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Investigators are trying to determine whether a San Diego sailor passed Navy secrets about security weaknesses and warship movements to a British man accused of having terrorist links, according to court documents unsealed yesterday. E-mail messages from the unnamed sailor, sent in late 2000 and 2001 before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, were found in December in computer files belonging to Babar Ahmad, who was detained Wednesday in London, according to the 31-page arrest affidavit. The computer files contained details about security arrangements and movements of the San Diego-based Constellation carrier battle group, which included the destroyer Benfold, on which...

From Gloucester to Afghanistan: the making of a shoe bomber Saajid Badat this week pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up a plane. What drove this quiet football fan to thoughts of terror? Mark Honigsbaum and Vikram Dodd Saturday March 5, 2005 The Guardian He seemed the model British Muslim citizen - a poster boy for integration whose knowledge of the Qu'ran and achievement at grammar school made Gloucester's close-knit Islamic community proud. When in November 2003 anti-terrorist police turned up at the terraced house in the Barton and Tredworth district of the city that Saajid Badat shared with his...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified Monday that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House. Moussaoui's testimony on his own behalf stunned the courtroom as he disclosed details he had never revealed before. It was in stark contrast to Moussaoui's previous statements in which he said the White House attack was to come later if the United States refused to release a radical Egyptian sheik imprisoned on earlier terrorist convictions. Moussaoui testified Monday he lied to investigators when arrested...

SNIPPET: "NEW YORK — A jury convicted a Lebanese-born Swede on Tuesday of plotting to help Al Qaeda recruit by trying to set up a weapons-training post in Oregon and distributing terrorist training manuals over the Internet. The verdict against Oussama Kassir..."

Chemical Warning: Bodies In London Hotel Two people have been found dead in a hotel room after a chemical incident, emergency services said. Police and fire services were called to the Seven Sisters Road in Finsbury Park, north London just before midday. The hotel has been evacuated. A spokeswoman for London Fire Brigade said: "We are treating this as a confirmed chemical incident. The hotel has been evacuated and cordon implemented." She said the substance involved was not known at this stage. The bodies are still at the scene, police said. A Met police spokeswoman said: "Police were called at...

A 21-year-old citizen of Chad who has been held for seven years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba must be released, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said the government had not proven that Mohammed el Gharani was an enemy combatant and the detainee must be freed and sent home soon either to Saudi Arabia, where he was raised and his family lives, or Chad. Leon's ruling comes just before President-elect Barack Obama, who has vowed to close the prison camp, takes office on Tuesday. Since Obama's election in November, federal...

American counter-terrorism chiefs are demanding a full explanation from Britain of how radical cleric Abu Hamza was able to smuggle murderous messages from his UK prison cell to Al Qaeda's deputy leader. The major diplomatic row comes in the wake of a long-running battle by US prosecutors to extradite the former imam of London's Finsbury Park mosque to stand trial in America. Hook-handed Hamza was jailed for seven years in Britain in 2006 for inciting murder and racial hatred and is held at Belmarsh prison, South-East London, supposedly one of Britain's most secure jails. Jail mail: Hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza...

LONDON (Reuters) - A British court ruled Thursday that radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri could be extradited to the United States to face terrorism charges including trying to set up an al Qaeda training camp in Oregon. Egyptian-born Hamza, 49, serving a seven-year jail term in Britain for inciting his followers to murder nonbelievers, is wanted by U.S. authorities on 11 charges. The U.S. indictment accuses Hamza -- who had a hook in place of a missing hand -- of attempting to set up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon, from 1999 to early 2000, and also providing...

Finsbury Park: Inside the British Jihad [Killing non Muslims for no reason & restore the Caliphate] http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3205&cid=3&sid=74 Pratik Chougule - 8/4/2007 Stepping off the subway at Finsbury Park, the change in scenery could not have been more acute. Just an hour earlier, I had been awed by the grandeur of Big Ben, towering over the British Houses of Parliament. It is the symbol of the England in our history books: a beacon of liberty, tolerance, and stability. Finsbury Park is different. Small shops and ragged apartments line the streets of this working class area of North London. More pronounced than...

