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A RADICAL Muslim group sparked outrage last night as it launched a massive campaign to impose sharia law on Britain. The fanatical group Islam4UK has ­announced plans to hold a potentially ­incendiary rally in London later this month. And it is calling for a complete upheaval of the British legal system, its officials and ­legislation. Members have urged Muslims from all over Britain to converge on the capital on October 31 for a procession to demand the full implementation of sharia law. The procession – dubbed March 4 Shari’ah – will start at the House of Commons, which the group’s...

An attempted terrorist attack in Britain over the Christmas period is "highly likely", the Home Secretary said today.John Reid said that around 30 conspiracies were under preparation, and the current threat level was "very high indeed". He told GMTV Sunday that he did not think it an attack was inevitable, but that "the terrorists only have to get through once, as they did on July 7, for us to see the terrible carnage that it causes". "Our security services have to be successful on every occasion to prevent that happening," he said. "I try to walk the tightrope between being...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- The British government is considering a system of passenger profiling that includes checks on travelers' ethnic or religious background, according to media reports. The planned system of tougher airport checks would create a new offense of "traveling whilst Asian," according to one of Britain's most senior Muslim police officers. Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent Ali Dizaei said intelligence could be used to examine travel history, how a ticket is purchased and frequency of travel, but added: "It becomes hugely problematic when it's based on ethnicity, religion and country of origin. I don't think there's a stereotypical image...

Excerpt - The airline terror plot to blow up at least seven transatlantic jets was intended to mark the fifth anniversary of September 11, intelligence sources have revealed. But it was not executed because its alleged conspirators were too 'inexperienced' to carry it out. The claims, by senior Pakistani security officials, came as Scotland Yard requested more time to question 23 of the 24 suspects arrested since last week. The officials also alleged that many of those held learnt how to handle weapons and bomb-making training by reading textbooks. A highly placed source said: 'Look at their ages ... their...

Twisted young British parents planned to sacrifice their precious baby in the evil cause of jihad by mass murder. Fanatical terror suspect Abdula Ahmed Ali, 25, and his wife, Cossor, 23, are among those being interrogated by police as suspects in the massive plot to attack trans-Atlantic flights in midair. What the outwardly normal couple had secretly plotted is almost too horrifying to consider, cops said. The Alis planned to use 6-month-old son Zain's baby bottle as a liquid bomb, blowing themselves and their child up, along with hundreds of others aboard the flight. [snip] To their stunned friends and...

I just heard about 45 minutes ago, on abc WTVD-TV Raleigh/Durham, channel 11 that one of the terrorists was employeed at Heathrow and had an "all access" pass, presumably at that airport. Has anyone else heard this?

MUSLIM students training to be imams at a British college with strong Iranian links have complained that they are being taught fundamentalist doctrines which describe nonMuslims as “filth”. The Times has obtained extracts from medieval texts taught to the students in which unbelievers are likened to pigs and dogs. The texts are taught at the Hawza Ilmiyya of London, a religious school, which has a sister institution, the Islamic College for Advanced Studies (ICAS), which offers a degree validated by Middlesex University. The students, who have asked to remain anonymous, study their religious courses alongside the university-backed BA in Islamic...

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...

LONDON (AP) -- Terrorists tried to attack London eight times between the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States and last July 7, when suicide bombers killed dozens on the city's transport system, London's mayor said Monday. Ken Livingstone said there had been two attempted attacks since July 7, including a failed attack on the transport network on July 21. Livingstone did not provide details of the attempted attacks, but said those who threaten London comprise small groups of disaffected people who are fairly disorganized.

THE UNSMILING GIRL in the black hijab defined her identity thus: “I am a Muslim of Arab origin, living within British society.” Hadil, 18, could not attend a more racially integrated school than Quintin Kynaston in West London where, according to its Ofsted report, “the wealth of cultures and faiths is valued, respected and appreciated”. Hadil, along with a number of fellow pupils, had taken part in a documentary called Young, British and Muslim and here she was up on stage, giving her views to an audience at the National Film Theatre. Yet in reply to the question “Do you...

