British Jihad and Islamic Supremacism Watch

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(UK) Pakistani Terror suspects denied bail by judge because of emails 'linking them to Al Qaeda bomb plot'
-- "The emails from the man, identified only as XC"

-- Judge says 'al-Qaeda emails' could refer to bomb plot

-- KUNA Report
 

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(UK) Al Muhajiroun's return presents test for terror laws
-- "A formerly defunct radical Islamist sect led by the banned preacher Omar Bakri Muhammad
has appointed a new British leader and will re-form publicly this week for the first time in five years."
-- "Al Muhajiroun, which campaigns for the implementation of sharia in Britain and once described
the 9/11 hijackers as 'the Magnificent 19', supposedly disbanded in 2004."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/al-muhajirouns-return-presents-test-for-terror-laws-1706922.html
--- Centre for Social Cohesion Press Release: "One in Seven UK Terror-related Convictions Linked to Islamist Group Now Threatening to Relaunch"
http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/files/1243874438_1.pdf
--- Al Muhajiroun: Extremists and Thugs
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/06/17/al-muhajiroun-extremists-and-thugs/
--- Islamist Al-Muhajiroun relaunch ends in chaos over segregation attempt
---- Choudary: "Jews and Christians will never make peace with you until you either become
like them or adopt their ways."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jun/18/islamist-al-muhajiroun-meeting-chaos

(UK) Student sentenced over terror bid
-- "Mohammed Abushamma, 20, from Islington, north London, was arrested at Heathrow Airport
in April last year, along with co-defendant Qasim Abukar"
-- "A student who tried to travel to Afghanistan to fight jihad has been jailed for three-and-a-half years"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8106092.stm

(UK) Money was for orphans, says terror charge Imam Ahmed Mohamed
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/money-was-for-orphans-says-terror-charge-imam-1707592.html

(UK) No bias, UK cops target non-Muslims
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/No-bias-UK-cops-target-non-Muslims/articleshow/4669557.cms
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6521199.ece

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MPACUK congratulates President Ahmadinejad
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/06/15/mpacuk-congratulates-president-ahmadinejad/
http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/5752/102/
-- Along with HAMAS and Muslim Brotherhood
-- Iran: "Congratulation messages pour in" -- including leaders of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and HAMAS
http://www.irna.ir/En/View/FullStory/?NewsId=545389&IdLanguage=3

(UK) Muslims told voting was a sin
-- "I AM a resident of Normanton and I received a leaflet targeted at the Muslim community explaining
why it was anti-Muslim to participate in both the council and EU elections."
-- "This leaflet covered a full sheet of paper stating, amongst other things, that the only law- maker was
Allah and that anyone who voted in the elections was a disbeliever and that any Muslim who votes is a sinner."
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/letters/Muslims-told-voting-sin/article-1075162-detail/article.html

(UK) Guardian Newspaper Article defends Sharia - Sara Khorshid
--- Sara Khorshid: "Muslim incorporation of sharia law in the public square will increase
western entities' credibility among Muslim masses"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jun/13/egypt-islam-sharia
--- Sara Khorshid's "articles are published in the Middle East Times, IslamOnline.net, and other
media outlets. She is the managing editor of IslamOnline.net's Politics in Depth section"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/sara-khorshid

(UK) Olivant loses £2.3m on sharia asset fund
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/privateequity/5533517/Olivant-loses-2.3m-on-sharia-asset-fund.html

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(UK) Britain was wrong to freeze assets of Abu Qatada, rules EU, clearing way for him to get compensation
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1192365/Britain-wrong-freeze-assets-Abu-Qatada-rules-EU-clearing-way-compensation.html
-- EU court annuls freeze on Abu Qatada's assets
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090611/tuk-eu-court-annuls-freeze-on-abu-qatada-a7ad41d.html

(UK) Radical Islamists must be exposed, not invited to tea
http://www.thejc.com/articles/radical-islamists-must-be-exposed-not-invited-tea

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(UK) Disarray over terror control orders after law lords ruling on secret evidence
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6469431.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/10/terror-suspects-alan-johnson-lords
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/10/control-orders-breach-terror-suspects-rights

(UK) Abdur Raheem Green: Imperious Islam
-- founder of "Islamic Education & Research Academy" (iERA)
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/06/10/abdur-raheem-green-imperious-islam/

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(UK) Brits warned after hostage is beheaded
-- "Fears more Britons could be murdered by al-Qaeda after murder of hostage Edwin Dyer"
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2462380/Brits-warned-after-hostage-Edwin-Dyer-is-beheaded.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/5437960/British-hostage-Edwin-Dyer-executed-by-al-Qaeda-in-Mali.html

(UK) British Company Kills Al Qaeda Fantasy Xbox Video Game
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/06/british_company_kills_al_qaeda.asp

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(UK) Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK): "Without Jihad I am 50% Muslim"
-- MPACUK: "Every Muslim anywhere in the world should have one common goal, to this day the goal
of the Ummah remains suppressed."
-- MPACUK: "It is the concept of Jihad, the struggle and striving for Allah that Islam alone emphasis
encompassing all the above that makes you a real Muslim."
http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/5707/103/

(UK) Tories set to create boom in Islamic schools
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Tories-set-to-create-boom.5320365.jp

(U.S./UK) HLF Trial, Hamas, and International Links: A Long Way From Texas
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/06/01/a-long-way-from-texas/

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(UK) Abu Hamza still preaching hate in prison
-- "Dozens of inmates - many jailed for terror offences - have been gathering to listen
in the cell next to where the Muslim extremist is being held at high-security Belmarsh Prison in SouthEast London."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/31/hamza-preaches-in-prison-115875-21402446/

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(UK) Taliban target Britain on 'orders' from al-Qaeda
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2009/05/taliban_target_britain.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5407321/Taliban-target-Britain-on-orders-from-al-Qaeda.html
-- "A Taliban-trained terrorist was part of a cell sent to bomb Britain as revenge
for their presence in Afghanistan, it has emerged"
-- "British investigators believe that the cell, which was allegedly planning attacks
on the Trafford and Arndale shopping centres over the Easter holidays"
-- "The information echoed claims made by British security services that a terrorist cell
was sent to Manchester from the Taliban heartland in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas."
-- "It is claimed the attacks were to begin on the Barcelona underground system
and then spread to the other European countries with a presence in Afghanistan,
thought to include Britain, according to new documents"
-- [Informant] "Ahmed told them he had trained at a terrorist camp in Waziristan,
in Pakistan's tribal areas, and met [Taliban leader Baitullah] Mehsud"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5407321/Taliban-target-Britain-on-orders-from-al-Qaeda.html
--- Taliban International Objectives
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/taliban_international.html

(UK) Daily Star report: "Cleric's hate call"
-- "Banned Islamic extremist Omar Bakri is relaunching a hate-filled organisation in Britain."
-- "The preacher, who wants the country to be ruled by Sharia Law with 'the black
flag of Islam flying over Downing Street,' is set on a return for the Al-Muhajiroun group."
-- "It was disbanded after a Government ban in 2004."
-- "Bakri, 51, ran Al-Muhajiroun with Anjem Choudary, 42.They once praised
the 9/11 hijackers and Bakri was forced out of the country in 2005."
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/82740/Cleric-s-hate-call/

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(UK) Vulnerable Whitechapel youths recruited for jihad in Somalia
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6345911.ece
-- Somali Britons with jihad training pose terrorist risk
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6345940.ece
-- British and American fighters respond to jihad call in Somalia
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6345930.ecehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6345930.ece
--- February 17, 2009 Channel 4 Report
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/africa/why+somalia+must+rise+up+uk+agenda/2958407
--- February 16, 2009 Channel 4 Report
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/somalia+the+new+pakistan/2956057
--- February 16, 2009 - Growing number of British men joining Islamic radicals in Somalia
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4638987/Growing-number-of-British-men-joining-Islamic-radicals-in-Somalia.html
--- January 14, 2007 - UK Telegraph report on use of mosques "Islamists use raid to stir up UK Somalis"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1539501/Islamists-use-raid-to-stir-up-UK-Somalis.html
--- August 3, 2005 - Boston Globe: "Authorities say mosque was radicals' haven"
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/08/03/authorities_say_mosque_was_radicals_haven/

(UK) 7/7 bomb attacks: police and MI5 cleared of blame
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/19/july7-atacks-mohammad-sidique-khan-shehzad-tanweer

(UK) "The self-styled Muslim Association of Britain and Palestinian Solidarity Campaign
have found a new cause: campaigning against ads for Israeli tourism in London"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/22/fun-with-maps/

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(UK) Man who plotted to behead British Muslim soldier loses sentence appeal - Parviz Khan
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2009/05/20/man-who-plotted-to-behead-british-muslim-soldier-loses-sentence-appeal-65233-23673095/

(UK/Mali) Al-Qaeda Africa extends execution deadline for British hostage -- May 31
-- "unless Abu Qatada was freed from a maximum security jail"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/5362753/Al-Qaeda-Africa-extends-execution-deadline-for-British-hostage.html

(UK) Sham colleges open doors to Pakistani terror suspects
-- "Thousands of young Pakistanis exploited a hole in Britain’s immigration
defences to enrol as students at a network of sham colleges, The Times can reveal."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6330301.ece
-- Forger set up own colleges and gave himself fake degrees - Fayaz Ali Khan
--- claimed to be "full-time director of education at Swat College of Education"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6330097.ece
-- Former pub became the centre of a web of bogus colleges - "as Manchester College of Professional Studies"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article6330037.ece
-- Part-owner of bogus college is linked to two murders in Pakistan
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6330132.ece

(UK) "Miliband seeks coalition with Islamic world"
-- "Foreign Secretary will reach out to Muslim states by acknowledging the
damage the Iraq war caused to Britain's standing"
-- "David Miliband will reach out to Muslim states today, placing the Iraq war
alongside the Crusades and colonialism in a list of 'prejudices that British history generates'"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6329983.ece
--- "Vast majority of Taliban 'do not support al-Qaida'" -- David Miliband
---- Miliband seeks "moving beyond the binary division between moderates and extremists"
http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/news/vast-majority-of-taliban-do-not-support-al-qaida-19182092.html
--- Miliband for coalition of consent between the  West and Muslim world
http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76766&Itemid=39
--- February 2009: Miliband believes that Taliban supporters "need to know that if they
renounce violence and accept the rule of law, there are legitimate opportunities for them"
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/david-miliband-the-army-alone-cannot-defeat-this-taliban-insurgency-1631293.html
--- January 2009: Miliband further claims that regarding "[t]errorist groups... [the solution is]
channelling their followers into democratic politics."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/15/david-miliband-war-terror

(UK) Muslim mother who sent her school age daughters to Pakistan to marry their cousins is jailed for 3 years
-- "The woman then altered documents to make it appear her daughters were
18 and then forced her daughters to marry."
-- "During the girls' ordeal their mother from Manchester told her eldest daughter
that unless she consumated the marriage, she would 'tie her to the bed, blindfold
her and strip her' and watch to make sure she had sex with her new husband."
-- "The grooms-to-be then tied the knot with the two terrified sisters in a
joint ceremony as their mother looked on before the girls were forced to become their new husbands' sex slaves."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1185589/Muslim-mother-sent-school-age-daughters-Pakistan-marry-cousins-jailed-3-years.html?ITO=1490

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(UK) Intelligence officials 'laughed' at al Qaeda 7/7 bomb link
-- "MI5 knew Sidique Khan had attended a key meeting which led to the fertiliser bomb plot"
-- "Sidique Khan's name and telephone number were found in 2003 on the
mobile phone of Mohammed Quayam Khan, who allegedly acted as a go-between
for both the July 7 attackers and the fertiliser gang."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5346518/Intelligence-officials-laughed-at-al-Qaeda-77-bomb-link.html

(UK) MI5 could only track one in 20 terror suspects ahead of London bombings
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6318698.ece
-- MI5 had 7/7 ringleader on 'radar' 12 times... but MPs' report still fails to point the finger
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1184234/MI5-7-7-ringleader-radar-12-times--MPs-report-fails-point-finger.html
-- Probe clears spy agencies over 7/7 bombings
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3332549486
-- MI5 'overstretched' before 2005 bombings
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090519/world/britain_attacks_security_1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/19/july7-atacks-mohammad-sidique-khan-shehzad-tanweer

(UK) "Pro-British, Anti-Extremist"
http://pro-brit.blogspot.com/

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(UK) Security service in spotlight as 7/7 bombings report due out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/18/july-7-bombings-intelligence-report

(UK) Britain's publishers are silenced by Islamist bullies
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/edwest/blog/2009/05/18/britains_publishers_are_silenced_by_islamist_bullies

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(UK) 'I was groomed for jihad in Britain'
-- "A Muslim teenager in London gives the first inside account of how extremists are luring recruits"
-- "Aged 15, he was the youngest of about 50 recruits who were
shown 'martyrdom' videos and encouraged to travel to Pakistan to receive terrorist training."
-- "Adam, who is now 18, quit the group after a year. The whereabouts of most of the other recruits is unknown"
-- "Adam fell under the spell of extremists at the Stockwell mosque in Lambeth in 2005"
-- "The Stockwell mosque had previously been attended by Muktar Ibrahim and Hussain Osman"
-- "Adam’s new mentors were Mohammed Hamid, a preacher with links to the 21/7 bombers who called himself Osama Bin London, and Atilla Ahmet, a former aide to Abu Hamza, the
hook-handed cleric of Finsbury Park mosque in north London"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6301582.ece

(UK) Report clears MI5 and police of 7/7 blunders
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/17/mi5-police-july-7-bombings

(UK) Further Report on Abbas Taj
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/16/self-help/

(UK) MI5 'used Muslim 007' to turn British torture victim in Moroccan prison
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1183183/MI5-used-Muslim-007-turn-British-torture-victim-Moroccan-prison.html

(UK) Additional Report: Muslim extremist firebombed home of man who published book on Prophet Mohammed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5330042/Muslim-extremist-firebombed-home-of-man-who-published-book-on-Prophet-Mohammed.html

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(UK) Radical Muslims guilty of firebomb plot on publisher of Prophet Mohammed book
-- "A radical Muslim who dressed his baby daughter in a hat
with 'I love al-Qaeda' on it tried to firebomb the home of the publisher
of a controversial novel about the Prophet Mohammed."
-- "Ali Beheshti, 40, along with Abrar Mirza, 22, have admitted conspiracy
to recklessly damage property and endanger life"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6295795.ece
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/man-guilty-of-firebomb-attack-on-publisher-of-mohamed-book-1685712.html

(UK) Three held over Muslim anti-war protest
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/15/three-held-over-muslim-anti-war-protest-115875-21360416/

(UK/Syria) Arrested Nottingham mum has links to al-Qaeda, say Syrians -- Maryam Kallis
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/politics/Nottingham-mum-held-Syria-8211-accused-terror-links/article-994463-detail/article.html

(UK) Straw abandons secret inquest plans
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/15/jack-straw-drops-secret-inquests

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(UK) Terror laws built up after 9/11 and 7/7 may be scaled back, says Jack Straw
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/13/terrorism-legislation-jack-straw

(UK) British Parliamentarians give encouragement to jihad
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/13/british-parliamentarians-give-encouragement-to-jihad/

(UK) Extremist beaten up over mosque attack
-- Former Al-Muhajiroun leader Sayful Islam
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/80605/Extremist-beaten-up-over-mosque-attack/

(UK) Charity to sue over domestic violence murder victim Sabina Akhtar
-- "A charity that campaigns for victims of domestic violence is to sue a police force
and the Crown Prosecution Service over allegations that it failed to protect a woman who was murdered by her husband"
-- "She went to the police to complain that he had attacked her 25 times and made
repeated threats to kill her. On one occasion he had told her to prepare for death by reading
passages from the Koran adding: 'I am going to get a knife and when I return I am going to slaughter you.'"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6287902.ece
-- "Using both hands to squeeze her windpipe he told her to read her Koran warning: 'This is your final hour.'"
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/03/07/wife-killed-by-violent-husband-after-police-apathy-115875-21177797/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7928019.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/06/husband-jailed-wife-murder-cps

(UK) I would fight for women's freedom - by Sue Blackmore
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/may/13/women-sharia-veil-rights

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(UK) Al-Qaeda suspects 'plotted attack on Britain' from behind bars
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5314517/Al-Qaeda-suspects-plotted-attack-on-Britain-from-behind-bars.html

(UK) Pakistani men 'part of al-Qaeda network planning attacks in Britain'
-- "Ten Pakistani men released without charge after an investigation into an
alleged plot to bomb shopping centres in Manchester were part of an al-Qaeda
network planning attacks in Britain and should be deported, a tribunal has heard"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5314427/Pakistani-men-part-of-al-Qaeda-network-planning-attacks-in-Britain.html

(UK) Only one in ten anti-terror arrests leads to conviction
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5317588/Less-than-one-in-ten-anti-terrorism-arrests-leads-to-conviction.html
-- Two-thirds of UK terror suspects released without charge
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/13/terrorism-suspects-britain-uk
-- Terror arrest conviction rate 13%
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8047477.stm
-- UK: Most terrorism suspects freed
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=77550
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1242029517172&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(UK) Freed anti-terror detainees fight deportation
-- "Ten men arrested in raids in the North West were linked to al-Qaeda attack planning, Home Office tells immigration hearing"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6276100.ece

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(UK) Alleged al-Qaeda supporters arrested in Italy over UK terror plot
-- also see below newslinks in Italy news
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6271730.ece

(Italy) Al-Qaeda suspects accused of planning attacks: Bassam Ayachi and Raphael Gendron
-- "Bassam Ayachi has been described a spiritual leader, committed to proselytising on behalf of Al-Qaeda"
-- "Gendron is a computer engineer who provided the technical knowledge needed to spread
propaganda via the internet to support the terror network"
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3303452079
-- Two Al Qaeda suspects arrested in Italy: Bassam Ayachi and Raphael Gendron
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2009/May/international_May814.xml&section=international
-- Italian police arrest suspected al-Qaeda plotters who 'planned terror attacks on Britain and Paris while behind bars'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180835/Italian-police-arrest-suspected-al-Qaeda-plotters-planned-terror-attacks-Britain-Paris-bars.html?ITO=1490

Italian police arrest alleged terrorists
-- "Italian police have arrested two men who were supposedly planning an attack on the Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris"
-- "The men are also suspected of planning other attacks in France and Great Britain."
-- "It is believed they both have French passports and are allegedly members of the al-Qaeda network."
-- "One man is a 63-year-old imam originally from Syria."
-- "The other is a 34-year-old Islam convert from France."
-- "The two were arrested on terrorism charges after being taken into custody in the southern Italian city of Bari."
http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/500518

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(UK) British victim of Mumbai terror tells of official neglect back in UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/10/mumbai-terror-attacks-compensation-britain

(UK) Counter-terrorism drills fall short
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f6b2bbfa-3c01-11de-acbc-00144feabdc0.html

(UK) Roger Godsiff MP meets with Hamas Leadership
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/10/roger-godsiff-mp-meets-with-hamas-leadership/

(UK) Prisoners in Ranby jail make bomb to blow up Muslims
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/10/prisoners-in-ranby-jail-make-bomb-to-blow-up-muslims-115875-21346716/

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(UK) "Ranting preacher Anjem Choudary is planning to peddle his hate to teenagers at a 'jihad' summer school"
-- "They will learn about the Islamic 'struggle' and how to enter the 'Gardens of Paradise'. "
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/79645/Rant-preacher-opens-jihad-summer-school/

(UK) Police 'must stop harassing Muslims'
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/britain/police_must_stop_harassing_muslims

(UK) Binyam Mohamed 'torture' case goes to High Court
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5296750/Binyam-Mohamed-torture-case-goes-to-High-Court.html

(UK) Just one in 10 British Muslims feel integrated into society, study claims
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1178794/Just-10-British-Muslims-feel-integrated-society-study-claims.html

(UK) Muslim father in custody faith fight
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Muslim-father-in-custody-faith.5248047.jp

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(UK) Police to severely curtail use of stop and search powers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/06/police-stop-and-search-reform
-- Officers stripped of stop and search terror powers over fears of angering Muslims
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1178296/Met-police-officers-stripped-stop-search-terror-powers-fears-angering-Muslims.html

(UK) MPACuk: 'Yes, We Are Mad'
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/07/mpacuk-yes-we-are-mad/

(UK) Muslim dentist 'refused to treat female patients unless they wore Islamic dress'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1178411/Muslim-dentist-refused-treat-female-patients-unless-wore-Islamic-dress.html
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/99706/Muslim-dentist-who-told-female-patients-to-wear-headscarves
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5292031/Muslim-dentist-refused-to-treat-woman-unless-she-wore-headscarf.html

(UK) Muslims in Britain have zero tolerance of homosexuality, says poll
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/07/muslims-britain-france-germany-homosexuality
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/05/ukfrancegermany-gallup-poll-on-sexual.html

(UK) Coexist Foundation: More Muslims identify themselves as British than rest of population
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5287105/More-Muslims-identify-themselves-as-British-than-rest-of-population.html
-- UK report says 66 percent believe Muslims aren't loyal to UK
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/79800/Muslims-aren-t-loyal-to-UK-say-66-of-Brits/

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(UK) Radical preacher Abu Izzadeen freed from jail early
-- "Abu Izzadeen, a radical Muslim preacher who was jailed after footage was uncovered of him
calling for the beheading of any Muslim in the British army, has been freed early from jail"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5281881/Radical-preacher-Abu-Izzadeen-freed-from-jail-early.html

(UK) British tax payer pays £600,000 in legal fees for al-Qaeda suspects
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5285744/British-tax-payer-pays-600000-in-legal-fees-for-al-Qaeda-suspects.html

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UK "least wanted" list published
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1995771&Language=en
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_NOT_WELCOME?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=EUROPE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-05-05-16-48-58
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5273762/16-extremists-banned-from-Britain.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1177428/Talk-host-sue-Home-Office-link-neo-Nazis-Muslim-preachers-hate-list-22-banned-Britain.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/05/uk.ban.list/index.html

(UK) Press release referencing Rana Husseini's "Murder in the Name of Honour" (pdf)
http://www.ranahusseini.com/Pressreleases/MurderinthenameUK.pdf

Posted by manager at 11:21 AM | Permalink

(UK) Muslim extremists plot escape from prison
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5272202/Muslim-extremists-plot-escape-from-prison.html

(UK) Lost official documents spark terrorism and fraud fears
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/04/lost-papers-terror-fear-115875-21330747/

(UK) Police trained to deal with Mumbai-style attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/04/police-terrorism-mumbai-training

(UK) Government 'not planning to monitor all web use'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5271796/Government-not-planning-to-monitor-all-web-use.html

(UK) The Brotherhood Ruse
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/02/the-brotherhood-ruse/

Posted by manager at 11:22 AM | Permalink

(UK) Muslim extremists plot escape from prison
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5272202/Muslim-extremists-plot-escape-from-prison.html

(UK) Lost official documents spark terrorism and fraud fears
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/04/lost-papers-terror-fear-115875-21330747/

(UK) Police trained to deal with Mumbai-style attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/04/police-terrorism-mumbai-training

(UK) Government 'not planning to monitor all web use'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5271796/Government-not-planning-to-monitor-all-web-use.html

(UK) The Brotherhood Ruse
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/02/the-brotherhood-ruse/

Posted by manager at 11:22 AM | Permalink

(UK) Muslim extremists plot escape from prison
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5272202/Muslim-extremists-plot-escape-from-prison.html

(UK) Lost official documents spark terrorism and fraud fears
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/04/lost-papers-terror-fear-115875-21330747/

(UK) Police trained to deal with Mumbai-style attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/04/police-terrorism-mumbai-training

(UK) Government 'not planning to monitor all web use'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5271796/Government-not-planning-to-monitor-all-web-use.html

(UK) The Brotherhood Ruse
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/02/the-brotherhood-ruse/

Posted by manager at 11:22 AM | Permalink

(UK) Delay in publication of report on 7/7 attacks
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1994975&Language=en
-- 7/7: time for the Whitehall foot-dragging to stop
http://timesonline.typepad.com/crime/2009/05/77-time-for-the-whitehall-footdragging-to-stop.html
-- New footage released of July 7 bombers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/01/july-7-bombings-terrorism

(UK) Police defend search powers as a vital for war on terrorism
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6202016.ece

(UK) Scotland Terrorist Threat: 'Racist' made mosque bomb threat
-- Neil MacGregor: "I'm a proud racist and National Front member." "Our demands
are very small. Close all mosques in Scotland."
-- Neil MacGregor: "If our demands aren't met by next Friday, we'll kidnap one Muslim
and execute him or her on the internet, just like they did to our Ken Bigley."
-- "MacGregor then followed up the email with a call threatening to blow up Central Mosque. "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8029023.stm
-- Scots racist's Muslim attack threat
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6207112.ece
--- Background on British National Front
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Front

Posted by manager at 11:25 AM | Permalink

(UK) Key relationship between July 7 leader and al-Qaeda terrorist disclosed
-- Omar Khyam "put the July 7 bombers in touch with al-Qaeda and Khyam
who showed them how to raise the money to fund their plots"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5237610/Key-relationship-between-July-7-leader-and-al-Qaeda-terrorist-disclosed.html

(UK) British trio cleared of helping to plan 7/7 London attacks
-- "Waheed Ali, Mohammed Shakil and Sadeer Saleem are the only
people to have been prosecuted over Britain's first suicide bomb attacks, on July 7, 2005"
-- "Mr Ali, 25, Mr Shakil, 33, and Mr Saleem, 28, admitted that they had
been committed jihadists and had previously attended training camps
in Pakistan. They insisted that they had no knowledge of the planned attacks
on London and said that it was against their faith to attack civilians."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6131365.ece
-- "Objects belonging to each of the men were also found in the flat
used as a bomb factory in the area of Hyde Park, Leeds."
-- "Two of the men, Waheed Ali and Mohammed Shakil, were convicted
of conspiracy to attend a place used for terrorist training after they were
arrested on their way to Manchester airport in 2007."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5235890/Three-cleared-of-helping-July-7-bombers.html
-- "The prosecution alleged they conducted a 'hostile reconnaissance'
of potential targets, claiming it was 'an important first step in what was,
by then, a settled plan to cause explosions in the UK'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/28/july-7-london-bomb-trial

(UK) New anguish of the 7/7 families: Bombers' friends cleared of plotting deadly attack
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1174314/New-anguish-7-7-families-Bombers-friends-cleared-plotting-deadly-attack.html
-- 7/7 bombing acquittals a bitter disappointment
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6131697.ece
-- 7/7 bombings: end of the road
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6188768.ece
-- 7/7 bombers could not have acted alone
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6188666.ece
-- 7/7 trial: how acquitted trio came to embrace radical cause
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6188667.ece
-- 7/7 could have been prevented
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6188525.ece

(UK) Lockerbie bomber begins appeal
-- "Lawyers for the former Libyan agent jailed over the 1988 Lockerbie
plane bombing, in which 270 people were killed, have launched an appeal against his conviction"
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25402956-23109,00.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_LOCKERBIE?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=EUROPE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-04-28-12-45-29
-- Libya to seek extradition of Lockerbie bomber
http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/european_news/Libya-to-seek-extradition-of-Lockerbie-bomber_52056.html

(UK) "Labour woman told she is 'too Jewish' for Muslim voters"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/04/28/labour_woman_told_she_is_too_jewish_for_muslim_voters_sadly_thats_probably_true
-- Related news report: "Ex-Lord Mayor Coun Mahmood Hussain in Labour Party row":
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2009/04/27/ex-lord-mayor-coun-mahmood-hussain-in-labour-party-row-97319-23492693/

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(UK / North Africa) Al-Qaeda threatens to kill British hostage unless Abu Qatada is released
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6175024.ece

UK rules out surveillance 'super-database'
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/090427/2009042702.html

(UK) Oldham: Forced Marriage Conference report
-- "A mother holds still the legs of her pregnant daughter while
her son strangles the life out of her -- and then stands in the dock
and defends her actions on the grounds of honour."
http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/8/news-headlines/23311/honour-bound

Posted by manager at 11:52 AM | Permalink

UK ignored warning on bogus Pakistani students
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/26/pakistan-student-visas-uk

(UK) SAS and other special forces to be expanded to defeat al-Qaeda
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/5220803/SAS-and-other-special-forces-to-be-expanded-to-defeat-al-Qaeda.html

(UK) Quilliam Offends the SNP
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/25/quilliam-offends-the-snp/

(UK) Law firm finds a way to bring Islamic mortgages to Scotland
http://www.sundayherald.com/business/businessnews/display.var.2504270.0.law_firm_finds_a_way_to_bring_islamic_mortgages_to_scotland.php

(UK / Saudi Arabia) BMI told stewardess to wear Muslim robe
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6169989.ece

