http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/jihadineurope/ en-us Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:21:42 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415696/posts Six armed officers ­surround the privileged fanatic who had tried to turn himself into a human firebomb aboard Flight 253 to Detroit. A coat is draped around his legs. They were burnt when a package strapped to them caught fire as he tried to detonate it by injecting a liquid. The would-be suicide bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, lives in a ­£3million Regency flat in ­London’s West End. And it is from Mansfield Street that he is said to have planned the atrocity, which would have killed 277 fellow passengers and 11 crew. Many more people could also have died... Daily Express (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415696/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:21:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404912/posts Someone posted that original link broke, hence this repeat. “In a startling disclosure from an exchange at an East London mosque, Imam Abdul Makin and a leading Muslim lawyer have supported the killing and raping of non-Muslims, declaring all non-Muslims as guilty and subject to lethal abuse.” TownHall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404912/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:23:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404868/posts “In a startling disclosure from an exchange at an East London mosque, Imam Abdul Makin and a leading Muslim lawyer have supported the killing and raping of non-Muslims, declaring all non-Muslims as guilty and subject to lethal abuse.” TownHall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404868/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:25:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371753/posts The FBI this month arrested a second Chicago man allegedly involved in an international terrorist plot with Western European targets, the Tribune has learned. The man was taken into custody Oct. 3 before he boarded a flight at O'Hare International Airport to Philadelphia, the first stop on a trip to Pakistan, where he planned to meet people with known ties to terrorist organizations that have carried out fatal attacks that resulted in the deaths of U.S. citizens, a source said. He has not been charged. chicagotribune.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371753/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:30:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365012/posts I was in my office on the morning of July 7, 2005, the beginning of probably the most challenging three weeks in the history of Scotland Yard, working on a speech I was due to give to senior staff. I had been Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police for a little over five months of what was expected to be a five-year term. I had already been told of an incident on the London Underground - a 'power surge' - when Caroline Murdoch, my Chief of Staff, came in. 'There are reports of a bus blowing up,' she said. The two... Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365012/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:35:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355020/posts Special Dispatch - No. 2576 October 4, 2009 New Threat Message Warns: Al-Qaeda Will Attack Germany on a Sunday in October Introduction The Al-Falluja jihadist forum has posted a new threat message to Germany specifying that attacks will be carried out on one of the Sundays in October. It is titled "To the Infidel German Nation: We Bestow on You the Kindness, for the Third Time, of Specifying the Appointed Day!" The message, which is being heavily promoted by Al-Falluja, is the latest in a series of threats to appear on the forum [1] following the release of Al-Qaeda videos... MEMRI.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355020/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:02:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349283/posts Travel Alert U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs This information is current as of today, Sun Sep 27 2009 02:36:27 GMT-0700 (PDT). Germany September 23, 2009 The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens that Al Qaeda has threatened it will conduct terrorist attacks in Germany immediately prior to and following the federal elections on September 27. This Travel Alert expires on November 11, 2009. Al Qaeda recently released a video specifically warning Germany of attacks. German authorities are taking the threat seriously and have taken measures to enhance the level of security throughout the country. The Department of... Travel.State.Gov - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE - Bureau of Consular Affairs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349283/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:38:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334306/posts Reporting from Washington and London - Three young Britons were declared guilty Monday in a London court of planning to blow up transatlantic planes in a spectacularly scaled, Al Qaeda terrorist plot that could have killed thousands of people. A jury in Woolwich Crown Court convicted Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Assad Sarwar, 29, of conspiring to murder by setting off liquid bombs smuggled aboard seven North America-bound airliners in sports-drink bottles. Police have said their plan was possibly days from fruition when the men were arrested in August 2006 amid the biggest counter-terrorism investigation in British... Los Angeles Times / latimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334306/posts#comment Tue, 8 Sep 2009 02:09:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2334015/posts It is great that these three Islamic terrorists were taken off of the streets, but if the accommodations to Islam do not stop soon in the UK they are still going to lose this war. UK court convicts 3 of plot to blow up airliners By DAVID STRINGER LONDON – Three British Muslims were convicted Monday of plotting to murder thousands by downing at least seven airliners bound for the U.S. and Canada in what was intended as the largest terrorist attack since Sept. 11. Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2334015/posts#comment Mon, 7 Sep 2009 17:02:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333119/posts Who specifically authorized the worst terrorist outrage ever perpetrated in Britain? Who conceived it? Who built the bomb? And how is it, amid the new controversy over the release of the only man ever convicted in the blast, that investigators never found answers to these most fundamental of questions, and never charged those responsible? The Iran of the early 1990s was considerably more circumspect than it is today about its drive for nuclear weaponry. But it was no less ruthless in the pursuit. And that is why, on August 14, 1993, a very high level group of Iranians, including two... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333119/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2009 01:16:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332571/posts Jack Straw has reignited the row over the release of the Lockerbie bomber by admitting for the first time that trade and oil were an essential part of the Government’s decision to include him in a prisoner transfer deal with Libya. The Justice Secretary said he was unapologetic about including Abdelbaset al Megrahi in the agreement, citing a multi-million-pound oil deal signed by BP and Libya six weeks later. The admission directly contradicts Gordon Brown's insistence only days ago that oil deals were not a factor in the prisoner's release. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Straw also... telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332571/posts#comment Sat, 5 Sep 2009 00:52:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330175/posts EDINBURGH, Scotland — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing accuations of "double-dealing" after confidential documents were released on Tuesday revealing that Libya was told Brown wanted the Lockerbie bomber to die a free man. "We did not want him to die in prison, no, we weren't seeking his death in prison," Miliband said. Al-Megrahi, 57, was the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. Scotland freed him on compassionate grounds Aug. 20 after doctors said he had terminal cancer. U.S. Justice Department spokesman Richard Kolko said Tuesday... Fox News (thru attribution of Timesonline) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330175/posts#comment Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:48:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2328187/posts Gordon Brown was dragged into the centre of the row over the early release of the Lockerbie bomber last night after it emerged that a key decision that could have paved the way for the terrorist to serve his sentence in Libya was approved by Downing Street. A source close to Jack Straw told The Times that the move to include Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi in a prisoner transfer agreement in 2007 was a government decision and was not made at the sole discretion of the Justice Secretary. “It wasn’t just Jack who decided this. It was a Government decision.... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2328187/posts#comment Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:11:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322218/posts Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Saturday no deals were ever made with Libya while he was in power to arrange the Lockerbie bomber's release, a move that has caused outrage in the United States. In an exclusive interview with CNN, Blair denied claims -- made Friday by the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi -- that he raised the case of Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi every time he visited Libya as prime minister. "Let me make one thing absolutely clear," Blair, who stepped down as PM in 2007, told CNN's John Vause on Saturday in Guiyang, China.... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322218/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:14:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321499/posts "Four hundred parents lost a child, 46 parents lost their only child, 65 women were widowed, 11 men lost their wives, 140 [people] lost a parent, seven lost both parents." -- Scottish prosecutor Colin Boyd at the 2001 trial of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi flew home Thursday to his wife and children in Libya. Scotland's justice secretary, Kenny Mac-Askill, freed al-Megrahi only eight years into his life sentence for murdering 270 people, 189 of them Americans. A flag-waving crowd greeted al-Megrahi when his Afriqiyah Airways jetliner landed at Tripoli. More warm welcomes may follow: When an... chicagotribune.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321499/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:57:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320957/posts Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, convicted of murdering 270 people by blowing up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, two decades ago was returned to his native Libya on Thursday. Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi covers his face as he boards a plane. "Our justice system demands that judgment be imposed but compassion available," MacAskill said. He spoke to CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the case. Here is a transcript of that interview. Blitzer: And joining us now from Scotland, Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill. Mr. MacAskill, did Al Megrahi kill 270 people? MacAskill: Yes. He was convicted by a... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320957/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:44:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320370/posts EDINBURGH, Scotland — Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing him to die at home in Libya despite American protests that mercy should not be shown to the man responsible for the deaths of 270 people. Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said Abdel Baset al-Megrahi's condition had deteriorated from prostate cancer. Al-Megrahi had only served some eight years of a life sentence, but MacAskill said he was bound by Scottish values to release him. Fox News/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320370/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:44:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318187/posts London In an astounding revelation, Al-Qaeda extremists have claimed that home-grown terrorists are plotting to attack targets in Britain. According to reports, in an internet magazine read by thousands of Islamic extremists Al-Qaeda has labeled Britain and Europe as a bigger enemy than the United States. It further says that the strikes are being planned by terrorists living in Britain and others overseas, and warns of “spectacular attacks”, 'The Sun' reports ExpressIndia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318187/posts#comment Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:27:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306947/posts British Muslim hate preacher Anjem Choudary has called for prosecuting Queen Elizabeth for genocide because “she is the one who applauds her sons and daughters to go out and massacre hundreds and thousands of innocent people.” The preacher, who is not a British citizen, declared that the Queen should be tried for “the extermination of a nation,” the London Sun reported. Labor party Member of Parliament Andrew Dismore responded that Choudary himself should be prosecuted. “It’s about time he was busted,” he added. Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306947/posts#comment Mon, 3 Aug 2009 11:50:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295360/posts Shopping centres on alert for terrorism attack The security services are preparing shopping centres across the country for a successful terrorist attack that would probably result in the deaths of dozens of innocent people. Duncan Gardham 18 Jul 2009 Ibrahim's attempt was the third time in four years that terrorists have targeted the large crowds that gather in these relatively unguarded places. In March 2004 a plot to blow up the Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent with half a ton of ammonium nitrate fertiliser was foiled by MI5 and a month after Ibrahim's arrest last year, Nicky Reilly, another Muslim... Telegraph(UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295360/posts#comment Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:37:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290867/posts In a bid to stop Muslim extremists from becoming more militant, the UK Government is set to issue a guideline for police, directing them not to charge them in many hate crime cases, a move that has created outrage amongst critics. Officers will be advised to turn a blind eye on crimes such as incitement to religious hatred or viewing extremist material on the Internet. 'For instance, where there has been incitement or someone has been on the internet there can be a grey area where there is some discretion and it would be more sensible to avoid going down... ANI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290867/posts#comment Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:15:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287385/posts SNIPPET: "Each of the 52 victims is represented by a three-metre-high stainless steel pillar, with the pillars arranged in four groups which represent the locations of the bombings. A plaque with the victims' names has also been placed in the grass banks at the eastern end of the memorial." Sky News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287385/posts#comment Tue, 7 Jul 2009 17:06:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283652/posts Al Qaeda terrorists have vowed to 'wreak dreadful revenge' on France over its plans to ban the burkha. The chilling warning comes after President Nicolas Sarkozy said the Islamic garment which covers the head and body 'debases women' and is not welcome in his country. French MPs have set up a commission to decide if it should be made illegal for women to hide their faces in public. Now leaders of Al Qaeda's North African network have called on French Muslims to react 'with the utmost hostility'. One Islamic extremist website carried the message: 'We will seek dreadful revenge on... dailymail.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283652/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:53:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266566/posts Europe was leaning to the right as European Parliament elections took place Sunday, with voters in many countries favoring conservative parties against a backdrop of economic crisis. Opinion polling showed right-leaning governments with edges over their opposition in Germany, Italy, France, Belgium and elsewhere. Conservative opposition parties were tied or ahead in Britain, Spain and some smaller countries. "It is a paradox, really. It shows how divided the center-left forces are at the moment. Normally sitting governments are punished at European elections," said Jackie Davis, an analyst at the European Policy Centre in Brussels. Voters in the 27-nation bloc were... Breitbart.com/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266566/posts#comment Sun, 7 Jun 2009 12:01:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266430/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZNx0xHe0p0 youtube.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266430/posts#comment Sun, 7 Jun 2009 01:47:42 GMT