collections other than to learn terrorist tradecraft.

"There are likely to be individuals using this type of material to plot terror attacks."

And he warned: "These sites are more dangerous than the propaganda sites that have so far dominated public concern.

"For example, only a proportion of those interested in radical Islam become terrorists. But ANYONE with terrorist intent, Islamist or not, would find these sites extremely useful."

He added: "As the authorities begin to tackle training in places such as Pakistan, distance-learning in terrorist techniques - which is largely web-based - becomes ever more important."

For security reasons, we are not naming the specific sites we accessed - or giving details of bombs and terror methods.

Over the past year we have highlighted the growing use of the net by UK extremists, including the creation of cyber-mosques where clerics preach hate against the nation that gives them shelter.

And Mr Shoebridge warned it was time for counter-terror chiefs to act against websites which peddle messages of murder. He said: "Within the UK, inciting or glorifying terrorism are already criminal offences - but as yet there have been few web-related prosecutions.

"It may prove more effective for the authorities to pursue not only those who create the sites but also the internet service providers behind them."

SUICIDE BOMB JACKETS

A sick 26-minute film shows how to pack a suicide belt with high explosives and shrapnel - to cause maximum loss of life.

It then recreates a bus blast like the one that killed 14 people on a London bus in the 7/7 horror.

A callous voiceover in Arabic says: "When the person who will be wearing this wants to blow himself up, he must be facing the front with his back towards the back."

POISONS

A horrific 23-page manual spells out a series of recipes for killer poisons.

It details toxins like arsenic and cyanide but also looks at poisons that can be made from everyday items such as tobacco, potatoes, cornflour and mushrooms.

The writer admits some recipes are not yet perfect but adds: "It is hoped brothers who work on this will research further and carry out their own experiments - preferably on non-Muslims."

HOW TO MAKE RICIN

Deadly ricin is made from castor beans - and is an al-Qaeda favourite.

Several videos give step-by-step guides to extract the poison.

In one, a presenter says: "It is one of the most toxic organic substances. One two thousandth of a grain is lethal." He then calmly shows how to make it as if he were a Blue Peter host.

Other sites feature the US patent for ricin - including a diagram and a precise recipe for making it.

BUILD A GAS CAR BOMB

A vile video highlights how to use gas canisters in car-bombs - in a chilling echo of June's failed terror attacks in London and Glasgow.

The 14-minute film ends with footage of a similar bomb going off in Iraq - allegedly killing 35 non-Muslims.

A voiceover says: "Let it be known the brothers chose the time of their gathering to carry out the operation in order to kill and torture them."

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Muslim group behind ‘mega-mosque’ seeks to convert all Britain

With thanks to Robert at Jihad Watch:

Tablighi Jamaat sets out to clear up misconceptions about Islam. By Andrew Norfolk in the TimesOnline (thanks to Kemaste):

A Muslim group that wants to open a giant £100 million mosque in London has set its sights on “winning the whole of Britain to Islam”.

Tablighi Jamaat aims to build an Islamic complex near to the site of the 2012 Olympic stadium, with a mosque for 12,000 people, by far the largest religious building in Britain.

The organisation, which has millions of followers worldwide, insists that it is a peaceful, apolitical revivalist movement that promotes Islamic consciousness among individual Muslims. However, intelligence agencies have cautioned that the group’s ability to fire young men with a zeal for Islam acts as a staging post, for some, along a path that leads to jihadist terrorism.

Kafeel Ahmed, the Indian doctor who died from burns last month after trying to set off a car bomb at Glasgow Airport, is the latest in a line of terrorists for whose initial radicalisation Tablighi Jamaat has been blamed. The group (literally, the preaching party) belongs to the ultra-conservative Deobandi school of thought within Sunni Islam, whose adherents run more than 600 of Britain’s 1,350 mosques.

In recent days The Times has exposed the virulently anti-Western creed of some British Deobandis who preach that non-Muslims are an evil and corrupting influence. Their defensive, isolationist approach to life in Britain is shared by many British supporters of Tablighi Jamaat.

One leading advocate, Ebrahim Rangooni, has said that the movement seeks to “rescue the ummah [the global Muslim community] from the culture and civilisation of the Jews, the Christians and [other] enemies of Islam”. Its aim, he wrote, is to “create such hatred for their ways as human beings have for urine and excreta”.