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(UK) 'Glitch' Foils Hamas Address in Britain
-- "A technical problem prevented exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal from
delivering an address by videoconferencing to British parliamentarians on Wednesday"
-- "Some 25 MPs (members of parliament), who had gathered to hear Mashaal, dispersed when the video link failed"
-- "MP Clare Short, who organized the event, said she would work to correct
the problem so the Hamas leader could address British lawmakers at another time"
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/586859.aspx

(UK) Sabah al Mukhtar: Elders Fan
-- Mukhtar defends "Protocols of Elders of Zion"
-- "Mr al Mukhtar is an Iraqi who lives in the UK. He is one of two trustees of George Galloway's 'Viva Palestina' Hamas support operation"
-- "He has also served the Muslim Council of Britain as chairman of its 'Europe & International Affairs' international committee."
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/24/sabah-al-mukhtar-elders-fan/
--- See also reference to Article 32 of Hamas Charter which recognizes the
antisemitic "Protocols of Elders of Zion" also referenced in Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocols_of_Zion#Hamas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas#The_Hamas_Charter_.281988.29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocols_of_Zion#The_Protocols_in_Nazi_propaganda.2C_1930s-1940s

(UK) Pakistan anger at UK terror 'slurs'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/25/pakistan-terror-slurs

Posted by manager at 11:56 AM | Permalink

(UK) Questions over limited evidence in 'major terrorist plot'
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10568360
-- Students arrested as per UK law, Britain tells Pakistan
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=75707

(UK) Clare Short criticised over parliament invitation to Hamas leader
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/22/clare-short-hamas-meeting

(UK) Tony Blair calls on world to wage war on militant Islam
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6153607.ece

UK: Prisons to clamp down on Muslim prayer groups
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/04/uk-prisons-to-clamp-down-on-muslim.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/04/21/jails-to-get-tough-on-muslim-prayer-gangs-115875-21294004/

Posted by manager at 11:57 AM | Permalink

(UK) All suspects in 'student terror plot' released
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6146578.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6144111.ece

(UK) British police defend terror raids after Pakistani suspects released
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090422/tuk-british-police-defend-terror-raids-a-a7ad41d.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090422/tuk-review-after-terror-suspects-freed-dba1618.html
-- Britain: Pakistani terror suspects face deportation after release
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3239159759

(UK) 'Easter terror' Pakistanis to fight deportation
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\04\23\story_23-4-2009_pg7_43
-- Pakistan warns Britain against deporting students
http://www.geo.tv/4-23-2009/40479.htm

(UK) Anti-terror raids: police weigh red faces against an atrocity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/23/anti-terror-raids-police
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6149535.ece

(UK) Terrorist raids: Government accused of 'dishonourable behaviour' by Muslim Council
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5198685/Terror-raids-Government-accused-of-dishonourable-behaviour-by-Muslim-Council.html

(UK) David Miliband claims of US threat over torture case 'slippery', court told
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/23/david-miliband-binyam-mohamed-torture

(UK) Two in court over 2007 Warley honour killing
http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/Two-in-court-over-2007.5188744.jp

(Gaza/UK) UK Charity Commission investigating "Viva Palestina," George Galloway's Hamas support operation
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/22/one-more-for-charity/
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/28/what-is-the-point-of-the-charity-commission/

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(UK) Embarrassment for police as terror suspects released
-- "Nine men detained in a major security operation intended to thwart what the Prime Minister
said was 'a very big terrorist plot' were released without charge tonight"
-- "released because there was no concrete evidence connecting them to terrorist activity"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6144111.ece
-- "Two remain in custody and are still being questioned"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5196663/Terror-raids-nine-men-released.html
-- British police free nine Pakistanis held in terror raids
http://www.geo.tv/4-22-2009/40392.htm

(UK) Men plotted against UK publisher of Mohammad book
-- "Two men admitted on Tuesday plotting to firebomb the London home of the
publisher of a controversial novel about the Prophet Mohammad's child bride."
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/4/22/worldupdates/2009-04-21T194513Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-391629-1&sec=Worldupdates

(UK) Standing Up For Hatred
-- "Daud Abdullah, the deputy secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, will be
one of the speakers at this weekend's national conference of the 'Stop the War Coalition'"
-- "backing jihad and the rank religious hatred of the Istanbul declaration amounts to
nothing more than 'support of the Palestinians'"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/21/standing-up-for-hatred/

(UK) Britain to review all arms exports to Israel
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_ISRAEL?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=MIDEAST&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-04-21-12-13-45

(UK) It's Cat Stevens at the mike but it's Islam holding court
http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/music/cat-at-the-mike-but-islam-holds-court/2009/04/21/1240079665354.html

(UK) Call to make Islamist groups part of solution in building institutions 
-- David Gardner at Chatham House think tank
-- "A leading writer on the Middle East has outlined the need for Islamist groups to be part
of the solution in building institutions, a legal framework, and to strengthen representative government"
http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74048&Itemid=2

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(UK) Man jailed over terrorism charges -- Pa Modou Jobe
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/8009217.stm
-- Illegal immigrant working in Birmingham jailed for terrorism offense - Pa Jobe
--- Court: "The Crown's case is that the defendant at the time of arrest in December 2006
was in possession of what amounted to an arsenal of information of a radical Islamist nature
some of which crosses the line of criminal law."
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2009/04/21/illegal-immigrant-working-in-birmingham-jailed-for-terrorism-offence-65233-23430498/

(UK) Preacher of hate IS linked to al-Qaeda -- Abu Qatada
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2385256.ece

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(UK) Muslim group Tony Blair promised to ban calls for 'jihad' at London rally
-- "A leader of a radical Muslim group which Tony Blair promised to ban four years ago
has called on followers to support 'jihad' against Israel at a rally in London."
--- UK's Hizb ut-Tahrir: "There is only one solution to the occupation of Muslim lands, one
solution to the cries of the widows and the orphans, one solution to avenge the death of the
elderly and the children ... fight in the way of Allah those who fight you. Al-Jihad."
--- "A spokesman for the Home Office said that the group's status was being reassessed
in light of the latest remarks but said that the decision to proscribe an organisation must be 'proportionate'"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5173319/Muslim-group-Tony-Blair-promised-to-ban-calls-for-jihad-at-London-rally.html

(UK) New calls to shut down Jihad group that Blair promised to ban
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1171601/New-calls-shut-Jihad-group-Blair-promised-ban.html

(UK) Press Release: Support for Jihad continues at former Abu Hamza Mosque
http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2009/04/press-release-support-for-jihad-continues-at-former-abu-hamza-mosque.html
http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/files/1239876381_1.pdf
--- "One of the trustees of the North London Central Mosque (aka Finsbury Park Mosque),
Mohammed Sawalha, supports jihad in Israel and attacks against her allies. It has been
reported that Mr. Sawalha was a signatory along with Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)
deputy director-general, Dr. Daud Abdullah, to a statement which supports jihad. However,
his connections with the North London Central Mosque were not revealed."

(UK) All public buildings to get advice on halting suicide bombers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6122805.ece

UK Group Defines Jihad as 'Armed Resistance'
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3011/pub_detail.asp

(UK) Britain isolated amid UN racism summit boycott
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5182662/Britain-isolated-amid-UN-racism-summit-boycott.html

(UK) MI5's grannies fight Al Qaeda
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/95891/MI5-s-grannies-fight-Al-Qaeda

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(UK) Pakistan condemns Home Office over student terror arrests
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1170661/Pakistan-condemns-Home-Office-student-terror-arrests.html

(UK) Police force tourists to delete photos of London buses 'to stop terrorism'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1170764/Police-force-tourists-delete-photos-London-buses-stop-terrorism.html

(UK) Come "Meet" Hamas' Khalid Meshaal At The House of Lords
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/16/come-meet-khalid-meshaal-at-the-house-of-lords/

(UK) Two freed in terror investigation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7999898.stm

(Ireland) Police Service of Northern Ireland head leaving to become president of Association of Chief Police Officers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/16/orde-quits-northern-ireland-chief-constable
-- Sir Hugh Orde has previously called for negotiations with Al-Qaeda
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7426874.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/30/alqaida.terrorism

(Ireland) Azzam Tamimi, Hamas and the Taleban
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/15/azzam-tamimi-hamas-and-the-taleban/

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(UK) Terror arrests: police granted more time for 'al-Qaeda plot' interviews
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6094380.ece

(UK) Pakistan asks for access to 'terror plot' suspects
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090415/wl_sthasia_afp/britainattackspakistan_20090415125023

(UK) Britain wants to deport Pak students to cover up its mistake: Wajid
http://www.geo.tv/4-15-2009/39902.htm

(UK) Extremist Becomes Chair of the Muslim Safety Forum
-- "the new 'Interim Chair' of the Muslim Safety Forum is Abdurahman Jafar."
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/15/extremist-becomes-chair-of-the-muslim-safety-forum/

(UK) New arrest over Warley honour killing
-- Pakistani husband Mian Shahid Mehmood killed
-- "execution-style honour killing back in February 2007"
http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/New-arrest-over-Warley-honour.5171494.jp
--- "their family had 'lost respect' after their sister Yasmin Bibi Rakhi married someone they had not chosen for her themselves."
http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=print&sid=2569
--- June 26, 2008: Life term for man who ordered 'honour killing' of Mian Shahid Mehmood
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2200331/Life-term-for-man-who-ordered-honour-killing-of-Mian-Shahid-Mehmood.html

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(UK) Jailbust rant by fanatic
-- "Hate preacher Anjem Choudary has called on fellow fanatics to free Muslims from jail"
-- "On a secret recording obtained by The Sun, he rants that it is 'only a matter of time'
before the flag of Islam flies over Downing Street, the White House and the Kremlin in Moscow"
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2375670.ece?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News

(UK) Man to move UK court if arrested son deported
-- Pakistani Abid Naseer arrested
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=172412

(UK) Where Is The 'Prevent' Cash Going? (continued)
-- Azzam Tamimi "is a former official spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood member
and has close links with Hamas. Indeed he has been described as 'Hamas' Special Envoy'"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/14/where-is-the-%e2%80%98prevent%e2%80%99-cash-going-continued/

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(UK) Police hunt 40-man Al-Qaida terror cell
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/76598/Police-hunt-40-man-Al-Qaida-terror-cell/

(UK) Manchester terror police call in bomb squad
-- "The bomb squad has been called in at a block of flats being searched in relation to an
alleged Easter bombing campaign against shopping centres in Manchester"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5149763/Manchester-terror-police-call-in-bomb-squad.html
-- Bomb disposal squad called in to site at centre of Liverpool terror arrests
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169625/BREAKING-NEWS-Bomb-disposal-squad-called-site-centre-Liverpool-terror-arrests.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/7996982.stm

(UK) Student visa scam allowing terror suspects into Britain
-- "A suspected terrorist linked to an alleged al-Qaeda plot to attack Manchester was
a student at a bogus college that sold places on fake courses to hundreds of Pakistanis seeking entry to Britain."
-- "Manchester College of Professional Studies acted as a gateway to Britain for foreigners
willing to pay 50 pounds for the letter of admission that earned them a student visa."
-- "A former employee has told The Times that more than a hundred young Pakistani men,
most from the country's troubled North West Frontier Province, came to Britain after being enrolled as students at the college."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6088249.ece

(UK) Terrorists at large in UK?
-- "It is feared that as many as three dozen potential terrorists may have slipped through security nets and may be waiting to strike"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\04\13\story_13-4-2009_pg7_13
-- Terror police in hunt for Brit bomb cell number 2
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/04/12/terror-police-in-hunt-for-brit-bomb-cell-number-2-115875-21272936/

(UK) 'Manchester terror plot' suspects pictured for first time
-- Manchester terror suspects Mohammad Ramzan and Janas Khan
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5146445/Manchester-terror-plot-suspects-pictured-for-first-time.html
-- "Pakistani student alleged to be involved in Easter plot to blow up shopping centres revealed for the first time."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5145160/Manchester-terror-plot-suspect-pictured-for-first-time.html
-- Student suspect in Al Qaeda North-West terror plot
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169625/Pictured-Student-suspect-Al-Qaeda-North-West-terror-plot.html
-- Guardian: "Terror suspect's father says Islamophobia to blame for son's arrest"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/13/terrorism-islamophobia-muslims-manchester-student
-- 'Manchester terror plot': families say Pakistani suspects are innocent
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5147298/Manchester-terror-plot-families-say-Pakistani-suspects-are-innocent.html

(UK) Terror raid house owner's Al Qaeda links
-- Mohammed Benhammedi wanted
-- "in 2006, Mr Benhammedi, 42, had his assets and three property firms frozen
for his alleged role in financing the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169366/Terror-raid-house-owners-Al-Qaeda-links.html

(UK) Pakistani 'terror plot suspects' to be deported rather than charged
-- "Most of the Pakistani men arrested last week in an anti-terrorist operation will be
deported rather than charged, senior counter-terrorism sources told The Times last night"
-- "Operation Pathway, the codename for the inquiry"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6083205.ece
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/arrested-pakistani-nationals-to-be-deported-uk-media-ha

(UK/Pakistan) NWFP: Scot 'in Pakistan terror arrest'
-- "Dundee-born James McLintock, who has changed his name to Yaqub Mohammed"
-- "being investigated over links to an alleged terror plot in northern England which was uncovered on Thursday"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7996858.stm
-- Scot known as the 'Tartan Taliban' held in Pakistan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/13/pakistan-scotland-james-mclintock

UK officials believe foiled attack was planned by Rashid Rauf
-- but Rashid Rauf reportedly killed months ago
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\04\13\story_13-4-2009_pg7_12
-- Is Alleged U.K Jihadist Rashid Rauf Alive or Dead?
--- "even if he's dead, U.S. and U.K. officials said it's possible the Easter plot was hatched prior to November 2008"
http://www.newsweek.com/id/193524
-- "Last week's raids were the result of a long investigation into a wider campaign plotted by an Al-Qaeda chief before his apparent death"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6078397.ece
-- Long War Journal: "Al Qaeda operative Rashid Rauf survived US strike"
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/04/al_qaeda_operative_r_1.php

(UK) 'Preacher of hate' to front Birmingham Islam seminar
-- "Anwar Al-Awlaki has been named as an Al Qaida supporter by the US Department of Homeland Security."
-- "But the Iman, an American citizen who currently lives in Yemen, is due to front a
two-day seminar on Islam in Birmingham over the Bank Holiday weekend of May 24-25"
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2009/04/12/preacher-of-hate-to-front-birmingham-islam-seminar-66331-23366788/

(UK) Muslim preacher attacks Easter -- Anjem Choudary
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/94621/Muslim-preacher-attacks-Easter

(UK) British Defense Ministry searching for missing hard drive
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1990151&Language=en
-- Laptop with names of SAS missing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/5146702/Laptop-with-names-of-SAS-men-is-missing.html

(UK) Sadiq Khan: One Man MCB?
-- "Sadiq Khan is the 'Cohesion Minister' in the Department of Communities and Local Government."
-- "Khan effectively takes the angry Pakistani students' side"
-- writer states "I fear one way these words can be interpreted is this: 'why don't the jihadis attack the Americans and leave us Brits alone'"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/12/sadiq-khan-one-man-mcb/

(UK) "During my three-month stay in England I met a surprising number of Muslims who shared Jan's fascination with the Taliban"
-- A British Taliban supporter brags of killing "prostitutes" in Pakistan, warns Britons
against speaking against Taliban by threatening families
-- "As for the police, Jan says he's never had problems with them. They seem to regard
him as a deeply religious man, he says, or at least as a harmless eccentric."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6077229.ece

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(UK) Police get more time to question terrorism suspects
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE5377GY20090411?rpc=401&

UK police release 1 man arrested in terror raids
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_TERROR_RAIDS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=EUROPE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-04-11-07-37-03
-- UK Terror Plot: Teenager Released Without Charge But Now In Custody Of UK Borders Agency
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Alleged-UK-Terror-Plot-Teenager-Released-Without-Charge-But-Now-In-Custody-Of-UK-Borders-Agency/Article/200904215260291?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15260291_Alleged_UK_Terror_Plot%3A_Teenager_Released_Without_Charge_But_Now_In_Custody_Of_UK_Borders_Agency

(UK) Trio arrested over bomb 'plot' may have used security jobs as a cover
-- "Several of the men arrested in connection with the alleged Easter suicide bombing plot may have taken jobs as security guards and delivery drivers as cover to scout potential targets, police suspect."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/5138275/Trio-arrested-over-bomb-plot-may-have-used-security-jobs-as-a-cover.html
-- UK terror suspects worked for airport cargo company -- "Cargo2Go"
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1989818&Language=en
-- Terror suspects in 'Easter bomb plot' worked at Manchester airport
--- "At least one drove vans for a cargo company which has access to sensitive locations"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169120/Revealed-Terror-suspects-Easter-bomb-plot-worked-Manchester-airport.html

(UK) Terror raid witness: 'I saw men filming terror target'
-- "A witness has described how he saw two Asian men filming shoppers at one of the alleged terror plot targets two weeks ago"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5136858/Terror-raid-witness-I-saw-men-filming-terror-target.html

(UK) Terror bomb plot intelligence came from MI6 operatives in Pakistan
-- "Searches fail to find evidence of conspiracy"
-- "An informed source said the plot was 'al-Qaida driven'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/11/terror-arrests-pakistan-intelligence
-- Terror plot was al-Qaida driven, says UK anti-terror officials
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Terror-plot-was-al-Qaida-driven-UK/articleshow/4389039.cms

(UK) 'Terror plotters' allowed to stay despite visa breaches
-- "At least two of the men suspected of being members of an alleged al-Qaeda cell had been allowed to stay in Britain despite allegedly breaching the conditions of their student visas"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/5137673/Terror-plotters-allowed-to-stay-despite-visa-breaches.html

(UK) How student visas to Britain became big business
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/11/student-visas-business
-- 50,000 granted UK student visas in five years
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\04\11\story_11-4-2009_pg7_33

(UK) Al-Qaeda grow more devious with '101 ways' into UK
http://news.scotsman.com/uk/AlQaeda-grow-more-devious-with.5163062.jp

(UK) Second Liverpool flat searched in hunt for Al Qaida bomb factory
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2009/04/11/second-liverpool-flat-searched-in-hunt-for-al-qaida-bomb-factory-92534-23365806/

(UK) Liverpool: Officers reassure Muslim community leaders they will deal with any anti-terror backlash
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2009/04/10/officers-reassure-muslim-community-leaders-they-will-deal-with-any-anti-terror-backlash-92534-23357430/

(UK) Banned cleric of hate invited to rant in UK
-- "Muslim cleric Sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki has been banned from the United States after he was accused of using taped lectures to encourage terrorist attacks"
-- "But the preacher of hate has been given the go-ahead to speak to an audience of hundreds at the three-day event in east London which is being held at a taxpayer-funded venue starting today."
-- A Tower Hamlets spokesman said "We sought advice from the Home Office. These enquiries did not present us with grounds to prohibit playing of the message."
-- "Those attending are required to register online and pay a fee up to 70 pounds which goes towards 'promoting Islam'"
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/94488/Banned-cleric-of-hate-invited-to-rant-in-UK
--- See also:
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/09/jihadi-preaching-in-tower-hamlets/

UK's Independent thinks terror threat is only about "Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism in Pakistan"
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-britains-security-hinges-on-curbing-terrorism-in-pakistan-1667302.html
-- Comment: fails to grasp that Pakistan's problem is a microcosm of the global problem with Islamic supremacism

(UK) British raids suggest "blowback" from Pakistan
-- Hassan Abbas: "There is denial in Pakistan about the nature of the threat"
http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINLB3908820090411?rpc=401&
-- Comment: and not just in Pakistan

(UK) ABC gets around to reporting on UK Easter Bomb Plot
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7307433&page=1

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(UK) Al-Qaeda terror plot: searches continue over alleged plan to bomb Easter shoppers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5136227/Al-Qaeda-terror-plot-searches-continue-over-alleged-plan-to-bomb-Easter-shoppers.html
 -- Al-Qaeda terror plot to bomb Easter shoppers
---  "An al-Qaeda cell was days away from carrying out an 'Easter spectacular'
of co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on shopping centres in Manchester, police believe."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5133535/Al-Qaeda-terror-plot-to-bomb-Easter-shoppers.html
-- Al-Qaida plot for mass casualties
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/law_order/alqaida+plot+for+mass+casualties+/3078357

(UK) Police extend search in terrorism probe - to Liverpool
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE5377GY20090410?rpc=401&

(UK) Anti-terror searches continuing
-- "Police are continuing to search 10 properties across the north-west of
England in connection with an alleged planned terror bomb attack."
-- "They have found pictures of popular Manchester shopping centres and a nightclub, the BBC has learned"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7993748.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7994109.stm

(UK) Where terror raids took place
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7991936.stm

(UK) Terror raid CCTV released
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7994109.stm

(UK) Threat was too great to risk a delay to counterterrorism operation
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6069931.ece

(UK) Counter-terror role spins too many plates at a time
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6069908.ece

(UK/Pakistan) UK PM Brown clashes with Pakistan over terror suspects handed student visas by Home Office
-- "The scandalous exploitation of Britain's lax student visas rules by a
suspected Al Qaeda cell erupted into a huge diplomatic row today between Gordon Brown and Pakistan."
-- "The Prime Minister declared that Pakistan 'has to do more to root out
terrorist elements in its country' in the wake of the revelation that 11 of the 12 suspects had travelled to Britain from the country."
-- "But at least 10 of the 12 were allowed to enter by the Home Office after successfully applying for student visas."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168879/Brown-clashes-Pakistan-terror-suspects-handed-student-visas-Home-Office.html

(UK) Student visa row steps up as immigration minister rejects Pakistan criticism
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6073135.ece
--- Pakistan hits back at Gordon Brown over student visas for terrorists
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6071949.ece

(UK) Student visa system is weakest link in border control
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6069949.ece

(UK) Terror plot: Neighbours surprise that 'such nice ordinary lads' had been arrested
--- Six named: Abid Nazeer (alleged ringleader), Sultan Sher, Hamza Shinwari, Abdul Khan, Tariq, Adil
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5135393/Terror-plot-Neighbours-surprise-that-such-nice-ordinary-lads-had-been-arrested.html

(UK) British Columnist Shuiab Khan: "Condemn things? What on earth for?"
-- Khan: "I read one tabloid columnist wanting more people to come out and condemn the actions of extremists."
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/comment/4282815.No_one_likes_to_be_associated_with_terrorism/

(UK) Telegraph's Con Coughlin: "The new enemy within is invisible"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/concoughlin/5133188/The-new-enemy-within-is-invisible.html
-- Comment: Only to those in denial regarding Islamic supremacism

(UK) Home Office "under fire for allowing two leading terrorist sympathizers to enter Britain"
-- Hezbollah's Hussein Al Hajj Hassah and Dyab Abou Jahjah "spoke at the House of Commons"
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/250527/Home-Secretary-Jacqui-Smithrsquos-department-is-under-fire-for-allowing-two-leading-terrorist-sympathisers-to-enter-Britain-during-G20.html

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(UK) Police feared 'Al-Qaida terror attack' on UK was planned for Easter
-- "Sources say attack would have taken place by end of Easter weekend"
-- "Gordon Brown describes suspected plot as 'very big'"
-- "Police guard addresses raided by counterterrorism officers"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/09/al-qaida-terror-uk
--- Brown says terror plot is 'very big'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/brown-says-terror-plot-is-very-big-1666369.html
--- PM Brown: "We know that there are links between terrorists in Britain and terrorists in Pakistan"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5131249/Gordon-Brown-defends-anti-terrorism-operation-after-resignation-of-Bob-Quick.html

(UK) 'Terror gang' may have been 'plotting to blow up shopping centre and nightclub'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168650/Terror-gang-plotting-blow-shopping-centre-nightclub.html

UK police arrest 11 Pakistanis in anti-terror raids [out of 12 arrested]
-- UK's Peter Fahy: "11 of them are Pakistani nationals. That is a matter of fact."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/UK-police-arrest-11-Pakistanis-in-anti-terror-raids/articleshow/4381530.cms
-- UPI: most "on student visas"
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/08/Dozen-anti-terror-arrests-made-in-Britain/UPI-10461239232631/

(UK) Anti-terror swoops follow months of surveillance
--- "Speculation that night clubs were among targets"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/09/anti-terror-operation-england
--- Security Leak Cost Terror Raid Cops 24 Hours
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Terror-Arrests-North-West-Police-Raids-But-Old-Trafford-Trafford-Shopping-Centre-Not-Targets/Article/200904215258652?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15258652_Terror_Arrests%3A_North_West_Police_Raids_But_Old_Trafford%2C_Trafford_Shopping_Centre_Not_Targets
--- Major MI5 operation against al-Qaeda endangered by security breach
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6061914.ece

(UK) "suspects spoke with Afghan accents"
-- spoke with Pashtun dialect used on both sides of Afghan/Pakistan border
-- 6 or 7 suspects reportedly "worshiped at the nearby Al-Falah mosque"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5127951/Terror-blunder-suspects-spoke-with-Afghan-accents.html

(UK) where the suspects were arrested
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5127998/Terror-blunder-where-the-suspects-were-arrested.html

(UK) Liverpool students tell of fears as anti-terror police closed in
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/09/uksecurity-terrorism

(UK) Police chief quits over blunder
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7991307.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6064547.ece
--- Britain's new top counterterrorism officer John Yates
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/09/john-yates-metropolitan-police

(UK) British universities are 'real and serious' terrorism threat
-- "at least 48 campuses including Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of
Economics and Imperial College London had been infiltrated"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5127178/Terror-blunder-British-universities-are-real-and-serious-terrorism-threat.html

(UK) Jihadi Preaching in Tower Hamlets - Anwar Al Awlaki -- Islamic supremacists are heroes of "ummah"
-- Awlaki: "jihad must be part of our programme of revival and change in the Muslim world"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/09/jihadi-preaching-in-tower-hamlets/
http://www.anwar-alawlaki.com/?p=83
http://www.alwasatiyyah.com/courses.php?courseID=5
http://www.mcb.org.uk/events/viewevent.php?id=1171&y=2009&m=4
http://www.towerhamletsarts.org.uk/index.lasso?v=15

(UK) Anti and Pro Islamists on the Centre Left
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/09/anti-and-pro-islamists-on-the-centre-left/

 (UK) Sharia law - Government remains indifferent
http://www.secularism.org.uk/sharia-law-government-remains-in.html

(UK) Hazma sons stole 1 million pounds worth of luxury cars to fund party lifestyle
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168656/Hamza-sons-stole-1million-worth-luxury-cars-fund-party-lifestyle.html

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(UK) 'US OK with UK's overture to Hizbullah'
-- "The Obama administration is "comfortable" with the British government's attempts to engage Hizbullah, a senior British diplomat asserts."
-- "Bill Rammell, Britain's minister of state for foreign and Commonwealth affairs,
said in a brief interview late last week that despite protests to the contrary, the new
US administration doesn't object to the fledgling contacts with the "political win" of the
Lebanon-based Shi'ite Muslim group, which also has a heavily armed militia."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562907554&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(UK) Sparkhill bookshop was the start of US Navy officer's link to terrorism
-- Hassan Abu-Jihaad
-- "Maktabah al Ansar book store in Sparkhill has been raided by counter-terror cops three times"
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2009/04/04/sparkhill-bookshop-was-the-start-of-us-navy-officer-s-link-to-terrorism-97319-23313001/

(UK) Cartoon strip depicts Christian boys as Islamaphobe thug
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5107593/Cartoon-strip-depicts-Christian-boys-as-Islamaphobe-thug.html

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(UK) Bunglawala, Brittain and Abu Qatada
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/04/bunglawala-brittain-and-abu-qatada/

(UK) Delusional British Guardian writer William Leith thinks the Osama Bin Laden is merely against "capitalism"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/02/g20-osama-bin-laden

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(UK) Abu Qatada issues rallying cry from prison
-- "The Palestinian preacher claims that his treatment has helped radicalise a new generation of young British Muslims"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6032196.ece

(UK) Deputy leader of Muslim group to sue Government in row over extremism
-- "Dr Daud Abdullah, deputy secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain,
has sent a solicitor's letter to Communities Secretary Hazel Blears demanding
a 'substantial' payout or he will drag the Government to court"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1167198/Deputy-leader-Muslim-group-sue-Government-row-extremism.html
-- Blears facing Muslim legal move
http://www.eveningleader.co.uk/latest-national-news/Blears-facing-Muslim-legal-move.5141753.jp
-- Blears takes on the MCB
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3512746/blears-takes-on-the-mcb.thtml

(UK) Order made on 7/7 images release
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1987972&Language=en

(UK) Discredited Contest
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/03/discredited-contest/
--- Britain's 'New' Counterterror Policy Is More of the Same - by Shiraz Maher
---- The U.K. isn't truly distancing itself from radical Muslims.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123862072017379861.html

