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It is using extremist websites to radicalise the angels of death, says their chilling report. The Commons home affairs committee says it has heard evidence the terror group is "specifically launching and targeting women for violent acts". It is already a deadly tactic in the Middle East, where growing numbers of Palestinian women are volunteering for suicide missions against Israel. The MPs' report comes days after four Islamic extremists admitted plotting to bomb the London Stock Exchange. Woolwich Crown Court heard how the gang — who also had London mayor Boris Johnson on a hit list — had been brainwashed...

The evolution toward smaller, more autonomous and decentralized organizational structures has been identified as a key trend in jihadi terrorism during the past few years [1]. Confronting amorphous structures and networks, which lack clearly identifiable organizational linkages and command structures and in which self-radicalization and self-recruitment are key elements, is a formidable challenge for security services [2]. The jihadi decentralization trend is clearly a result of counter-terrorism successes. These "defeats" have been scrutinized and digested in the writings of key jihadi theoreticians during the past few years. New roadmaps and operational concepts are being explored as the jihadis search for...

'Britain’s longest ‘clutter-free’ street was opened today with the aim of making cars and people co-exist harmoniously – without the need for hectoring signs and protective steel barriers. Indeed, the newly revamped Exhibition Road in the heart of London’s museum quarter in Kensington, visited by millions of people from around Britain and the world, doesn’t even have kerbs or pavements. The idea underlining the project is that when nannying rules and orders - in the form of countless signs, traffic signals and barriers - are removed, motorists take more personal responsibility for their own actions and drive more attentively, making...

A Muslim pilot working for a well-known British carrier has said he was fired because his bosses feared he might copy the September 11 terror attack.The London-based pilot — who was not named for legal reasons — was judged a security risk after the discovery of his link to two alleged extremists suspected of "planning to use an aircraft as part of a hostile or terrorist act". According to the unnamed airline, the pilot was "in a position to divert or sabotage an aircraft", the Daily Mail reported. "I felt they believed I was going to fly planes into buildings....

SNIPPET: "CHANTING fundamentalist bile, extremist Abu Jibreel was on the front line battling police officers during a mock "funeral" for Osama Bin Laden. With his beard and flowing robes, the follower of hate preacher Anjem Choudary was happy to tell anyone who would listen that he wants to bring down democracy..." SNIPPET: "The Sun can reveal that the 39-year-old Muslim convert was born Paul Steven Mellor in Cheshire." SNIPPET: "He is campaigning for Sharia law and self-governing Muslim "states" to be established in Britain." SNIPPET: "Choudary gloated: "We have a former British Army soldier in our organisation. Next we want...

Stripped down to her underwear, the never before seen pictures of Tower Bridge -- one of the world's most recognisable structures -- have been unveiled after the stash of hundred-year-old prints were found in a skip. Coinciding with the 125th anniversary of the bridge's foundation, the 50 sepia photos reveal in incredible detail the ingenuity behind one of the capital's most popular tourist destinations, which was the first bridge of its kind in the world. The unique pictures, dating back to 1892, document the construction the iconic bridge, which at the time was a landmark feat of engineering nicknamed 'The...

New Year's London Fireworks 2012 in full HD

Quote: homeland.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-jihadist-use-social-media-how-prevent-terrorism-and-preserve-innovation Subcommittee Hearing: Jihadist Use of Social Media - How to Prevent Terrorism and Preserve Innovation Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence | 311 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 | Dec 6, 2011 2:00pm On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 the Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence will hold a hearing entitled "Jihadist Use of Social Media - How to Prevent Terrorism and Preserve Innovation." The Committee will meet at 2:00 p.m. in 311 Cannon House Office Building. Witnesses Mr. Evan F. Kohlmann Flashpoint Global Partners Mr. William McCants Analyst Analyst for the Center for Naval...

Actually the sheikh is right. This is prescribed and sanctioned, encouraged, under Islam's rules of engagement. Women are booty, the spoils of war. This is rampant in over a millenium of jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilations and enslavements. Obama say, "Respect it!" Jay Leno's wife, Mavis, say, "The Qur'an is more liberal with women than the Bible.". Geller say, "Defeat and destroy". East London Mosque hosts speaker who has called for Jewish women to be enslaved and 'pillaged' Andrew Gilligan I haven’t written about that self-proclaimed haven of moderation and tolerance, the East London Mosque, for a few weeks....