"A 39-year-old Swede accused of terrorism by the United States has been arrested in Prague, Swedish tabloid Expressen reported on Tuesday. The man, who was not identified, is wanted by the US CIA spy agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which accuse him of being terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden's "man in Sweden", Expressen wrote. The US has tried to obtain his extradition for several years, accusing him of setting up Al Qaeda training camps in the US state of Oregon in 1999, but Sweden has refused to hand him over, the paper said. The man was on a...

At six feet four inches tall, Richard Reid makes a forbidding figure, even from behind the iron grates, steel doors and automated locks that separate him from his prison guards in this place they call Terrorist Central. Richard Reed after his arrest (Richard Reid) Held in darkness and paranoiaHunched on a stool that is moulded to the floor of his broom-cupboard-sized cell, he turns the pages of the newspaper spread out on the concrete desk before him, soaking up stories and pictures from an outside world that he will never see again. "Do you need anything today?" a prison guard...

LONDON - Four men arrested on suspicion of organizing terrorist training camps in Britain were tracked by Spanish investigators earlier this year as they traveled through Spain from France en route to North Africa, officials said Monday. The statement from Spain's interior ministry was the first public indication of an international link to the probe, which led to the arrests late Friday and early Saturday of 14 people suspected of training and recruiting for terror attacks. British prosecutors, meanwhile, said eight other people allegedly involved in a separate plot to blow up U.S.-bound aircraft are unlikely to be brought to...

BRITAIN has resorted to detaining as an illegal immigrant a man regarded as one of al-Qaeda’s most dangerous terrorists. Abu Doha, whose various aliases include “The Doctor”, has been in Belmarsh highsecurity jail for almost six years facing extradition to the United States on charges of running a jihad training camp in Afghanistan and plotting to blow up Los Angeles airport. But the US has been forced to drop the case against him after an informer refused to give evidence. A British judge described the extremist network created by Abu Doha as “one of the most significant groups of terrorists...

For those that seem to find excuses for Islamic Jihad massacre on US? Why would they bomb British (before Iraq war) ?Al-Qaeda 'planned more attacks' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1694918.stm The Indian authorities say a man arrested on suspicion of being linked to Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network has confessed to planning suicide attacks in Britain, Australia and India. http://www.beatlelinks.net/forums/showthread.php?t=13104 Al Qaeda planned attack on London (Sep 2001) Al-Qaeda planned to attack Heathrow airport - SpecialsWarOnTerror http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/28/1080412234118.html?from=storyrhs ... interrogation also revealed that al-Qaeda had originally planned to hijack 10 planes in the September 11 attacks, sending five against targets on the US ... London...

A collection of 9/11 tributes I’ll add to the list below, and if you have any you’d like to add to this (or any other sort of tribute/remembrance), please do so here. Either leave a comment with the link, or link to this post and send a trackback. 9/11: The 5th Year Anniversary Tribute Blood of Heroes September 11th, Uncensored From Brain Terminal: Crystal Morning: September 11th, 2001 From William Teach: 9/11 Plus 5 From Crusader: WTC Tribute More from YouTube: 911 tribute September 11th - Five Years Later: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 September 11th - Flash...

BRITISH police investigating a terror plot by Islamic saboteurs have found chemical warfare protection suits in a north London mosque. The discovery has shocked detectives, who believe the find confirms supporters of Osama bin Laden were planning a poison attack on civilian targets in Britain. Scotland Yard and MI5 detectives had kept the discovery of the nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) suits secret. They feared disclosing it would spark panic. Government ministers have warned any suggestion that the Finsbury Park mosque had been involved would have worrying racist overtones. Police initially revealed they had seized a cache of weapons, including...

Dad is a coward, a hypocrite and he deserves to rot in jail By Rajeev Syal In an exclusive interview, Donna Traverso tells The Times about the man who tore her family apart SHE knew him simply as Dad, a kindly presence in her life who would tell her that she was “his little girl” as she nestled in his muscular arms. Now Donna Traverso, 25, despises her former stepfather Abu Hamza al-Masri for shattering her family and abandoning her at the age of 5. In her first interview, she tells The Times how the Egyptian disappeared with her beloved...

The man who from safe and agreeably leafy north London suburbia offered his continual support to suicide bombers and refused to condemn the attacks of 9/11 and July 7, all the while ranting against the perfidies of western civilisation and its infidel cockroach minions, now wishes to return to the bosom of Satan as quickly as possible.