Mr Rangooni has also given warning to parents that non-Muslim schools “turn humans into animals” and that sending a Muslim child to a British college “is as dangerous as throwing them into hell with your own hands”.

Representatives of Tablighi Jamaat refused to attend a public meeting on Friday to discuss plans for the “mega mosque” in West Ham, even though the debate was organised by a Muslim group.

Tablighi Jamaat was founded in 1926, in India, by a Deobandi scholar, Muhammad Ilyas, who wanted to raise Islamic awareness among rural Muslims in south Asia. He promised them that by obeying Islamic laws and following the example of the Prophet Muhammad in their personal lives they would one day “dominate over non-believers” and become “masters of everything on this earth”.

Ishaq Patel, Tablighi Jamaat’s first amir (leader) in Britain, is said to have been on pilgrimage in Mecca when Ilyas’s successor gave him a long-term mission to win “the whole of Britain to Islam”.

Yoginder Sikand, a Muslim expert on the movement, says that its ethos of “social and cultural separatism and insularity” seeks “to minimise contacts with people of other faiths”.

The self-segregation that this encourages is evident in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, where the group has its European headquarters. The Tablighi Jamaat complex – housing its large Markazi mosque and a Deobandi seminary called the Islamic Institute of Education - is based in the Savile Town area, which has an 88 per cent Asian population. The overwhelming majority of its 5,000 residents are Muslims from Pakistan or the Gujarat region of India and some, at home and at work, have little contact with nonMuslims.

It was on the advice of a Tablighi Jamaat scholar that Aishah Azmi, a Dewsbury teaching assistant, refused to remove her full-face veil in the class-room while helping young children who were learning to speak English.

Mr Sikand says: “There is little doubt that the sense of cultural separatism and heightened [Islamic] identity consciousness fostered by Tablighi Jamaat can be taken advantage of by more assertive Islamist groups that have a more explicit political agenda.”

One of the suicide bombers who attacked London in July 2005, Shehzad Tanweer, studied at the Deobandi seminary in Dewsbury and Mohammad Sidique Khan, the leader of the 7/7 terror plot, was a regular worshipper at the adjoining mosque. Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, was said to have been influenced by Tablighi Jamaat, several of whose adherents were also among those arrested last year over an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic airliners.

Shabbir Daji, a trustee and secretary of the Tablighi Jamaat mosque in Dewsbury, told The Times that the movement’s aim was “unity among all humanity”. He said that it had no hidden agenda. “We never come out on demonstrations against the Government,” he said. “Our aim is to make each and everyone . . . a better Muslim.”

Including you and me, whether we like it or not.

This is the most frightening aspect of this group - they intend to force us to convert to Islam or lose our lives. If we do not believe this truth, then we are all lost.

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Spencer: Osama’s Challenge

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch once again has a good and believable analysis of the meaning of the video that has been released by OBL:

The overlooked aspect of Osama's latest video. From FrontPage (news links in the original):

"I invite you to embrace Islam,” says Osama bin Laden in his latest videotape. Most analysts take this as pious window-dressing and focus on what they believe to be the more substantive points of his message:

• his comments on the war in Iraq,
•  his critique of capitalism,
  
• the similarity of much of what he says to Democratic Party talking points, and the like.

 But in fact the invitation to Islam is the heart, and the most revealing aspect, of bin Laden’s entire statement.

The chief reason for this, of course, is because in traditional Islamic law, the invitation to Islam must precede an attack on non-Muslims. The Islamic prophet Muhammad makes this clear, directing Muslims to issue this invitation first, and if the unbelievers refuse, to invite them to enter the Islamic social order as second-class dhimmis, and if they refuse both, to go to war with them:

Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war, do not embezzle the spoils; do not break your pledge; and do not mutilate (the dead) bodies; do not kill the children. When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them....If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya [the poll tax on non-Muslims]. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them. (Sahih Muslim 4294)

Is, then, a major attack imminent? There are numerous indications of that – suggesting that one of the primary audiences, at least for this part of Osama’s message, is the Islamic world. If such an attack comes, Osama has by means of this videotape attempted to forestall criticism by Muslims, and has laid claim to Islamic legitimacy for Al-Qaeda’s actions.