Link only - Police in City see occupiers as 'terror' risk

LONDON (Reuters) - Police said they had made more than 20 arrests at a demonstration outside the U.S. embassy in London on Friday. Twenty people had been held on suspicion of being members of a banned group while another two were detained for obstruction and violent disorder.

Iran's embassy in London has been attacked by a group of anti-revolutionary elements after its closure by the British government. Reports suggest that the residence building of the Iranian ambassador to London has also been targeted.

The UK is to expel all Iranian diplomats following the storming of its embassy in Tehran, Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced. He said he had ordered the immediate closure of the Iranian embassy in London. Tuesday's attack by hundreds of protesters followed Britain's decision to impose further sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme. Iran's parliament had previously voted to reduce diplomatic ties with the UK. Mr Hague said there had been "some degree of regime consent" in the attacks. He said all UK diplomatic staff in Tehran had been evacuated and the embassy closed.

UBS takes action to evict Occupy protestersRichard Partington 18 Nov 2011 Investment bank UBS has said it is taking “appropriate action” to handle the Occupy London protesters that have taken over one of its empty buildings. Sources close to the bank said it had begun looking at legal avenues to regain control of the complex, located at the corner of Sun Street and Crown Place in the London borough of Hackney. A spokesman for UBS, said: “We are aware of the situation and are taking appropriate action.” Lawyers said the bank would be looking at ways to evict the protesters....

HE was heading for a pan of boiling water, ready to be served up for dinner. But this electric-blue lobster has given scientists food for thought instead because of its colour. The eye-catching crustacean named Lionel was caught by fishermen off Scotland and sent to a London market. Advertisement >> But fishmonger Rex Goldsmith thought he was too beautiful to eat and bought him for a tenner before handing him over to the Natural History Museum. Rex, 45, who saw Lionel at Billingsgate Market while buying supplies for his Chelsea Fishmonger shop, said: “It’s the most striking blue lobster I...

A short silent film of London taken from the back of a vehicle showing some of the best recorded ordinary-street scenes ever. What are now termed Classic Cars abound in this as yet undated film. It has the early 1950's aura to it. It wouldn't have been during the 40's and it was definitely not the 1960's, safe to say approximately early 1950's. Great colour film for the period.

Police arrested 179 members of the English Defence League after reports of repeated threats to attack Occupy protesters camped outside St Paul's Cathedral on Armistice Day. Scotland Yard said they believed a breach of the peace was about to take place after they got intelligence that the EDL were planning the Armistice Day attack. The law states officers can arrest if they believe the breach of the peace to be "imminent." A member of the tented community outside the cathedral expressed gratitude to the police for preventing any violence. "It is fantastic if they are using their resources to try...

It’s one of the most notorious unsolved mysteries in history: who was Jack the Ripper, the Victorian serial killer who surgically disemboweled five prostitutes in the fall of 1888? According to claims that are currently getting a great deal of media attention in Britain, he may be none other than prominent surgeon Sir John Williams – who, in addition to serving as Queen Victoria’s surgeon in London, was also a well-known abortionist. In a new book, Sir John’s great-great-great-great nephew, Tony Williams, presents evidence for Sir John’s guilt, including his discovery of a six-inch surgical knife among his ancestor’s possessions...

When Mr Obama was handed unequivocal evidence in the autumn of 2009 that Iran was building a second nuclear enrichment facility at Qom, he preferred to take a soft approach. The inevitable new round of sanctions was implemented, but no meaningful action was taken to curtail Iran’s obsession with developing nuclear weapons. As we know from the 1930s, appeasement achieves little when it comes to confronting a determined foe for whom the normal laws of international conduct do not apply. And next week, the full extent of Iran’s duplicity will be laid bare, with the publication of the latest International...

British MP Mike Freer was threatened by 'peaceful' Muslims on Friday as he tried to meet constituents in a North Finchley mosque. Mr Freer said about 12 people forced their way inside, with one of them calling him a "Jewish homosexual pig". The trouble began after messages on the Muslims Against Crusades website urged supporters to target him, he said. Mr Freer said a message posted ahead of the incident on the group's website made reference to Labour MP Stephen Timms, who was stabbed while holding a surgery in east London last year.

These are the damning images that prove the anti-capitalist protest that has closed St Paul’s Cathedral is all but deserted at night. Footage from a thermal imaging camera taken late at night reveals just a fraction of the makeshift camp was occupied. An independent thermal imaging company, commissioned by the Daily Mail, captured these pictures after similar footage from a police helicopter found only one in ten tents were occupied after dark. In these shots, taken late on Monday night, the presence of body heat from humans is represented by yellow and red inside the tents. The tents that are...