AFTER 9/11 plotter Zacarias Mous saoui was sentenced to life im prisonment, his family blamed - the British. Their son had had first arrived in London in the 1990s for an MA course in international business studies - and been radicalized and recruited for jihad at London's Finsbury Park mosque.

LONDON - A British jury convicted radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri on Tuesday of fomenting racial hatred and inciting his followers to kill non-Muslims. Al-Masri, 47, the former imam at London's Finsbury Park mosque, also was convicted of possessing a terrorist document and threatening or abusive recordings. Al-Masri, Britain's best-known Islamist orator, could receive a maximum sentence of life in prison. The jury of seven men and five women found al-Masri guilty on seven of nine charges of soliciting murder. He also was convicted on two of four charges of stirring racial hatred. Though asked to stand for the...

Mosque raid findings revealed As Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri is convicted of race hate crimes, police have revealed the details of a raid on north London's Finsbury Park Mosque in 2003. See items seized in the raid on Finsbury Park mosque in 2003 In pictures The Metropolitan Police faced criticism from some Muslim leaders when they took the controversial step of raiding the mosque in the early hours of 20 January 2003. But, after uncovering equipment which detectives believe may have been used in UK-based terror camps, senior officers believe their action was justified. Dozens of officers in...

A radical British imam was stockpiling protection gear for a weapons of mass destruction attack in a notorious North London mosque, British police revealed on Wednesday. London authorities told Reuters that the discovery of the WMD-gear actually happened in 2003, but could not be disclosed until Tuesday, after Abu Hamza al Masri was convicted of 11 charges related to terrorism - including soliciting murder and possessing a terrorist training manual. Hamza preached jihad at the notorious Finsbury Park mosque, where convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid and alleged 20th 9/11 hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui both worshipped. According to Reuters, 150 police staged...

Glen Jenvey worked for several military attachés covering terrorist groups, including al-Qaida and their members in Britain. His stings led to the capture of Abu Hamza al-Masri, a major terrorist and multiple other terrorists. He has been profiled and interviewed in major media across the globe, including in the US, UK, Russia, India, etc. Neil Doyle wrote a book entitled "Terror Tracker" about Mr. Jenvey. ... Glen Jenvey: The group is linked directly to terrorists associated with Abu Hamza, who's in jail due in large part to my efforts for British intelligence. The group is also tied to other clerics...

As Londoners recover from bombing attacks that left 50 people dead and 1,000 wounded yesterday, suspicion is focusing on a radical Muslim cleric who urged his flock to commit suicide bombing attacks in Britain and preached anti-Semitic hate from his mosque in Finsbury Park. Abu Hamza al-Masri went on trial in London this week, charged by British officials with incitement to murder and other terrorist offenses. But the activities of his followers - like convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid and the so-called 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui - suggest that Hamza's rhetoric may have helped spur new attacks. For years before...

A KEY al-Qaeda operative responsible for recruiting the shoe bomber Richard Reid and one of the September 11 hijackers helped to kidnap five British children from their Norwich home and take them to Libya, a court was told yesterday. Djamel Beghal, 39, is serving ten years in a French prison for plotting a suicide attack on the US Embassy in Paris and was described as so dangerous that even other al-Qaeda members thought him beyond the pale. While he was living in Leicester in the late 1990s Beghal, an Algerian, met Azzedin Journazi, from Libya, at a city mosque and...

Hamas link to London mosqueNick Fielding and Abul Taher, February 13, 2005 A MUSLIM leader appointed to help to run the recently reopened Finsbury Park mosque in north London is a former military commander of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organisation. Mohammed Kassem Sawalha is one of five trustees appointed to give the mosque a fresh start. The mosque was closed last year after becoming a centre of Islamic militancy under Abu Hamza al-Masri, the radical cleric facing charges in Britain and America. Sawalha’s link with Hamas emerged after he was named as a co-conspirator in an American court case involving...

Furious Muslims turn on Finsbury Park cleric By Justine Smith And Bobby Pathak THE hate preacher exposed in yesterday's Mirror has been kicked out of Finsbury Park mosque by outraged moderate Muslims. Ranting Abu Abdullah agreed to leave after being confronted by community leaders, who were backed by riot police. Earlier, the cleric was chased out of another mosque and attacked by worshippers when he tried to hijack a prayer meeting. Abdullah took over Friday prayers at Finsbury Park from hook-handed Abu Hamza, who is in jail awaiting trial on charges including soliciting murder. Appalled by his venom, peace-loving Muslims...

