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Posted on 06/01/2007 7:57:59 PM PDT by nwctwx
Adding on to your thoughts....
It is global jihad and inspired by jihad ideology and the suspects may or may have Al Qaeda links, but this is not Al Qaeda. It may be Al Qaeda inspired, though.
This is the global jihad.
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“Police: 2 more arrested in U.K. terror probe”
msnbc.com ^ | 06/30/2007 | MSNBC
Posted on 06/30/2007 5:40:32 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
Adding another link to post no. 1499.
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858993/posts
Police Arrrest 2 More in Connection With London, Scotland Terror Incidents
Associated Press via FOX News.com ^ | June 30, 2007
Posted on 06/30/2007 5:43:34 PM PDT by Kaslin
GLASGOW, Scotland — Three terrorist suspects were in police custody Sunday — and a fourth man under guard in hospital — following attacks that saw a flaming jeep crash into a Scottish airport and two car bomb plots foiled in central London.
Scotland Yard said two people had been arrested in Cheshire, a county in northern England, in a joint swoop by specialist officers from London and Birmingham.
In Scotland, officers arrested two men — one of them on fire — after a Jeep Cherokee rammed into Glasgow airport and burst into flames.
The green SUV shattered glass doors at the terminal entrance, stopping within meters of where holidaymakers were lined up at check-in counters.
Police and security officials said the attacks were clearly linked, adding all three vehicles had carried large amounts of flammable materials — including gasoline and gas cylinders.
The chaos over the past two days has raised fears that the type of car bomb attacks that have become commonplace in Iraq has now reached European shores. Late Saturday, Britain raised its security alert level to critical — the highest possible level, indicating terror attacks may be imminent.
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“Independence Forever: Why America Celebrates the Fourth of July”
Heritage Foundation ^ | 6/28/07 | Matthew Spalding, Ph.D.
Posted on 06/30/2007 5:06:47 PM PDT by wagglebee
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26079_Video-_Eyewitness_on_Flaming_Jihadi&only
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkEGI6JUetk
“Glasgow attacker “enjoyed the flames” long version”
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“Mexican Drug Cartels Activity Possibly Moving North Of Border (pics)”
10 news ^ | 6/30/07
Posted on 06/30/2007 6:36:01 PM PDT by Ladycalif
SAN DIEGO
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859006/posts
“Man captures intruder at gunpoint (AL)”
Sand Mountain Reporter ^ | June 30, 2007 | George Jones
Posted on 06/30/2007 6:38:31 PM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
Thanks for all you do...
LONDON - The foiled car-bomb plot in London shows al Qaeda has imported the tactics of Iraqi and Indonesian militants to Britain, the UK prime minister's top terrorism adviser has said.
"Make no mistake, this weekend's bomb attacks signal a major escalation in the war being waged on us by Islamic terrorists," John Stevens, the former commissioner of the London police, wrote in an article to be published in the News of the World on Sunday. "Initially it was believed the main problem police faced was insulated groups of home-grown extremists. But now it is clear a loose but deadly network of interlinked operational cells has developed.
"The terror of July 7 (2005) was awful enough, but now al-Qaeda has imported the tactics of Baghdad and Bali to our streets. And it will get worse before it gets better."
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=340&objectid=10448951
Bomb plot ‘work of Middle East militants’
Sunday, 1 July, 2007
LONDON: The car bombs which threatened to cause carnage on the streets of London bear the hallmark of Al Qaeda-type groups, analysts said yesterday.
The failed attacks could have been timed to destabilise the new British government, but could also be fueled by anger at the knighthood for writer Salman Rushdie, or Tony Blair’s appointment as Middle East envoy, they said. “There is no doubt at all that this (plot) is Middle-Eastern contrived,” independent intelligence analyst Paul Beaver said.
“Look at the way in which the bombs have been configured. This is a signature of (Lebanese Shia militant) Hezbollah and (Islamist group) Hamas in Lebanon and Palestine, and Al Qaeda-like organisations in Iraq.”
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Sleeper Terror Cell on the Loose in U.K.
June 30, 2007
Counter-terrorism analysts estimate that the apparently coordinated attacks in Great Britain are the work of a sleeper cell that could include as many as 20 individuals. "You would need that many to pull off three different vehicle-borne explosions," said one former CIA official who requested his name not be used.
A massive manhunt is now underway across Great Britain for at least three suspects who officials say have been positively linked to the Friday attacks by surveillance photographs and forensic evidence, including fingerprints. "The Brits simply are not ahead of this cell and they know it," he said.
The two failed car bomb attacks in London Friday appear to be connected to today's attack on the Glasgow Airport terminal, although British officials have yet to declare so officially.
Adding to the intelligence failure, analysts said, is the fact that the driver of one of the failed car bombs had been arrested three years ago and released for lack of evidence.