Mood turns ugly as Telegraph investigates claims that only one in ten tents is occupied at night. The camp forced St Paul's to close for the first time since the Blitz and is costing local businesses thousands of pounds a day. But footage shot by The Daily Telegraph on a thermal imaging camera appeared to show most of the dozens of tents in the cathedral churchyard were empty. And when the remaining protesters realised what The Telegraph was attempting to verify this, the mood turned ugly. The site was quiet at around 12.30am with the faint smell of marijuana smoke...

SNIPPET: "GRAND RAPIDS — A Southwest Michigan man is suspected of providing material support to foreign terror groups, federal agents say. The FBI seized computers and records belonging to Reed Stanley Berry, 26, of St. Joseph after determining that he “was using the Internet both to contact and provide affirmative support to one or more (foreign terrorist organizations),” Special Agent Samuel Moore wrote in a criminal complaint filed recently in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids." SNIPPET: "He noted that testimony showed Berry told the FBI that he planned to join his “religious wife” — whom he hasn’t met in...

Thousands of Muslims gathered in London on Saturday at a rally "to fight extremism and promote a moderate, inclusive version of Islam." The event's organizers, Minhaj-ul-Quran International, said prior to the event that some 12,000 Muslims are expected at Wembley Arena. The group's founder, Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, told journalists that killing innocents is forbidden in Islam and Muslims must integrate into the societies in which they are living.

WHEN the pound sterling reigned as the world’s dominant international currency, the City of London claimed the lion’s share of the market for sterling bills of exchange, with which foreigners financed their cross-border trade and investment. After sterling was toppled by the greenback, London then invented the “euro-dollar” market, which allowed people to deposit dollars and borrow them in an offshore market beyond the reach of America’s capital controls. London’s banks are now readying themselves to profit from the growing offshore market in China’s currency, the yuan. According to the Financial Times, Wang Qishan, a Chinese vice-premier, was due to...

This comes as no surprise today, ten years after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Muslims living in the United Kingdom stage a protest not far from where the memorial service for those who had died on that day was taking place. What happened in London is a reminder of what the United States, the west, the world in general but in a special way, non-Muslims are up against by those who call themselves “the religion of peace.”

On a day which saw commemorations of 9/11, members of the EDL clashed with supporters of Muslims Against Crusades (MAC). Later in the evening two EDL members were stabbed by Muslim youths (according to police reports) outside the JD Wetherspoon pub.

The footage posted on YouTube shows the unknown officer getting drawn into the festivities as he joins carnival goers for a short dance. Doing his bit to improve community relations which had been stretched to breaking point in parts of London during the summer, the policeman impressed the crowd with his cameo. Whilst on duty at the SSP Soundstage in Kensal Rise, which promised 'funky and soulful house, UK garage and classics', and halfway through his impromptu boogie, the police officer drew the appreciation of the soundsystem's MC, who can be heard to shout, "big up the police inside the...

Schoolchildren in London are eligible for 125,000 free tickets for the 2012 Olympics next Summer, but any event that involves a firearm will be excluded from the massive giveaway. Why, you ask, would anyone choose to hide storied events and world class competitors from children’s eyes? Because City Hall and Olympic Organizers are afraid of an anti-gun backlash. That’s right — the powers that be in London won’t subject kids to such bloodsports as Skeet and Trap shooting. The London Evening Standard reported yesterday on the “Ticketshare” decision, and the window it has given into current British views on guns...

In 1997, the British government confiscated handguns from the people of Britain. Thanks to mandatory gun registration, owners had little choice but to capitulate, as those who failed to turn in their weapons voluntarily would be easy to hunt down and easy to imprison. And now these same law abiding British citizens–for it is always the law abiding whose rights and property government seems most eager to steal–these same people have been left defenseless, watching helplessly as their property and livelihoods are being stolen, just as their weapons had been years earlier, by a criminal class only marginally different from...

An immigration officer returned home to find gipsies had moved in, ransacked the place and dressed in her clothes. Julia High was even offered a glass of her own wine by the Romanian squatters. They claimed they had rented the property from her ‘son’ because she had died, and produced a set of fake documents. Miss High, 55, has no son.