(UK) Analyst: Oil recedes as terrorist target
http://www.ogj.com/display_article/358279/7/ONART/none/GenIn/1/Analyst:-Oil-recedes-as-terrorist-target/

(UK) Islamic bank launches Sharia'a mortgage in Scottish expansion
http://business.scotsman.com/bankinginsurance/Islamic-bank-launches--Sharia39a.5138209.jp

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(UK) Guardian: "The demonisation of British Islamism"
--- "Mainstream Islamists such as Daud Abdullah are being attacked by both the government and religious extremists"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/mar/31/religion-islam
--- UK's Guardian believes that individuals who have supported killing British soldiers and Jews are being "demonized"
--- March 31, 2009: Hazel Blears has demanded that Muslim Council of Britain's (MCB) Daud Abdullah be sacked
--- "after he endorsed a pro-Hamas declaration that appeared to call
for violence against Jews and Israel and condone attacks on British troops"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6004850.ece

(UK) Bob Lambert Defends "British Islamists"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/01/bob-lambert-defends-british-islamists/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/mar/31/religion-islam

(UK) Hezbollah Meets with Quakers
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/01/the-quakers-betray-george-fox-john-rees-disgraces-the-left/

(UK) £20,000 bill for Al Qaeda terrorist dumped on us - Cabdullah Ciise
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/92684/-20-000-bill-for-Al-Qaeda-terrorist-dumped-on-us-

(UK) Leeds: Police to check schools for militant Islamic pupils
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Police-to-check-schools-for.5127917.jp

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(UK) Why Did The Metropolitan Police Gift A Mosque to a Supporter of Terrorism Against Britain?
-- "former Metropolitan Police officer Robert Lambert... pioneered
the strategy that Islamists who don't want to set off bombs in Britain can help to stop other Islamists who do"
-- aided "Mohammed Sawalha and his friends at the
Muslim Association of Britain" in gaining control of Finsbury mosque
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/31/why-did-the-metropolitan-police-gift-a-mosque-to-a-supporter-of-terrorism-against-britain/
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/12/17/how-the-met-got-it-wrong-on-terrorism/
--- April 1 lecture: "Islamists in Britain: Friends or Enemies?" with Robert Lambert MBE
http://educationet.org/messageboard/read.php?2,1175534338,1175534338#msg-1175534338

(UK) Government moves to isolate Muslim Council of Britain with cash for mosques
-- Hazel Blears has demanded that Muslim Council of Britain's (MCB) Daud Abdullah be sacked
-- "after he endorsed a pro-Hamas declaration that appeared
to call for violence against Jews and Israel and condone attacks on British troops"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6004850.ece
--- Then suddenly Daud Abdullah reportedly has a change in heart!
---- Report: "Daud Abdullah Now Opposes the Killing of Jews"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/statement.pdf
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/31/daud-abdullah-now-opposes-the-killing-of-jews/

Posted by manager at 08:04 AM | Permalink

(UK) Woman sentenced for jihad leaflet
-- Shella Roma pleaded guilty to pamphlet asking Muslims "Will you go to Jihad (holy war)?"
-- "sentenced to a community order"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7972580.stm
-- community order punishments
http://www.cjsonline.gov.uk/offender/community_sentencing/index.html

(UK) Apology call in M65 terror arrest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/7971488.stm

Posted by manager at 08:06 AM | Permalink

(UK) Not one, but two Hezbollah Representatives
-- "The 'Stop the War Coalition' are holding a public meeting on the 30th March
at [Quaker] Friends Meeting House entitled 'Solidarity with the struggle for Peace and Justice in the Middle East'"
--- Dyab Abu Jahjah and Lebanese Hezbollah MP Hussein El-Hajj Hassan
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/29/not-one-but-two-hezbollah-representatives/

(UK) Hezbollah MP to meet with UK Parliament in Britain
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3693488,00.html
--- Other press reports that this is MP Hussien Haj Hassan

(UK) Hate Preacher: I Want Sharia Law In Britain -- more from Anjem Choudary
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/91891/Hate-preacher-I-want-Sharia-law-in-Britain

Posted by manager at 08:07 AM | Permalink

(UK) Two hundred British schoolchildren identified as potential terrorists -  some as young as 13
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5063910/Two-hundred-British-schoolchildren-identified-as-potential-terrorists.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-identify-200-children-as-potential-terrorists-1656027.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/28/children-extremist-terrorism-uk-polic

(UK) Charity Commission 'must monitor extremist links'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/charity-commission-must-monitor-extremist-links-1656031.html

(UK) Former terror suspect Binyam Mohammed 'admitted weapons training'
-- "admitted undergoing weapons and explosives training in Afghanistan"
-- but "referred to having seen something on the construction of an H-bomb on a file in a computer that was a joke"
-- says "never intended to engage in terrorism"
-- MI5 quoted as stating "Mr Mohammed was a liar"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5990025.ece

(UK) Jacqui Smith Interview: 'I know where balance lies with civil liberties and security
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5061422/Jacqui-Smith-Interview-I-know-where-balance-lies-with-civil-liberties-and-security.html

(UK) Special investigation: The horrifying campaign of abuse, lies and threats that ruined the career of a headteacher - and her school
-- "One hundred and twenty years later, two officials from Shah Jahan
pursued a 'hidden agenda' forcibly to transform a local, secular primary school into an Islamic faith school."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1165424/Special-investigation-The-horrifying-campaign-abuse-lies-threats-ruined-career-headteacher--school.html?ITO=1490

(UK) Michael Nazir-Ali steps down as Bishop of Rochester
-- "Decision thought to be influenced by direction of Church of England under Rowan Williams"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5065601/Michael-Nazir-Ali-steps-down-as-Bishop-of-Rochester.html
--- Nazir-Ali intends "to work in Pakistan"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5991632.ece

Posted by manager at 08:08 AM | Permalink

(UK) Governement urged to reconsider Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) boycott
http://www.hillingdontimes.co.uk/news/asianspotlight/spotlight/4241606.Governement_urged_to_reconsider_MCB_boycott/
-- Hazel Blears -v- The MCB
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/27/hazel-blears-v-the-mcb/

(UK) I was a victim of libel tourism - by Rachel Ehrenfeld
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/mar/27/freedom-of-speech-al-qaida

Posted by manager at 08:09 AM | Permalink

(UK) 'Nazi' claim by Muslim firebrand
-- "Anjem Choudary yesterday compared the outrage over his hate-fueled anti-British speeches with the Nazi's persecution of Jews"
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/91374/-Nazi-claim-by-Muslim-firebrand

(UK) Hilton hotel axes hate preachers conference after abuse of soldiers
-- "A London hotel has cancelled a conference that had been due to feature
exiled Islamic hate preacher Omar Bakri and the ringleader of a protest against homecoming British soldiers"
-- "The event was organised by the London School of Sharia, set up after Bakri's
Al-Muhajiroun group was banned under terrorism laws drawn up in the wake of the 7/7 bombings."
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23667262-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&

(UK) Second Muslim group faces having links severed with Government over extremism row
-- "The Mosques and Imams National Advisory Body, a central plank of Labour's
anti-extremism strategy, has been dragged into the dispute."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164891/Second-Muslim-group-faces-having-links-severed-Government-extremism-row.html

Posted by manager at 08:11 AM | Permalink

(UK) Twice-cleared British 'bomb plotter' sought after police raid 'orphanage' they claim is Islamic terror training camp
-- Dr Faisal Mostafa
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1164844/Twice-cleared-British-bomb-plotter-sought-police-raid-orphanage-claim-Islamic-terror-training-camp.html?ITO=1490

(UK) Dirty bomb alert: Terror attack could be imminent
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/03/25/dirty-bomb-alert-terror-attack-could-be-imminent-115875-21226063/

(UK) G20 summit: London prepares for lockdown
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5050079/G20-summit-London-prepares-for-lockdown.html

(UK) U.S. President Barack Obama drops meetings during Britain visit amid security concerns
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5047394/President-Barack-Obama-drops-meetings-during-Britain-visit-amid-security-concerns.html

(UK) Spy database to monitor your every move on Facebook and MySpace
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164688/Spy-database-monitor-Facebook-MySpace.html

(UK) GFH advised UK Sharia'a equity fund breaks UK all companies sector top 10
http://www.ameinfo.com/189864.html

(UK) A Dinner for Extremists at City University
-- including Anwar al Awlaki, Haitham Al Haddad
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/25/a-dinner-for-extremists-at-city-university/
-- Anwar al Awlaki's "44 Ways To Support Jihad"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/awlaki.pdf
-- Haitham Al Haddad - "saluting the 'victory' of Hamas in the Gaza conflict"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-QBz_7_AvM&

(UK) Dentist drove car at police woman
-- Omer Butt previously "refused to treat a Muslim patient unless she wore a headscarf"
-- Brother of "Hassan Butt achieved notoriety when he claimed to have
recruited hundreds of British Muslims to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan in the wake of September 11"
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1104736_dentist_drove_car_at_police_woman

(UK) Britain's first sharia-compliant newspaper
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/business/3473821/britains-first-shariacompliant-newspaper.thtml

(UK) Scottish Islamic Foundation: 'Defend Daud Abdullah'
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/25/scottish-islamic-foundation-%E2%80%9Cdefend-daud-abdullah%E2%80%9D/

(UK) Guardian: "Hazel Blears's standoff with the MCB over the views of Daud Abdullah
is not only misguided but sets a dangerous precedent"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/25/hazel-blears-daud-abdullah
-- Warm words, dud deeds
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/25/counter-terrorist-strategy
-- A shameful lead
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3471351/a-shameful-lead.thtml

(UK) The Guardian's lead editorial calls sharia law 'mainstream'
http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDdiZDNiNTU1NzY3Yjk0YjJkMjgwZGUyN2MzODdkOWE=
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/25/counter-terrorist-strategy

(UK) Anti-extremism strategy not productive: UK Muslim body
-- Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\03\26\story_26-3-2009_pg7_6

Posted by manager at 08:13 AM | Permalink

(UK) 'Threat Of Britons Trained By Al Qaeda'
-- "Pakistan has monitored more than 20 Britons believed to have spent time with radical militant groups and then returned to the UK"
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Pakistan-Britons-Who-Trained-With-Extremists-Linked-To-Al-Qaeda-And-The-Taliban-Dossier/Article/200903415247530?lpos=World_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15247530_Pakistan%3A_Britons_Who_Trained_With_Extremists_Linked_To_Al_Qaeda_And_The_Taliban_Dossier
-- 20 extremists back in UK after Pakistan training
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\03\25\story_25-3-2009_pg1_2

(UK) Pakistan: US Terror Attack Fears 'Is Boosting Surveillance Of Pakistanis In Britain'
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Pakistan-US-Terror-Attack-Fears-Is-Boosting-Surveillance-Of-Pakistanis-In-Britain/Article/200903415247451?lpos=UK_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15247451_Pakistan%3A_US_Terror_Attack_Fears_Is_Boosting_Surveillance_Of_Pakistanis_In_Britain
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\03\25\story_25-3-2009_pg1_3

(UK) Anti-terror strategy highlights threat of small 'terrorist groups'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5041633/Anti-terror-strategy-highlights-threat-of-small-terrorist-groups.html

(UK) Government warns of nuclear terror threat - dirty bomb, chemical, nuclear threats
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5044007/Government-warns-of-nuclear-terror-threat.html
-- Rising threat of dirty bomb attack on UK, says Jacqui Smith
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5966489.ece
-- UK: Nuclear, chemical terror threat growing
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/24/britain.terrorism/index.html?section=cnn_latest
-- UK faces greater threat of 'dirty bomb'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-faces-greater-threat-of-dirty-bomb-1653414.html
-- "The Contest strategy is divided into four strands - Prevent, Pursue, Protect and Prepare"
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/UK-Terrorism-Threat-Government-Warns-Chemical-Or-Nuclear-Attack-More-Realistic/Article/200903415247802?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15247802_UK_Terrorism_Threat%3A_Government_Warns_Chemical_Or_Nuclear_Attack_More_Realistic
--- Comment: Forgot "Procrastinate" on Defying Islamic Supremacism

(UK) Independent commentary Simon Carr says British Jihadists are "they are lively in their love of death"
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/simon-carr/simon-carr-perhaps-pointless-programmes-promote-paranoia-1653413.html

(UK) Shopping centre staff will be trained to deal with terror attacks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5041804/Shopping-centre-staff-will-be-trained-to-deal-with-terror-attacks.html
-- Terror Warning After Botched Attack In Israel
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Israel-Terror-Attack-Warning-After-Botched-Bombing-In-Haifa-Ehud-Olmert-Says-Huge-Disaster-Avoided/Article/200903415247220

(UK) Intel agencies warn of danger during G20 meetings - Terror attack rated 'highly likely'
-- in London next week
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=92635

(UK) 6 arrested over violent London protests against Israel's Gaza offensive
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1073538.html

(UK) Hazel Blears cuts ties to Muslim Council of Britain after it refuses to condemn controversial senior member
-- yet another article on this
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164613/Hazel-Blears-cuts-ties-Muslim-Council-Britain-refuses-condemn-controversial-senior-member.html?ITO=1490
--- Guardian's Brian Whitaker: "Labour's actions against the
Muslim Council of Britain destroy any credibility its engagement policy might have had"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/24/islam-politics

(UK) Home Office: "Taking a new approach to counter-terrorism"
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news/taking-new-approach-ct
--- Guardian: "'The government's new anti-terror strategy plays into the hands of the extremists'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/25/muslims-terrorism-policy-opinions

(UK) Sharia Councils Spark Debate In Britain
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96162078

Posted by manager at 08:15 AM | Permalink

(UK) Arts leaders upset about UK screening of visas to weed out terrorists
--- fears that will keep "exceptional talent" out
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/5036345/Terrorism-law-cuts-to-the-heart-of-the-arts.html

(UK) Additional reports on UK govt threatening to cut ties with Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/23/muslim-council-britain-gaza
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5962256.ece
--- Hazel Blear's letter
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2009/03/23/blears__letter.pdf

(UK) MINAB's Extremist
-- "One of the four founding members of MINAB is the Muslim Association of Britain,
which is the British franchise of Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/23/minabs-extremist/

 (UK) Man quizzed over suspicious device on Emirates plane
-- "passenger found a note implying there may be a suspicious device
on board the Emirates flight EK 011 from Dubai 10 minutes before landing"
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1984924&Language=en

-- Comment: is this why the UK Quilliam Foundation
(given 1 million UK pounds) no longer has pro-Sharia,
pro-Hezbollah, wife-beating apologist Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa on their website at "About Us" as a "respected scholar"?
http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/about-us.html
-- previously called pro-Sharia, pro-Hezbollah, wife-beating apologist Grand Mufti Sheik Ali Gomaa a "Muslim scholastic giant"
-- August 18, 2008 - Quilliam Foundation and Misdirection on Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/098.html

Posted by manager at 08:21 AM | Permalink

(UK) Airliner evacuated at London airport
-- "Explosives experts are searching an Emirates airliner at London's Gatwick Airport following a report of a "suspicious device" on board, police told CNN on Sunday"
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/22/uk.gatwick.airliner/index.html

(UK) Muslim terrorist living in the Midlands
--- Faraj Hassan Al-Sa'idi "listed on the United Nations Sanctions Committee’s permanent register of Al Qaida and Taliban members, and has had his assets frozen by the UN."
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/crime-news/2009/03/22/muslim-terrorist-living-in-the-midlands-66331-23201047/

(UK) Government shuns Muslim Council over link with Hamas
-- leaked letter "shows that the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Hazel Blears, wrote to the Muslim Council of Britain, calling for Dr Daud Abdullah to resign"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-shuns-muslim-council-over-link-with-hamas-1651323.html
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/22/muslim-council-of-britain-out-in-the-cold-again/
-- the MCB's response:
http://www.mcb.org.uk/article_detail.php?article=announcement-781

(UK) Report claims al-Qaeda can recruit in UK at street level
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2497079.0.report_claims_alqaeda_can_recruit_in_uk_at_street_level.php

(UK) Brown warns of enduring al-Qaida threat to UK
-- "Prime minister heralds 60,000-strong civilian counter-terrorism force trained to act against extremists"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/22/brown-counter-terrorism-al-qaida
-- UK to update counter-terrorism strategy
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/22/2522949.htm?section=justin
-- Gordon Brown's UK: "We are about to take the war against terror to a new level"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/22/gordon-brown-terrorism
--- Comment: yet still has not acknowledged Islamic supremacism
(Hamas) Australian press provides sympathetic coverage of Hamas in "Staring into the heart of Hamas"
http://www.smh.com.au/world/staring-into-the-heart-of-hamas-20090320-94ev.html?page=-1
-- but when Hamas leader Khalid Mishal is asked "Will the [Hamas] charter be rewritten?"
(which includes, in Article 32, acceptance of apocryphal Protocols of Elders of Zion promoted by Nazis and in Hitler's Mein Kampf)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas#The_Hamas_Charter_.281988.29
-- Mishal's response: "Not a chance."
http://www.smh.com.au/world/staring-into-the-heart-of-hamas-20090320-94ev.html?page=-1

Posted by manager at 08:25 AM | Permalink

(UK) All homosexuals should be stoned to death, says Muslim preacher of hate
-- more from Anjem Choudary "who wants to see Britain ruled by Sharia law"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163510/All-homosexuals-stoned-death-says-Muslim-preacher-hate.html?ITO=1490
--- Mandy would be stoned to death under Sharia law
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2332942.ece?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News
--- Hate preacher: We'd hang mandy for being gay
----- "vowed to hang Business Secretary Lord Mandelson for being homosexual"
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/73650/HATE-PREACHER-We-d-hang-Mandy-for-being-gay-/

Posted by manager at 08:26 AM | Permalink

(UK) 'Wake up before it's too late': Hate preacher Omar Bakri warns of another 7/7 terror attack
-- Bakri: "You want to declare war against us? We will declare Islam against you."
-- Article also recount Bakri's history of rejecting democracy, British law,
calling for Sharia, and calling for death of homosexuals
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163510/Wake-late-Hate-preacher-Omar-Bakri-warns.html?ITO=1490
--- Carry on insulting UK troops, say preachers
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23665174-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&

(UK) Walthamstow: Radical Muslims warn of violence
-- Choudary: "It is a very dangerous thing to grow up in the UK. Under Sharia law,
people will be educated about the harm and evils of alcohol, promiscuity, homosexuality"
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/4220440.WALTHAMSTOW__Radical_Muslims_warn_there_will_be_violence/
--- Hatred In Walthamstow
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/20/hatred-in-walthamstow/

(UK) Terror suspects still in UK despite Home Secretary's vow
-- "Eleven terror suspects are still in the UK five months after the Home Secretary vowed to deport them"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5022889/Terror-suspects-still-in-UK-despite-Home-Secretarys-vow.html

(UK) Labour isn't holding up-to-date information on where taxpayers' money is going to 'prevent extremism'
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/03/labour-isnt-holding-uptodate-information-on-where-taxpayers-money-is-going-to-prevent-extremism.html

Posted by manager at 09:02 AM | Permalink

(UK) Radical Preacher Probed Over Call to Hide Terror Clues -- Anjem Choudary
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509795,00.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163133/Islamic-hate-preacher-Anjem-Choudary-probed-hide-terror-clues.html

(UK) Home Office fails to shut down a single extremist website in two years
-- "The Home Office has failed to shut down a single terrorist
website despite a pledge to do so from Tony Blair four years ago"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/5017764/Home-Office-fails-to-shut-down-a-single-extremist-website-in-two-years.html

(UK) £60,000 for Muslim hurt by police in terror raid -- Babar Ahmad
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162908/60-000-Muslim-hurt-police-terror-raid.html

(UK) Ghaffur calls for Muslim 'preachers of hate' to be banned from television
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23664386-details/Ghaffur+calls+for+Muslim+%27preachers+of+hate%27+to+be+banned+from+television/article.do

(UK) Head accused of 'Islamophobia' wins £400,000 after being forced out by Muslim governors
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163194/Head-accused-Islamophobia-wins-400-000-forced-Muslim-governors.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/5017550/Head-teacher-who-suffered-stress-from-racism-accusations-wins-400000-damages.html

(UK) Islamic Bank of Britain launches Fixed Term account
http://www.bankingtimes.co.uk/19032009-islamic-bank-of-britain-launches-fixed-term-account/

UK's Sun: "Aiming for harmony in the UK"
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/article2324882.ece

Posted by manager at 09:03 AM | Permalink

(UK) Muslim fanatic who shouted abuse at troops given police protection -- Yousaf Bashir
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5001106/Muslim-fanatic-who-shouted-abuse-at-troops-given-police-protection.html
http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Fury-Over-Police-Protection-Of-Muslim-Fanatic_18709.html

(UK) Poll: 60pct in UK unconvinced about Afghan mission
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/16/europe/EU-Britain-Afghanistan-Poll.php
-- PDF of British poll results
http://www.comres.co.uk/resources/7/Radio5Live%20Poll%20Results%20FULL%20Mar09.p

(UK) 'There's no honour in killing,' top judge tells Muslim family in test case
-- "A senior judge yesterday condemned the notion of honour killings
as an affront to English law. Lord Justice Wall declared that 'they are acts
of simply sordid criminal behaviour' and 'had nothing to do with any concept of honour known to English law'. "
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162409/Theres-honour-killing-judge-tells-Muslim-family-test-case.html
-- Judge says 'honour' crimes have no place in English law
-- "One of the children had been set on fire by her mother who also
tried to burn down their house in an attempt to incriminate her sister-in-law."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5001399/Judge-says-honour-crimes-have-no-place-in-English-law.html

(UK) Thousands of girls mutilated in Britain
-- "The NHS is offering to reverse female circumcision amid
concerns that there are 500 victims a year with no prosecutions"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5913979.ece
--- Case study: Female circumcision, the daughter
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5914011.ece
-- Case study: female circumcision, the husband
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5914026.ece

Posted by manager at 09:05 AM | Permalink

(UK) Hate cleric leads jihad cash appeal
-- "Anjem Choudary, who led protests against returning British
troops, has urged his followers to send money to 'mujaheddin'"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5908534.ece
-- Firebrand risks jail in call for jihad cash
--- "He has previously made no secret of his demands that
the country be placed under sharia - Islamic law. This would
mean all women would have to wear veils, adulterers would be stoned to death and drunks whipped in public."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5908551.ece
-- British cleric fundraises for militants
--- "Anjem Choudary, the former head of the banned British
group al-Muhajiroun, told his followers in a recording to stop
spending their money on their families and instead sent it to Muslim soldiers waging holy war"
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/03/15/British_cleric_fundraises_for_militants/UPI-28081237163935/
-- Anjem Choudary investigated by police over mujahideen fundraising
--- Choudary: "You have opportunity to carry dawah [spreading the word]
to society... and you have money that can go towards the dawah, you have
money that can go towards the mujahideen."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4995827/Anjem-Choudary-investigated-by-police-over-mujahideen-fundraising.html

(UK) Minister beaten after clashing with Muslims on his TV show
-- "A Christian minister who has had heated arguments with
Muslims on his TV show has been attacked and warned: 'If you go back to the studio, we'll break your legs.'"
-- Reverend Noble Samuel "based at Heston United Reformed Church, West London"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162039/Minister-beaten-clashing-Muslims-TV-show.html

(UK) Johnson vows to stop funding Muslim group with links to controversial blogger
-- "London mayor says money to Muslim Safety Forum will be halted" Azad Ali
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/13/muslim-safety-forum-boris-johnson
--- Comment: How about Home Office RICU coordination?

(UK) Government adviser on Islamic terror arrested after man is stabbed at his home
-- Inayat Bunglawala "is one of the most prominent members of
the Muslim Council of Britain, an organisation which advises the Government on extremism and counter-terrorism"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162072/Government-adviser-Islamic-terror-arrested-man-stabbed-home.html
--- Note recent news reports have described Inayat Bunglawala
as "former spokesman for the Muslim Council of Great Britain," now leading "Engage"
--- Engage's Inayat Bunglawala on Equality and Liberty
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2009/02/engage_contest.html

(UK) Jihad Chic Comes to London
http://www.newsweek.com/id/189241

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(UK) Anjem Choudary: Brits 'live just like animals'
--- therefore seeks Sharia law for UK
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2319808.ece?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News
-- the other side of hate preacher 'Andy' Choudary
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161909/Swilling-beer-smoking-dope-leering-porn-hate-preacher-Andy-Choudary.html
-- Preacher studied law at Southampton University
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4203208.Extremist_preacher_was_city_university_student/

(UK) Daily Mail: "Britons who HATE Britain: The Muslim extremists hell-bent on segregation rather than integration"
-- "A number of the extremists attend a mosque in Bury Park and,
at one time or another, their group has gone under different names:
One Nation, Muslims Against British Atrocities, The Saviour Sect
(anyone who does not follow their path is 'damned') and now Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah."
--- "Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah (ASWJ) operates mainly through an invitation- only internet forum set up in 2006"
--- "One journalist who penetrated ASWJ found recordings of Osama Bin Laden on the website"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161855/Britons-HATE-Britain-The-Muslim-extremists-hell-bent-segregation-integration.html?ITO=1490

(UK) America angered by Britian's 'secret' talks with Hezbollah
-- another report by London Times on this
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5904412.ece

(UK) Hezbollah's Ibrahim Moussawi was "awarded a PhD in
Political Islam from Birmingham University two years ago"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4986476/Ibrahim-Moussawi-denied-visa-over-Hezbollah.html

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(UK) Anjem Choudary: "I want to see flag of Allah flying over Downing St"
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23661857-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&
--- Anjem Choudary: 'Britain's most reviled man? I wear that badge with pride'
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23661850-details/%C2%91Britain%C2%92s+most+reviled+man+I+wear+that+badge+with+pride%C2%92/article.do

(UK) Islamic fanatic Ibrahim Moussawi barred from entering Britain
-- Daily Mail: "Jacqui Smith has ruled the spokesman for the
terrorist organisation Hezbollah should not be allowed to travel
here - despite him making at least two previous visits to the UK on her watch"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161754/Exclusive-Islamic-fanatic-Ibrahim-Moussawi-barred-entering-Britain.html
--- Not likely a coincidence: March 12, 2009: "US criticizes UK's vow to talk to Hezbollah"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4982046/Special-relationship-strained-US-criticises-UKs-vow-to-talk-to-Hezbollah.html

(UK) Report states only UK minister opposed to Ibrahim Moussawi visa was Hazel Blears
http://www.thejc.com/articles/ministers-welcome-voice-hizbollah
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/13/hazel-blears-was-only-moussawi-opponent/

(UK) One Law for All event a success, but BBC softens us up for sharia
--- "BBC has responded this week with a disgracefully one-sided promotion of sharia for Britain"
http://www.secularism.org.uk/one-law-for-all-event-a-success.html

Commentaries:

(UK) It is time for some of the self described moderates to prove themselves - by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
-- regarding Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) leaders support for Hamas
http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2009/03/it-is-time-for-some-of-the-self-described-moderates-to-prove-themselves.html

(UK) The Muslim Association of Britain's tortured logic -- on Sudan
http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2009/03/the-muslim-association-of-britains-tortured-logic.html

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(UK) Bluewater bomb fantasist hospital target threats -- Saeed Ghafoor
-- Saeed Ghafoor was convicted for car bomb plot at UK Bluewater shopping center, now calls for hospital bombing attacks
-- "I'm a Muslim. I support Al Qaeda."
http://www.gravesendreporter.co.uk/content/kent/reporter/news/story.aspx?brand=GVSROnline&category=news&tBrand=gvsronline&tCategory=news&itemid=WeED12%20Mar%202009%2014%3A47%3A17%3A147

UK approves visit of Hezbollah official -- Hezbollah's Ibrahim Moussawi to speak in London March 25
-- "Britain on Thursday approved the visit to the country of Hizbullah official Ibrahim Moussawi to address a seminar on political Islam at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies."
-- Hezbollah's "Ibrahim Moussawi to address seminar at University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236764172136&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-- "British officials granted senior Hizbullah member Ibrahim Moussawi a visa to visit the country on Thursday"
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130406
-- See also report with background and additional stories at:
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2009/03/uk_approves_ibrahim_moussawi.html
-- Betrayed By This Labour Government
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/12/betrayed-by-this-labour-government/
-- and Jawa Report and Atlas reports
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/196785.php
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/03/briticide-brits-ban-mp-wilders-welcome-extreme-hezbo-muslim-jihadi-.html

(UK) Anti-terror planning "poor", MPs
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1982377&Language=en

(UK) Canadian man jailed for failed UK bomb plot - Momim Khawaja
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/canadian-man-jailed-for-failed-uk-bomb-plot-1643638.html
-- see also Canadian news below

(UK) London: Mayor gives £30,000 of taxpayers' money to Muslim group led by 'extremist'
-- Muslim Safety Forum's "Azad Ali praises a spiritual leader of al Qaeda on his blog, denies the Mumbai attacks were "terrorism" and quotes, apparently approvingly, a statement advocating the killing of British troops in Iraq"
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23661320-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&
--- also coordinated with UK Home Office and Home Office's RICU - same RICU leading UK counterterror policy, and advising U.S.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1120831/Muslim-civil-servant-suspended-killing-British-troops-justified-blog.html
http://74.6.239.67/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcb.org.uk%2Fjobs%2Fjob_details.php%3Fjob_id%3D1551&fr=yfp-t-501&u=mcb.org.uk/jobs/job_details.php%3Fjob_id%3D1551&d=YhF8XJ2uSV2g&icp=1&.intl=us
--- Additional reports on Azad Ali:
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2009/01/azad_ali_jan_23_2009.html
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2009/01/azad_ali_jan_18_2009.html
--- January 23, 2009 - Azad Ali - Oh No He Didn’t, Oh Yes He Did!
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/01/23/azad-ali-oh-no-he-didnt-oh-yes-he-did/

(UK) Muslim protester who works as baggage handler at Luton Airport has security pass suspended
-- Jalah Ahmed called British soldiers "butchers"
-- "said to have once joked he was the nephew of Osama bin Laden and was also allegedly questioned over pictures of passenger jets"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161404/Muslim-protester-works-baggage-handler-Luton-Airport-security-pass-suspended-hurling-abuse-troops.html


(UK) One law for all -- article on Maryam Namazie
-- who has "had her share of death threats, including one of decapitation"
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=1379415


(UK) Ahmed freed on appeal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/12/lord-ahmed-appeal
-- Fury as Labour peer jailed for texting at the wheel minutes before fatal crash to be freed after serving just 17 days
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161531/Fury-Labour-peer-jailed-texting-wheel-minutes-fatal-crash-freed-serving-just-17-days.html


Commentaries:

Farewell to Britain - by Frank Gaffney, Jr.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2703/pub_detail.asp

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(UK) 'Cowards who can't fight': Muslim hate preacher taunts grieving families of friendly-fire victims -- Anjem Choudary
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1160958/Cowards-fight-Muslim-hate-preacher-taunts-grieving-families-friendly-victims.html
-- Muslim Preacher Mocks Fallen British Soldiers After Homecoming Parade Protest
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,508686,00.html
-- Melanie Phillips: Labour's disastrous policy is radicalising a whole new generation of Muslims
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1161188/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-Labours-disastrous-policy-radicalising-new-generation-Muslims.html

(UK) Muslim group pledges more protests against UK soldiers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/11/muslim-group-anti-war-protests

UK Study: "Web's Role in Terrorism May Be Overstated"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,508909,00.html

U.K. Targets Port-Smuggling Risks After Mumbai Terror Attacks
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=acSE1WbV3D10&refer=india

Commentaries:

(UK) Stop pandering to enemies of our way of life - by Ruth Dudley Edwards
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4975163/Stop-pandering-to-enemies-of-our-way-of-life.html

(UK) Melanie Phillips: Labour's disastrous policy is radicalising a whole new generation of Muslims
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1161188/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-Labours-disastrous-policy-radicalising-new-generation-Muslims.html

(UK) Are Muslim radicals trying to provoke a civil war in Britain?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/con_coughlin/blog/2009/03/11/are_muslim_radicals_trying_to_provoke_a_civil_war_in_britain
-- Comment: Con Coughlin never imagines that Islamic supremacists simply mean to conquer UK

(UK) Britain is now harbouring a menacing enemy within
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/88777
--- Comment: "now"???

