February 25, 2009 News
(UK) Hezbollah to advise UK Government on fighting terrorism
-- "Civil servants ready to pay £2,000 each (of your cash) to hear Islamic extremist preach"
-- Ibrahim Moussawi lectures "are targeted at Whitehall officials who deal in foreign affairs and extremism"
-- Ibrahim Moussawi to lecture at "the Political Islam event at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1155778/Civil-servants-ready-pay-2-000-cash-hear-Islamic-extremist-preach.html?ITO=1490
--- "Another speaker at the event is the UK-based extremist Dr Kamal Helbawy, a former spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1155778/Civil-servants-ready-pay-2-000-cash-hear-Islamic-extremist-preach.html?ITO=1490
---- Comment: doesn't the Daily Mail know that Kamal Helbawy is viewed as a so-called "counterterrorist"?
----- See: "Former Muslim Brotherhood spokesman El-Helbawy speaks as 'British terrorism expert'"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unitedstatesaction/message/19078
----- Helbawy also viewed as "really respected" by British journalists in "counterterrorism" such as Paul Cruickshank and Peter Bergen
http://www.newsweek.com/id/45335
http://www.lawandsecurity.org/muslim_brotherhood.cfm
(UK) Islamic extremist exposed by Sunday Mercury set to visit UK -- Ibrahim Moussawi
--- "he was allowed to travel to the UK in February 2008 and proceeded to address rallies in London, Birmingham and Bristol"
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2009/02/25/islamic-extremist-exposed-by-sunday-mercury-set-to-visit-uk-66331-23011453/
--- Ibrahim Moussawi was allowed to tour UK in 2008 making
speeches all over the country - previous calls to prevent this fell on deaf ears
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847295423&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1569640/Ban-Hizbollah-TV-boss-from-UK,-say-Tories.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/philipjohnston/3555683/Labour%2C-extremism-and-a-friend-of-Hizbollah.html
U.K. foreign secretary: Talking with Hamas 'the right thing to do'
--- more appeasement of Islamic supremacism from David Miliband
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066933.html
(UK) Great Britain sued by Palestinian organizations over arms sales to Israel
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/eu_palestinians0166_02_25.asp
(UK) Transatlantic jet plot retrial: Air plot 'had foreign mastermind'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7910124.stm
http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,23483,25108635-5014090,00.html?from=public_rss
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\02\26\story_26-2-2009_pg7_39
-- related story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7895598.stm
(UK) Interpal's US terrorism designation blamed for Lloyd's Bank decision
-- "This is because Lloyds TSB, like many other banks, has dealings with the United States, and so we have no option but to comply with US government economic sanction laws…The US has classified Interpal as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist which means that Lloyds TSB cannot provide any services to Interpal."
http://www.charityfinance.co.uk/home/content.php?id=2603&pg=15&cat=58
-- Comment: Lloyds whines that it is all America's fault... not Interpal's fault for funding Hamas
(UK) Islamic state conference billed for Vale Farm Sports Centre, in Wembley
-- by Islamic supremacist group Islam for the UK
-- "Amjem Choudary, a spokesman for the group, said the wrong venue had been deliberately advertised to stop the event being banned"
-- Choudary: "What we tend to do is book two venues - one where we don't want the event to take place and one where the event is going to take place, which we don't advertise."
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/newsheadlines/4150560.Islamic_state_conference_billed_for_Wembley/
(UK) Minister opens mosque's new Islamic library
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED25%20Feb%202009%2017%3A58%3A28%3A880