ADVISERS appointed by Tony Blair after the London bombings are proposing to scrap the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day because it is regarded as offensive to Muslims. They want to replace it with a Genocide Day that would recognise the mass murder of Muslims in Palestine, Chechnya and Bosnia as well as people of other faiths. The draft proposals have been prepared by committees appointed by Blair to tackle extremism. He has promised to respond to the plans, but the threat to the Holocaust Day has provoked a fierce backlash from the Jewish community. Holocaust Day was established by Blair...

LONDON (Reuters) - Militant Islamists will continue to attack Britain until the government pulls its troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, one of the country's most outspoken Islamic clerics said on Friday. Speaking 15 days after bombers killed over 50 people in London and a day after a series of failed attacks on the city's transport network, Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed said the British capital should expect more violence. "What happened yesterday confirmed that as long as the cause and the root problem is still there ... we will see the same effect we saw on July 7," Bakri said....

Police have named two of the suspects they believe were responsible for failed bomb attacks in London on Thursday. Anti-terror bosses believe 27-year-old Muktar Said Ibraihim may have tried to set off a bomb on the number 26 bus in the Bank area. Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, is believed to have attempted to set off a similar bomb on the Victoria Line near Warren Street station. Polcie think the bombers may be preparing to strike again while being harboured at safe houses in the capital. Senior officers said there was no indication they had fled Britain after the failure of...

The following letter was sent by a Baptist Minister to the head of the 'moderate' Muslim Council of Britain a few days ago in the wake of the terror campaign on London transport. Dear Sir Iqbal Sacranie, BBC2 NewsNight: ‘The teachings of Islam are very, very clear.’ I was very surprised to hear your public statement before the whole nation, which would therefore include Her Majesty’s Government and the Church, that the teachings of Islam condemn and forbid acts of violence such as the odious acts that were carried out last Thursday. I would, as a community leader, find it...

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THis is the kind of brain Numbing stupidity we have to combat... THE uncle of suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer last night told the News of the World the 22-year-old's murderous act did not make him a terrorist. In a searingly frank and shocking exclusive interview, Bashir Ahmed claimed Tanweer was a "desperate" young man "driven" to commit the atrocity by the West's treatment of Muslims. And he BLAMED Tony Blair and George Bush for the July 7 bombings, warning: "There will be more." "These (suicide bombers) are desperate people," said Ahmed. "They can see that their brothers are not getting...

I print below an email message I have received from a Muslim. I do so because I believe this writer to be expressing views shared by many, if not most, mainstream Muslims in Britain, the kind who would be utterly horrified by terrorism and are therefore considered to be ‘moderate’. 'I am a Muslim and a regular reader of the Daily Mail. I much enjoy reading your columns. Today, on the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Serbia, I ponder to think what on Earth lead to such hatred against a minority group. What twisted mind...

The critical breakthrough in the hunt for the London bombers came on Monday night in a police video viewing suite. Detectives involved in watching thousands of hours of film for glimpses of the terrorists had been given a "profile" based on a simple question posed for their guidance by senior officers. The question was: what would the terrorists look like? The answer was that they would be young men, probably in their 20s and 30s, and they would be carrying rucksacks. At 8pm on Monday, on footage from a camera at King's Cross station in central London, officers found images...

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...

No Confidence from the Bad Eagle Journal London was attacked today by murderers. July 7, 2005, the media spins the story with the usual politically correct misnomers, such as "terrorists, "suicide bombers," "Islamic extremists" (or just "religious" extremists), instead of calling them what they are--demonic murderers. These evil killers, these grotesque misanthropes, these satanic slaughterers, get a nominal press pass every time, no matter whom, where, when, or how many innocents they kill. Why, it's not slaughter, it's "terrorism." Emergence services carry a woman into an ambulance at Kings Cross Train Station after multiple explosions rocked the capital in London,...

News Releases Thursday, July 07, 2005 CAIR Condemns 'Barbaric' London Terror Attacks (WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/7/05) - A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today condemned this morning's bomb attacks in London as "barbaric crimes." In its statement, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said: "We join Americans of all faiths, and all people of conscience worldwide, in condemning these barbaric crimes that can never be justified or excused. American Muslims offer their sincere condolences to the loved ones of those who were killed or injured in today's attacks and call for the swift apprehension and punishment of...

