Posted on 12/23/2006 11:57:45 AM PST by aculeus
Police are trying to trace a gang of British Muslims who are thought to have returned to plot terror attacks in Britain after being trained abroad for more than a year by al-Qaeda, Nine Britons, all said to be in their twenties, were among a group of 12 Western recruits groomed by al-Qaeda at a secret camp near the Afghan border to set up new terror cells in London and other Western capitals.
Police do not know the real identities of this gang, who are known as the “English brothers” because of their shared language. As well as nine Britons, they include two Norwegians and an Australian who were smuggled into the Waziristan tribal region in Pakistan in October 2005.
They are believed to have been under the command of an al-Qaeda veteran suspected of training some of the Britons accused of the alleged plot to blow up passenger planes flying to the US from Heathrow airport in the summer.
The intensive manhunt for the “English brothers” was revealed to The Times as the alleged British mastermind of the Heathrow plot spoke for the first time as he appeared yesterday in a court in Pakistan on separate charges. Outside court, he vehemently denied any role in plans to bomb up to ten transatlantic flights.
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The sources are reported to have been escorted to the al-Qaeda camp by Adam Gadahn, a Californian indicted by the US authorities as an al-Qaeda terrorist, who introduced the “brothers” to their tutors.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
I had a tag line that I was ordered to remove,it said, all muslims are my enemy. I think we cannot trust any of them.
"English Brothers"??
you would think they could come up with something better than that
As long as they believe in the koran they cannot be trusted.
If they're English I'm a vermicious knid.
People should stop confusing "English" with "British." One is an ethnic group based on shared genetics, the other is a nationality based on common citizenship. Not at all the same thing.
Ditto.
Maybe you should try your hand at Latin :-)
Analogous to "Texan" and "American"?
http://www.saharasamay.com/samayhtml/Articles.aspx?NewsId=66861
Heh. "American" and "British" refer to different nationalities. "Chinese" and "English" refer to different ethhic groups (or languages.) One can be ethnically Chinese but be a British citizen, or be ethnically English but be an American citizen.
How about ethnically Texan but be an American citizen? (Grin)
I am English and British, but forgot to be confused.
Sorry....
What's the betting that the "English Brothers" are all blond or redheaded Anglicans with names like Cartwright, Smith, Johnson, etc?
A bunch of English speaking Jihadies, some actually citizens of the UK and/or the US.
Not quite. The English are a "race", sharing a common genetic (if fairly recent) heritage, as are the Scots, the Welsh, and the Irish. Britons are residents of the Island of Great Britain, Citizens/Subjects of the United Kingdom include Britons, which in turn includes residents of England, Scotland, Wales, and IIRC a couple of others, but not the residents of Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland *is* part of the UK. (Formal name the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, but most of Ireland broke away in the early 20th century).
Texan, OTOH, is a state of mind, as well as residency, but not of shared genetics. Oh many are of Scots-Irish, by way of Tennessee, heritage, but even in the original American colonists, many were not.
One of the funniest darn skits (out of many great skits) they ever did.
Vince: "Well one day I was at home threatening the kids when I looks out through the hole in the wall and sees this tank pull up and out gets one of Dinsdale's boys, so he comes in nice and friendly and says Dinsdale wants to have a word with me, so he chains me to the back of the tank and takes me for a scrape round to Dinsdale's place and Dinsdale's there in the conversation pit with Doug and Charles Paisley, the baby crusher, and two film producers and a man they called 'Kierkegaard', who just sat there biting the heads of whippets and Dinsdale says 'I hear you've been a naughty boy Clement' and he splits me nostrils open and saws me leg off and pulls me liver out and I tell him my name's not Clement and then... he loses his temper and nails me head to the floor."
One of them is Rashid Rauf, 25, from Birmingham. Not exactly a common English name, is it?
Texas is allowed to have its own Air Force and could succeed from the Union at will. (I think it should) As such, we are a nation by itself. Personally I think that we should declare war on Mexico (to our south, not to our west) but that would ruin the Tex-Mex cuisine. We eat BBQ for breakfast, wear boots in bed, carry big guns (I myself carry a PM9, to my wife's disgust) and heaven is another name for the Texas hill country....
Aw shucks forgive me, but I have been pulling your leg from the very beginning. Please accept my apologies; forgive me for what I have done and what I have failed to do. And I ask... (never mind). It is late, I have had a rough day and the scotch is getting to me.
Whatever nut you may think that I am, and I'm sure you do, I still think that you are one of the more intelligent, patient and serious persons I have communicated with. It was a privilege.
that's what would make more sense
that's what would make more sense
Click the URL below and turn up the volume
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