But there is also a still wider significance to Osama’s invitation to Islam. He offers in this videotape a cultural critique of the Judeo-Christian West. This critique doesn’t focus on the exportation of its immoral pop culture, which some think is the primary, if not sole, grievance of the Islamic world against the West; Osama doesn’t mention that at all here. Rather, he concentrates on its religion: “You believe with absolute certainty that you believe in Allah, and you are full of conviction of this belief, so much that you have written this belief of yours on your dollar. But the truth is that you are mistaken in this belief of yours.”

Why? He lists two reasons:

• “you associate others with Him in your beliefs

• and separate state from religion.”
  

Both of these criticisms focus on Christianity:

1.  Islam regards the divinity of Christ as an unacceptable and polytheistic association of a partner with God,
   
2. and rejects the sacred/secular distinction that is ultimately derived from Christ’s directive to “render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s” (Matthew 22:21).
   

Bin Laden charges the West with “manifest polytheism,” criticizing its making laws “in contradiction to [Allah’s] Law and methodology.” This is an integral part of his invitation to Islam: since Islam is a political and social system as well as a religious faith, to accept it is not merely to change one’s religious affiliation: it would fundamentally alter the nature of Western society.

The call to implement Islamic Sharia law in its fullness as an antidote to the ills of society is resonating throughout the Islamic world, with severe challenges to relatively secular regimes being mounted recently in Malaysia, Turkey, and Pakistan. Jihadists base their appeal in the Islamic world on the purity of their Islam, and on the proposition that obedience to Allah brings worldly success, as Osama says: “And our holding firm to this magnificent Book is the secret of our strength and winning of the war against you despite the fewness of our numbers and materiel.”

Six years after 9/11, and a year and a half after Donald Rumsfeld observed that “We need to find ways to win the ideological battle as well,” the jihadists’ ideological challenge is not being answered adequately. Osama’s challenge to Christianity and advocacy of Sharia is an opportunity for Western leaders to stress the aspects of Judeo-Christian civilization that Sharia law denies:

1. notably the equality of dignity of men and women
   
2. and the freedom of conscience.

 But no Western leader will do this, because it would contradict the multiculturalist dogma that no civilization or culture has any virtues that any others do not possess.

The centrality of the jihadists’ cultural challenge to the West, and Western unwillingness to respond to this challenge, is a chief theme of my book Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t, but it is getting little attention elsewhere; even conservative media figures are hesitant to discuss the cultural conflict. The ideological challenge that the jihadists are making to the West remains the single most misunderstood aspect of the war on terror. As Osama invites us once again to accept Islam, probably very few Americans would be able to articulate why they wouldn’t want to accept the invitation, and yet talk of Sharia and how it contradicts basic Western understandings of human rights remain taboo.

As Al-Qaeda attempts to follow up on Osama’s invitation, and Europe becomes increasingly riven by strife between Muslims and non-Muslims, it will become clearer why we ignore this aspect of the jihadist challenge at our own peril.

My challenge here is to invite readers to consider the consequences of ignoring the message behind the OBL video before it is too late. Please do not leave comments stating that you doubt that this is OBL or that GW set the video up, because such comments only show that the reader is woolly headed and needs to get off whatever he or she is taking.  There is a challenge in the video, and this challenge has been issued recently at least 3 times. This means that time is running out for the Western countries as far as OBL is concerned. He is following precisely what was set down by the false prophet Mohammed. When will the MSM, the Left and our government leaders sit up and really take notice to this new and rather disturbing threat that has been issued in the name of a false religion.

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Germany says terror plot may be wider - up to 50 involved

Germany says terror plot may be wider - Yahoo! News

The German terror plot seems to be wider than anticipated according to this report from Yahoo news.

German authorities believe two German converts and a Turk were only the leading tip of the planning, said Petra Kneuer, spokeswoman for the Federal Prosecutor's Office.

She said authorities were investigating seven more suspects inside and outside Germany as part of what could be a larger network, and that reports that about 50 people may be involved are "not unrealistic."

The two German suspects have been identified as Fritz Martin Gelowicz, 28, described as the leader of an Islamic Jihad Union terror cell in Germany, and Daniel Martin Schneider, 22. The third man has been identified as Adem Yilmaz, 29, born in Turkey but living in Germany.

Last New Year's Eve, one of the suspects was spotted studying a U.S. Army base at Hanau, near Frankfurt, and security officials say he may have been scouting it as a target.

Prosecutors have said potential targets might have included restaurants, pubs, discotheques, airports and other places frequented by Americans.