Tony Blair on Thursday united with the leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations and the world’s big five emerging economies to condemn the London bombings. The prime minister said they were “not an attack on one nation but on all nations and on civilised people everywhere”. In a declaration delivered before all the world leaders gathered in Gleneagles for the G8 summit, Mr Blair said that “all of our countries have suffered from the impact of terrorism”. Flanked by George W. Bush, the US president, on one side and Jacques Chirac, the French president, on the other, the...

Fifty people died and 300 were wounded in Thursday's bomb attacks in London, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy quoted British Home Secretary Charles Clarke as telling him. "I've spoken to the British interior minister twice today, the last time half an hour ago. He told me that the provisional toll was 50 dead, 300 wounded, including 50 very seriously," Sarkozy said on France 2 television.

ISNA Condemns the Terrorist Attacks in London 07- 7-05 10:42 ISNA July 7, 2005 Plainfield, Indiana- We note with deep sadness the unfortunate events of this morning in London, England. We condemn such acts of mindless violence that violate the standards of Islam, as well as, of all faiths. It is regrettable to note that a short-lived website has allegedly claimed responsibility for this reprehensible act and that website purported to link itself with a so-called Muslim group. Such a situation does not bode well for Britain's Muslims who maintain positive relations with their government and are active participants in...

VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday he deplored the “terrorist attacks” in London, calling them “barbaric acts against humanity,” and said he was praying for the families of the victims. In a telegram sent to Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, archbishop of Westminster, Benedict said he was deeply saddened to learn of the news and was spiritually close to all those who were grieving. “Deeply saddened by the news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his fervent prayers for the victims and for all those who mourn,” the telegram said. “While he deplores these...

Accounts from people who witnessed the explosions in central London today.. ..."I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double-decker bus was in the air ... It was a massive explosion and there were papers and half a bus flying through the air...

Wall Street manages to eke out gains and European bourses trim sharp losses seen after London explosions. Experts say investors are starting to focus on fundamentals again. Oil falls after a wild morning of trading. If there's a word for stock markets today, it's "resilience." One word that doesn't apply is "panic." A series of explosions in the London subway system and a blast that destroyed a double-decker bus left at least 37 dead and 700 injured, MSNBC.com reported. But while the explosions, described by Prime Minister Tony Blair as an apparent terrorist attack, scared investors at first, equity markets...

(Go to original article for highlighted links, eg. MetroBlogging London, and others, etc.) As journalists scrambled to cover the London bomb blasts, ordinary citizens went online to share pictures snapped by cameraphones and reports of what they saw. At Technorati.com, a search engine for blogs, eight of the top 10 searches Thursday were related to the blasts. Here's a round-up of the accounts and photos. Check back throughout the day for updates. The British newspaper The Guardian solicited firsthand accounts of the blasts from those who were there. Responses poured in from people like Matina Zoulia, who wrote, "As I...

Almost everywhere Londoners go in public, chances are they're being tracked by cameras. Now officials say the British capital's ubiquitous closed-circuit TV cameras may help police determine who was behind the attacks. Thousands of them watch the Underground system alone, and investigators have used the footage in the past to solve crimes. London's train stations are monitored by 1,800 cameras, and there are more than 6,000 watching the capital's Tube network. Cameras also have been installed on some London buses. On top of that, more and more people carry pocket-size digital cameras and camera phones, and some footage from such...

German newspaper editorialists reflect on the July 7 terrorist attacks in London, while looking back at March 11 and Sept. 11 and looking forward to the curbing of civil liberties the alleged al-Qaida attacks are expected to cause.Die Zeit is an influential weekly newspaper. "The attacks are getting closer. First, in the 1990s terrorist bombs exploded in Arabia, then in 2001 in New York and Washington, last year in Madrid and now in London. What's next? An attack on Germany at next year's World Cup soccer championships? German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is right: The attacks on London were also an...

LONDON — With England's capital city reeling from Thursday's terrorist attacks on its public transportation system, the focus turned to the hunt for who was responsible. An organization calling itself the "Secret Group of Al Qaeda's Jihad in Europe" (search) claimed it carried out the coordinated series of four explosions, three on the subway and one on a double-decker bus during the morning rush hour.

