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UK Prison Staff Infiltrated
Hot Air.com ^ | 7/14/2007 | Allahpundit

Posted on 07/14/2007 12:25:21 PM PDT by pacelvi

Good news: Brits give laptop to imprisoned cyberjihadi

posted at 2:47 pm on July 14, 2007 by Allahpundit

He and his two cybercronies pleaded guilty last week to inciting murder over the Internet. They found 37,000 stolen credit card numbers in his apartment harvested from viruses and phish e-mails and estimate that he and his pals racked up $3.5 million in fraudulent charges used to buy supplies for the jihad. Money was laundered through online gambling sites. They also were known to hack into sites and use their bandwidth to host jihadi videos, and on one of their computers the cops found “short video clips of the U.S. Capitol grounds, the World Bank building, a hazardous chemical response vehicle and local fuel storage facilities. Also on the laptop were instant message chat logs and a PowerPoint presentation detailing how to build a car bomb.” It was a sophisticated, potentially lethal operation.

So naturally the cops gave one of them a laptop while they were awaiting trial. What could go wrong?

AN al-Qaeda fanatic jailed for inciting murder online was caught making a website urging terror attacks - from his cell in Britain’s most secure prison. Tariq Al-Daour, 21, used a smuggled mobile phone and modem lead to access the internet on a laptop issued by the Prison Service to help him prepare his court case. The laptop was seized after a violent struggle when prison officers suspected he was misusing it and the hate-filled website called Global Jihad was found. The Home Office has launched an urgent inquiry to discover how the mobile was smuggled into Belmarsh’s High Security Unit, which holds the country’s most dangerous inmates.

They fear Al-Daour may have used it to contact other al-Qaeda terrorists and are scrutinising calls he made… “Prisoners are strip-searched when they enter and leave. The fear is a corrupt member of staff got the phone in.”… Al-Daour’s laptop was seized at the South London jail in May. He refused to hand it over, sparking a vicious riot in which four officers were battered with pool cues by Al-Daour and other al-Qaeda prisoners.


Exit question: Who would have smuggled in a cell phone to a suspected cyberjihadi? Hmm.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islam; jihad

1 posted on 07/14/2007 12:25:22 PM PDT by pacelvi
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To: pacelvi
If they had half a brain, they would have set the jihadi up with a heavily rigged laptop with a sniffer, a keylogger, and several backdoors... and then let him “have at it”. The information they would have gained would have been worth 10 times it’s weight in gold.
2 posted on 07/14/2007 1:02:35 PM PDT by xcamel ("It's Talk Thompson Time!" >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
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To: xcamel

maybe they did we can always hope


3 posted on 07/14/2007 1:05:34 PM PDT by camas
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To: pacelvi
Al-Daour’s laptop was seized at the South London jail ... four officers were battered with pool cues ...

Ain't no way you could make this stuff up.

4 posted on 07/14/2007 1:05:56 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid...even by congressional standards.)
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To: pacelvi
a vicious riot in which four officers were battered with pool cues by Al-Daour and other al-Qaeda prisoners.

I want to know which moron thought giving these creeps pool cues was a good idea.

L

5 posted on 07/14/2007 1:06:13 PM PDT by Lurker (Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing small pox to ebola.)
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To: Lurker

The pool tables were down by the swimming pool and outdoor theaters. The riot broke out because the guards used the wrong barbeque sauce on the steaks..


6 posted on 07/14/2007 1:09:54 PM PDT by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem in the name of the G-d of Jacob)
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To: RobinOfKingston
Al-Daour’s laptop was seized at the South London jail ... four officers were battered with pool cues ...
Ain't no way you could make this stuff up.
No, you can't. If this was written into a movie it would be laughed at as ridiculous.
7 posted on 07/14/2007 1:15:00 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: richardtavor

LOL!!


8 posted on 07/14/2007 1:21:28 PM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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To: Lurker

it’s amazing isn’t it.

this is supposed to be a supermax type prison and the prisoners have laptops and get to play pool.


9 posted on 07/14/2007 1:26:36 PM PDT by pacelvi
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