Joerg Ziercke, the head of the Federal Crime Office, said the arrests had disrupted the plan. "The peak of the danger has passed," he said.

Asked about a report in the news weekly Focus that the three man had obtained vans across the border in France, Kneuer said the purpose of the vehicles had not been determined.

"So far it hasn't been shown that there really was a link to the planned attacks," she told The Associated Press.

The three suspects allegedly belonged to the Islamic Jihad Union, an offshoot of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which has origins in that Central Asian country. The union is marked by "profound hatred" of U.S. citizens, officials said.

The extremism that fueled the alleged plot was cultivated in the city of Ulm, on the banks of the Danube River in southwestern Germany, security officials said.

Ulm, the birthplace of Albert Einstein, has been known for its cathedral, which has one of the largest church towers in the world. But in recent years it has become a hotbed of radical Islamic activity. Security officials said Gelowicz attended an Islamic center that was later closed by authorities as a security risk.

German politicians called Saturday on Islamic groups and communities in Germany to step up their commitment to the fight against terrorism. Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries said Muslims should report potentially violent extremists to authorities.

"I am certain that the peace-loving Muslims in our country want to keep violent radicals from discrediting their faith community," Zypries was quoted as saying by the weekly Bild am Sonntag.

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Our followers must live in peace until they are strong enough to wage jihad (make that war)

Jihad Watch: "Our followers 'must live in peace until strong enough to wage jihad'"

Here is yet another Mohammedan on the real intention of Pakistani Mohammedans:

Let's hope. More on yesterday's story about Deobandi control of almost half of the mosques in the United Kingdom, by Andrew Norfolk for the Times Online:

One of the world’s most respected Deobandi scholars believes that aggressive military jihad should be waged by Muslims “to establish the supremacy of Islam” worldwide.

Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani argues that Muslims should live peacefully in countries such as Britain, where they have the freedom to practise Islam, only until they gain enough power to engage in battle.

His views explode the myth that the creed of offensive, expansionist jihad represents a distortion of traditional Islamic thinking.

Mr Usmani, 64, sat for 20 years as a Sharia judge in Pakistan’s Supreme Court. He is an adviser to several global financial institutions and a regular visitor to Britain. Polite and softly spoken, he revealed to The Times a detailed knowledge of world events and his words, for the most part, were balanced and considered.

He agreed that it was wrong to suggest that the entire nonMuslim world was intent on destroying Islam. Yet this is a man who, in his published work, argues the case for Muslims to wage an expansionist war against nonMuslim lands.

Mr Usmani’s justification for aggressive military jihad as a means of establishing global Islamic supremacy is revealed at the climax of his book, Islam and Modernism. The work is a polemic against Islamic modernists who seek to convert the entire Koran into “a poetic and metaphorical book” because, he says, they have been bewitched by Western culture and ideology.

Just one of many pro-jihad books one may find on the shelves of London bookstores.

The final chapter delivers a rebuke to those who believe that only defensive jihad (fighting to defend a Muslim land that is under attack or occupation) is permissible in Islam. He refutes the suggestion that jihad is unlawful against a nonMuslim state that freely permits the preaching of Islam.

For Mr Usmani, “the question is whether aggressive battle is by itself commendable or not”. “If it is, why should the Muslims stop simply because territorial expansion in these days is regarded as bad? And if it is not commendable, but deplorable, why did Islam not stop it in the past?”

He answers his own question thus: “Even in those days ... aggressive jihads were waged ... because it was truly commendable for establishing the grandeur of the religion of Allah.”

These words are not the product of a radical extremist. They come from the pen of one of the most acclaimed scholars in the Deobandi tradition.

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Update on the Denmark Terrorism plot

The man behind the foiled Denmark terrorism plot had targeted the British and United States embassies in Denmark.  The planned attacks were set to mark the 6th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre.

The eight suspects who have been rounded up range in ages from 19 to 29 and they come from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Turkey.  They are believed to be a part of the Al Qaeda network. It is believed that the group had received instructions from British based cyber terrorists who had been shut down earlier this year:

The British group's activities were stopped by an MI5 investigation earlier this year when three men were jailed for encouraging suicide missions using online forums and websites.

Their websites were also used as a secure communications centre by several senior Al Qaeda operatives, including two Bosnian-based terror chiefs known as "Maximus" and "Danish Turk".