(UK) Tolerance and the intolerant
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article5891253.ece

(UK) We'll Never Surrender
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/88828/We-ll-never-surrender

Meantime... while UK is worried about the "intolerant"... and "not surrendering"...

(UK) Crossing over to Islamic banking
-- "Sharia-compliant finance is prospering in Britain"
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article5889624.ece

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(UK) Muslim anti-war protesters abuse British soldiers as 'baby killers' during homecoming parade
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1160958/Muslim-anti-war-protesters-abuse-British-soldiers-baby-killers-homecoming-parade.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/4968576/Muslim-extremists-shout-abuse-at-British-soldiers-during-home-coming-march.html
http://www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/news/article/1157160236784?packedargs=suffix%3DArticleController
--- Two held during parade protests -- BBC video and article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7935679.stm
--- YouTube Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ygCc9qlWM&
--- JihadWatch report
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025185.php

(UK) Online extremism tactics "crude", report
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1981728&Language=en

(UK) 'Terror abroad' retrial ruled out
-- "A man accused of orchestrating terror attacks in Pakistan from his home in London will not face a retrial."
-- "Hyrbyair Marri, 40, was accused of being a key supporter of the banned Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA)."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7935991.stm

Commentaries:

Will Sharia Courts in the UK Sabatoge The Forced Marriage Act?  by Victoria Golshani
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200903093938/culture-wars/will-sharia-courts-in-the-uk-sabatoge-the-forced-marriage-act.html

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/4962802/British-born-Muslims-supplied-equipment-to-al-Qaeda.html
-- Three jailed for equipping militants overseas
--- "Three British Muslims were jailed on Monday for sending equipment to militants fighting on the Afghan and Pakistan border."
--- all from Birmingham: Mohammed Nadim, Shabir Mohammed, and Shahid Ali
--- "A fourth Birmingham man, Abdul Ishaq Raheem, 32, was jailed for failing to disclose information about an act of terrorism."
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090309/tuk-uk-britain-equipment-fa6b408.html

(UK) £90m anti-terrorism project is fanning the flames of extremism
-- Report: ""some within government and the police service believe that only nonviolent radicals, otherwise known as 'political Islamists,' possess the necessary 'street cred' to control angry young Muslims"
-- Report: "plausible and well-mannered radicals, often representing themselves as moderate, are welcomed with open arms, however hardline their underlying philosophy"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4957666/90m-anti-terrorism-project-is-fanning-the-flames-of-extremism.html

(UK) Inquiry to check faith schools are teaching right from wrong
-- "thought to be a response to recent criticism of some Muslim schools, or madrassas"
-- "Some pupils 'not prepared for life in British society'"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article5877732.ece

Related News:

(UK) 'Isn't Auschwitz the name of a beer?'
-- "Survey of UK secondary school pupils reveals a quarter don't know purpose of the Nazi death camp"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236603389024&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-- Auschwitz is a beer, schoolchildren tell researchers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4957314/Auschwitz-is-a-beer-schoolchildren-tell-researchers.html

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025148.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXYbMcYYOT8&

UK Former SAS chief in Afghanistan slams 'worthless' war
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=United+Kingdom+%26+Europe&month=March2009&file=World_News2009030812722.xml
-- SAS chief says MoD has 'blood on its hands'
--- UK's Morley: "The operations that we are conducting are so worthless. It's just crazy to think we hold that ground or have any influence on what goes on beyond the bases."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/4951208/SAS-commander-says-MoD-has-blood-on-its-hands-over-Snatch-Land-Rovers.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7929785.stm

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-- "accused of advocating attacks on the Royal Navy if it tries to stop arms for Hamas being smuggled into Gaza"
-- "Dr Daud Abdullah, deputy director-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, is facing calls for his resignation, after it emerged that he is one of 90 Muslim leaders from around the world who have signed a public declaration in support of Hamas and military action."
-- Guardian Obserber reporter believes Abdullah "has helped counter extremism in the country's mosques"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/08/daud-abdullah-gaza-middle-east

(UK) Financial Secretary to the Treasury "Stephen Timms: Provide Banking Services to Interpal!"
-- "Interpal is a charity which has been proscribed by the US Treasury, which has identified it as part of the Hamas funding machinery"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/07/stephen-timms-provide-banking-services-to-interpal/
-- U.S. Treasury: "Interpal, headquartered in the UK, has been a principal charity utilized to hide the flow of money to HAMAS. Reporting indicates it is the conduit through which money flows to HAMAS from other charities, e.g., the Al Aqsa Foundation, and that it oversees the activities of other charities. "
http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/js672.htm
-- July 9, 2008 - London Times: Israel bans British group over links to Hamas -- Interpal, also known as the Palestinian Relief and Development Fund
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4293935.ece

(UK) Campaigners will seek arrest of Islamic radical
-- "Campaigners from the Centre for Social Cohesion have pledged to seek an arrest warrant for Dr Ibrahim Moussawi, an Islamic extremist, who is due to visit Britain this March"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4953470/Campaigners-will-seek-arrest-of-Islamic-radical.html

(UK) Hizbullah: UK talks can't be secret
--"British Foreign Office denies pursuing closed-door talks; Miliband says UK will press disarmament"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236269363400&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(UK) Another report by Guantanamo Bay ex-detainee Binyam Mohamed on alleged torture by Moroccans
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1160238/How-MI5-colluded-torture-Binyam-Mohamed-claims-British-agents-fed-Moroccan-torturers-questions--WORLD-EXCLUSIVE.html

(UK) Hundreds expected at anti-sharia demo in London
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2009/03/hundreds-expected-at-antisharia-demo-in-london.html

Commentaries:

(UK) Telegraph: "Sensitivity to religion cannot dictate the course of the law -- Consistency demands that Hizbollah's spokesman be banned from entering Britain"
-- regarding Ibrahim Moussawi
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/4954427/Sensitivity-to-religion-cannot-dictate-the-course-of-the-law.html
--- Comment: Ignores the larger issue that is UK is negotiating with Hezbollah, that UK has larger "consistency" problems than only Ibrahim Moussawi

(UK) Melanie Phillips: "Beware the new axis of evangelicals and Islamists"
http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=649
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/3409686/beware-the-new-axis-of-evangelicals-and-islamists.thtml
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025129.php

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1159901/Familys-fury-legal-blunders-left-husband-free-stab-wife-death--despite-warnings-kill-her.html
--- "Using both hands to squeeze her windpipe he told her to read her Koran adding: 'Read whatever other stuff you need to read now. This is your final hour.' The arrival of his brother stopped the attack but Mannan left shouting: 'I'm going to get a knife and when I return I'm going to slaughter you."
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U54NM9QE5VY/SbF5P8PhWMI/AAAAAAAAGVY/OnqppsFQ-SQ/s1600-h/DailyMailWhitewash.jpg
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=%22Using%20both%20hands%20to%20squeeze%20her%20windpipe%20he%20told%20her%20to%20read%20her%20Koran%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn

(UK) Gym club banned from holding classes at girls school after Muslim parents complain about boy members
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1159992/Gym-club-banned-holding-classes-girls-school-Muslim-parents-complain-boy-members.html?ITO=1490

(UK) British Union promotes lobby for Gaza
http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/news_centre/index.cfm/id/CD942B97-9961-436A-AF91E0319F22C60C

(UK) Scotland: Markets need morality, Gordon Brown tells Labour conference
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/4949681/Markets-need-morality-Gordon-Brown-tells-Labour-conference.html

(UK) Government Capitulating to Islamic Law if Shari'ah Finance Regulations Changed as Proposed
-- "if they change the current financial regulations to accommodate Shari'ah Finance and issue sukuk bonds, following recommended changes to the Legislative Framework for the Regulation of Alternative Finance Investment Bonds (Sukuk) as proposed"
http://www.earnedmedia.org/clc0306.htm

Commentaries:

(UK) "Labour Goverment To Allow Hezbollah's Moussawi Into The United Kingdom"
-- NOTE: this is writer's speculation based on willingness of UK to negotiate with "political" branch of terror group Hezbollah - not a press report of something that has actually happened per se
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/06/labour-goverment-to-allow-hezbollahs-moussawi-into-the-united-kingdom/

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(UK) Call to ban Islamic meeting - Hizb ut-Tahrir
http://www.lutontoday.co.uk/545/Call-to-ban-Islamic-meeting.5034541.jp

(UK) One Law for All Campaign against Sharia Law in Britain
-- March 7 - London's Trafalgar Square from 330-430pm
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/03/one-law-for-all-campaign-against-sharia-law-in-britain/
http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/

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(UK) Banned cleric Omar Bakri addresses conference at London primary school
--- "Omar Bakri, the radical cleric banned from Britain, has addressed a conference at a primary school in London in which he called for the country to become an Islamic state"
--- "Bakri told his followers: 'The existence of the Islamic state is a necessity for justice to be established... Islam is the future'"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4903920/Banned-cleric-Omar-Bakri-addresses-conference-at-London-primary-school.html

(UK) Quilliam Foundation: We want a more British Islam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/mar/02/religion-islam-quilliam-imams
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/anya-hart-dyke

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(UK) Al Muhajiroun Holds a Segregated March
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/01/al-muhajiroun-holds-a-segregated-march/
-- on UK for Islam leaflet, "You'll note that the telephone number on that leaflet is the same one used by Al Muhajiroun and Anjem Choudhry’s Society of Muslim Lawyers - an Al Muhaj front - in the late 1990s"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/islam4ukleaflet.jpghttp://www.hurryupharry.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/islam4ukleaflet.jpg

(UK) Former British resident: 'Wage Jihad against the Jews' -- Zaghloul al-Naggar
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2009/02/former-british-resident-wage-jihad-against-the-jews.html

UK terror attack 'rehearsal'-- emergency services exercise
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7916756.stm

(UK) Catholic Church slams new code of conduct forcing teachers to promote Islam
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1158406/Catholic-Church-slams-new-code-conduct-forcing-teachers-promote-Islam-gay-rights.html?ITO=1490

Commentaries:

(UK) Which is worse - Islamic terrorism or Muslim ghettos?  by Damian Thompson
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/03/01/which_is_worse__islamic_terrorism_or_muslim_ghettos

(UK) Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Why Muslims will not fight for freedom
-- "They ignore campaigns for the good of all, refusing to accept that non-Muslims are equal"
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-why-muslims-will-not-fight-for-freedom-1635153.html

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-- "The Special Immigration Appeals Tribunal said Friday that three Algerian men and one Jordanian man could be released on bail. All four had previously been held pending deportation to their homelands."
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/27/europe/EU-Britain-Terror-Suspects.php
-- Judges free four terror suspects as Home Secretary blasts court over fresh risk to public security
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1157382/Judges-free-terror-suspects-Home-Secretary-blasts-court-fresh-risk-public-security.html

(UK) 'We gave US al-Qaida suspects'
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/we%20gave%20us%20alqaida%20suspects/3002657

(UK/Lebanon) Ibrahim Moussawi Appointed Hezbollah's Media Relations Officer
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/02/26/ibrahim-moussawi-appointed-hezbollahs-media-relations-officer/
http://www.iloubnan.info/politics/actualite/id/31753
-- February 26, 2009: Ibrahim Moussawi to advise UK government officials on foreign policy and security issues next month
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1155778/Civil-servants-ready-pay-2-000-cash-hear-Islamic-extremist-preach.html?ITO=1490

UK: Islamists lecturing on political Islam
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/02/uk-islamists-lecturing-on-political.html

UK diplomat suspended for 'hate-speech'
-- "The Foreign Office's Rowan Laxton was arrested last month for an alleged anti-Semitic rant"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1235410736256&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Commentaries:

(UK) Liberal fascism - by Melanie Phillips
-- "the now common analogy that is drawn between Israel and the Nazis, or Gaza and the Warsaw Ghetto, as used by such Israel-haters as George Galloway, Jenny Tonge, the British Muslim Initiative and others"
-- "tarring it [Israel] as a Nazi state delegitimises it and thus advances the agenda of its destruction"
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3392771/liberal-fascism.thtml

(UK) "British Muslims... resent the fact that the rest of society often sees them mainly as potential extremists"
http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13186100&source=hptextfeature

(UK) Individual argue British Muslims need to create a "native British Islamic culture"
-- Fail to grasp the larger issue that all free peoples need to respect equality and liberty for a functioning democracy
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article5810936.ece

Posted by manager at 12:22 PM | Permalink

(UK) Prince of Wales calls for 'bridges' to be built between faiths
-- at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4837248/Prince-of-Wales-calls-for-bridges-to-be-built-between-faiths.html

(UK) Polygamy UK: This special Mail investigation reveals how thousands of men are milking the benefits system to support several wives
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1154789/Polygamy-UK-This-special-Mail-investigation-reveals-thousands-men-milking-benefits-support-wives.html

(UK) Binyam Mohamed: Britain too cold after Guantanamo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4837171/Binyam-Mohamed-the-British-resident-released-from-Guantanamo-Bay-tells-friends-UK-is-too-cold.html

UK acknowledges 2 rendition cases
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090226/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_rendition

(UK) Terrorism experts share knowledge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7912133.stm

Posted by manager at 12:24 PM | Permalink

(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

Posted by manager at 12:26 PM | Permalink

(UK) Will Labour allow THIS Muslim hardliner with links to Hezbollah into Britain?
-- "Ibrahim Moussawi, a known hardliner with links to Hezbollah, has been invited to speak at a London university"
-- "Editor for the newspaper of Lebanon-based terrorist organisation Hezbollah, he is a former political editor of the Iranian-backed group's TV station"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1154827/Will-Labour-allow-THIS-Muslim-hardliner-links-Hezbollah-Britain.html?ITO=1490
--- UK Home Office has previously allowed Hezbollah's Ibrahim Moussawi to speak throughout UK
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

(UK) Terrorist suspects claiming unemployment benefits
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4799494/Terrorist-suspects-claiming-unemployment-benefits.html

(UK) Reports of Muslims poisoning food with human waste
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025006.php
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019951.php
http://www.local6.com/news/5182853/detail.html
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/gloucestershireheadlines/Man-accused-waging-spray-war/article-721336-detail/article.html

U.K: Analysts find new culprit for "radicalization": Old people
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025010.php
-- UK: Islamic group slams 'out of touch' imams
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/02/uk-islamic-group-slams-out-of-touch.html
-- Mosques 'fail to tackle radicals'
---- "97% of imams were born abroad"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7907037.stm

UK: Muslims first, British second-- with BBC video links
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/02/uk-muslims-first-british-second.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lswFMzD_hVU&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvAhN8iEnGo&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YLWCgRrSgI&

(UK) Discussion on Islamic finance begins in UK
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=275405&version=1&template_id=48&parent_id=28

Commentaries:

(UK) We let radical groups settle in our midst – so this is no surprise - by Kim Sengupta
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/kim-sengupta-we-let-radical-groups-settle-in-our-midst-ndash-so-this-is-no-surprise-1631353.html

Posted by manager at 12:30 PM | Permalink

(UK/U.S.) Freed Guantanamo detainee accuses U.S. of torture -- Ethiopian Binyam Mohamed with British residency
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090223/ts_nm/us_britain_guantanamo_detainee
--- Released Guantanamo inmate to report regularly to police - voluntary measures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/23/binyam-mohamed-return-uk
--- Returned Guantanamo man held under anti-terror laws
---- "He was detained under Schedule 7 Port and Border Controls, contained within the Terrorism Act 2000, following the arrival of the aircraft at RAF Northolt shortly after 1300 GMT. The man has not been arrested."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090223/wl_uk_afp/usbritainethiopiaattacksguantanamo
--- Binyam Mohamed back in UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/cuba/4787164/Binyam-Mohamed-back-in-UK-claiming-torturers-linked-to-British-agents-Guantanamo.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5790314.ece
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1152505/Guantanamo-Briton-arrives-home-vows-expose-UKs-role-torture.html
--- UK Foreign Minister Miliband: Binyam release is the 1st step towards shared goal to close Guantanamo
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1978153&Language=en
--- Binyam Mohamed: The false martyr - by Thomas Joscelyn
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/binyam_mohamed_the_f.php
--- February 6, 2009 report on Binyam Mohamed plot for terror attacks in U.S., role with Taliban, and reports of training to develop dirty bomb
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1135491/Revealed-The-truth-Briton-tortured-Guantanamo-Bay.html?ITO=1490

(UK) Jihad books were in library
- "library service was stocking books which encouraged jihad and the murder of non-Muslims, a Government-backed report has revealed"
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Jihad-books-library/article-718981-detail/article.html

(UK) Sharia Finance: HSBC targets sharia in UK
-- "HSBC is making a raft of sharia-compliant funds available to UK investors for the first time by restructuring them into a single, Luxembourg-domiciled offering"
http://www.ftadviser.com/InvestmentAdviser/Investments/Region/FrontierMarkets/News/article/20090223/a7001eb2-ff62-11dd-ac57-00144f2af8e8/HSBC-targets-sharia-in-UK.jsp

(UK) Al Nisa report: "More criticism for Preventing Violent Extremism" (PVE) poject
http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/3350
http://www.pickledpolitics.com/pictures/documents/pve_response_alnisa.pdf

(UK) Home Office/RICU Letter by Stephen Rimmer - "Allegations Made in the [BBC] Panorama Programme 'Muslim First - British Second' on Monday 16 February
-- "there is no hidden agenda in Prevent" organization
http://www.pickledpolitics.com/pictures/documents/homeoffice_pve_response.pdf

(UK) Farmers aim for halal meat market
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/7906109.stm

Posted by manager at 12:32 PM | Permalink

(UK) Guantanamo man 'can settle in UK'  - Binyam Mohamed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7903330.stm
--- Binyam Mohamed: The false martyr - by Thomas Joscelyn
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/binyam_mohamed_the_f.php
--- February 6, 2009 report on Binyam Mohamed plot for terror attacks in U.S., role with Taliban, and reports of training to develop dirty bomb
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1135491/Revealed-The-truth-Briton-tortured-Guantanamo-Bay.html?ITO=1490

(UK) Rights Court Halts Extradition of Radical Muslim Cleric from Britain -- Abu Qatada
-- "The European Court of Human Rights says it has asked Britain to halt the extradition of a radical Muslim cleric and suspected al-Qaida member, Abu Qatada, from Britain to Jordan"
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-02-21-voa17.cfm?rss=europe

(UK) Exeter: Holy books to stay separated
http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/education/Holy-books-stay-separated/article-714775-detail/article.html

(UK) Pakistan's The News: "Blast in Eastern London" -- NOTE report has not been confirmed by any other news source
"LONDON: Blast has been reported in Eastern London on Saturday."
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=69278
http://www.geo.tv/2-21-2009/35658.htm

Commentaries:

(UK) Joan Smith: Beyond the psychotic drivel, Qatada is serious about jihad
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/joan-smith/joan-smith-beyond-the-psychotic-drivel-qatada-is-serious-about-jihad-1628837.html

(UK) Binyam Mohamed: The false martyr - by Thomas Joscelyn
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/binyam_mohamed_the_f.php

Posted by manager at 12:35 PM | Permalink

(UK) Galloway seeks inquiry into convoy arrests
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/21/galloway-viva-palestina-arrests-aid
--- UK Member of Parliament George Galloway has history of calling for public contributions for Interpal, linked to Hamas funding
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4293935.ece

Commentaries:

From Islamabad to Bradford - Degrees of accommodation - by Mark Steyn
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmVhYzRmOGYzYmQ3ODRhYjBiMzllYzc2NDNhZmZjMzU=

Posted by manager at 11:51 AM | Permalink

British Muslims 'providing Taliban with electronic devices for roadside bombs'
-- "British Muslims are providing the Taliban with electronic devices to make roadside bombs for use in attacks against British forces serving in southern Afghanistan"
-- "Brigadier Ed Butler, the former commander of UK forces in Afghanistan, told the Telegraph that there are 'British passport holders' in the Taliban ranks. Other officers believe their soldiers have killed British Muslims fighting alongside the Taliban"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/4736032/British-Muslims-providing-Taliban-with-electronic-devices-for-roadside-bombs.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1151622/British-Muslims-arming-Taliban-electronic-devices-build-roadside-bombs.html

(U.S./UK) Guantanamo Bay inmate to be sent to Britain -- Binyam Mohamed
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/20/europe/EU-Britain-Guantanamo-Bay.phphttp://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090220/tuk-guantanamo-brit-is-cleared-for-relea-45dbed5.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/cuba/4734821/Binyam-Mohamed-to-be-released-from-Guantanamo-Bay.html
--- Binyam Mohamed could be back in UK as early as Monday
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/4736036/Binyam-Mohamed-could-be-back-in-UK-as-early-as-Monday.html
--- "In the case of Binyam Mohammed, what we're looking at is extraordinary rendition in reverse. Instead of flying terror suspects abroad to be tortured, we're flying them here to be pampered"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1150525/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Under-rule-Osama-Bin-Laden-British.html
--- February 6, 2009 report on Binyam Mohamed plot for terror attacks in U.S., role with Taliban, and reports of training to develop dirty bomb
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1135491/Revealed-The-truth-Briton-tortured-Guantanamo-Bay.html?ITO=1490
--- February 5, 2009 - UK Amnesty International Blog: "We should campaign to lock up al Qaeda members not campaign for their release" -- by John Vashahi
http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs_entry.asp?eid=2594

(UK) Britain asked to wait on Qatada deportation
-- "European Court of Human Rights called Friday on Britain to postpone its deportation to Jordan of radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada until after it had heard his appeal"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090220/wl_uk_afp/britainattacksjordanqatadalebanon_20090220142055

UK withdraws controversial terrorism lesson plan
--- "Britain's government apologized Thursday for endorsing a lesson plan which asked students to think like suicide bombers"
--- UK spokesman "acknowledged that the lesson about the bombings was inappropriate for schoolchildren and said it had been pulled from the site"
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/20/europe/EU-Britain-Terror-Lesson.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/7901312.stm
--- Pupils taught to see 7/7 from bombers' perspective
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/14/20090220/tpl-pupils-taught-to-see-7-7-from-bomber-81c5b50.html
--- Ministers in U-turn over guidance that urges children to think like suicide bomber
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4734272/Ministers-in-U-turn-over-guidance-that-urges-children-to-think-like-suicide-bomber.html

Commentaries:

(UK) Under this rule, even Osama Bin Laden is British -- by Richard Littlejohn
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1150525/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Under-rule-Osama-Bin-Laden-British.html

(UK) Why we need a new Churchill to stand against Islamic extremists -- by Kevin Myers
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/why-we-need-a-new-churchill-to-stand-against-islamic-extremists-14197276.html

(Egypt/UK) Propaganda: "Al-Qaeda founder launches fierce attack on Osama bin Laden"
-- Deluded reporter Daily Telegraph David Blair reports misinformation from Egypt that Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, aka "Dr. Fadl" is attacking Bin Laden
--- never questions the "credibility of Dr Fadl"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/4736358/Al-Qaeda-founder-launches-fierce-attack-on-Osama-bin-Laden.html
--- ignores that Al-Sharif is documented supporting Jihad in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel, supports Taliban and calls for Sharia state of Afghanistan
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/092.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/13/heretic.alqaida.part.two
"Fadl [aka Al-Sharif] does not condemn all jihadist activity, however. 'Jihad in Afghanistan will lead to the creation of an Islamic state with the triumph of the Taliban, God willing,' he declares. The jihads in Iraq and Palestine are more problematic. As Fadl sees it, 'If it were not for the jihad in Palestine, the Jews would have crept toward the neighbouring countries a long time ago.' Speaking of Iraq, he [Al-Sharif] notes that without the jihad there, 'America would have moved into Syria.'"
--- Same propaganda nonsense peddled by the UK Home Office
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html#T01

Posted by manager at 11:48 AM | Permalink

(UK) Pupils asked to see bombers' point of view
-- "Teaching pack says students should understand terror attacks from bombers' perspective"
-- "A government-endorsed teaching pack suggests secondary schools ask pupils to do a presentation on the 7 July London terror attacks from the bombers' perspective."
-- Author Sail Suleman tells Guardian: "Radicals, extremists and fundamentalists come in all different forms. Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it justified?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/feb/19/july-bombers-teaching-pack

(UK) Abu Qatada awarded compensation by European judges for 'breach of human rights'
-- "Radical preacher Abu Qatada has been awarded £2,500 compensation by European judges who ruled that his detention without trial breached his human rights"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4696480/Abu-Qatada-awarded-compensation-by-European-judges-for-breach-of-human-rights.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5765126.ece
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3035581675
-- Anger in Britain as radical cleric wins payout
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090219/wl_mideast_afp/britainattacksjordanqatadalebanon_20090219165915
--- more on Qatada
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2008/04/abu_qatada.html

(UK) Police free activists arrested under terror laws -- arrested in Lancashire
-- "men claimed to be driving to London to join an aid convoy to the Gaza Strip"
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/19/europe/EU-Britain-Peace-Convoy.php
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/burnley/4140322.Burnley_men_arrested_in_terrorism_operation_released_without_charge/
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Terrorism-act-suspects-released-without.4999773.jp

(UK) Terror suspect pours scorn on 'rubbish' £3,000 EU payout for unlawful Belmarsh detention
-- "Palestinian fanatic" Abu Rideh "linked to hook-handed preacher Abu Hamza"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1150302/Terror-suspect-pours-scorn-rubbish-3-000-EU-payout-unlawful-Belmarsh-detention.html

