On 6 Apr 2004 14:43:38 -0700, (Mark K.)
wrote:


If you will take a long look at the current active Anti British/anti
American Muslims living and preaching hate in the UK, its not terribly
surprising.

I live here and can tell you that most of the british population isn't
impressed with america, and that includes any race/creed you care to
mention, not just the muslims you so crave to hate in your neofascist
ziocon haze.

Frankly..with rare exceptions (unfortunately you are not included) and
several august members of this newsgroup..the US is not particulary
impressed with the British either. Since Di bought the farm...your
Royalty is the only thing the US differentiates between you and any
other turd world nation.

Btw....I love your use of all those hate terms.

I take it your mum finally told you your Da was a GI with a couple quid
burnng a hole in his pocket?

Tch tch tch...thats ok you old sod(omite)... We do still hold Maggie T
in reverence and some goodly measure of respect for Blair.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37668
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GLOBAL JIHAD
UK Muslim clerics
tied to Spain attack
Probe sees 'definite link' to Palestinian regarded as important al-Qaida
figure

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Posted: March 19, 2004
5:00 p.m. Eastern



© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Counter-terrorist police probing the massive attack in Madrid one week
ago see a "definite link" to Muslim extremists in Britain, according to
a senior British law enforcement official.

Detained Palestinian cleric Abu Qatada, regarded by British and Spanish
authorities as a key al-Qaida figure in Europe, likely will be
questioned, reported the Independent newspaper of London.

"We believe there is a London link with what happened in Madrid," said
metropolitan police commissioner Sir John Stevens. "There is a definite
link in what has happened."

The March 11 blasts in Madrid killed 202 and injured more than 1,500
just days before last Sunday's Spanish elections and tomorrow's first
anniversary of the U.S. led war in Iraq.

The Independent quoted a "senior anti-terrorist source" who said the man
suspected of organizing the attack, Jamal Zougam, 30, is believed to
have traveled to the UK to acquire funding and logistical help.

Authorities believe Zougam had connections to Qatada, known also as Omar
Mahmoud Abu Omar, who received asylum in Britain in 1994.

The Palestinian cleric, born in Jordan, was given a life sentence after
being convicted in absentia in his home country for 1988 terrorist
attacks.

British police arrested him along with eight other people in 2001 on
suspicion of terrorist activities, but all were released.

The British government froze his assets after the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks on the U.S.

Qatada has denied any connection to al-Qaida but has expressed sympathy
for leader Osama bin Laden.

http://www.dawn.com/2002/02/01/fea.htm
Britain: logistics base for Muslim extremists?




By Amanullah Ghilzai


Following the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in New York, Britain has become
the news centre of the world not merely for taking part in the fight
against global terrorism but also for playing a key role in providing a
logistics base for Islamic extremists and Al Qaeda itself. The recent
raids in London and other British towns and earlier arrests of the
suspected terrorists have shown that the UK does appear to be far more
significant than previously thought.

Letters found in Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan have reportedly revealed
Osama bin Laden's men had links with British Islamic organizations
dating back to 1998. There were even plans by some terrorists,
apparently British, to bomb London. The month-by-month developments
following the Sept 11 attacks have revealed that Britain was a safe
haven for extremists and terrorists. Many Islamic extremist groups have
been so freely operating in the UK that even many Muslim countries would
not grant them that much freedom.

These disclosures have increased pressure on the UK to crack down harder
on the extreme Islamists who have sought sanctuary here from regimes in
the Middle East and other Muslim countries. Several Middle Eastern
governments have criticized Britain for allowing extremists to base
themselves here. Intelligence officers working in London have compiled a
list of 200 suspected militants from Algeria alone who are in the UK.
Many are believed to be killers. The latest development is the
revelation of a gruesome video showing Islamic extremists murdering and
mutilating 'infidels' in Algeria and Afghanistan.

The Observer, Sunday, has reported that the video is being circulated in
Britain's mosques as part of a recruiting drive for Osama's worldwide
terror network. The video, which was smuggled into the UK only days
before the Sept 11 attacks, shows people having their throats cut and
the wholesale slaughter of secular forces by a group linked to the
world's most wanted terrorist. It was produced by the Salafist Group for
Preaching and War (GSPC), an extremist Algerian organization backed by
Osama and widely regarded as one of the most active and brutal in its
country. GSPC sympathizers then circulated the film in London. The
Algerian security service investigators have reportedly called the video
'an appalling pornographic catalogue of violence'.

Like GSPC, London is home to several extremist Islamic groups. When the
US-led bombing on Afghanistan was on its peak, a small ultra extremist
British Islamic group called al-Muhajiroun attracted a lot of media
attention for its outbursts against Britain, America and Pakistani
government. Its leader Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad is being investigated
for making alleged death threats against President Musharraf for taking
part in the fight against global terrorism. The police and prosecuting
authorities have been studying statements made by Sheikh Omar.