On Friday a (somewhat) satirical opinion piece in the Telegraph joked about how the U.S. would respond to similar riots as those in London. The article said that "A leading Republican presidential contender would have advocated martial law and the summary execution of everyone wearing a hoodie." While such a brutal response seems fantastic, the actual response by British politicians, to many, is itself turning jarring in its severity. Currently, with the support of Prime Minister David Cameron, plans are underway to cut benefits and evict even the families of rioters and looters from their homes, the Guardian reports. The...

MADISON, Ind. (BP) -- It seems that the societal ills that plague inner cities everywhere are no respecter of nations. Britain is presently being rocked with social unrest that is quite out of step with what was once viewed proudly as the stodgy national character. In any culture, revered traditions can only hold back disorder so long when young people are uneducated, impoverished and without opportunity. Prime Minister David Cameron has pointed out that Britain has created an atmosphere that is characterized by "children without fathers, schools without discipline, reward without effort, crime without punishment, rights without responsibilities [and] communities...

The trick in this business is not to be right too early. A week ago I released my new book – the usual doom 'n' gloom stuff – and, just as the sensible prudent moderate chaps were about to dismiss it as hysterical and alarmist, Standard & Poor's went and downgraded the United States from its AAA rating for the first time in history. Obligingly enough they downgraded it to AA+, which happens to be the initials of my book: After America. Okay, there's not a lot of "+" in that, but you can't have everything. But the news cycle...

The streets of England may be calm this weekend. But in towns and cities countrywide, people are still coming to terms with the shock of the worst urban riots Britain has seen in decades. For four nights this week, politicians and the public looked on horrified as London and a series of towns across England were subjected to scenes that looked like a war zone. Police were outmanoeuvred as they watched mobile and vicious gangs – often comprising teenagers – looting shops, fire-bombing buildings and burning city centres. Five members of the public have died in the riots. Millions of...

WHEN the worst riots in British history descended across the streets of England, it was the family-run shops and small businesses that bore the brunt of the immense destruction. From grocery stores to optometrists, newsagents, sports stores, technology warehouses, hairdressers, pubs, fashion boutiques and even a funeral home - nothing was safe from the orgy of looting and damage. Windows were smashed, products looted, buildings torched and in one instance looters even stole the kettle from the staff room of a barbers in Tottenham, North London. The cost of the riots is still impossible to tally - The Association of...

State Socialism’s Ultimate Product is a Permanent Underclass of Entitled Thugs It’s been over three decades since the magnificent, rabble-rousing and ultimately silly English punk group, The Clash, recorded its stirring riot-anthem, “The Guns of Brixton.” Now the streets of not-so-Merry Olde England have been trashed and torched again, but the similarity in thuggish behavior masks radically different inspirations and aims. The Brit riots of the 1970s and early 1980s arose from the death throes of labor-union tyranny over an entire nation; from the birthing pains of a post-modern economy, and from urban collisions between races. Today’s Swinging-a-club London has...

Young thugs and gang members should be made to ‘fear’ the police and stiff punishments for crimes, according to the Prime Minister’s new American crime adviser. Former New York police chief Bill Bratton, famed for his ‘zero tolerance’ tactics, said yesterday that UK forces should be more assertive with offenders, advocating a doctrine of ‘escalating force’. Last week David Cameron was reported to have approached Mr Bratton to discuss taking charge of the Metropolitan Police, and he has already enlisted him to help tackle the threat of gangs. However his comments came as fresh doubts emerged over his chances of...

A suspected looter in this week’s riots and his mother are being thrown out of their council home. In the first case of its kind, Daniel Sartain-Clarke, 18, and his mother have been served with an eviction notice as council bosses seek to turf them out of their £225,000 taxpayer-subsidised flat. Sartain-Clarke is charged with violent disorder and attempting to steal electronic goods from the Currys store at Clapham Junction, South London, on Monday night.

A TEENAGE girl accused of wrecking a police car in the riots is a London Olympics ambassador. Chelsea Ives, 18, was arrested after her parents allegedly saw her on TV during the mayhem in Enfield and called police. Mum Adrienne, 43, said: "I have no regrets. I love my daughter but she was brought up to know right from wrong." Chelsea is said to have hurled a rock through a shop window while rioting - then yelled excitedly to a friend: "This is the best day ever." She was behind bars last night after parents Adrienne and Roger turned her...