Home TV Radio Talk Where I Live A-Z Index Low Graphics version | Change edition Contact us | Help Printable version London bombings toll rises to 37 Passengers evacuate an underground train at Kings Cross (Photo: Alexander Chadwick) A series of bomb attacks on London's transport network has killed more than 30 people and injured about 700 others. Three explosions on the Underground left 35 dead and two more died in a blast on a double-decker bus. UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the bombings had "the hallmarks of an al-Qaeda-related attack". Prime Minister Tony Blair promised the "most intense police and...

The remains of a London bus destroyed by a bomb near Tavistock Square "My son flew in from London at the weekend, and we were discussing, as we have several times before, why it hadn't happened yet. "It" was the jihadist attack on the city, for which the British security forces have been braced ever since the bombings in Madrid. When the telephone rang in the small hours of this morning, I was pretty sure it was the call I had been waiting for. And as I snapped on the TV I could see, from the drawn expression and halting...

Four young British Muslims in their twenties - a social worker, an IT specialist, a security guard and a financial adviser - occupy a table at a fast-food chicken restaurant in Luton. Perched on their plastic chairs, wolfing down their dinner, they seem just ordinary young men. Yet out of their mouths pour heated words of revolution.

class=ar>WASHINGTON, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today condemned this morning's bomb attacks in London as "barbaric crimes."In its statement, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said:"We join Americans of all faiths, and all people of conscience worldwide, in condemning these barbaric crimes that can never be justified or excused. American Muslims offer their sincere condolences to the loved ones of those who were killed or injured in today's attacks and call for the swift apprehension and punishment of the perpetrators."The Muslim Council of Britain and other British Islamic groups issued similar...

London, 7 July (AKI) - Terrorism experts are analysing the claim of responsibility for Thursday's London bombings by a group claiming to be al-Qaeda's European arm. A formation calling itself the Group of the Secret Organisation of al-Qaeda in Europe issued a brief statement posted on the Internet saying it was behind the blasts. Some important Islamist forums, often used for the posting of terrorist group claims, have removed the message, asking members not to spread "this sort of false statement" and some subscribers have also judged it unreliable because of various grammatical and theological errors in the text. It...

A woman lights candles in front of the British Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 7, 2005 as Poles show their solidarity with the victims of terrorist attacks in London. A string of rush-hour explosions blamed on Islamic terrorists tore into at least three London subway trains and a double-decker bus on Thursday, killing more than 33 people and injuring about 390. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) People light candles in front of the British Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 7, 2005 as Poles show their solidarity with the victims of terrorist attacks in London. A string of rush-hour explosions blamed...

Muslim leaders have condemned the attacks on London and said they fear their communities could now fall prey to vigilante attacks. Muslim Association of Britain president Ahmed Sheikh said the attacks would make the Muslim community less safe. He said women in headscarves might be in particular danger and warned all Muslims to be especially vigilant. Muslim News editor Ahmed Versi noted one of London's biggest Muslim areas, around Aldgate, had been targeted. Mr Sheikh said the unique good relationship Muslims had with the government and society was threatened. "The person who did this was targeting along with wider British...

London: In the bloodiest terror attack in London in three decades, suspected Islamic militants on Thursday carried out coordinated blasts in underground stations and a bus killing more than 33 people and injuring nearly 300 of which 45 were serious. Sky television, however, said at least 45 people were killed in the explosions. Thirty three people died in the explosions at three stations and there were unspecified number of fatalities in the blast in the double-decker bus that ripped through its roof, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Metropolitan police, Brian Paddick, told a crowded press conference. A visibly shaken Prime Minister...

 The original, huge thread:   BLAST AT CITY TUBE STATION - SEVEN EXPLOSIONS AROUND LONDON     Live Media Links Here     NEWS UPDATE: London Bombing (Preliminary Facts and Figures)     Key points on the London blasts -- What's getting the biggest laugh is that these morons might actually think that a city that went thru the Blitz and the IRA campaign will EVER be defeated by a bunch of goat farmers.    London explosions: Blair statement     Blair vows terrorists won't win    Blasts fit al-Qaeda pattern: analysts    George Galloway: "Give in, Britain"    Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat...