The pair were jailed over a plot to mount a suicide attack against a Western embassy in Sarajevo.

And The Mail on Sunday understands that two of those arrested in Copenhagen had been in regular telephone contact with them and under longterm surveillance by Danish intelligence.

The arrest earlier in the year of the British group helped authorities to keep these terrorists under surveillance. It is work well done, but have they captured all concerned?

The Left Reacts to Osama's Video - a parody on leftist views

Chickenhawk Express: The Left Reacts to Osama's Video

Robin of Chickenhawk Express sets out to show how the Left will react to the latest offering fom OBL who has gone to the effort of dyeing his beard black. Here are her points:

1. Pay No Attention to the terrorist in the video.
According to one Kos kid poster, the man sounds like the Unabomber. Oh really!

2. The Bin Laden Video nonsense.
According to this Kos poster, there is no importance in the fact that OBL had dyed his beard. It is more important to bash Bush!!

3. I guess Bin Laden is a Republican.
After all OBL dared to criticize the Democrats!!

4. Notice how the OBL release his tape JIT to help Bush
I guess you can call this the "It's not OBL" conspiracy theory.

5. Kyoto accord.
Is someone trying to link this to terrorism?

6. OBL denied
"Just how stupid do they think we are". The poster does not believe that it is OBL in the tape. I guess someone needs to pull their head out of the sand.

7.Aligning progressive arguments with terrorism is the easiest way to
discredit them without actually having to disprove them.

8.Yup, I think that's it
Just associate OBL with the exact messages that the progressive community uses.
Fits right in with the RW "liberals are with the terrorists" theme.

9.If that's OBL, I'll kiss your ass in front of the White House
Starting with the 04 tape and now this one, OBL never talked about current events in his tapes, nor did he address American political parties. This tape is a RNC/WH production.

10. There'll be another one before the election- you can take that to the f@&*ing bank.
This is the "surge" edition.

One would think the "bad guys" in the CIA (Bush bots)
would learn not to be so obvious...wouldn't one.

This tape is a fake, just like the one broadcast just before the '04 elections.
Wake up, sheeple. OBL is dead. Your minds are being manipulated.

Sorry, but he does sound like a Democrat
He's pissed that the Democratic Congress hasnt ended the war as promised..Something that is repeated here daily. He is also concerned about Global Warming and the mortgage crisis...So obviously BushCo has fabricated this video to make the Dems look bad.

I dunno, it sounded like a YearlyKos convention speech
Obviously this is a BushCo planted video...

OH BROTHER! They are recycling the 2004 Robot bin Laden tape!
Sorry, not convinced by this bogus (and very low resolution) "new tape," He's bin Dead since December 2001, which was the last time I saw anything convincing.

Sorry, Wingnuts, Osama is Not a Leftist

When someone admits the veracity of Noam Chomsky's social and political analysis, that does not mean they are a leftist.

When someone argues that the war in Iraq began largely to help US corporations make money through profiteering and by securing oil resources, that does not mean they are a leftist.

When someone accuses the US government's policy as akin to hegemonic imperialism, that does not mean they are a leftist.

It means they are a realist.

Our Oil Imperialism Caused And Keeps Igniting Islamic
fundamentalism. They have a point. We (and by we - I mean American corporations) are basically stealing from the people of the Middle East.

This is One of the Sick Consequences of Bush's Policies
Giving Osama Bin Laden the moral high ground. He can point to the Dems craven politics as just another example of the anti-democratic and immoral USA.

Bush has already destroyed the credibility of the federal government for a generation. Now he's working hard towards undermining all global sympathy for US policy goals

Whilst these excuses look like a parody, they are in fact comments that have been made by the moonbats on the Left in American politics. These people are so full of dope that they do not seem to have the ability to properly process what is happening around them. They do not understand the real significance of having OBL appear with his hair dyed. Will they blame Bush when OBL orders another attack on US soil? Look at it this way, for in the last week two Al Qaeda plots in Europe have been foiled. The first was in Denmark, where more than 7 people have been arrested, and the other is in Germany, where three have been arrested, and up to 10 others are being sought by the authorities in Germany.

There is simply no excuse for people having their heads so far in the sand that it looks like their heads are squarely up their butts instead. These people are not realists, and that is particularly true of the followers of Ron Paul, and the Troofers.

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