Muslim women should breed children to become suicide bombers, according to lecture given by the radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri. Hamza, who has been indicted by the US on 11 terrorism charges, makes the plea on an audio tape that has been circulating among his followers. The tape is currently being studied as part of the legal attempt to extradite Hamza to the US. On the recording, Hamza refers to a suicide bombing in Israel and says: "Last week we seen a mother...she put happiness in the hearts of every Muslim on earth and for years to come. "She...

Right-wingers and Muslims clash 2.49PM, Fri Jun 4 2004 Right-wing protesters waving Union Jack flags clashed with police and Muslims during Friday prayers outside a London mosque. Around 20 men, claiming to be from a group called the United British Alliance jeered and shouted anti-Muslim slogans from behind fences set up by police outside the Finsbury Park mosque. There were scuffles after a few protesters seemed to infiltrate the street in which prayers were being held, outside the north London mosque where radical cleric Abu Hamza was based before his arrest. The clashes were quickly broken up, and prayers were...

Muslim cleric inspires anger, awe in Britain BY MATTHEW MCALLESTER STAFF CORRESPONDENT May 11, 2004 LONDON -- Death was on Abu Hamza's mind. "Seek the way of death, try to do actions that subject you to death," the Muslim cleric told his audience, mostly young men, as they sat at Friday prayers. "If you die to defend your religion, you are a martyr. ... Die honorably, don't die humiliated." This was not Gaza or Fallujah. This was Finsbury Park in north London, on a road outside a mosque that was raided by anti-terrorism police over a year ago and has...

May. 2, 2004. 04:57 AM RANDY QUAN FOR THE TORONTO STAR A masked member of Abu Hamza al-Masri?s entourage keeps an eye on media and police observing the radical cleric?s incendiary Friday sermon on the street outside the shut-down Finsbury Park mosque. Jihad in LondonMuslims fear backlash as police intensify crackdown to thwart `inevitable' terrorist strike in Britain Radical cleric p SANDRO CONTENTALONDON?On Fridays, in front of north London's Finsbury Park mosque, what begins as a call to prayer ends up sounding like a battle cry to jihad, or holy war.A hooded muezzin calls out in the middle of the...

U.S. allows Muslim 'fox in the henhouse' Guest panelist threatened America, openly supported terror groups Posted: March 20, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: WorldNetDaily is pleased to have a content-sharing agreement with Insight magazine, the bold Washington publication not afraid to ruffle establishment feathers. Subscribe to Insight at WorldNetDaily's online store and save 71 percent off the cover price. By Kenneth R. Timmerman © 2004 Insight/News World Communications Inc. The congressionally funded United States Institute of Peace hosted an event yesterday in Washington on reforming Islam, with a guest panelist who has threatened the United States and openly supported...

Madrid bomb suspect linked to UK extremists Richard Norton-Taylor and Rosie Cowan Wednesday March 17, 2004 The Guardian (UK) The Metropolitan police and security services were last night investigating links between a prime suspect in the Madrid bombings and Islamist extremists in London. A senior police source told the Guardian there were definite links between terrorists in the two cities. Intelligence officers also believe that Jamal Zougam, arrested by Spanish police in connection with the bombings, has contacts with a number of individuals of north African origin who are at large in the UK. "It is known there are well-established...

London al Qaeda link By Patrick Sawer and Hugh Dougherty, Evening Standard 15 March 2004 A London man is to be questioned over suspicions that he played a key role in the Madrid bombings. Abu Qatada is described as Osama bin Laden's "ambassador" in Europe and is regarded as one of the most dangerous Islamic terrorist leaders being held in Britain. He is said to be connected to one of the men held over the Spanish train bombings which left 200 dead. Anti-terror police will quiz the cleric, who is being held at Belmarsh prison, about his links with that...