July 07, 2005, 11:56 a.m. Inadequate Responses London is al Qaeda's "spiritual hub in the Western world." By Aaron Mannes With this morning's tragedy in London many experts have noted that if London, which has long faced the highly sophisticated terrorists of the IRA and numerous international terrorist organizations, can be struck by terror then every city is vulnerable. While Britain's domestic intelligence and counterterror capabilities are highly professional and have disrupted numerous terrorist plots, there have also been glaring deficiencies in Britain's strategies against Islamist terror. Just over a month ago, France's leading antiterrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere gave an...

Timeline of attacks in London. Times listed are local; London is five hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time. 8:51 a.m.: London Underground train explodes 100 yards into a tunnel outside Moorgate station in the financial district in east London. Seven killed. 8:56 a.m.: Explosion near the King's Cross station in north London. Twenty-one killed. 9:17 a.m.: Explosion near Edgware Road station. Five killed. 9:47 a.m.: Double-decker bus explodes near Tavistock Square. Undetermined number of fatalities. Source: London police.

Former Mayor of New York Rudolph Giuliani said the London terror strikes were an "eerie reminder" of 9/11 . Mr Giuliani, who led the Big Apple through the devastating attacks, said he was only yards away from the first explosion this morning, while on a visit to London. The politician said: "They are a very eerie reminder of September 11, I was right near Liverpool (St) station when the first bombing took place, so I could hear the sirens and then kept hearing reports of different bombing, in different parts of the city. "As we were walking through and driving...

(Washington, D.C.) This morning, the world learned of multiple terrorist attacks that have killed dozens of men and women in London and wounded hundreds more. National Libertarian Party Executive Director Joe Seehusen issued the following statement: "Today is not a day for politics or posturing. Instead we should focus our thoughts and prayers on the victims and their families. As the people of the United Kingdom mourned our losses on September 11th, we do the same for them today. Our hearts go out both to those who have lost loved ones today and to all of the victims who remain."...

London bombings toll rises to 37 Passengers evacuate an underground train at Kings Cross (Photo: Alexander Chadwick) A series of bomb attacks on London's transport network has killed more than 30 people and injured about 700 others.Three explosions on the Underground left 35 dead and two more died in a blast on a double-decker bus. UK Prime Minister Tony Blair promised the "most intense police and security service action to make sure we bring those responsible to justice". An Islamist website has posted a statement - purportedly from al-Qaeda - claiming it was behind the attacks. Mr Blair, who...

    Statement by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld on London Bombings             This morning, the civilized world watched with concern as the people of London saw the face of violence and brutality.  We offer our deepest sympathies to the families who have lost loved ones and to those who were wounded.              Too often the global struggle against violent extremists is discussed in a context that can distract from the harsh reality that its victims are innocent mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, and neighbors we see and work with every day.             Images from London have shown faces filled...

n full: Blair on bomb blasts Prime Minister Tony Blair has made two statements about the series of explosions in London on Thursday morning. Here are his statements in full: STATEMENT FROM DOWNING STREET, 1730 BST This is a terrible and tragic atrocity that has cost many innocent lives. I have just attended a meeting of the Government's emergency committee. I received a full report from the ministers and officials responsible. There will be an announcement made in respect of the various services, in particular we hope the Underground as far as is possible and rail and bus services are...

A British defense expert says Thursday's bombings in London were executed by at least 24 people and designed to mirror bombings last year in Madrid. While the city was still reeling from five subway blasts and three aboard buses, Michael Clarke, director of the Center for Defense Studies at King's College London, told The Guardian the attacks had obviously been well-planned. The fact that London was hit when the resources of the security forces were focused on the Group of Eight summit in Scotland indicated some clever thinking by terrorists, he said. He also noted the similarities to the attacks...

LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) - Deadly blasts in London drew shock and sympathy from Middle Eastern capitals on Thursday, some of them all too familiar with carnage on their own streets. "We've been experiencing terrorism for 30 years," said Samira Murr, a Lebanese teacher in her 50s, in Beirut. "It's like the Madrid bombings, like the 9/11 attacks. We feel we are not safe anywhere in the world any more." In Damascus, Syrian businessman Majed Ali said: "I really hope this is not the doing of an Arab or a Muslim because our values are 100 percent against this devilish...