Posted by manager at 04:26 PM | Permalink

(UK) Muslim Engage organization leader condemns report of plans to consider new draft "Contest 2" code
-- Engage's Inayat Bunglawala (former spokesman for the Muslim Council of Great Britain) says that calling for British Muslims to respect equality, reject caliphate, reject jihad, and not promote Sharia "would be counterproductive and class most Muslims as extremists"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/17/counterterrorism-strategy-muslims
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/02/17/who-is-an-extremist/
-- Engage web site
http://www.iengage.org.uk/
-- Inayat Bunglawala also a writer for UK's Guardian
---- "In August 2005, Inayat was appointed by the Home Office as the Convenor of a working group on Tackling Extremism"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2007/jun/03/inayatbunglawala
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news/tacklilng-extremism?version=2
-- August 20, 2005: "Top job fighting extremism for Muslim who praised bomber"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1496621/Top-job-fighting-extremism-for-Muslim-who-praised-bomber.html
-- Inayat Bunglawala states Osama Bin Laden "was a freedom fighter"
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/01f7156e-12a9-11da-8cc3-00000e2511c8,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F01f7156e-12a9-11da-8cc3-00000e2511c8.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3B_ylt%3DA0geu8cu8ppJAGgBFydXNyoA%3Fp%3DUK%2BHome%2BOffice%2B%2522Inayat%2BBunglawala%2522%26y%3DSearch%26fr%3Dyfp-t-501&nclick_check=1
-- Inayat Bunglawala: "Calling for establishing a state with Islamic values should not be a crime"
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-07/18/05.shtml
-- British Muslims who object to homosexuality could be classed as extremists
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-11206.html
--- Pakistan Daily: "Leaked UK Government Proposals Label Core Aspects Of Islam as 'Extremist'"
http://www.daily.pk/world/europe/9473-leaked-uk-government-proposals-label-core-aspects-of-islam-as-extremist.html

February 19, 2009 - Guardian: "Labour's cricket test for British Muslims" by ENGAGE's Inayat Bunglawala
--- Bunglawala: "One point that is becoming clearer by the day is that the 'extremists' as defined by Contest 2 are no longer a fringe element but rather those who believe in the fundamental aspects of Islam, ie the majority."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/18/islam-labour-contest-2

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(UK) Why Somalia must rise up UK agenda
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/africa/why+somalia+must+rise+up+uk+agenda/2958407

(UK) Tranatlantic jet bomb retrial: 'Bomb plot' case jury dismissed
--- British judge Henriques discharged jury for "legal reasons"
--- "A new jury will be sworn in and the case re-started at a time to be fixed"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7896942.stm
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/19/europe/19briefsjurydismissebrf.php
--- "judge has discharged the jury in the case of a group of British Muslims accused of plotting to blow up trans-Atlantic passenger jets in mid-air, citing legal reasons"
--- "A court order restricts reporting of some details of the trial."
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/02/18/prosecutor_says_alleged_bomb_plotters_left_videos/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090218/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_airline_plot
--- Airliner bomb trial: 'Terrorist had limitless ambitions'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4687954/Airliner-bomb-trial-Terrorist-had-limitless-ambitions.html
--- British terror cell 'planned to blow up seven transatlantic airliners'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5754677.ece
--- September 8, 2008: UK Jury Ruling on Jihadists Ignores Plot to Bomb Transatlantic Jets Headed to America - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/103.html

(UK) Qatada to 'stay in country' despite deportation order -- "if he takes his case to the European Court of Human Rights"
-- "Radical cleric Abu Qatada will stay in Britian for months despite a House of Lords ruling that he should be deported to Jordan where he faces terror charges"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4687820/Radical-preacher-Abu-Qatada-will-stay-in-country-despite-deportation-order.html
-- "Abu Qatada, 48, is expected to remain in the UK for up to two years as he is likely to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in a last attempt to avoid being deported"
-- deportation proceedings can begin against Qatada, "RB," and "U"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5757962.ece
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Abu-Qatada-British-Appeal-Ruling-Radical-Muslim-Cleric-Wanted-In-Jordan-Can-Be-Deported/Article/200902315225022?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15225022_Abu_Qatada_British_Appeal_Ruling%3A_Radical_Muslim_Cleric_Wanted_In_Jordan_Can_Be_Deported
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7896457.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1148622/Radical-Muslim-cleric-Abu-Qatada-CAN-deported-Jordan-face-terror-charges-Law-Lords-rule.html
--- Background on Qatada
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2008/04/abu_qatada.html
--- Background on "U" (aka "Amar Makhlulif" aka "Abu Doha") - also some data on "RB"
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2008/06/case_summary_terror_suspects_u.html

(UK) Cop killer Kamel Bourgass plots poison terror strike from cell
-- "Osama bin Laden's "master poisoner" is planning terror outrages from his jail cell"
-- "Kamel Bourgass is recruiting extremist prisoners to communicate with undercover al-Qaeda operatives"
-- "Bourgass is being monitored by secret services after evidence was found of a plot involving a 'quantity of cyanide'"
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/02/17/cop-killer-kamel-bourgass-plots-poison-terror-strike-from-cell-exclusive-115875-21129824/
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024904.php

(UK) MI5 fed questions to CIA for interrogation
-- more on UK press on Binyam Mohamed's interrogation without context
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/18/binyam-mohamed-mi5-detention
--- February 6, 2009 report on Binyam Mohamed plot for terror attacks in U.S., role with Taliban, and reports of training to develop dirty bomb
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1135491/Revealed-The-truth-Briton-tortured-Guantanamo-Bay.html?ITO=1490

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(UK) Retrial of Transatlantic Jet Bomb Plot by British Jihadists
-- Eight men 'tried to blow up flights with liquid bombs'
---- Prosecutor Peter Wright states group intended to cause civilian deaths on an "unprecedented scale"
---- Abdulla Ahmed Ali (aka Ahmed Ali Khan), Assad Sarwar, Tanvir Hussain, Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan, Waheed Zaman, Umar Islam (aka Brian Young), and Donald Stewart-Whyte
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4679863/Airliner-bomb-trial-Eight-men-tried-to-blow-flights-with-liquid-bombs-planes.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7894755.stm
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/17/airline.plot.trial/index.html
--- Jury set for terror trial - scheduled to last at least until July 2009
http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/content/hackney/gazette/news/story.aspx?brand=HKYGOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshkyg&itemid=WeED17%20Feb%202009%2010%3A16%3A51%3A463

British terror cell planned to blow up seven transatlantic airliners
-- "A British terrorist cell planned to detonate suicide bombs on transatlantic airliners killing thousands of people, a court heard today"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5754677.ece

See also:
--- September 8, 2008: UK Jury Ruling on Jihadists Ignores Plot to Bomb Transatlantic Jets Headed to America - by Jeffrey Imm
---- British jury ignores transatlantic jet plot, concerned only about threats to British utility, airport, and internet facilities
---- British Jihadists sought bombs on tranatlantic jets headed to U.S. cities
---- British Jihadists made videos of calls for Jihadist attacks on America
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/103.html
---- Text of their videos calling for Jihad and attacks on America
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html#transatlantic_jihadists
---- August 16, 2006: How The Road To Terror Leads Back To London - by Jeffrey Imm
----- on tranatlantic jet British Jihadist bomb plot
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2006/08/how_the_road_to_terror_leads_b.html
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/006.html

(UK) Daily Mail: "Plot to 'blow up transatlantic planes with liquid bombs was directed from Pakistan'"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1147902/Plot-blow-transatlantic-planes-liquid-bombs-directed-Pakistan.html?ITO=1490

(UK) Britain Probing Muslim 'Aid for Gaza' Group for Terror Links
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129966

(UK) London: Protest outside the American Embassy calling for the release of Binyam Mohamed from Guantanamo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/4681668/Protest-outside-the-American-Embassy-calling-for-the-release-of-Binyam-Mohamed-from-Guantanamo.html
--- February 6, 2009: Revealed: The 'truth' behind the Briton 'tortured in Guantanamo Bay'
--- on Binyam Mohamed plot for terror attacks in U.S., role with Taliban, and reports of training to develop dirty bomb
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1135491/Revealed-The-truth-Briton-tortured-Guantanamo-Bay.html?ITO=1490

(UK) Secret papers on Iraq war stolen from Eversheds lawyer on train
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5755728.ece

(UK) So is Britain really going to break with the Muslim Brothers? -- by Melanie Phillips
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3365496/so-is-britain-really-going-to-break-with-the-muslim-brothers.thtml
 

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(UK) Report: "UK to shift anti-terror strategy"
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1976234&Language=en
-- BBC: "A senior Whitehall source said that Muslim leaders who urge separation will be isolated and publicly rejected"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7889631.stm
-- "Extremist Muslim preachers targeted in new counter-terrorism strategy"
---- Abdurraheem Green, who views "Islam is not compatible with democracy," calls for wife-beating sought by UK police for "advice"
---- "the Metropolitan Police has sought Abdurraheem Green's advice recently... the preacher insists that in spite of his conservative views about life in Britain he is 'part of the solution' to extremism because young people listen to him"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4639626/Extremist-Muslim-preachers-targeted-in-new-counter-terrorism-strategy.html

(UK) Guardian: "Anti-terror code 'would alienate most Muslims'"
-- Guardian says new anti-terror code would alienate those calling for caliphate, Sharia, support Jihad, etc.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/17/counterterrorism-strategy-muslims

(UK) Spy chief: We risk a police state
-- "Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, has warned that the fear of terrorism is being exploited by the Government to erode civil liberties and risks creating a police state"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4643415/Spy-chief-We-risk-a-police-state.html
--- Comment: remember this is the same MI5 that views more Islam as the solution to Jihadist terrorism
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html#T04
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/20/uksecurity.terrorism1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3561662/How-to-target-the-extremists.html

(Somalia/UK) UK: 60 British youth fighting Jihad in Somalia
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/02/uk-60-british-youth-fighting-jihad-in.html
-- UK: Jihadis to Somalia
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/02/uk-jihadis-to-somalia.html

(Somalia/UK) British Muslim student killed 20 in suicide bomb attack in Somalia
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1146290/Revealed-British-Muslim-student-killed-20-suicide-bomb-attack-Somalia.html?ITO=1490
--- Growing number of British men joining Islamic radicals in Somalia
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4638987/Growing-number-of-British-men-joining-Islamic-radicals-in-Somalia.html
--- Suicide bomber from Ealing is first in a new wave of Islamic terror
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23643466-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&

(Somalia/UK) Somalia's terror recruits return to UK
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/somalias+terror+recruits+return+to+uk/2954747
-- Somalia-trained terrorists back in Britain
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/02/16/Somalia-trained_terrorists_back_in_Britain/UPI-83721234804431/
-- Somali radicals 'importing terror to UK' say intelligence analysts
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5741300.ece

(Somalia/UK) Somalia, the 'new Pakistan'?
-- "A young man blows himself up in Somalia, killing several people, but he is from Ealing in west London. He is just one of scores of Muslims believed to have travelled from the UK to join Islamist militants in one of the world's worst failed states."
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/somalia+the+new+pakistan/2956057
--- Comment: unfortunately when UK's Channel 4 refers to "failed states," it doesn't acknowledge UK's responsibility

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(U.S./UK) Guantanamo Bay: Binyam Mohamed lawyer demands his immediate release - on hunger strike
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/cuba/4590991/Guantanamo-Bay-torture-prisoner-will-leave-detention-centre-insane-or-in-a-coffin.html
--- February 6, 2009: Revealed: The 'truth' behind the Briton 'tortured in Guantanamo Bay'
---- "Investigators also believe Binyam Mohamed was planning to blow up an apartment block in the United States when he was arrested."
---- "U.S. authorities claim Mohamed fought against anti-Taliban Northern Alliances forces and, because of his UK residency, was selected by Al Qaeda and trained to construct and detonate a radioactive 'dirty bomb'."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1135491/Revealed-The-truth-Briton-tortured-Guantanamo-Bay.html?ITO=1490

(UK) Top MI6 spy: Terrorism less serious than bird flu
-- former MI6 Assistant Chief and Director of Operations and Intelligence Nigel Inkster (MI6 from 1975 to 2006) speaks at "counterterrorism conference"
-- blames Israel's Gaza invasion for increasing terror risk in UK
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/11/mi6_spy_rubbishes_terrorism_fear/

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(UK) Don't attack us please, UK ads to say on Pak TV
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Dont-attack-us-please-UK-ads-to-say-on-Pak-TV/421654/
--- Please don't hate us: UK ad campaign to target extremism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/10/pakistan-advertising-campaign
-- UK launches ad campaign to show that Britain is not anti-Islam
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1140823/UK-launches-ad-campaign-Britain-anti-Islam.html?ITO=1490

UK prisons: incubators for terrorism?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/03/islam-prisonsandprobation

(UK) Dutch MP Wilders refused entry to the UK
-- "Mr Wilders, who was due to go to London this Thursday, received a letter today, 10 February, from the British ambassador to the Netherlands telling him that he was not welcome, reportedly because his visit would constitute a threat to public order."
-- Wilders quoted as stating: "I'll see what happens at the border. Let them put me in handcuffs."
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/region/netherlands/090210-wilders-britain-banned

(UK) Report: "UK Parliament to Show Controversial Film Fitna" -- scheduled for Thursday February 12, 2009
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/090210/3834831en_public.html?.v=1

(UK) Cinema's latest odd couple in film on UK bombings -- "London River"
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090210/twl-life-us-berlin-bombings-9020220.html

(Belgium/UK) 'Terror cell' arrested in Brussels connected to 'highest levels of al-Qaeda'
-- Malika el-Aroud "is said to be at the centre of the Belgian cell"
-- "According to Belgian counter-terrorism sources, the group was radicalised by a woman whose former husband has links to Abu Qatada, the radical preacher in jail in Britain"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4579553/Terror-cell-arrested-in-Brussels-connected-to-highest-levels-of-al-Qaeda.html
--- December 18, 2008: Belgium detains 14 suspects 'linked to al-Qaeda'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/3707972/Belgium-detains-14-suspects-linked-to-al-Qaeda.html
--- December 12, 2008: Belgium: "Mother of al-Qaeda in Europe" saved by Belgian secret service
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/12/belgium-mother-of-al-qaeda-in-europe.html
--- December 12, 2008: 6 alleged Islamic extremists charged in Belgium
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023908.php
--- May 27, 2008: Belgian Internet Warrior Rallies Women to Support Al Qaeda -- Internet Jihadist Malika El Aroud aka "Oum Obeyda" calls herself a female holy warrior for Al Qaeda
----- Malika el-Aroud: "I have a weapon. It's to write. It's to speak out. That's my jihad. You can do many things with words. Writing is also a bomb."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/27/europe/terror.php
--- August 24, 2006: CNN - "Suicide bomber's widow soldiers on" -- by Paul Cruickshank
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/15/elaroud/index.html
---- Notably, same British journalist Paul Cruickshank claiming Muslim Brotherhood as "moderates," seeking to hold U.S. meeting with Muslim Brotherhood, and now a contributing expert for CounterterrorismBlog.org, presenting on Capitol Hill
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=702bf6d5-a37a-4e3e-a491-fd72bf6a9da1
http://www.newsweek.com/id/45335
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/313
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/107.html#Cruickshank1
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/107.html#Cruickshank2
http://counterterrorismblog.org/experts/paul-cruickshank/

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(Afghanistan) UK New envoy to Afghanistan, Pakistan
-- "Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, an Arabic speaker who has previously been Britain's ambassador to Saudi Arabia as well as Israe"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090209/wl_uk_afp/britainafghanistanpakistandiplomacy_20090209130357;_ylt=Atk3Mmdua02U6q7Z2BFJYNQBS5Z4
-- October 2, 2008: British envoy says mission in Afghanistan is doomed, according to leaked memo
--- Sherard Cowper-Coles memo reported by London Times: "reportedly saying that the campaign against the Taleban insurgents would fail"
--- Sherard Cowper-Coles memo reported by London Times: "the only realistic outlook for Afghanistan would be the installation of 'an acceptable dictator'"
-- October 3, 2008: Official: NATO will fail against Taliban
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/10/03/Official_NATO_will_fail_against_Taliban/UPI-51561223082545/
-- June 22, 2007 - UK's Nottingham - "he claimed that the streets of Saudi cities were safer than theirs"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2007/jun/22/uk.afghanistan

(UK) Taxi driver coaxed into becoming al Qaida spy
-- Habib Ahmed found guilty of collaborating with Rangzieb Ahmed
-- "He became radicalised after he joined a college Islamic society operated by his close friend Hassan Butt"
-- "society was operated on behalf of Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HT)"
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Taliban_recruiter_helped_taxi_driver_become_an_al-Qaeda_agent&in_article_id=526821&in_page_id=34

(UK) Al-Qaida fantasist tells court: I'm a professional liar -- Hassan Butt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/09/uksecurity-july7
-- UK Muslim tells court he fabricated Islamist past
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090209/wl_nm/us_britain_security_confession

(UK) Compulsory visas for South Africans
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5689448.ece
--- Pakistanis returning from Jihad training have long used South Africa as a stopover to avoid visa detection on return to UK
---- May 3, 2007: British terrorists using Africa as secret staging post
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1739245.ece
---- February 4, 2008: South Africans face visa curb to shut terrorists' route to Britain
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3301166.ece
---- July 11, 2008: UK to tighten entry for South Africans over terrorism fears
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4315614.ece

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(UK) Revealed: The 'truth' behind the Briton 'tortured in Guantanamo Bay'
-- "An FBI document outlining the case against a British 'resident' held at Guantanamo Bay has revealed how he allegedly met Osama bin Laden while being trained for jihad at an Al Qaeda camp."
-- "Investigators also believe Binyam Mohamed was planning to blow up an apartment block in the United States when he was arrested."
-- "U.S. authorities claim Mohamed fought against anti-Taliban Northern Alliances forces and, because of his UK residency, was selected by Al Qaeda and trained to construct and detonate a radioactive 'dirty bomb'."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1135491/Revealed-The-truth-Briton-tortured-Guantanamo-Bay.html?ITO=1490
--- UK: High Court urged to reconsider torture ruling
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4539305/High-Court-urged-to-reconsider-torture-ruling.html

(UK) MPs condemn hate sermons on Arabic TV station al-Jazeera
-- "Andrew Dismore, the Labour MP for Hendon, condemned al-Jazeera for associating itself with Sheikh al-Qaradawi -- who hosts one of its most popular segments, Shariah and Life
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5678764.ece

Commentary:

Is Britain no longer special to America?  by Con Coughlin
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/concoughlin/4529419/Is-Britain-no-longer-special-to-America.html
--- August 31, 2008: British Government Efforts against "Extremists" Ignores Jihad and Islamic Supremacism
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html

The jihad against Britain's Jews - by Melanie Phillips
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3329296/the-jihad-against-britains-jews.thtml

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(UK) British Hizb ut-Tahrir Web Site Promoting Pakistan Jihad
http://www.hizb.org.uk/hizb/press-centre/press-release/hizb-ut-tahrir-pakistan-the-only-solution-to-the-occupied-territories-is-jihad-through-the-armies.html

(UK) Miliband denies U.S. threatened to break off co-operation on terrorism intelligence
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1135491/Miliband-denies-U-S-threatened-break-operation-terrorism-intelligence.html
-- UK ruling sparks debate on Guantanamo detainee
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/05/europe/EU-Britain-Guantanamo.php
-- UK Amnesty International Blog: "We should campaign to lock up al Qaeda members not campaign for their release" -- by John Vashahi
-- on Binyam Mohamed case
http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs_entry.asp?eid=2594

Commentaries:

(UK/U.S.) It's time to shut down Al-Muhajiroun for good - by Edmund Standing
--- "Islam For The UK continues to promote Bakri Muhammad's ravings via its website and their American allies use anti-Semitic material lifted from neo-Nazi websites."
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/02/05/its-time-to-shut-down-al-muhajiroun-for-good/

UK Amnesty International Blog: "We should campaign to lock up al Qaeda members not campaign for their release" -- by John Vashahi
-- on Binyam Mohamed case
http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs_entry.asp?eid=2594
--- also by John Vashahi "Amnesty should not be a toy in hand of al Qaeda"
http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs_entry.asp?eid=2549

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(UK) Report: "al-Qaida plot to murder MPs in their own homes"
-- "Police were last night urgently probing the plan, hatched on a website used by terrorists and their supporters."
-- train attacks, attacks on Parliament members' houses reportedly discussed on Islamic supremacist website
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/68467
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/68467/-We-will-kill-MPs-in-their-own-homes-/
http://hamaraphotos.com/news/uncategorized/al-qaedas-plot-to-murder-british-mps-uncovered.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024722.php

(UK) Suspected terrorists under control orders 'keeping in touch with extremists'
--- additional report
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4449655/Suspected-terrorists-under-control-orders-keeping-in-touch-with-extremists.html
--- Explainer: Control orders
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/feb/03/civil-liberties-control-orders

UK prisons: incubators for terrorism?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/03/islam-prisonsandprobation

UK court rules to keep Guantanamo documents secret
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/04/europe/EU-Britain-Guantanamo.php
-- UK Judges accuse US of cover-up
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/majornews/4517343/Torture-row-Judges-accuse-US-of-cover-up.html

(UK) Miliband unveils six-step plan to 'rid the world of nuclear weapons'
-- Comment: No mention by Miliband regarding Pakistan's estimated 60 nuclear weapons
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1135764/Miliband-unveils-step-plan-rid-world-nuclear-weapons.html

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(UK) Terror suspects 'plot attacks' while under house arrest
-- "Anti-terror watchdog warns of ongoing threat from captive extremists who are determined to mount terror attacks in the future"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5655038.ece
-- Terror suspects maintain contact with terrorist groups, despite restrictions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/03/terror-suspects-breach-control-orders
-- Britain: 15 terror suspects under house arrest
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090203/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_terrorism

(UK) Woman admits making jihad leaflets -- Shella Roma
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/woman+admits+making+jihad+leaflets/2921177

Commentaries:

(UK) British police running from Muslim demonstrators, a Christian nurse facing the sack for offering to pray for a patient - this is the way a society dies - by Melanie Phillips
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1134042/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-British-police-running-Muslim-demonstrators-Christian-nurse-facing-sack-offering-pray-patient--way-society-dies.html

(UK) Power to the Spokespeople -- by Douglas Murray
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/809/full
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024687.php

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(UK) Police 'ran away' from jeering Gaza demonstrators
-- "shows protesters chanting 'Allahu Akbar' (God is Greatest) and 'Fatwa', a death threat under Islamic law"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1133120/Police-ran-away-jeering-Gaza-demonstrators.html?ITO=1490
-- Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp-lwSe2llg&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1hJbjNrBXs&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hyDRjdXCE&eurl=http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hyDRjdXCE&
-- Blog Report
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/02/london-police-chased-by-demonstrators.html

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(UK) Exeter: Nicky Reilly, Muslim convert, jailed for 18 years for Exeter bomb attack
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5619151.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4399281/Exeter-bomber-Nicky-Reilly-jailed-for-life.html
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2009/January/international_January1766.xml&section=international
--- Background on would-be nail-bomber Nicky Reilly aka Mohammed Rasheed
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2008/05/nicky_reilly.html

(UK) Pro-Gaza protesters, police clash in front of Jewish student center
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1972241&Language=en

Commentaries:

The western front of the jihad against the Jews - by Melanie Phillips
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3306141/the-western-front-of-the-jihad-against-the-jews.thtml

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UK Security Minister: Gaza has 'set back' anti-terror fight
-- Alan West: "We never used to accept that our foreign policy ever had any effect on terrorism. Well, that was clearly bollocks."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090128/wl_uk_afp/mideastconflictgazasecuritybritain
-- Gaza fueled extremism - minister
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7855108.stm
-- 'Rubbish!': Security minister's verdict on Tony Blair's approach to foreign policy
---- "He added that the Government was still struggling to understand the causes of extremism in this country."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1130079/Rubbish--Security-ministers-verdict-Tony-Blairs-approach-foreign-policy.html
-- Minister for terror: Gaza will fuel UK extremism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jan/28/terrorism-uk-gaza
-- Guardian: "Straight-talking fomer seaman doing his best not to rock the boat"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/28/profile-lord-west-of-spithead
 
--- **NOTE** this is same UK "security" minister who has called for talks with Al-Qaeda
--- March 16, 2008 - BBC: Not talking to al-Qaeda 'silly' -- Security Minister West
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7299888.stm
--- See also: August 31, 2008: British Government Efforts against "Extremists" Ignores Jihad and Islamic Supremacism
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/759
--- More on Alan West
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html#T05
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/UK_Strategy_Sources.htm#003

(UK) Sun front-page story on 'terror target' Sir Alan Sugar under investigation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/28/sun-story-on-alan-sugar-investigated

(UK) Birmingham-based Islamic Relief charity has delivered £2 million in aid to victims of the Gaza conflict
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2009/01/29/birmingham-based-islamic-relief-charity-has-delivered-2-million-in-aid-to-victims-of-the-gaza-conflict-97319-22804166/
-- December 31, 2008: Birmingham-based Islamic charity appeals for £2million for victims of Gaza bombings - Islamic Relief Worldwide
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2008/12/31/birmingham-based-islamic-charity-appeals-for-2million-for-victims-of-gaza-bombings-65233-22579224/
--- Jeffrey Imm: Islamic Relief Worldwide Group Linked to Jihadist Organizations
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/003.html
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6625
--- 2006: Israel: British national arrested for assisting Hamas
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Terrorism+and+Islamic+Fundamentalism-/British+national+arrested+for+assisting+Hamas+29-May-2006.htm

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(UK) July 7 Bomb Trial: British Muslim 'starred in video with ringleader of 7/7 attacks'
-- "Court hears that Mohammed Shakil made a promotional video with the ringleader of the July 7 attacks to raise money for jihad"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5601084.ece

(UK) Moves to ban radical Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamist group in UK
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED27%20Jan%202009%2020%3A08%3A30%3A897

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Al-Qaeda urges attacks in US, Britain to avenge Gaza war
--- Abu Yahya al-Libi: "Sacrifice what you can to deliver to the capitals of the infidel West, the criminal America, and the agent tyrants a taste of what they deliver to our brothers and our oppressed brothers and people in Palestine"
--- Libi is a "Sharia committee official within al-Qaeda"
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24951305-23109,00.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Al-Qaida_urges_attacks_in_US_UK_to_avenge_Gaza_war/articleshow/4018423.cms
--- Laura Mansfield link to video:
http://www.lauramansfield.com/fhw-s.rm
--- Al-Qaeda leader calls for attacks on Britain in retaliation for Israel's Gaza offensive
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/4315997/Al-Qaeda-leader-calls-for-attacks-on-Britain-in-retaliation-for-Israels-Gaza-offensive.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1126640/Make-taste-misery-horror-Al-Qaeda-leader-demands-terror-attacks-Britain-avenge-Israel-invasion-Gaza.html

(UK) July 7, 2005 Bombing Trial - Lawyers: "Jihad sympathisers 'had no part in 7/7 plot'"
-- Waheed Ali, Mohammed Shakil and Sadeer Saleem
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Jihad-sympathisers-39had-no-part.4905294.jp

(UK) Scotland Yard releases pictures of suspects in violent Gaza protest wanted in London
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1970597&Language=en

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(UK) 7 July bomber 'phoned accused'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7840285.stm

(UK) July 5, 2007 Bomb Trials: Three accused of conspiring with London bombers
--- Waheed Ali, Sadeer Saleem, and Mohammed Shakil
http://www.dawn.com/2009/01/20/top13.htm
--- British Muslims 'went on July 7 reconnaissance'
---- "Retrial of three men accused of conspiring with 2005 London bombers told that they intended to go to terror training camp"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5546439.ece

UK defense department probes virus security breach
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1969964&Language=en

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(UK) 3 face retrial on London transit bombing charges -- July 7, 2005 attacks
--- Waheed Ali, Mohammed Shakil and Sadeer Salim
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/01/19/europe/EU-Britain-Bombings-Trial.php

(UK) Azad Ali: Daily Telegraph report -- additional news report on Azad Ali
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4284412/Muslim-civil-servant-suspended-for-hardline-blog-attacking-Government-over-Gaza.html
--- Muslim civil servant 'backed fanatic's call to kill our troops in Iraq'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1121284/Muslim-civil-servant-backed-fanatics-kill-troops-Iraq.html?ITO=1490

(UK) Counter-Terrorism Act 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jan/19/counter-terrorism-act

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In this war, Islamists have found a shared strategy. We haven't
--- "David Miliband is misguided to claim that the terrorist threat is disaggregated and heterogeneous, writes Matthew d'Ancona"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/matthewd_ancona/4278595/In-this-war-Islamists-have-found-a-shared-strategy.-We-havent.html
---- See also "Resistance is Survival" by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/120.html
http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2009/01/resistance-is-survival/

