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Moderate Muslim head of UK TV channel held on terror claims
(UPI) via JIHAD WATCH.org ^ | January 26, 2010 | n/a
Posted on January 27, 2010 12:12:51 AM PST by Cindy

“Moderate Muslim head of UK TV channel held on terror claims”

“U.K. Islamic TV head held on terror claims,” from UPI, January 26 (thanks to Block Ness):

SNIPPET: “PRETORIA, South Africa, Jan. 26 (UPI) — The head of Britain’s popular Muslim television station was arrested in South Africa and faces deportation to Tunisia on terrorism claims, officials said.

Mohamed Ali Harrath, the force behind Britain’s Islam Channel, was arrested Sunday in what some said was a security clampdown in South Africa in the months leading up to the 2010 World Cup soccer championship, The Times of London reported Tuesday.”

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Qaeda Group Threatens to Attack World Cup
CBS NEWS.com ^ | April 7, 2009, 2:38 pm ET - Updated | Posted by Khaled Wassef
Posted on April 7, 2010 7:08:59 PM PDT by Cindy

SNIPPET: “The North African terror group al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has threatened to attack this summer’s World Cup games in South Africa.

“How amazing could the match United States vs. Britain be when broadcasted live on air at a stadium packed with spectators when the sound of an explosion rumbles through the stands, the whole stadium is turned upside down and the number of dead bodies are in their dozens and hundreds, Allah willing,” reads a statement the group published in a recent issue of the Jihadi online magazine Mushtaqun Lel Jannah (Longing to Paradise).”

SNIPPET: “In addition to the U.S. and U.K. teams, the teams representing France, Germany and Italy are also on the group’s list of targets.

“All those countries are part of the Zionist-Crusader campaign against Islam,” the statement says.

The group says they will use some undetectable explosive that will be able to circumvent security checkpoints at the games.”

SNIPPET: “South Africa had announced last October that its security forces had foiled an al Qaeda plot to carry out a terrorist attack during the 2010 football World Cup. According to reports published then, South Africa’s National Intelligence Agency, senior police forces and American agents jointly conducted the operation, which led to the arrest of a number of suspects linked to the group in Somalia and Mozambique working on a plot to carry out bomb attacks during the games.”

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http://denmark.worldcupblog.org/south-africa-2010/oh-ffs-olsens-elleve-targeted-in-terrorism-plot.html

“Oh FFS, Olsen’s Elleve targeted in terrorism plot”
May 18th, 2010 | by: Cerberus | No Comments »

SNIPPET: “The goal was to first target the Denmark-Netherlands game and to try and attack the Danish and Dutch teams and their fans to “get revenge” for the “insults” to the Prophet Muhammed and that the attack was to be carried out using firearms and car bombs.

It is not fully clear whether or not al-Queda really has the resources to pull off this attack so far away from their base of operations or even if the current plans have been approved yet by top Al-Queda operatives.

Of course, the recent attempt in Times Square might suggest that there still might be someone incompetent and dumb enough to try an attack anyways.
However, Danish, American, and Iraqi authorities are already communicating with South African police and authorities and they are remaining on stand-by until they receive further information from the Iraqi authorities.

FIFA has yet to make a statement regarding the case.”