The two men arrested in the wake of the Glasgow attack today are likely to face intense interrogations from British officials who are desperate to learn the names of other cell members. "The Brits may talk with a fancy accent, but when it comes to this kind of thing, the gloves will be off," the former CIA official said, citing the techniques used to go after the Irish Republican Army.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/sleeper-terror-.html
“London car bomb plot: More than being reported; larger plot, U.S. at risk”
Thanks for the ping and your work on this thread. Outstanding. (thanks to all contributors)
ISLAMABAD: A radical Pakistani mosque yesterday threatened forceful retaliation if the government launches an operation against it after President Pervez Musharraf said it housed suicide bombers. “We have read the statement by Musharraf and we want to warn him that in case of an operation against our mosque and the seminary we will put up a very forceful retaliation,” Abdul Rashid Ghazi, from Islamabad’s Red Mosque and Jamia Hafsa seminary, said.
The English-language Pakistani newspaper Dawn quoted military ruler Musharraf as saying many potential suicide bombers were inside the mosque, which is seen as a militant hub in the heart of the capital. Militants linked to extremist groups, including Al Qaeda, were hiding in the mosque with explosives and could cause havoc in the event of an armed operation against them, the president added.
“Let it be clear that action against Lal Masjid (the Red Mosque) and Jamia Hafsa Brigade was not withheld because of government weakness or cowardice,” Musharraf said in the report. The seminary’s students launched an anti-vice drive in January and have kidnapped police and civilians recently, including six Chinese women from what they alleged was a brothel in the capital. They eventually released the captives.
The president, a key US ally in the so called War on Terror, has faced mounting criticism home and abroad over the failure to crack down on the Red Mosque’s campaign to enforce Taliban-style Islamic Shariah laws.
Qaeda-linked militants hole up in Pakistan mosque: Musharraf; ‘Radicals ready to carry out suicide attacks’
June 30, 2007
ISLAMABAD (RTRS): Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday suicide bombers from an al-Qaeda-linked militant group are holed up in a mosque in the centre of the capital, Islamabad. Authorities have been locked in a tense standoff for months with clerics and students associated with Lal Masjid, the Red Mosque, who are pushing for imposition of Taleban-style social values in Islamabad. Clerics at the mosque had threatened suicide attacks if government used force against them.
Speaking to reporters, Musharraf said militants of Jaish-e-Mohammad, an al-Qaeda-linked group fighting Indian rule in the disputed Kashmir region, were hiding in the mosque. “They are indoctrinated people,” he told a workshop on journalism. “There are also people associated to Jaish-e-Mohammad. They have explosives. Many of them are ready to carry out suicide attacks,” he added.
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http://version2.arabtimesonline.com/client/pagesdetails.asp?nid=2201&ccid=11
Militants destroy 13 tankers in Pakistan
30 Jun, 2007
PESHAWAR: Pro-Taliban militants, in a Pakistani border town, blew up 13 oil tankers supplying fuel for international troops in Afghanistan, officials said on Friday. The explosion on Friday night targeted tankers parked in Landikotal, the main town of Khyber tribal district, 35 kilometres west of Peshawar, a security official said.
An improvised explosive device planted underneath a tanker went off, triggering a massive fire and gutting 13 tankers, the official said on condition of anonymity. We believe that pro-Taliban militants are behind the attack, he added. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The attack was the latest in a series on trucks and tankers supplying fuel to us bases in eastern and southern Afghanistan.
Man, that’s weird. “enjoying the flames” is strange enough, but then someone “punched him” to get him under control.
Thank you Oorang.
The global jihad is evil.
You’re so welcome P Galt.
It’s weird to us and that’s because we are normal.
OPINION: It’s not uncommon for the jihadis on a “martyr” mission to be doped up.
It’s also not uncommon for a jihadi to want to finish his/her “martyr” mission so that he/she can get to “paradise” (Hell) where he/she will get whatever he/she so desires and yes, that includes the “72 virgins” for the guys.
It’s also very common for the “marytrs” to be gloriously happy to kill/injure/hurt their “enemies.”
Off Topic and quite original, in my opinion:
Sat. Jun. 30, 2007
News > Europe
“UK Muslims Back Police in Bomb Probe”
Addtional Reporting By Ahmad Maher, IOL Staff
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “CAIRO — The Muslim umbrella group in Britain urged Saturday, June 30, all Britons, including Muslims, to fully cooperate with police in their massive manhunt for those behind a foiled double bomb attack in London.
“Those criminals must be brought to justice,” Deputy Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) Daud Abdullah told IslamOnline.net over the phone from London.
Abdullah said the best advice to community is to allow the process of law to take its due course.
“Let’s avoid presumptions…Let’s wait and see; there is little we can say about that,” he added.
“Such incidents create tensions and suspicions,” he said when asked whether Muslim extremists might be behind the attacks. “Let’s not create a hypothetical problem…it can be the work of Muslims, Christians, Jews or Buddhists.””
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/06/30/iran/i6.jpg
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/07/01/wiran101.jpg
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/01/wiran101.xml
“Iran curses Ahmadinejad over petrol rationing”
By Colin Freeman in Teheran, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 12:15am BST 01/07/2007
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