(UK) Muslim civil servant suspended over 'killing British troops is justified' blog
-- Treasury official Azad Ali
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1120831/Muslim-civil-servant-suspended-killing-British-troops-justified-blog.html
-- "As a former chairman of the influential Muslim Safety Forum and the current head of its counter-terrorism work-team, he works with the Home Office, senior police officers and the Security Services trying to combat extremism."
-- "Azad Ali is considered a high profile 'moderate' Muslim who is trustee of the East London Mosque & London Muslim Centre, among many posts"
-- "Mr Ali's friends on the Facebook website include former Guantanamo Bay inmate Moazzam Begg, Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain, and journalist and Muslim convert Yvonne Ridley"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1120831/Muslim-civil-servant-suspended-killing-British-troops-justified-blog.html
---- Surprise! "Moderate" Muslim in British government turns out to be a jihadist!
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024453.php
--- MCB lists Muslim Safety Forum (MSF) Azad Ali advertisement for MSF individual to coordinate with UK Home Office RICU
http://www.mcb.org.uk/jobs/job_details.php?job_id=1551
--- Muslim Safety Forum (MSF) lists Azad Ali as Public Relations/Press Contact, provides contact information
http://muslimsafetyforum.org/press-media/msf-press-release-election-7th-june-2007.html
--- November 25, 2008 -- Harry's Place: "Azad Ali: I Am Working For A Hamas Caliphate"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/11/25/azad-ali-i-am-working-for-a-hamas-caliphate/
--- November 20, 2008 -- Harry's Place: "Azad Ali: The Jihad Lover and the Civil Service"
----- Azad Ali cites the words of Azzam fils in calling for killing of American and British soldiers
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/11/20/azad-ali-the-jihad-lover-and-the-civil-service/
--- September 24, 2006 - Muslim Safety Forum (MSF)'s Azad Ali calls for UK police to review potential raids with Muslim groups
----- "Azad Ali, chairman of the MSF, said: 'The major concern that came to us from Muslims was that the intelligence was flawed -- the raid was on assumption and nothing else. This will allow independent scrutiny of intelligence.'"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article648982.ece
--- April 26, 2006 - Azad Ali calls for police hunt for protestors praising July 7 bombers as "disproportionate"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/apr/26/muhammadcartoons.world
---- See also: "British Home Office's RICU Seeks to Discredit Al-Qaeda, But Not Jihad"
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html#T01

(UK) ISNA's Ingrid Mattson Promoted on UK Home Office-Supported "Radical Middle Way"
-- Note October 2008 report
http://www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk/videos.php?id=23&t=1&art=133&a_id=23
http://www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk/scholars.php?id=1&art=32

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(UK) Alleged terrorist freed to walk in the park -- referred to as "U"
-- "An alleged al-Qaeda terrorist said to be connected to Osama bin Laden has
been freed to take regular walks in a park to stop him developing a fear of open spaces"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/4248285/Alleged-terrorist-freed-to-walk-in-the-park.html

(UK) Gaza conflict could fuel radicalization in UK, Home Office fears
-- "The Gaza conflict could drive British Muslims to radicalisation and the risk of more home-grown suicide bombers, the Home Office fears"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4248951/Gaza-conflict-could-fuel-radicalisation-in-UK-Home-Office-fears.html
---  Ministers in talks with Muslim leaders on Gaza
---- "Jacqui Smith and Hazel Blears try to gauge level of extremist threat from community leaders and local authority chiefs"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/16/gaza-uksecurity

(UK) David Miliband expands on criticism of 'war on terror' phrase
-- "urging further restraint from India in the wake of the attacks, which originated in Pakistan"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jan/15/miliband-war-terror
---- Comment: "Further restraint"??
---- December 3, 2008 - 4100 terror attacks in India from 1970-2004
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/4100_terror_attacks_in_India_from_1970-2004/articleshow/3788135.cms

(UK) British foreign secretary says fighting not only solution to terrorism
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\01\16\story_16-1-2009_pg1_1
-- See also Miliband's Guardian "commentary"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/15/david-miliband-war-terror
--- Comment: views channeling Islamic supremacism into democracy as solution

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(UK) Posters advocating terrorism have appeared near a college and a mosque in Waltham Forest
--- posters read "Jihad is the only solution" and "Rise up against Britain"
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/4044151.WALTHAM_FOREST__Imam_warning_over__jihad__posters/

(UK/Iran) How Lloyds bank helped Iran's global shopping spree
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123172094549172367.html

UK foreign minister David Miliband urges rethink of "war on terror"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090115/wl_nm/us_britain_terrorism
-- David Miliband ignores Islamic supremacism, claims "The reality is that the motivations and identities of terrorist groups are disparate."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090115/wl_asia_afp/usbritainattackssecurity
-- Miliband's propaganda commentary in Guardian "'War on terror' was wrong"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/15/david-miliband-war-terror
---- Miliband claims that "[t]he more we lump terrorist groups together and draw the battle lines as a simple binary struggle between moderates and extremists, or good and evil, the more we play into the hands of those seeking to unify groups with little in common"
---- Miliband further claims that regarding "[t}errorist groups... [the solution is] channelling their followers into democratic politics."
---- Comment: Typical UK denial on Islamic supremacism
------ See also August 31, 2008: British Government Efforts against "Extremists" Ignores Jihad and Islamic Supremacism
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/759

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(UK) Olympic security against al-Qaeda is being 'jeopardised' by Home Office delays, say police chiefs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4223162/Olympic-security-against-al-Qaeda-is-being-jeopardised-by-Home-Office-delays-say-police-chiefs.html

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(UK) Madonna targeted by Muslim fanatics over Israel's attack on Gaza
-- threat made on website Islambase.com by Muhammad Abdel-Al, leader of the Popular Resistance Committees
-- Abdel-Al quoted as stating: ""If I meet these w***s I will have the honor to be the first one to cut the head off Madonna if they will keep spreading their satanic culture against Islam."
-- Hammed10: "She insults us with her slutty behaviour and then she insults us further with her love of the Jewish kuffar non-Muslims."
-- Hammed10: "Some brothers were talking about what to do about this the other day on another site. I don't want to say too much on here. But you can pm me send a private message."
http://www.people.co.uk/news/news/tm_method=full%26objectID=21032190%26siteID=93463-name_page.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/35/20090111/ten-madonna-targeted-by-extremists-764dee7.html

(UK) Islamists target teen crime gangs in London
-- "Scotland Yard fears Muslim extremists are recruiting members inside prisons"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/11/muslim-extremists-crime-gangs-london

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(UK) Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK Calls Muslims to Jihad
http://europenews.dk/en/node/18068
-- MPAC-UK: "Gaza's Murderers have Iman, Muslims Don't"
--- "prove you're a Muslim by partaking in Jihad"
http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/5220/103/

(UK) Thousands to march through London over Middle East conflict
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23615802-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&

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(UK) Al-Qaida: We'll attack Britain and America to avenge Gaza
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/64928/Al-Qaida-We-ll-attack-Britain-to-avenge-Gaza/

(UK) Hate Hit List - "online forum Ummah is being used to prepare a deadly backlash against UK Jews"
-- "'Abuislam' asks: 'Have we got a list of top Jews we can target? Can someone post names and addresses?'"
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2103995.ece
-- David Miliband and Sir Alan Sugar 'targeted' in anti-Semitic hit list on Islamic fundamentalist website
---- "Fanatics in an online forum are said to have begun building a 'hit list' which includes leading Jews from the worlds of politics and entertainment including Tony Blair's close friend Labour peer Lord Levy and Amy Winehouse record producer Mark Ronson"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1107565/David-Miliband-Sir-Alan-Sugar-targeted-anti-Semitic-hit-list-Islamic-fundamentalist-website.html
--- Muslims urged to write letters to prominent British Jews over support for Israel
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/4163641/Muslims-urged-to-write-letters-to-prominent-British-Jews-over-support-for-Israel.html

(UK) Gaza invasion could spark extremism in Britain: Muslims
-- "Among the signatories are Usama Hasan, imam of Al-Tawhid mosque, London, Dilwar Hussain, head of the policy research centre at the Islamic Foundation, Zareen Roohi Ahmed from the British Muslim Forum and Ed Husain, co-director of the anti-extremism thinktank the Quilliam Foundation"
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-71379.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKTRE5072Z520090108?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=401
--- 'We are witnessing a time of great danger'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/08/open-letter-gaza-gordon-brown-israel
--- December 30, 2008:  Britain has a duty to Arabs" - by Ed Husain - referencing "Israel’s massacre of innocent Palestinians"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/30/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast

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(UK) Report: Islamic site compiling list of U.K. Jews to target over Gaza op
-- News Flash at Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/ShowTickers.jhtml

(UK) MI5 chief: Terror plots against UK have fallen
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231167295217&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2449734,00.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/01/07/europe/EU-Britain-Terrorism.php
--- MI5 chief: al-Qaida threat diminished, but not yet over
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/07/terrorism-trials-mi5
--- MI5 chief: 'Foreign policy can be used as ammunition for extremists'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/audio/2009/jan/07/mi5-terrorism-al-qaida
--- MI5 chief warns of threat from global recession
---- Report states: "The terrorists who launched the Mumbai attacks in November had indirect links to the UK"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/4144460/MI5-chief-warns-of-threat-from-global-recession.html
--- Mumbai terrorists had links to UK, says MI5 chief
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Mumbai_terrorists_had_links_to_UK/articleshow/3947570.cms
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Mumbai-terrorists-had-links-to-UK-says-MI5-chief/407856/

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(UK) The Guardian publishes obituary of Hamas terror chieftain Nizar Ghayan killed by IAF
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052867.html
--- Guardian: "Nizar Rayan: Senior Hamas leader and cleric considered a hero on the streets of Gaza"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/03/obituary-nizar-rayan-hamas

(UK) Security stepped up after attack on synagogue
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5455450.ece

(UK) CIA tracking 4000 UK terror suspects
http://www.theage.com.au/world/cia-tracking-4000-uk-terror-suspects-20090104-79u6.html
-- additional report - previously posted January 4, 2009

(UK) Terror suspect is victim of Pakistan geopolitics: lawyer for Faiz Baloch
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\01\06\story_6-1-2009_pg7_24
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5454126.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/06/pakistan-terrorism-internet-balach-warna

(UK) London Times: "Police set to step up hacking of home PCs"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5439604.ece
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85293

(UK) Posthumous gallantry medal for DC Stephen Oake
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5455025.ece

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(UK) CIA uses British informants to track terrorism
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/cia-uses-british-informants-to-track-terrorism/2009/01/04/1231003847131.html

UK prime minister calls for immediate cease-fire in Gaza Strip
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230733162338&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/4108040/Gordon-Brown-calls-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-Gaza.html
--- (UK) Thousands throw shoes at Downing Street in Gaza protest
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4093219/Thousands-throw-shoes-at-Downing-Street-in-protest-against-Israeli-action-in-Gaza.html
--- (UK) Anti-Israel protesters clash with London police
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5439500.ece
--- (UK) Pro-Jihad protesters hop home after London Jew-hatred demo
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024224.php

(UK) Britain: No US request to resettle Gitmo inmates
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090104/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_guantanamo

(UK) Al-Qaeda using paedophile websites to plan British terror attacks
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/01/04/al-qaeda-using-paedophile-websites-to-plan-british-terror-attacks-115875-21014087/
-- previously reported about on October 18, 2008
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1826858.ece

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(UK/Lebanon) Omar Bakri accused of training al-Qaeda terrorists
--- "Omar Bakri, the radical cleric banned from Britain, has gone on the run in Lebanon after being accused of training al-Qaeda terrorists"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/lebanon/4077176/Omar-Bakri-accused-of-training-al-Qaeda-terrorists.html

(UK) Pak behind Mumbai attack: Rushdie
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pak_behind_Mumbai_attack_Rushdie/articleshow/3931220.cms

(UK) Author Salman Rushdie Says Fatwa Foreshadowed Terror Conflict, Times Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aJuZ0NB3crqc&refer=uk
--- Saturday interview: Salman Rushdie
---- "Rushdie is not convinced that there is a 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and Christianity. 'There is a kind of Islam which is at war with an idea of the West but neither the West nor the Muslim world is monolithic,' he says."
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article5434968.ece

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(UK) Councilor slams Muslim lecture 'New York in flames' poster
-- Imam Anwar al-Awlaki to give UK lecture at East London mosque by video
--- "Al-Awlaki, who gives his talk by video link from Yemen, was named by America's Department for Homeland Security for having acted as a 'spiritual advisor' to three of the men involved in 2001's September 11 attacks"
--- "poster advertising tomorrow's event at Whitechapel—showing meteors crash down on Manhattan, setting fire to the city and shattering the Statue of Liberty"
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED31%20Dec%202008%2015%3A15%3A58%3A703

(UK) Gaza protests continue in London
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7806400.stm

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(UK) Al Qaeda may hit UK next: report
http://www.dawn.com/2008/12/29/top14.htm
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/south-asia/uk-the-next-likely-target-for-mega-al-qaeda-strike_100136031.html

(UK) MP David Davies calls for arrest of all 'Al-Qaeda' residents
-- "The 15 British residents on the list, which can be seen online at http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/consolidatedlist.htm, are all named as associates of terror group Al-Qaeda"
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/12/29/monmouth-mp-david-davies-calls-for-arrest-of-all-al-qaeda-residents-91466-22564208/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unitedstatesaction/message/19075

(Syria/UK) Bahrain terror plot suspects trained in Syria: minister
--- "learned bomb-making in Syria last summer from two Bahrainis living in Britain"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081227/wl_mideast_afp/bahrainsecurityarrestssyriabritain

(UK) Police on alert after riot at Israel's London embassy
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23609040-details/Police+on+alert+after+riot+at+Israel%27s+London+embassy/article.do

(UK) Met adviser wanted over terror links runs 'unclean' noodle bar - Mohamed Ali Harrath
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23608678-details/Met+adviser+wanted+over+terror+links+runs+%27unclean%27+noodle+bar/article.do
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=263593&version=1&template_id=38&parent_id=20
--- December 15, 2008: Terrorism adviser to Met is on wanted list
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5342730.ece
--- London Times reported that "Mohamed Ali Harrath has been the subject of the Interpol red notice since 1992"

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(UK) Guardian calls London Times Report "Muslim-baiting" for reporting on Tunisian allegations of Mohammed Ali Harrath's links to terrorism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/22/islam-terrorism
--- December 15, 2008: Terrorism adviser to Met is on wanted list
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5342730.ece
--- London Times reported that "Mohamed Ali Harrath has been the subject of the Interpol red notice since 1992"
--- LT also reported "Mr Harrath has been convicted in absentia of numerous criminal and terrorism-related offences by Tunisian courts and sentenced to 56 years in prison"
----- Guardian ignores its own report of July 9, 2007: "Britain failing to check migrants on terror database, says Interpol chief"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/jul/09/asylum.terrorism
--- As well as similar reports
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1556904/New-UK-terror-threat-from-foreign-students.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6283090.stm
--- Interpol: "UK has not shared its terrorist watch list with INTERPOL"
http://www.interpol.int/Public/News/2007/sgletter20070708.asp

(UK) London Times Report: Shiraz Maher: "My friend the quiet, shy student who was converted into a raging terrorist"
-- on Glasgow bombers as Islamic supremacists
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5372762.ece

Al-Qaeda 'plans to wage holy war on Facebook'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/3885367/Al-Qaeda-plans-to-wage-holy-war-on-Facebook.html
--- Telegraph version of news report originally covered last week

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(UK) Scotland: Lockerbie marks 20th anniversary of bombing
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/12/21/scotland.lockerbie.anniversary/index.html
--- Lockerbie anniversary a painful reminder
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/21/20-years-later-pain-of-lockerbie-still-fresh/
--- London Times: Lockerbie bomber "Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi: a sacrificial lamb, says wife"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5367535.ece

(UK) Bilal Abdulla: Doctor by day, terrorist by night – the secret life of a new breed of terrorist
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3867334/Bilal-Abdulla-Doctor-by-day-terrorist-by-night---the-secret-life-of-a-new-breed-of-terrorist.html
--- December 17, 2008: Car bomber Bilal Abdulla was known to MI5
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3797943/Car-bomber-Bilal-Abdulla-was-known-to-MI5.html
----- Comment: So much for MI5's "observation" techniques

(UK) MI5 spy on jails: undercover officers enter Britain's jails
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/106027/MI5-spy-chiefs-are-putting-undercover-officers-into-Britainrsquos-jails.html

(UK) 132 refugees are missing in the UK
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/scottish/scottish_news/106552/132-refugees-are-missing-in-the-UK.html

(UK) Briton Liz Jones' complains over security checks in NYC, and while shopping worries about inequality in "Third World"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1099107/LIZ-JONES-Shopping-New-York-terrorists-wear-suits-red-braces.html

Commentaries:

(UK) Britain has lost the stomach for a fight - Michael Portillo
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5375770.ece

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(UK) Intel chiefs raise defenses - concern for attacks during the Christmas season
-- "'Mobile fortresses' added to preparations for al-Qaida attacks"
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83964

Commentaries:

(UK) Defense no longer starts at home -- by Margaret Blunden
-- but Margaret Blunden fails to grasp the idea that defense starts with identifying the Islamic supremacist enemy
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/19/opinion/edblunden.php

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(UK) Al-Qaeda terrorist jailed for 10 years
-- Rangzieb Ahmed given life sentence - "ruled that he should serve a minimum of 10 years before he is considered for parole"
-- Habib Ahmed"sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3850118/Al-Qaeda-terrorist-jailed-for-10-years.html
--- British al-Qaeda ringleader Rangzieb Ahmed to serve at least ten years in jail
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5370573.ece

(UK)  Any Muslim killed fighting Israel goes to paradise, says MPAC spokesman
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/12/19/any_muslim_killed_fighting_israel_goes_to_paradise_says_mpac_spokesman
--- Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC) spokesman Asghar Bukhari "is a particular favourite of the BBC"
--- Asghar Bukhari: "Muslims who fight against the occupation of their lands are 'Mujahadeen' and are blessed by Allah. And any Muslim who fights and dies against Israel and dies is a martyr and will be granted paradise..."

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(UK) Two British Muslims convicted of links to terrorist group al-Qaeda -- Habib Ahmed and Rangzieb Ahmed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3832224/Two-British-Muslims-convicted-of-links-to-terrorist-group-al-Qaeda.html
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\19\story_19-12-2008_pg7_43
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.2828780462
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5365911.ece
--- Al-Qaeda terror trial: Rangzieb Ahmed was highest ranking al-Qaeda operative in Britain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3832366/Al-Qaeda-terror-trial-Rangzieb-Ahmed-was-highest-ranking-al-Qaeda-operative-in-Britain.html
--- British al-Qaeda chief found guilty of directing operations
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3833696/British-al-Qaeda-chief-found-guilty-of-directing-operations.html
--- CNN: Video - Terrorists used invisible ink
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/12/18/newton.manchester.qaeda.link.cnn
--- Rangzieb Ahmed to appeal conviction being member of Al-Qaeda organization - claims Pakistan ISI torture
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/19/terrorism-al-qaida-pakistan
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3832360/WITH-LEGAL-Al-Qaeda-terror-trial-British-Muslim-claims-he-was-tortured-on-instructions-of-MI5.html
--- September 28, 2008: Tony Blair's friends were potential targets of terror cell, court hears
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3081276/Tony-Blairs-friends-were-potential-targets-of-terror-cell-court-hears.html

(UK) So will Britain ever be able to expel terror case doctor?
--- Jordanian Mohammed Asha
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1095591/So-Britain-able-expel-terror-case-doctor.html

(UK) Glasgow Airport terror attack: Muslims' plight turned my son into bomber, says mother of Kafeel Ahmed
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/12/17/glasgow-airport-terror-attack-muslims-plight-turned-my-son-into-bomber-says-mother-of-kafeel-ahmed-86908-20976577/

(UK) December 22, 1998 - Lockerbie: Bomb fear in UK's worst air disaster
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5366803.ece

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(UK) Glasgow car bomb plot - the al-Qaeda connection
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3797973/Glasgow-car-bomb-plot---the-al-Qaeda-connection.html

(UK) Glasgow car bomb trial: British-Iraqi doctor gets life sentence for terror -- Bilal Abdulla
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081217/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_terrorism_trial
--- Glasgow bomber Bilal Abdulla jailed for 32 years
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5357521.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3812810/Glasgow-car-bomber-Doctor-who-tried-to-blow-up-nightclub-and-airport-given-32-years.html
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2008/December/international_December1093.xml&section=international

(UK) Daily Express pays £45k for slur against leading Muslim
--- Inayat Bunglawala, an assistant secretary of the Muslim Council of Great Britain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/17/express-libel-inayat
---- Daily Telegraph: March 9, 2002: Blair-link Muslims backed bin Laden
----- "Inayat Bunglawala, a senior member of the Muslim Council of Britain, circulated material written by bin Laden, whom he regarded as a 'freedom fighter', to hundreds of Muslims in Britain last year."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1387288/Blair-link-Muslims-backed-bin-Laden.html
----- December 2007: The Spectator: The real Inayat Bunglawala
http://www.spectator.co.uk/stephenpollard/406871/the-real-inayat-bunglawala.thtml
---- "In January 1993 Bunglawala wrote a letter to Private Eye, a satirical magazine, in which he called the blind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman 'courageous.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inayat_Bunglawala#Controversies

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(UK) Glasgow bomber Bilal Abdulla was in Iraq terrorist cell
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5355522.ece
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1095591/The-terrorist-doctors-coat-Iraqi-infiltrated-NHS-guilty-bungled-bomb-plot.html

(UK) Glasgow Car Bomb: The 'unlikely' jihadi bomber -- Bilal Abdulla
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7786906.stm

(UK) Glasgow Car Bomb: Phone clues to terror conviction
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7783737.stm

(UK) Glasgow Car Bomb: Surgeon cleared of bomb plots to fight deportation
-- Jordanian Mohammed Asha
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/16/glasgowairporttrial
--- Daily Express: Muslim doctor who plotted mass murder on streets of Britain
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/76051/Muslim-doctor-who-plotted-mass-murder-on-streets-of-Britain
--- Glasgow bomb plot: Profile of Mohammed Asha
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3689905/Glasgow-bomb-plot-Profile-of-Mohammed-Asha.html
--- BBC: Cleared terror suspect 'bullied'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7773727.stm

(UK) Scotland Glasgow Airport Car Bomb: Doctor guilty of car bomb attacks
--- Bilal Abdulla found guilty
--- "Another NHS doctor, Mohammed Asha, was cleared of helping Abdulla and a second attacker, Kafeel Ahmed"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7773410.stm
--- Glasgow bomb plot: Profile of airport terrorist Bilal Abdulla
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3689244/Glasgow-bomb-plot-Profile-of-airport-terrorist-Bilal-Abdulla.html
--- Doctor accused of car bomb plot funding was 'urged to concentrate on afterlife'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3514339/Doctor-accused-of-car-bomb-plot-funding-was-urged-to-concentrate-on-afterlife.html
--- Iraqi NHS doctor guilty of plot to murder hundreds in terror attacks on London and Glasgow - but fellow medic is cleared
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1095591/Iraqi-NHS-doctor-guilty-plot-murder-hundreds-terror-attacks-London-Glasgow--fellow-medic-cleared.html
--- Glasgow bomb plot: NHS doctor found guilty of terror attack on airport
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3688837/Glasgow-bomb-plot-NHS-doctor-found-guilty-of-terror-attack-on-airport.html
--- Glasgow bomb plot: Wills to families left by airport terrorists
----- "The London and Glasgow car bombers, Bilal Abdulla and Kafeel Ahmed, both wrote wills to their families asking them to celebrate their deaths."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3689301/Glasgow-bomb-plot-Wills-to-families-left-by-airport-terrorists.html
--- Glasgow bomb plot: The bombs constructed by airport terrorists
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3689253/Glasgow-bomb-plot-The-bombs-constructed-by-airport-terrorists.html

Also related reports:
--- Glasgow bomb plot: Profile of Mohammed Asha
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3689905/Glasgow-bomb-plot-Profile-of-Mohammed-Asha.html
--- Glasgow bomb plot: Profile of airport terrorist Kafeel Ahmed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3689248/Glasgow-bomb-plot-Profile-of-airport-terrorist-Kafeel-Ahmed.html

Commentary:

Why Britons get caught in the Pakistan web -- Anatol Lieven
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5354981.ece

(UK) The Britons with us in their sights
-- "British-born terrorists are returning to the UK after learning deadly skills in the world’s most dangerous country"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3778462/The-Britons-with-us-in-their-sights.html

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(UK) Terrorism adviser to Scotland Yard is on wanted list -- Mohamed Ali Harrath
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5342730.ece
--- Interpol notice urges arrest of Islam TV chief
--- Tunisian Islamic Front (FIT)'s "Mohamed Ali Harrath has been the subject of the Interpol red notice since 1992"
--- "Tunisia has accused Mr Harrath, the chief executive officer of the Islam Channel in Britain and an adviser to the Scotland Yard Muslim Contact Unit, of seeking help from Osama bin Laden. It says that the FIT wants to establish 'an Islamic state by means of armed revolutionary violence.'"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5342730.ece
--- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1094792/Wanted-terror-suspect-Scotland-Yard-advisor-Muslim-extremism.html?ITO=1490
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1094792/Wanted-terror-suspect-Scotland-Yard-advisor-Muslim-extremism.html?ITO=1490

(UK) Tunisia claims exile met Osama bin Laden and recruited trainees for terror camps
--- Mohamed Ali Harrath
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5342735.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093

(UK) Unanswered questions about a 'man of peace' on Interpol list -- Mohamed Ali Harrath
--- "The Islam Channel founded and run by Mohamed Ali Harrath, who is wanted by Interpol, is watched by 59 per cent of Britain's 1.6 million Muslims"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5342734.ece

(UK) Mohamed Ali Harrath: "Nothing criminal about trying to establish an Islamic state"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5342766.ece

British Journalist Peter Bergen - U.S. is "Safe at Home"
--- More don't worry, be happy nonsense from the journalist who wants to convince America to engage with Islamic supremacists
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/opinion/14bergen.html
---- December 5, 2008: CNN's Peter Bergen claims "WMD terrorism fears are overblown"
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/05/bergen.wmd/index.html
--- Bergen is more focused on getting U.S. to "engage with Islamists.... [who] are not our enemies and can even be our friends." (Reference, New America Foundation working papers, page 11).
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/107.html#Bergen
http://www.americaspurpose.org/downloads/working_group_papers.pdf
---- Bergen "not to engage with Islamists is ridiculous"
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/107.html#Bergen
--- and more recently, Bergen dismisses Islamic supremacist Jihad in Mumbai as merely a "regional problem"
----- Bergen: "It is a regional problem requiring a regional solution"
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/04/bergen.pakistan/index.html?section=cnn_latest

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(UK) On YouTube This Week - Islamist Protest in London to Free Abu Hamza: 'Pharaoh Had a Dream That One Day His Kingdom Would Fall'
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD214908

(UK) Police launch investigation into how restaurant bomber was radicalized by Pakistani extremists
-- "British police have launched an investigation in Pakistan to hunt down two men suspected of radicalising nail bomber Nicky Reilly"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3725980/Police-launch-investigation-into-how-restaurant-bomber-was-radicalised-by-Pakistani-extremists.html

(UK) Mohamed Ali Harrath: CEO of Islam Channel, Anti-Semite, and Convicted Terrorist
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/12/12/mohamed-ali-harrath-ceo-of-islam-channel-anti-semite-and-convicted-terrorist/

(UK) Time to tackle the non-violent extremists, says Home Secretary Smith
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/11/counter-terrorism-strategy-extremists
--- yet fails to define "extremism" or address Islamic supremacism

UK Jury: Police failures led to death of Brazilian mistaken for terrorist
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728174173&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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(UK) Home Secretary Jacqui Smith: Councils to be told of local extremists and terror threat
-- Daily Telegraph says "veiled reference to Hizb ut Tahrir"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/3701980/Jacqui-Smith-Councils-to-be-told-of-local-extremists-and-terror-threat.html

(UK) Ex-MI5 chief 'astonished' at how many organisations use anti-terror law
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2008/dec/10/terrorism-law

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(UK) Royal Navy and police step up River Thames patrols after Mumbai terror attacks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/majornews/3569769/Royal-Navy-and-police-step-up-River-Thames-patrols-after-Mumbai-terror-attacks.html

(UK) Don't deny campus radicalization
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/06/islam-religion-edmunds

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(UK) Glasgow bomb trial: Man too brainy to be terrorist - lawyer -- Jordanian Mohammed Asha
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24749320-23109,00.html

(UK) Attacks show need to help Pakistan: Britain -- David Milband
http://www.geo.tv/12-3-2008/30023.htm