Fiercely uncompromising in their interpretation of Islam, the members of
al-Muhajiroun, some of them of Pakistani origin, are dedicated to their
faith. But there can be a price to pay. Only recently, the group
announced the death of at least three of its British members in
Afghanistan. With three Britons already being held in Cuba, there are
reports that five more British suspects have been arrested by Americans
in Afghanistan and they are being airlifted to Camp X-Ray.

All these developments confirm the fears that Britain is a major
recruiting centre for Muslim radicals prepared to fight for Osama. Two
of the British terror suspects being held in America's high-security
prison in Cuba are said to be members of a fanatical Islamic group based
in Tipton, a small West Midlands town in England. The pair named for the
first time this weekend by The Sunday Times as Asif Iqbal, 20, and
Shafiq Rasul, 24, flew out to Pakistan - from where they travelled to
Afghanistan - within days of the Sept 11 attacks on America. They are
understood to have been followed by two other members of the group, who
are believed still to be in Afghanistan.

All four are devout Muslims who were part of a small Islamic splinter
group in the town, some of whose members are alleged to support a Muslim
holy war against America. They are believed to have been radicalized at
meetings of the Islamic group, whose spiritual leader is an elderly
cleric. The group is believed to have links with other radical Islamic
organizations in Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester where many Muslims
of Pakistani origin live.

A senior Muslim figures in the community was reported by British media
as saying: "There have been concern for some time about the group. They
are hardline fundamentalists who are out of step with the majority of
us, who are moderate."

The Times quoting security sources reported on Monday that 17 other
Muslim extremists claiming to be British are still being held in
Afghanistan. A significant number of British Muslims who went missing
from their homes in Britain after Sept 11, and who were believed to have
gone to Afghanistan, were also still unaccounted for, the sources said.

Security agencies in Spain and France have recently traced links to the
UK from Al Qaeda operatives they have arrested. On Sept 26 last year six
men were arrested in Spain. A militant, allegedly trained by Osama,
reportedly led them and had planned hijacks with two suspected Al Qaeda
terrorists who were living in Britain.

Spanish investigators urgently want to question Abu Qatada over his
alleged role in the planning of the Sept 11 attacks and are baffled by
Britain's failure to detain him.

British media has reported that 18 videos made by Mr Qatada were found
in a Hamburg flat used by three of the Sept 11 hijackers, including the
leader, Mohammad Atta. But days after the new anti-terrorist legislation
came into force with a prime object of arresting Abu Qatada, the police
picked up eight further suspects in dawn raids but Qatada slipped the
net.

In Washington, Paris and capitals across the Middle East and Asia,
intelligence agencies are reportedly pointing to the UK some thing more
than just a haven for Islamic dissidents and a centre for the
dissemination of extremist propaganda.

The arrest last July of an Arab at Dubai international airport for
travelling on false French papers has led to arrests in a number of
countries. Djamal Beghal, a 36-year-old Algerian, was flying back to
Europe from Pakistan when he was arrested. During interrogation the
French intelligence officials realized that they had one of their prime
suspects in their hands. The French police were looking for Beghal since
he left the suburbs of Paris in the mid-1990s for London's Islamist
underworld, where reportedly he soon established himself as an energetic
recruiter for Al Qaeda, travelling the country spreading the message of
jihad.

British media reports say he has recruited both a French-Moroccan
student called Zacarias Moussaoui - who is currently in custody in the
US suspected of being the so-called '20th hijacker' - and Richard Reid,
the 28-year-old Briton arrested in December after trying to detonate
explosives hidden in his shoes on a Paris-to-Miami flight.

Beghal has reportedly confessed that he had been training in Afghanistan
for a year at an Al Qaeda camp run by Abu Zubeidah, one of Osama's most
capable and trusted lieutenants and the man some tipped to succeed him.
Investigators believe that Abu Zubeidah was Al Qaeda's director of
external affairs, trained most of the group's surviving terrorists and,
now that several key figures have been killed in the US-led bombing
raids, he has been entrusted with keeping the network going".

A London daily report says Zubeidah is thought to have slipped away from
his hideout weeks ago, taking with him the secret of where Al Qaeda is
hiding its surviving terrorists". No one expected that the events would
also lead to several arrests in England. But with help of the French
police the British police arrested in Leicester the man suspected of
being the network's computer expert, Kamel Daoudi. It is understood that
Baghdad Mezziane and Brahim Benmerzouga - the two Algerian
asylum-seekers who recently appeared in Leicester magistrates' court
charged with membership of Al Qaeda - were arrested in the same raids.

While arrests of people on terrorism charges are continuing, a leading
London daily, Guardian, has claimed that Britain is home to more than
100 terror suspects and activists belonging to organizations connected
with Osama. The paper, quoting officials, says that among the groups
under scrutiny by anti-terrorist officers are Al Qaeda, Egyptian Islamic
Jihad, the Armed Islamic Group based in Algeria and groups seeking
independence from India in Kashmir. But with the new anti-terror
legislation introduced and in the light of latest revelations regarding
activities of some extremists Islamic groups in Britain there seem to be
little chances for these groups to operate freely in the future.


Odd....Seems ol Markyzooom is once again off his nut. Or has been
sampling the latest import from Holland.


Gunner




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