Abu Hamza, the militant, London-based Muslim cleric, maintained close contact with the leadership of al-Qa'eda during the years when it operated a worldwide terrorist network from Afghanistan, according to FBI files. Documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph state that Hamza, the former imam of Finsbury Park mosque, north London, dealt personally with Abu Zubeidah, Osama bin Laden's director of operations. Zubeidah, a Palestinian who is now in US custody, communicated bin Laden's instructions and messages from his hideout in Afghanistan to al-Qa'eda cells around the world. Hamza had the power to refer recruits to Zubeidah for "leadership training" in Afghan...

Named as Godfather of world terrorism, Abu Qatada, a radical Islamic cleric granted asylum and getting for years £1000 per month benefit from the British government, was named on Tuesday of being directly involved in inspiring September 11 attacks in the US. It was also alleged that he has had direct links with Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organisations spread across the world. Eighteen videos of his sermons at North Finsbury Park mosque, considered a hotbed of fundamentalist activities and raided by the police some time ago, were found in the flat in Hamburg where three of the September 11 hijackers...

Report: Sheikh Abu Hamza to appeal expulsion from UK Until his suspension by the Charity Commission last April, Sheikh Abu Hamza preached at Londond's notorious Finsbury Park mosque. Home Secretary David Blunkett then withdrew Hamza's British citizenship under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002. But his solicitors, Arani & Co., have confirmed that he has launched an appeal against his deportation, the BBC reports. "Every right-minded person in Britain will be outraged at the thought of taxpayers' money being spent on Hamza's legal battle," British shadow home secretary Oliver Letwin said. "He is a man who clearly has no...

Sheikh Abu Hamza, the extremist Muslim cleric, is facing imminent arrest on a US extradition warrant after a former close associate pleaded guilty to helping the Taliban. Hamza claimed yesterday that James Ujaama, an American convert to Islam, had been coerced into giving evidence against him that would lead to "a gross miscarriage of justice". Ujaama, 37, who ran Hamza's website and worshipped at his Finsbury Park mosque in north London, has struck a plea bargain agreement to give evidence against Hamza on terrorist allegations. He has already supplied the US authorities, who have designated Hamza as a key al-Qa'eda...

Abu Hamza, the controversial Muslim cleric, could be stripped of his British citizenship under laws that took effect yesterday. Ministers now have powers to deprive dual nationals of their British nationality if they behave in a way that is "seriously prejudicial" to the UK's vital interest. It is also possible to remove citizenship if it was acquired by deception. David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, is under pressure from MPs to act against Hamza, who was banned last month from preaching at Finsbury Park mosque in north London. He was accused by the Charity Commission of using his position of imam...

Two sons of Muslim cleric Abu Hamza have been arrested after they were allegedly spotted climbing over the wall of Finsbury Park mosque. The cleric's 16-year-old and 20-year-old sons were held on suspicion of attempted burglary after the incident. Mr Hamza has been banned by the Charity Commission from speaking at the controversial mosque, which is currently shut down. Two policemen were allegedly injured after intervening in the incident, which involved four men.

Armed police stormed the notorious Finsbury Park mosque today claiming it is a centre for terrorist activity. About 150 police with battering rams and ladders raided the building and neighbouring houses at 2am. Seven men sleeping inside were seized, as Scotland Yard issued a statement linking the mosque with the recent suspected ricin terror plot in north London. You were given fair warning, you idiots. Since you refuse to live by our rules, the truncheon is going to come down on you. - Ivan Police said six of those held were north African men, believed to be Algerian, aged between...

The radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza faces expulsion within days from the London mosque he has made a focal point for Islamic fundamentalism. The Charity Commission is preparing to use its banning powers under the Charities Act to end Hamza's occupation of Finsbury Park mosque, a registered charity. Hamza, an Egyptian-born engineer who lost both hands and an eye tackling a mine in Afghanistan, has become one of the most controversial figures in the British Muslim community. He and his supporters have taken control of the North London Central Mosque Trust. The mosque is alleged to be a meeting place...

Six men have been charged in the United States with helping Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network. They include an American citizen who allegedly tried to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon. A federal grand jury in Seattle indicted Earnest James Ujaama, a well-known Islamic activist, for conspiring to set up the camp and promote "violent jihad", or holy war, against the US. Reports claimed Ujaama, 36, was once renowned for his work with the poor. His contribution was so highly regarded that Washington state declared June 10, 1994, 'James Ujaama Day'. Suspects He was born James...