(UK) Guardian: "The evidence from UK campuses is that young Muslims are not terrorists in the making" - June Edmunds
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/03/islam-religion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/dec/03/student-politics-islamic-radicals-cambridge
--- Are British universities hotbeds of Islamic radicalism?
----  Anthony Glees points out that June Edmunds research incomplete
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/mortarboard/2008/dec/03/student-politics-islamic-radicals
---- See also: July 2008 poll of British Muslim students shows that 32 percent believe that killing in the name of religion is justifiable (another 15 percent are "not sure") and 40 percent were supportive of introducing Sharia law to Britain
--- A third of Muslim students back killings - Radicalism and support for sharia is strong in British universities
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4407115.ece
--- July 2008 - Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC) Full Report - "Islam on Campus" - YouGov poll on Muslim students
http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pdf/IslamonCampus.pdf

'Facebook terrorists' pose new challenges, warns general
--- UK Telegraph: "Radicalised Islamic terrorists from the 'Facebook generation' are working across national borders and creating unprecedented challenges for security forces, MPs have been warned"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3545065/Facebook-terrorists-pose-new-challenges-warns-general.html
--- Islamic Extremists Getting YouTube Tutorials (PC Magazine)
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/zd/20081203/tc_zd/234573

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(UK) Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada back in jail but could be free in weeks
-- "he could be free again by Christmas if the House of Lord's rules that he will not get a fair trial in Jordan"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3542747/Radical-Muslim-cleric-Abu-Qatada-back-in-jail-but-could-be-free-in-weeks.html

(UK) Evening Standard: Is Sir Hugh Orde the man to restore confidence in the Met?
--- Evening Standard article concludes that he is
--- Evening Standard: "His experience of security and intelligence matters may be vital for the Met in the coming years"
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23595044-details/Is+Sir+Hugh+Orde+the+man+to+restore+confidence+in+the+Met/article.do
-- Note: Sir Hugh Orde has called for talks with Al-Qaeda
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/30/alqaida.terrorism
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7426874.stm
--- see also "The Challenge of Britain's "Northern Ireland Conflict" Perspective towards Jihad"
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html#T06

(UK) Birmingham families urged to help terrorism fighting police officers
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2008/12/03/birmingham-families-urged-to-help-terrorism-fighting-police-officers-97319-22390651/

UK Muslim leader Anjem Choudary: "In an Islamic state, non-Muslims will have to wear a sign to show what they are – it should say Kaffir. We won’t discriminate on height, race or appearance but we will discriminate on faith."
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023747.php
-- Terror cops fear 'Mumbai attack' in UK
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/60771/Terror-cops-fear-Mumbai-attack-in-UK/
-- Associated video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C73ePf_2KVw&eurl=http://www.jihadwatch.org/&feature=player_embedded

(UK) Extreme preacher Abu Qatada jailed indefinitely -- aka Mohammad Ofman
-- "to be detained indefinitely in prison after a court ruling that the risk of him absconding has increased"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5272586.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3541555/Radical-Muslim-cleric-Abu-Qatada-returned-to-jail-for-breaching-bail-terms.html
-- Timeline: Abu Qatada
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/18/uksecurity.terrorism
-- Qatada 'plotted to leave Britain'
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/qatada+plotted+to+leave+britain/2861487

(UK) Glasgow Car Bombing: Airport bomb accused 'planned murder on a terrible scale'
-- Bilal Abdulla and Mohammed Asha
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Airport-bomb-accused--39planned.4750320.jp
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.2472332.0.docs_had_planned_to_kill_in_uk_bomb_plots.php

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(UK) Glasgow Car Bomb Trial: Trial hears of car bombing plans -- Mohammed Asha and Bilal Abdulla
http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/12/01/trial-hears-of-car-bombing-plans/
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/12/01/accused-doctors-planned-murder-on-a-terrible-scale-91466-22379647/

(UK) Intelligence services look at possible threat to UK targets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/01/mumbai-terror-attacks-uk-india

(UK) Islamic terrorist 'planned Mumbai-style massacre in Britain' -- Kazi Nurur Rahman
--- Kazi Nurur Rahman associate of Omar Khyam who trained with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3537523/Islamic-terrorist-planned-Mumbai-style-massacre-in-Britain.html

(UK) The Mumbai atrocity is a wake-up call for a frighteningly unprepared Britain
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090762/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-The-Mumbai-atrocity-wake-frighteningly-unprepared-Britain.html?ITO=1490

(India/UK) BBC criticized for refusing to call Mumbai gunmen terrorists
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3539646/BBC-criticised-for-refusing-to-call-Bombay-gunmen-terrorists.html
--- England know this time they may be targets after Westerners attacked in Mumbai
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/3540346/England-know-this-time-they-may-be-targets-after-Westerners-attacked-in-Bombay-Cricket.html

Commentary:

(UK) The Mumbai atrocity is a wake-up call for a frighteningly unprepared Britain
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090762/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-The-Mumbai-atrocity-wake-frighteningly-unprepared-Britain.html?ITO=1490
--- "statement that the terrorists' agenda is non-negotiable"
--- "Britain now harbours the most developed infrastructure of Islamist terrorism and extremism in the Western world"

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(UK) Britain unprepared for Mumbai-style attack, former head of SAS says
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3535668/Britain-unprepared-for-Mumbai-style-attack-former-head-of-SAS-says.html

(UK) MI5 Investigating How Telethon Funded Al Qaeda Terrorists
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/telethon-funded-al-qaeda-terrorists-7857.html
--- "MI5 is investigating how Britain's major telethon to raise money
for the Children In Need charity has "unwittingly provided money" that
was used to recruit and train terrorists involved in attacks, including the
London bombings which killed fifty-two people in July 2005."

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(UK) British student admits trying to join mujahideen terrorists -- Mohammed Abushamma
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3533365/British-student-admits-trying-to-join-mujahideen-terrorists.html

(UK) Mumbai attacks: How young Britons are radicalised in Pakistan
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3533425/Mumbai-attacks-How-young-Britons-are-radicalised-in-Pakistan.html

(India) Mumbai gunmen 'were BRITISH': Indian authorities say
two of arrested militants are from UK --- British-born Pakistanis among arrested militants
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1089711/Mumbai-gunmen-BRITISH-Indian-authorities-say-arrested-militants-UK.html
--- Mumbai attack: 'British men among terrorists'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3533472/Mumbai-attack-British-men-among-terrorists.html

(UK) Police state UK: Outcry as anti-terror police arrest top Tory MP over 'immigration leaks to media'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090062/Police-state-UK-Outcry-anti-terror-police-arrest-Tory-MP-immigration-leaks-media.html
-- Judge throws out police 'leak' case
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5251192.ece

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(UK/Spain) Terror suspect loses British extradition appeal -- Moroccan Farid Hilali alleged to be "Shakur"
--- "suspected al-Qaida member removed to Spain to face trial for allegedly conspiring in the 9/11 terror attacks in the US"
http://www.irishnews.com/break.asp?tbrk=brk&par=brk&catid=5834&subcatid=642&storyid=387818
--- February 8, 2008: 9/11 terror suspect extradited to Spain
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/08/spain.terror/?iref=newssearch
---- August 27, 2001: Spanish Police Tape Phone Calls Indicating Aviation-Based Plans to Attack US
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a082701spanishcall#a082701spanishcall

(UK) Britain begins national identity card plan
-- "for some foreign nationals in an attempt to combat terrorism and identity fraud"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/25/britain-begins-national-identity-card-plan-1/

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(Pakistan/UK) Rashid Rauf was linked to al-Qaeda's number two Ayman al-Zawahiri
-- "A British al-Qaeda suspect reportedly killed by a US missile strike in a Pakistani tribal area was linked to the group's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, according to officials"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3507104/Rashid-Rauf-was-linked-to-al-Qaedas-number-two-Ayman-al-Zawahiri.html

(UK) Al-Qaeda lawyer's £1.6m in Legal Aid bonaza from terror trials -- Mudassar Arani
--- "in seven years Arani and Co has taken £3.5million from Legal Aid"
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/11/24/al-qaeda-lawyer-s-1-6m-in-legal-aid-bonaza-from-terror-trials-exclusive-115875-20919881/

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(UK) Muslim fanatics 'hijack British prison'
--- Local Tory MP Malcolm Moss said: “They are a law unto themselves."
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/72509

(UK) Report: "Al-Qaeda Increases Efforts to Develop 'Dirty bomb' "
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/al-qaeda-develop-dirty-bomb-7569.html

(Pakistan/UK) Rashid Rauf was a living example of the danger from Pakistan's jihadis - until he was killed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3502479/Rashid-Rauf-was-a-living-example-of-the-danger-from-Pakistans-jihadis---until-he-was-killed.html
-- (UK) Rashid Rauf: The life and death of an al-Qaeda terrorist
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3502328/The-life-and-death-of-an-al-Qaeda-terrorist..html

-- Pakistan raid a sign of sharper US intelligence
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/23/asia/AS-Pakistan.php
-- ABC report on reported attack on Rashid Rauf
---- "senior Pakistani intelligence official told ABCNews.com his death cannot be officially confirmed until the results of DNA tests are known because the bodies were burned beyond recognition in the attack"
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6312852&page=1
-- PDT report quotes senior intelligence official": "We have got him, but dead"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\11\23\story_23-11-2008_pg1_9
-- (UK) MPs question killing of terror suspect
---- UK's Patrick Mercer: "This raises the question of how much cooperation the British intelligence agencies provided in what is ultimately the execution of a British subject. The government must explain its involvement."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5213583.ece
-- (UK) MPs want to know: did they tell Britain first?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5213595.ece
-- (UK) British lawmakers demand clarity over terror suspect death
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081123/wl_asia_afp/pakistanunrestusmissilebritainpolitics

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(Pakistan) FATA: Terror plot mastermind killed by US missile in Pakistan: officials -- alleged death of Rashid Rauf in North Waziristan
--- NOTE: Rashid Rauf alleged mastermind in failed August 2006 UK tranatlantic airline plot on 9 jets headed to U.S. and Canada
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081122/ts_afp/pakistanunrestusmissilebritain
-- Pakistan senior security official: "The transatlantic bombing plot alleged mastermind Rashid Rauf was killed along with an Egyptian Al-Qaeda operative in the US missile strike in North Waziristan early Saturday"
-- another Jihadist allegedly killed Egyptian Abu Zubair al-Misri
--- Other sources
Pakistan's The News and Geo TV: Rashid Rauf, Abu Al-Asr among five killed in U.S. missile strike
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/updates.asp?id=60688
http://www.geo.tv/11-22-2008/29267.htm
---- (UK) British terror mastermind Rashid Rauf 'killed in US missile strike'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3500341/British-terror-mastermind-Rashid-Rauf-killed-in-US-missile-strike.html
---- (UK) Missile strike kills suspected UK mastermind of airline bomb plot
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5211809.ece
---- (UK) UK militant 'killed in Pakistan'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7743334.stm
---- (UK) Rashid Rauf: profile of a terror mastermind
------- "radicalisation of Rauf had begun many years earlier in Birmingham"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3500661/Rashid-Rauf-profile-of-a-terror-mastermind.html
----- (UK) Profile: Rashid Rauf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7743339.stm
----- India Times: British al-Qaida member killed in Pakistan
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/British_al-Qaida_member_killed_in_Pakistan/rssarticleshow/3745262.cms
----- Reports: Airstrike kills suspect in jet bomb plot
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27850820/

---- More on Rashid Rauf:
----- April 5, 2008: Jet bombing plot mastermind visited Pakistan, court told
http://www.dawn.com/2008/04/05/top13.htm
----- January 27, 2008 - Court martial of nine civilians ordered in Rashid Rauf escape case
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=12545
----- December 17, 2007: Rashid Rauf's escape: two policemen detained
http://www.dawn.com/2007/12/17/top3.htm
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=11767
----- December 15, 2007: Al Qaeda commander Rashid Rauf escapes Pakistani custody
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2007/12/al_qaeda_commander_r.php
http://cbs2chicago.com/national/terror.suspect.escapes.2.611721.html
----- November 19, 2007: Airplane Bomb Plot 'Ringleader' Suspect To Escape Terror Charges
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/airplane-bomb-p.html
----- April 17, 2007: Jihad obligatory for every Muslim: Rashid Rauf
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\04\17\story_17-4-2007_pg7_18
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/southasia/news/article_1292465.php/UK_terror_plot_suspect_firm_believer_in_jihad_says_fellow_inmate
----- April 13, 2007: Pakistan Sends UK Transatlantic Airline Terror Suspect Rashid Rauf to Jail for Only 2 Months (my title)
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\04\13\story_13-4-2007_pg7_15
----- August 17, 2006: Rehman, Rauf, suspected London Airline Plotters Captured, and the Pakistani Connection
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2006/08/rehman_rauf_suspecte.php
----- August 16, 2006 - How The Road To Terror Leads Back To London - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/006.html
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2006/08/how_the_road_to_terror_leads_b.html

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(UK) Nail bomber blames 'war on Islam' -- Exter's Nicky Reilly aka Mohammed Rasheed aka Mohammed Rashid Saeed Alim
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7741766.stm
--- White Muslim convert who bombed restaurant blamed Britain's 'war on Islam'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3497287/White-Muslim-convert-who-bombed-restaurant-blamed-Britains-war-on-Islam.html
--- Background on Nicky Reilly
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2008/05/nicky_reilly.html

(UK) Judge refuses to delay sentencing of failed Exeter suicide bomber -- Exter's Nicky Reilly
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/nov/21/terrorism-bomber-exeter-aspergers

U.K. Blacklists Terror License Plates
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,455832,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3494156/Registration-plates-spelling-out-terrorism-religion-and-sex-banned.html

(UK) British Prison Scraps Comedy Course for Al Qaeda Terrorist - Zia Ul Haq part of Dhiren Barot Jihadist gang
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,455830,00.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1955875.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5206722.ece

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(UK) Glasgow car bomb trial: Glasgow man admits terrorism -- Bilal Abdulla
-- Bilal Abdulla "admitted he was a terrorist but said he had not planned to kill or injure anyone"
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/2315178
-- Glasgow airport terror attack: Suspect 'told astonishing lies' court hears -- Bilal Abdulla
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/11/18/glasgow-airport-terror-attack-suspect-told-astonishing-lies-court-hears-86908-20905582/

(UK) Military intelligence cuts risk UK's national security, document shows
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3478941/Military-intelligence-cuts-risk-UKs-national-security-document-shows.html

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UK says it fears terror suspect could escape - Abu Qatada
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_abu_qatada_1

UK court: No bail for cancer-hit Lockerbie bomber
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/15/europe/EU-Britain-Lockerbie-Bomber.php

(UK) BBC: "Anti-terror police 'need Muslims' "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7728577.stm

(UK) Imagine 500 people dying in a suicide bombing in Trafalgar Square: how the Home Office promotes anti-terror design
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2008/nov/14/uksecurity-architecture
--- Comment: pity ideology is not as important as architectural security

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(UK) Abu Qatada breached bail conditions, tribunal told
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/nov/13/terrorism-uk-security-jordan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081112/wl_uk_afp/britainattacksjordanqatadalebanon
--- Abu Qatada 'ready to leave Britain'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3448469/Abu-Qatada-ready-to-leave-Britain.html

(UK) 'Hate' preacher flouts Home Office entry ban with video link -- another report on Bakri video
-- "Town Hall earlier missed the chance to ban the November 2 meeting, it emerged this week. Posters promoting the meeting prompted council officials to contact Scotland Yard for advice. But police told them, they had no major concerns about the organisers—and gave the go-ahead, the local authority maintains."
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED12%20Nov%202008%2019%3A47%3A03%3A840
--- earlier report
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23584232-details/Islamic%20radicals%20make%20mockery%20of%20hate%20laws/article.do

(UK) Political correctness 'hampering battle against extremism' -- additional report
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3444674/Political-correctness-is-hampering-battle-against-extremism.html
-- Comment: clearly "extremism" also doesn't mean anything either when Bin Laden is also against "extremists"
---- see also
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2626781/britain-through-the-looking-glass.thtml

(UK/Canada) Ottawa firm linked to terrorist funding
-- "terrorist sympathizers in Britain used credit-card duplication software developed by an Ottawa man to make money for al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan"
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=c1b80301-c58e-4643-a06a-2d7743aeb010

(Afghanistan) BBC: Britons call for troop withdrawal
-- "More than two-thirds of Britons think UK troops should leave Afghanistan within a year, a BBC poll has found."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7725228.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/3450783/Two-thirds-want-British-troops-out-of-Afghanistan-poll.html

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(UK) Glasgow Car Bomb Trial: Car bomb accused 'aimed to scare' -- Bilal Abdulla
-- UK doctor on trial says he backed Iraq insurgents
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081111/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_terrorism_trial

(UK) Confusing PC language 'hampering' anti-terror fight, government watchdog says
-- Daily Mail: "Town halls and other public sector bodies were told by ministers last year to replace the phrase 'terrorist attacks' with 'anti-Islamic activity'."
--- "The Home Office sent out 'Counter Terrorism Communications Guidance' to all councils last December. It said that confrontational language should be dropped in favour of talking about shared values."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1084977/Confusing-PC-language-hampering-anti-terror-fight-government-watchdog-says.html?ITO=1490
---- See also: August 31, 2008 - British Government Efforts against "Extremists" Ignores Jihad and Islamic Supremacism
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/759

(UK) Flaws found in local anti-terrorism strategy -- in fight against "extremism"
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c55b192a-b007-11dd-a795-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1

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---- UK Daily Telegraph: "Why are we stopping Abu Qatada leaving the UK? "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/10/dl1004.xml
----- Comment: The idea that Britons think it is fine to allow UK's Jihadists to become ex-pats and to escape surveillance by going to Lebanon shows how short-sighted and irresponsible Britons are in dealing with the problem the UK created in allowing the "covenant of security" for Jihadists in the first place.

(UK) No charges after terrorism arrests
-- "three people arrested in South Yorkshire under the Terrorism Act have been released without charge"
http://www.thestar.co.uk/doncaster/No-charges-after-terrorism-arrests.4677079.jp

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(UK) Report identifies UK terrorist enclaves
-- "Secret enclaves of al-Qaeda extremists based in London, Birmingham and Luton are planning mass-casualty attacks in Britain, according to a leaked Government intelligence report"
-- "states that 'some thousands' of extremists are active in the UK...are predominantly UK-born and aged between 18 and 30, and many are believed to have been trained in overseas terrorist camps"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/3406107/Report-identifies-UK-terrorist-enclaves.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081108/tuk-uk-militants-back-jihad-according-to-dba1618.html
--- Report: Al-Qaida planning Britain strikes
---- "Al-Qaida cells in London, Birmingham and Luton, England, are planning mass casualty attacks in Britain"
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/09/Report_Al-Qaida_planning_Britain_strikes/UPI-74121226251096/

(UK) Thousands using Britain as base for Islamic terrorism -- for Jihadist attacks in UK AND other countries
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/uk?articleid=4675635
--- Thousands In UK Back Jihad Terror
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Islamist-Militants-In-The-UK-Backing-Jihad-Activities-Says-Leaked-Government-Doc/Article/200811215147646?f=rss
--- Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC)
http://www.intelligence.gov.uk/agencies/jtac.aspx

(UK) Muslim cleric Abu Qatada held over bail breach
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5114800.ece
--- September 2, 2008: Fears Qatada is beating bail terms to spread terror - Is freed extremist preacher Abu Qatada passing orders to convicted terrorist? -
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23549386-details/Fears+Qatada+is+beating+bail+terms+to+spread+terror/article.do

(UK) Police warn of growing threat from eco-terrorists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/09/eco-terrorism-earth-first-elf

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(UK) Anti-terror plan hampered by distrust, report warns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/nov/08/anti-terror-hazelblears-police-localauthorities

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(UK) Three Birmingham men in court on terrorism charges
-- Mohammed Nadim, Shahid Ali, and Shabir Mohammed
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2008/11/07/three-birmingham-men-in-court-on-terrorism-charges-65233-22208530/
--- Terror suspects appear in court
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7715472.stm

(UK) Judge asks media whether to release Guantanamo Bay 'torture' evidence -- Binyam Mohamed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3402073/Judge-asks-media-whether-to-release-Guantanamo-Bay-torture-evidence.html

(UK) Woman arrested for terrorism offenses is released -- from Rotherham
http://www.dinningtontoday.co.uk/news/Woman-arrested-for-terrorism-offences.4673167.jp

(UK) Race begins to replace Sir Ian Blair as head of Metropolitan Police
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5097903.ece
--- candidates include Sir Hugh Orde, who has called for talks with Al-Qaeda
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/30/alqaida.terrorism
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7426874.stm
--- see also "The Challenge of Britain's "Northern Ireland Conflict" Perspective towards Jihad"
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html#T06

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(UK) Glasgow Car Bomb Trial: Terror trial hears dead suspect’s emailed will
-- "call of jihad... loud and open"
-- Bilal Abdulla and Mohammed Asha trial
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.2466010.0.terror_trial_hears_dead_suspects_emailed_will.php
--- Bomber 'aimed to hit devil's place'
----- Kafeel Ahmed: "It was time I put my words into actions. I was given an opportunity to do so and I took it up. So rejoice everyone and celebrate because I have achieved one of the two promises from Allah."
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2466213.0.Bomber_aimed_to_hit_devils_place.php
--- Airport blast man 'left a will'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7713316.stm

(UK) Lockerbie bomber, Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi’s plea for bail
--- convicted of role in blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, causing 270 deaths
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article5101535.ece

(UK) Wanted: a police chief expert in fighting terror to take over the Met
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/nov/07/police-metropolitan-commissioner-chief

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(UK) Habib Ahmed Trial: Terror claim 'made to sell story'
--- BBC: "he said in an interview with the Sunday Times in March 2002 that he was an al-Qaeda agent"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7711929.stm

(UK) More time granted to question terrorism suspect - Blackburn suspect
http://www.wigantoday.net/latest-north-west-news/More-time-granted-to-question.4665808.jp

(UK) British interpreter Daniel James found guilty of spying for Iran
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5090476.ece

(UK) Lawyers for London Al Qaeda bomb plot gang cost taxpayer £5 million -- Dhiren Barot
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082909/Lawyers-London-Al-Qaeda-bomb-plot-gang-cost-taxpayer-5-million.html

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(UK) Teen arrested in U.K. terror investigation - Blackburn area
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/04/Teen_arrested_in_UK_terror_investigation/UPI-46911225817673/
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/04/europe/EU-Britain-Terror-Arrest.php
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/nov/04/teenager-arrest-terrorism

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(UK) Iranian Embassy terrorist pictured in London days after jail release
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/3375132/Iranian-Embassy-terrorist-pictured-in-London-days-after-jail-release.html

(UK) Total spending ban on men accused of funding al-Qaida -- "orders in council"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/nov/03/terrorism-welfare-spending-law

(UK) Surviving Iranian Embassy siege gunman freed to enjoy life of sight-seeing on benefits -- Fowzi Nejad
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082475/Surviving-Iranian-Embassy-siege-gunman-freed-enjoy-life-sight-seeing-benefits.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082517/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Another-human-rights-victory-terrorism.html

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(UK) Woman remanded on terror charge - Houria Chahed Chentouf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7704098.stm

(UK) Terrorists try to infiltrate UK's top labs -- to acquire weapons material and expertise
-- "MI5 and MI6 intercept up to 100 potential terrorists posing as postgraduate students to access laboratories"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/02/uk-security-weapons-technology

(UK) Three terror suspects extradited
--- "three Tunisian men wanted in Italy for alleged terrorist offences have been extradited from Britain"
--- Habib Ignaoua, Mohamed Khemiri, and Ali Chehidi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7704596.stm

(UK) Compensation fund for Brit tourists killed in terrorist attacks abroad
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/11/02/compensation-fund-for-brit-tourists-killed-in-terrorist-attacks-abroad-115875-20863542/

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(UK) British police charge woman under Terrorism Act -- Houria Chahed Chentouf
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/239550,british-police-charge-woman-under-terrorism-act.html
-- raids on homes in UK and Netherlands

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(UK) Home Secretary orders inquiry into MI5 and CIA torture claims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/30/uksecurity-terrorism

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October 30, 2008 British Jihad News

(UK/Canada) Al-Qaeda geek Momin Khawaja found guilty of Bluewater bomb plot
-- follow-up on Khawaja conviction and link to plot "build 30 remote-controlled devices to bring terror to London," including plot on Bluewater shopping mall
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5040125.ece

(UK) Lockerbie bomber to seek bail --- Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/3287641/Lockerbie-bomber-to-seek-bail.html

(UK) Freezing of terror assets backed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7700879.stm

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(UK) Just one 'preacher of hate' deported in last three years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3274959/Just-one-preacher-of-hate-deported-in-last-three-years.html
---  Better to tackle the extremists in our midst
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/10/29/dl2901.xml

(UK) Hate preacher Bakri targets young people through Web campaign
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23579441-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&

(UK) Terror trial adjourned -- until next year
--- trial of "Oldham couple accused of publishing a pamphlet encouraging terrorism" - Amjad Mahmood and his wife Shella Roma
http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/8/news/15826/terror-trial

(UK) Terror suspects remanded by court -- Birmingham suspects
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7695465.stm

(UK) Home Secretary insists government was right on 42 days
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/28/terrorism-jacquismith
--- measure defeated in UK Parliament

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October 28, 2008 British Jihad News

(UK) Couple's terror trial begins -- Amjad Mahmood and his wife Shella Roma
-- "allegedly designed and printed pamphlets... telling others to go abroad to fight a jihad or holy war... and distributed them outside a mosque in Oldham"
http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/8/news/15754/couples-terror-trial-begins

(UK) Glasgow Car Bomb Trial: Terror suspect 'agitated' -- Dr Mohammed Asha
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hxddCEr6XhS1XAqP6ezKQHrt-gbw

(UK) British police charges four men with Terrorism Act offenses -- Birmingham suspects
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1225036824226&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
--- Four due in court on terror charges
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/2238988

(UK) Government to disclose clampdown on hate-preachers
--- "Preachers of hate who have been banned from the UK will be refused entry to the country forever unless they make a public renunciation saying they no longer preach violent extremism, the Government will announce today. "
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5027690.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3271930/Foreign-preachers-of-hate-to-be-banned-from-UK.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7694408.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/28/terrorism-uksecurity
--- Comment: perhaps the UK govt could start by banning its own promotion of the pro-Jihad Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif (Dr. Fadl)
---- See also: "British Home Office's RICU Seeks to Discredit Al-Qaeda, But Not Jihad"
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html#T01

(UK) Britain to publish names of banned extremists
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/28/europe/EU-Britain-Extremists.php

(UK) Civil Servant pleads guilty to leaving top secret documents on train -- Richard Jackson
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5030050.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/28/terrorism-security-secret-documents

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(UK) Al-Qaida appears to claim Glasgow attack
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017620298&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023248.php

(UK) Police are warned of Ramadan tensions during Games
-- addresses 2012 Olympics
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5019844.ece

Propaganda:

(UK) Get out of Afghanistan -- by Peter Hitchins
-- Peter Hitchins: "the war's original purpose, supposedly to chase the culprits of 11th September to their base,  was almost certainly false or mistaken"
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2008/10/get-out-of-afgh.html

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(UK) Laser beam spy camera joins war on terrorism
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080665/Laser-beam-spy-camera-joins-war-terrorism.html

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(UK) 'Jihad links' to terror suspect -- Habib Ahmed trial
--- tape "called Islam Terrorism and the New World Order and others of 'Jihad songs' were found at the home of a Manchester taxi driver"
--- links of Habib Ahmed to Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed and Hassan Butt
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1075509__jihad_links_to_terror_suspect

(UK) Anti-terror police search home -- still searching six addresses in Birmingham and one in Kenilworth
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1947083&Language=en

(UK) 'He's going to kill us - I have to act now': Police marksman who shot dead de Menezes speaks for first time
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080267/Hes-going-kill--I-act-Police-marksman-shot-dead-Menezes-speaks-time.html

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http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1946809&Language=en

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UK: Bakri accuses Muslims of supporting British troops
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/10/uk-bakri-accuses-muslims-of-supporting.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1834561.ece

(UK) British soldier accused of spying for Iran 'used black magic to protect Nato chief from the Taliban'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080019/British-soldier-accused-spying-Iran-used-black-magic-protect-Nato-chief-Taliban.html

(UK) 'Reformed terrorist' on race abuse charge -- Hassan Butt
http://www.pendletoday.co.uk/latest-north-west-news/39Reformed-terrorist39-on-race-abuse.4621066.jp

(UK) Mohamed al Fayed quizzed over child sex assault allegations
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4993008.ece

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October 22, 2008 British Jihad News

(UK) Father defends terror-arrest son -- in Birmingham
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hIj7YazczucaNZYs0azV0IkqVYPw

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(UK) 'Multiple attempts' made to detonate London car bombs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/20/uksecurity-ukcrime

(UK) Jury shown pictures of London car bombs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3230029/Jury-shown-pictures-of-London-car-bombs.html

(UK) Fatwa: 'Terror alert' as hate cleric Bakri slams Cowell's show's support for troop charity
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1079280/X-Fatwa-Terror-alert-hate-cleric-Bakri-slams-Cowells-shows-support-troop-charity.html?ITO=1490

(UK) Controversial Therapy Aims to 'Cure' Extremists
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,441221,00.html

(UK) Gov't registration mulled for cell phones
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/10/19/Govt_registration_mulled_for_cell_phones/UPI-30381224439196/

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(UK) 30-year wait to tame young extremists'
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?30-year_wait_to_tame_young_extremists&in_article_id=365901&in_page_id=34
-- UK Security Minister West: "To stop this radicalisation of extremists is going to take about 30 years I would think. But it will become a virtuous circle. It will start getting better and better."
-- UK Security Minister West: "We cannot arrest and protect ourselves out of this problem. We would accept that certain aspects of our foreign policy have caused difficulties with them but now at least we are engaging in a debate with them."
---- see also:
---- March 16, 2008 - BBC: UK Security Minister West: Not talking to al-Qaeda 'silly'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7299888.stm

(UK)  Five men arrested under Terrorism Act
--- "Five men have been arrested in Birmingham under the Terrorism Act after a "long and complex investigation"."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3233372/Five-men-arrested-under-Terrorism-Act.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4983867.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/21/uksecurity
--- Five men arrested on suspicion of terrorism in dramatic dawn raids
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1079317/Five-men-arrested-suspicion-terrorism-dramatic-dawn-raids.html?ITO=1490
---- one arrested is Mohammed Shabir Khan, came to Birmingham from Pakistan as a child

(UK) Al-Qaeda number would be gold dust, court told --- regarding Hamza Rabia
-- trial of Habib Ahmed and Rangzieb Ahmed
http://www.fleetwoodtoday.co.uk/latest-north-west-news/AlQaeda-number-would-be-gold.4610157.jp
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1073681__taxi_driver_had_alqaida_number

(UK) Lockerbie bomber could be released early because of 'advanced' cancer -- Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4985081.ece

(UK) "Police are briefed by Islam expert"
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/Police-briefed-Islam-expert/article-413691-detail/article.html
--- Mohamed El M'hamdi, director of the Plymouth Islamic Education Trust, to address "misconceptions regarding Islam"
--- Mohamed El M'hamdi to hold "day-long conference aimed to educate people as to the truth behind Islam, explaining everything from Sharia law, to the myths about discrimination against women"
--- Chief Constable Stephen Otter says that "holding radical views was not illegal or dangerous 'until it turns into violence'"

(UK) Muslims' relief as game shelved
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2008/10/21/muslims-relief-as-game-shelved-97319-22079882/

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October 19, 2008 British Jihad News

UK: Poll reveals a significant number of Muslims support suicide bombings
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023153.php
-- Young Midland Muslims support suicide bombings new poll reveals
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2008/10/18/young-midland-muslims-support-suicide-bombings-new-poll-reveals-66331-22065097/

(UK) Muslim fanatic prisoners to be 'de-programmed' using controversial techniques to 'cure' them of beliefs
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077861/Muslim-fanatic-prisoners-programmed-using-controversial-techniques-cure-beliefs.html

(UK) Replica bombs 'smuggled into Gatwick'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/3226565/Replica-bombs-smuggled-into-Gatwick.html

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October 18, 2008 British Jihad News

(UK) Jury shown 'al-Qaida contacts book' -- Rangzieb Ahmed and Habib Ahmed trial
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1073310_jury__shown_alqaida_contacts_book

(UK) Former MI5 chief Stella Rimington claims 9/11 response was 'huge overreaction'
--- "described the events as just 'another terrorist incident'"
--- Stella Rimington: "I suppose I'd lived with terrorist events for a good part of my working life and this was as far as I was concerned another one."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078693/Former-MI5-chief-Stella-Rimington-claims-9-11-response-huge-overreaction.html
---- Response to 9/11 was 'huge overreaction' - ex-MI5 chief
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/18/stella-rimington-9-11-mi5

(UK) 'Terror database' to be defended by the Govt
http://www.topnews.in/terror-database-be-defended-govt-276941

(UK) Alleged al-Qaeda man banned from running charity -- "Syrian-born Mohammed al Ghabra"
--- Al Ghabra is "trustee Of the Al Ikhlas Foundation, a South London charity also known as the Muslim Prisoner Support Group"
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/10/18/charity-ban-for-al-qaeda-briton-115875-20815266/

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(UK) Glasgow airport suspect said: 'there are bombs' -- Bilal Abdulla trial
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/18/2394698.htm
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24514467-23109,00.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078532/There-bombs-Attackers-airport-worker-moments-Jeep-crashed-terminal-building.html
-- Glasgow airport worker recalls alleged terror bomb attack
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3216608/Glasgow-airport-worker-recalls-alleged-terror-bomb-attack.html

(UK) 'Al-Qaeda' terrorists who brainwashed Exeter suicide bomber still on the run -- Nicky Reilly case
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3204139/Al-Qaeda-terrorists-who-brainwashed-Exeter-suicide-bomber-still-on-the-run.html

(UK) Terror bomb disabled by fireman without realising, court told -- London/Glasgow 2007 Car Bombing trial
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3210696/Terror-bomb-disabled-by-fireman-without-realising-court-told.html

(UK) Link between child porn and Muslim terrorists discovered in police raids
-- "Pedophile websites are being used to pass information between terrorists"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4959002.ece
---- Dangerous and depraved: paedophiles unite with terrorists online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4958674.ece
---- Commentary: "This shows that not all jihadis are spiritually driven men on a mission" - by David Canter
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4958678.ece

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October 16, 2008 British Jihad News

(UK) House Sealed Off By Terror Police -- West Yorkshire
-- "A man has been arrested after suspected bomb-making equipment was found at a house in West Yorkshire" - officer says suspicious material believe to be chemicals
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Terror-Police-Operation-After-Bomb-Equipment-Found-During-Drugs-Raid-In-Bradford/Article/200810315122345?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15122345_Terror_Police_Operation_After_Bomb_Equipment_Found_During_Drugs_Raid_In_Bradford

(UK) Urged on by al-Qaida: the 'vulnerable' convert to Islam who tried to blow up a restaurant
-- Nicky Reilly aka Mohammad Rashid Abdulaziz Saeed Alim
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/16/13
--- Foiled by toilet lock: How Muslim convert set off bombs in error because he couldn't open door
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077808/How-Muslim-convert-set-bombs-error-open-toilet-door.html

(UK) Deadly loners who don’t show on the radar -- more on Nicky Reilly case and "loner" Jihadists in UK
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4951628.ece

(UK) Home Secretary sidesteps questions on 'big terror plot'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/16/uksecurity-jacquismith
--- Guardian: "Government officials said they did not know what the minister [Security Minister West] was talking about"

(UK) Al-Qaeda suspect can stay ... you pay - Egyptian Al-Qaeda suspect Hany Youssef
--- UK Home Office admits that Hany Youssef is on terrorist list - held in 1999 under anti-terror laws, but never deported
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1810318.ece

(UK) Internet phone calls are crippling fight against terrorism
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4951864.ece

(UK) Home Secretary plans broad new 'Big Brother' surveillance powers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/3202766/Jacqui-Smith-plans-broad-new-Big-Brother-surveillance-powers.html

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(UK) Security Minister Lord West: Terror plot being investigated
-- "There is another great plot building up again and we are monitoring this. Some of the measures that we have put into place in the past 15 months have made us safer, but that does not mean that we are safe. The threat is huge. It dipped slightly and is now rising again within the context of 'severe'. There are large complex plots. We unravelled one, which caused damage to al-Qaeda and the plots faded slightly. However, another great plot is building up again, which we are monitoring."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3198082/Lord-West-Terror-plot-being-investigated.html
--- 'Reckless' Minister In Terror Row
---- "Security Minister Lord West has been accused of being 'reckless' for saying authorities were monitoring the beginnings of 'another great plot' by terrorists."
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Lord-West-Criticised-For-Telling-House-Of-Lords-A-New-Terror-Plot-Was-Being-Investigated-By-Police/Article/200810315121167?lid=ARTICLE_15121167_LordWestCriticisedForTellingHouseOfLordsANewTerrorPlotWasBeingInvestigatedByPolice&lpos=searchresults
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Reckless-Peer-In-Terror-Plot-Row/Article/200810215120866?lid=ARTICLE_15120866_RecklessPeerInTerrorPlotRow&lpos=searchresults
--- U.K. Authorities Investigate 'Great' Terror Plot, Sky Reports
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aedfkB9YJR6g
--- New terror plot investigated
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081014/tuk-new-terror-plot-investigated-dba1618.html
---- Same UK Security Minister West who called for talks with Al-Qaeda
------ March 16, 2008 - BBC: Not talking to al-Qaeda 'silly' -- Security Minister West
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7299888.stm
--- More on UK Security Minister West
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html#T05

(UK) 'Car bombers bought components at B&Q'-- Kafeel Ahmed trial - Glasgow car bomber
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3204878/Car-bombers-bought-components-at-BandQ.html
--- Kafeel Ahmed bought bomb components with Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla

(UK) British man pleads guilty to failed bomb attack -- Nicky Reilly
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081015/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_restaurant_blast_2
http://www.teletext.co.uk/news/national/ec2c3fdafde128a1e29fc405da4e9513/Man+admits+failed+bomb+attack.aspx

(UK) Legal victory for Lockerbie bomber
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ieti2sIRSzNwVbNYY3kG2nX0dUSA

UK government weighs telecom terror database
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/15/international/i100942D30.DTL&feed=rss.business

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October 14, 2008 British Jihad News

(UK) Terror accused Mohammed Asha filmed at Asda in Wolstanton -- Glasgow airport car bomb trial
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Terror-accused-Mohammed-Asha-filmed-Asda-Wolstanton/article-398120-detail/article.html
--- video shows "Newcastle doctor Mohammed Asha dumping Islamic material at a Newcastle supermarket – hours after a failed bomb attack at Glasgow Airport"

(UK) 'Glasgow bomber mulled experiments'
http://itn.co.uk/news/aec5a4dae05722d8b2f30ee6d733fb12.html
-- Mohammed Asha: "Bro inshallah (God willing ) I think we are gonna start experiments sometime soon."

(UK) Britain withdraws terror detention law after defeat
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081013/wl_uk_afp/britainpoliticsattackslaw
-- Timeline: How the 42 day detention plan was dropped
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3192876/Timeline-How-the-42-day-detention-plan-was-dropped.html
-- Home Secretary defends emergency plan for 42 days detention
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/3194252/Jacqui-Smith-defends-emergency-plan-for-42-days-detention.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077009/Humiliation-Jacqui-Smith-wake-42-day-climbdown-ministers-drop-plans-hold-inquests-private.html
-- Home Secretary's statement on the counter-terrorism bill
http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/counter-terror-bill-statement

(UK) Government drops plan to hold inquests in secret
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3195913/Government-drops-plan-to-hold-inquests-in-secret.html

Propaganda:

(UK) Guardian: "Talking with the Taliban" -- Michael Shank: "The US pursuit of a military solution in Afghanistan isn't working. We need to negotiate with the country's leaders"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/oct/14/us-afghanistan-saudi-arabia-taliban

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(UK) Ministry of Defense says up to two million records of potential recruits are missing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/3190124/Ministry-of-Defence-says-up-to-two-million-records-of-potential-recruits-are-missing.html

(UK) Lords rejects 42-day detention terrorism detention plans
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/13/terrorism-lords
-- Brown set to scrap 42-day terror detention after resounding defeat in Lords
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077009/Brown-set-scrap-42-day-terror-detention-resounding-defeat-Lords.html
-- Gordon Brown's last-ditch appeal to Lords as 42-day Bill faces defeat
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4935478.ece

(UK) Terror trial CCTV shows the moment a flaming Jeep crashes into Glasgow Airport
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077286/Terror-trial-CCTV-shows-moment-flaming-Jeep-crashes-Glasgow-Airport.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3191910/Glasgow-car-bombings-new-footage.html

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October 11-12, 2008 British Jihad News
(UK) Would-be London bomber planned to leave 'testament' to Bin Laden
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/236543,would-be-london-bomber-planned-to-leave-testament-to-bin-laden.html

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(UK) Car bombing trial: Doctors 'plotted to kill hundreds in car bombs' -- Bilal Abdulla and Kafeel Ahmed
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/65397/Doctors-plotted-to-kill-hundreds-in-car-bombs-
-- Doctors 'planned bombing campaign to punish Britain'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/doctors-planned-bombing-campaign-to-punish-britain-956687.html
-- Bombers packed gas canisters and nails into cars
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3165279/Terror-trial-Bombers-packed-gas-cannisters-and-nails-into-cars.html

(UK) Car bombing trial: Bomb accused escaped in rickshaw -- Bilal Abdulla and Kafeel Ahmed
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24478285-23109,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4920193.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3171883/Terror-trial-Bombers-escaped-from-West-End-on-rickshaws-court-hears.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1076210/Terror-doctors-escaped-rickshaws-leaving-car-bombs-parked-outside-nightclub.html
-- Computer hard drive cited in UK car bomb trial - laptop recovered from Glasgow car bombing
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017503203&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
----  AP: Bilal Abdulla says Glasgow airport car bombing was "intended to make political points but not hurt anybody"

(UK) Labour peers urge Brown to back down in terror detention fight
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/10/terrorism-lords

(UK) Iranian embassy siege terrorist to be freed
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4915976.ece

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(UK) Doctor terrorism trial: timeline of how the car bomb plot unfolded -- Bilal Abdulla and Mohammed Asha trial
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3166203/Doctor-terrorism-trial-timeline-of-how-the-car-bomb-plot-unfolded.html

(UK) Two NHS doctors go on trial for terrorism - update on trial for car bomber suspects Bilal Abdullaand Mohammed Asha
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4911813.ece
--- Doctors plotted 'indiscriminate and wholesale' murder --  in a series of car bombings at Glasgow Airport and across Britain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3164468/Terror-trial-Doctors-plotted-indiscriminate-and-wholesale-murder.html

(UK) Leeds Flat linked to bomb factory used by 7/7 terrorists
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4909904.ece

(UK) Terrorist who survived SAS storming of Iranian Embassy to be free in days... for a life on benefits -- Fowzi Badavi Nejad
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1074589/Terrorist-survived-SAS-storming-Iranian-Embassy-free-days--life-benefits.html

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October 8, 2008 British Jihad News

(UK) Car bomb trial doctors "motivated by religion" -- trial of Mohammed Asha and Bilal Abdulla
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE4976NK20081008?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=401
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3164017/Doctors-accused-of-terror-plots-were-motivated-by-fundamental-Islam.html

(UK) Car bomb trial: Jurors warned over 'prejudice' -- trial of Mohammed Asha and Bilal Abdulla "two doctors accused of mounting car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow"
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Car-bomb-trial-Jurors-warned.4571342.jp
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Mohammed-Asha-terror-trial-Judge-issues-prejudice-warning-jurors/article-384446-detail/article.html
-- prosecution "accused of terrorism motivated by 'a fundamental form of Islam'"
-- judge: "The prosecution case is that both these defendants and a third man called Kafeel Ahmed, who died in the third of these incidents, were terrorists motivated by their belief in a fundamental form of Islam. It is essential that the jury that is to try them makes its decisions based solely on the evidence it hears and it is given in this court and not based on any prejudices, beliefs or personal opinions the members of the jury may have."

(UK) Terror police raid 7/7 'bomb factory' flat -- "Police have raided a flat in Leeds on the suspicion it may have been a bomb factory for the July 7 terror attacks"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3157667/Terror-police-raid-77-bomb-factory-flat.html

(UK) British terror suspect policy criticized
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/10/08/British_terror_suspect_policy_criticized/UPI-94851223469547/

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(UK) Muslim pupil planned to blow up BNP members, court hears
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3153674/Muslim-pupil-planned-to-blow-up-BNP-members-court-hears.html
-- Waris Ali trial alleged to have copy of "Anarchists' Cookbook" and chemicals for bombs
--- "Mrs Colloby, who has an American partner, told the jury that she entered her classroom in April 2,006 to see Ali being restrained by fellow pupils. On her white board in black marker were the words 'All Americans MUST die!' "

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October 6, 2008 British Jihad News

(UK) AP: "UK's Brown will press ahead on terror laws"
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/06/europe/EU-Britain-Terror-Laws.php

(UK) Daily Telegraph: "42-day detention could be dropped in another climbdown for Gordon Brown"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3144452/42-day-detention-could-be-dropped-in-another-climbdown-for-Gordon-Brown.html

(UK) MPs return to find issue of 42-day detention back with a vengeance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2008/oct/06/terrorism.gordonbrown
-- Ministers 'to shelve' 42-day detention plans as ex-terror chief warns they 'won't work'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1069695/Ministers-shelve-42-day-detention-plans-ex-terror-chief-warns-wont-work.html

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October 5, 2008 British Jihad News

(UK) Security fear over airport face scanners -- Faulty facial recognition scanners at a British airport are allowing two people through immigration control on just one passport.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3136395/Security-fear-over-airport-face-scanners.html

(UK) Terrorists target prisoners in Wales
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/10/05/terrorists-target-prisoners-in-wales-91466-21966563/

(UK) Security officials plan to combat threat of the lone terrorist
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/03/uksecurity.terrorism
--- "plan is also to encourage ministers and officials to talk to Muslim groups and discuss 'grievance areas'"

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UK terror strategy to be updated -- "to focus more on preventing the radicalisation of Muslims"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7649763.stm
--- BBC: "A top priority for the government's strategy, known as Contest, will be reducing the supply of terror recruits. Working with local communities and dealing with the role of the internet will be key to the updated strategy."
--- references the 4 "Ps" 'prevent, pursue, protect and prepare' - described over a year ago by UK Security Minister Alan West, who in March 2008 called for talks with Al-Qaeda
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html#T05
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7299888.stm
--- See also: August 31, 2008: "British Government Efforts against "Extremists" Ignores Jihad and Islamic Supremacism" by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html

(UK) Spies take war on terror into cyberspace -- carrying out a "hearts and minds" campaign
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/spies-take-war-on-terror-into-cyberspace-949706.html
--- report addresses "news" that website "Radical Middle Way" is "run by the [UK] Government"
http://www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk/
--- "Radical Middle Way" promotes MI5 report that "there is no single pathway to violent extremism"
http://www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk/articles.php?id=5&art=85
--- UK Govt's "Radical Middle Way" interprets "Lesser or Greater Jihad?"
http://www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk/articles.php?id=2&art=73
--- Reported 2 years ago by JihadWatch.org: October 22, 2006: "UK govt funds moderate Muslim website"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013702.php
--- UK Govt's "Radical Middle Way" also praises Hamza Yusuf
http://www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk/videos.php?id=1&art=1&vid=10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza_Yusuf#Criticism
----- Hamza Yusuf (also spelled Hamza Yousuf or Hamza Yousef): "There are times when you have to live like a sheep in order to live in the future like a lion."
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2004/November/theuae_November89.xml&section=theuae
----- Hamza Yousef: "Jihad is actually considered a Rahma (mercy) in Islam"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/003774.php
----- Hamza Yusuf: "Should I, however, bring this up with many of my Muslim brothers and sisters a common response is: "It's true, but look at what the West is doing to Muslims; 800,000 thousand dead in Iraq. And what about Palestine, Kashmir, Chechnya and the rest? Why don't Western people denounce these atrocities against us and only harp about how backward we are?"
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2007/12/the_real_teddy_bear_tragedy.html
--- See also: British agents go online to fight terror
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/10/04/British_agents_go_online_to_fight_terror/UPI-34361223096522/
--- "running their own Web sites and as well as helping moderate Muslim groups"
---- See also: August 31, 2008: "British Government Efforts against "Extremists" Ignores Jihad and Islamic Supremacism" by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html

(UK) Daily Telegraph Report: "US officials 'not interested' in release of British hostages in Iraq"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/3131927/US-officials-not-interested-in-release-of-British-hostages-in-Iraq.html
 -- because not willing to release accused terrorist who killed 5 soldiers

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(UK) Terror suspect 'joked about earthquake con' - for fundraising -- Habib Ahmed
http://www.nemadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/1070360_terror_suspect_joked_about_earthquake_con

(UK) Mohammed novel: Trio remanded over fire at publisher's home
--- Ali Beheshti, Abrar Mirza, and Abbas Taj
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3129264/Mohammed-novel-Trio-Remanded-Over-fire-at-publishers-home.html
---- Mohammed book arson: Three men in court
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3126957/Mohammed-book-arson-Three-men-in-court.html

(UK) Mohammed novel Jewel of Medina may not be published in Britain -- 42 day terrorist custody law
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/3117523/Mohammed-novel-Jewel-of-Medina-may-not-be-published-in-Britain.html

(UK) British law could breach rights convention: Council of Europe
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081003/wl_uk_afp/europebritainpoliticsattackslawrights

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(UK) 'Severe' risk of terrorist attack close to 7/7 level
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4870837.ece

(UK) Terror threat in UK 'approaching critical'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3124098/Terror-threat-in-UK-approaching-critical.html
--- Telegraph: "The terrorist threat in Britain is approaching critical as police and MI5 face an increase in activity by al-Qaeda militants, senior security officials have disclosed."
--- Telegraph: "sources who say the level of 'chatter' among terrorist cells has increased in recent months"

(UK) Woman on trial denies helping to fund terrorism training -- Mehreen Haji, wife of Habib Ahmed
http://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/3721046.Woman_on_trial_denies_helping_to_fund_terrorism_training/

(UK) Report: MI5 computer missing after break-in
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/02/europe/EU-Britain-Missing-Computer.php
-- Palmtop computer stolen from open window in M15 hideout
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4868535.ece

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(UK) Scotland Yard commissioner resigns
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/02/europe/EU-Britain-Police-Chief.php

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October 1, 2008 British Jihad News

(UK) Tory party conference: Pauline Neville-Jones promises to redraw terror laws
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/3116161/Tory-party-conference-Pauline-Neville-Jones-promises-to-redraw-terror-laws.html

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September 30, 2008 British Jihad News

(UK) Government has neglected threat of radicalization, says Grieve
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/sep/30/dominicgrieve.toryconference

(UK) MI6 photos sold on auction site  -- "said to contain the UK external intelligence service 'MI6' images of terror suspects"
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1941193&Language=en
-- Ebay camera contains 'secret' MI6 terrorist images
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/sep/30/terrorism.ebay
---- "New owner finds photos of images of launchers, missiles, terror suspects and their details on camera"

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(UK) Radical Islamic clerics warn of further attacks after publisher is firebombed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3097350/Radical-Islamic-clerics-warn-of-further-attacks-after-publisher-is-firebombed.html

(UK) Palace, Parliament and Scotland Yard were sealed off in 2005 terror alert
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4846601.ece

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September 28, 2008 British Jihad News

(UK) Al-Qaeda bid to recruit inmates
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4838032.ece

(UK) Muslim gang firebombs publisher of Allah novel, Martin Rynja -- additional report
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4837994.ece

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(UK) Alleged terrorist was 'senior manager for al-Qaeda'-- trial of Rangzieb Ahmed and Habib Ahmed
--- "Two alleged terrorists discussed suicide bombing in a Dubai hotel room where they referred to al-Qaeda as a "company" in which one of them was a senior manager, a court heard"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3086873/Alleged-terrorist-was-senior-manager-for-al-Qaeda.html

(UK)  London terror arrests linked to Muslim book
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3091777/North-London-terror-arrests-linked-to-publication-of-Muslim-book.html
--- "Four people have been arrested over an alleged terror attack which may be linked to the publishing of a controversial book" The Jewel of Medina
--- "arrests are thought to be linked to a fire at a property in Islington, north London, which is used as the home and office of publisher Martin Rynja" company Gibson Square publisher of The Jewel of Medina

(UK) Three held on suspicion of terrorism
http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKTRE48Q1OS20080927?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=401
-- London police arrest 3 men under Terrorism Act
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_TERRORISM_ARRESTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-09-27-06-12-34
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/27/europe/EU-Britain-Terrorism-Arrests.php

(UK) Two al-Qaeda members from Manchester planned a bogus charity dinner for earthquake victims to fund terrorist operations
http://www.imaginefm.net/article.php?article=3969
http://www.pendletoday.co.uk/latest-north-west-news/Terror-plotters-planned-bogus-dinner.4534355.jp

(UK) Former spy chief joins 42-day detention critics -- Dame Stella Rimington
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/sep/27/terrorism.uksecurity

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(UK) Terror mission 'aborted' by death -- Rangzieb Ahmed trial -- stopped terror plot after Hamza Rabia death
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7636214.stm
-- British Muslim aborted terror plot after al-Qaida chief's death, court hears --- "Rangzieb Ahmed from Manchester is alleged to be member of cell planning to fly to South Africa for a 'major activity'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/25/1
-- Tony Blair's friends were potential targets of terror cell, court hears
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3081276/Tony-Blairs-friends-were-potential-targets-of-terror-cell-court-hears.html

(UK) Terrorist contact book hid information on al-Qaeda leaders in invisible ink, trial told -- follow-up on Wednesday report on Rangzieb Ahmed and Habib Ahmed trial
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4821501.ece
--- Alleged terrorists wanted 'violent jihad'
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1068858_alleged_terrorists_wanted_violent_jihad

(UK) First UK ID cards are unveiled
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4825353.ece
-- Home Office unveils the UK's new identity card - with no sign of Britain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3081375/Jacqui-Smith-unveils-the-UKs-new-identity-card---with-no-sign-of-Britain.html
-- Home Office's launch of ID cards for foreign nationals provokes anger
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3079277/Jacqui-Smiths-launch-of-ID-cards-for-foreign-nationals-provokes-anger.html

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(UK) British Muslim 'had Al Qaeda contacts book with terrorists' numbers written in invisible ink' -- Rangzieb Ahmed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1061190/British-Muslim-Al-Qaeda-contacts-book-terrorists-numbers-written-invisible-ink.html
--- "British Muslim owned a contacts book for Al Qaeda terrorists with their phone numbers written in invisible ink, a court heard today"
-- UK suspect 'key al-Qaeda member' -- more on trial of Raingzieb Ahmed and Habib Ahmed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7633574.stm
-- British Muslim was senior al-Qaeda leader, court told
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3073727/British-Muslim-was-senior-al-Qaeda-leader-court-told.html

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(UK) Terror law is attack on all our freedoms, says spy writer Le Carre in furious tirade against ministers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1060034/Terror-laws-attack-freedoms-says-spy-writer-Le-Carr-furious-tirade-ministers.html
--- Comment: Le Carre not angry at Jihadists, but at UK laws

(UK) Three on trial for terrorism in Manchester
http://www.imaginefm.net/article.php?article=3937

(UK) Police probe petrol bomb attack on Iranian embassy
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1939746&Language=en

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(UK) 'He's going to blow up the train'; Marksmen convinced de Menezes was bomber, inquest told
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1059241/Hes-going-blow-train-Marksmen-convinced-Menezes-bomber-inquest-told.html

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September 19, 2008 British Jihad News

(UK) Call for ban of new Islamic group -- A new Islamic organization with links to the outlawed radical Muslim group Al Muhajiroun is promoting a conference aimed at children, it has emerged.
-- web-based group, Islam4uk, founded by Omar Bakri Mohammed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2990627/Call-for-ban-of-new-Islamic-group.html
-- Islamist sect banned as security threat 'is recruiting teenagers
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23557570-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1058357/Banned-militant-Islamist-sect-recruiting-young-Muslims.html
-- Merchants of Hatred: On the anniversary of 9/11 this terrifying investigation reveals the hatred
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=249969&D=2008-09-14&SO=&HC=2

(UK) Hammaad Munshi, schoolboy terrorist, given two-year sentence
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4786555.ece
-- Schoolboy terrorist locked up:  The 16-year-old who joined Islamic fanatics targeting the Royal Family -- Hammaad Munshi sentenced to 2 years in prison
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1058227/Schoolboy-terrorist-locked-The-16-year-old-joined-Islamic-fanatics-targeting-Royal-Family.html?ITO=1490
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24373270-23109,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/19/uksecurity.ukcrime

(UK) Britain's 'youngest terrorist' jailed -- Hammaad Munshi - UK's youngest terrorist, aged 16 (when arrested), jailed after a guide to death and explosives was found in his home.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2579566/Britains-youngest-terrorist-jailed.html

(UK) Britain's youngest teenage terrorist: 'a wake-up call for parents'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2988926/Britains-youngest-teenage-terrorist-a-wake-up-call-for-parents.html

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September 18, 2008 British Jihad News

(UK) 'Schoolboy terrorist' faces jail
-- "Hammaad Munshi was just 15 when he was recruited into a worldwide plot to wipe out non-Muslims and longed to become a 'martyr.'"
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080919/tuk-schoolboy-terrorist-faces-jail-dba1618.html

(UK) Kent: Man released after terrorism arrest
http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Man-released-after-terrorism-arrest-newsinkent16242.aspx?news=local

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