Poverty, social exclusion, poor education - these are just some of the theories put forward to explain the recent rioting. Yet shockingly, among those in the dock accused of looting are a millionaire's grammar school daughter, a ballet student and an organic chef. A law student, university graduate, a musician and an opera steward also said to have taken part. They are just some of the youngsters from comfortable middle-class backgrounds who have been charged with criminality. Some of them were arrested at the scene, others handed themselves in after seeing their faces in photographs and on video. Whatever the...

Police are disappointed with sentences being handed out to the rioters that have brought chaos to England's streets, senior chiefs have revealed. David Cameron has insisted that anyone involved in the violent unrest of recent days will feel the full force of the law, regardless of their age. But Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stephen Kavanagh has admitted some his officers in London are unhappy with the punishments they have been given. Child looters are being freed and allowed to return home to their families - and because of their age the law dictates their identities have to be protected. Looting: The...

THE SOCIAL WORKER University graduate Natasha Reid, 24, came from a comfortable family home and studied at university to achieve her dream of becoming a social worker. But her career hopes are now in jeopardy after she stole a £300 JVC television from a battered Comet store on her way home. SNIP THE ASPIRING MUSICIAN Stefan Hoyle was clutching a looted violin when he was arrested in the aftermath of riots in Manchester. SNIP he was chased and caught, telling officers: ‘I can understand why people riot, you really are fascist ********.’ SNIP THE BALLET STUDENT An aspiring ballerina was...

Laura Johnson, the university student accused of looting during the riots, could be thrown off her degree course. The 19 year-old, who is studying English and Italian at Exeter University, appeared at Bexleyheath magistrates’ court on Wednesday charged with theft after police stopped her car and found £5,000 of electrical items, allegedly looted from a branch of Currys in Charlton, south-east London. Exeter University has warned Miss Johnson, whose parents are company directors, that she could be thrown off her course if she is convicted. A spokesman for the university said: “We will await the outcome of the court case.”...

As we have watched horrified over the last week as parts of London and several other major British cities burned, one unspoken thought was; Are we next? In between all the harrumphing by talking heads going on about either turning the water cannons on the little monsters, or how this is just a protest gone wrong is a simple point: The West has created a generation of feral children. This phenomenon is not unique to Britain, or Europe, as the frustrated mayor of Philadelphia[1], Michael Nutter, demonstrated in the wake of a series of recent racially motivated “flash mobs”. Further...

America's most fearsome policeman has been appointed David Cameron's top adviser on gang warfare. Bill Bratton, who introduced zero-tolerance policing to New York and turned around crime-ridden Los Angeles, will help ministers draw up plans to tackle gang culture in Britain's cities. Yesterday the Prime Minister unveiled the first of his plans to tackle gang violence. He said injunctions which let courts ban gang members from gathering in certain places or at certain times of day, which currently apply only to adults, will be extended to children. Ministers were planning to roll out a pilot scheme covering 14 to 17-year-olds...

Libyan calls UK handling of riots "repression...against peaceful protesters"; Ahmadinejad: Police's "savage treatment" not acceptable. Talkbacks (60) The Libyan government of Muammar Gaddafi said Wednesday that British Prime Minister David Cameron had lost legitimacy and should go, while Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Britain on Wednesday to curb its "savage" treatment of rioters. Television pictures of riot police battling to quell unprecedented unrest in cities across Britain have led news schedules in countries that London accuses of human rights abuses, giving their leaders the chance to hit back.

A worker stands guard beside the charred remains of House of Reeves furniture shop in Croydon, south London, which was burnt to the ground in Sunday night's violence. Good editorial by Allister Heath today about the riots and the changes this event, and the poor, lackadaisical response by authorities, has wrought: ...From royal fairytale to banana republic in one summer: it has been a shameful, embarrassing disaster, not just for the tourism industries but also for foreign direct investment. The cost in terms of lost reputation – internationally but also domestically – will be hugely higher than the £100m insurance...

There may have been no rioting in the Highlands, but no one has been watching the arson and looting of Britain’s cities more closely than the Queen. With fewer than six months to her Diamond Jubilee, when celebrations are planned for the length and breadth of the kingdom, the disorder has alarmed aides planning the extravaganza. Central to their concern is not just the damage to the country’s image overseas, but also how quickly the feelgood factor engendered by April’s Royal Wedding has been lost. From her summer home in Balmoral, the Queen has kept in touch with developments and...

CAIRO (AP) — Militant online forums are abuzz with calls to Muslims in Britain to launch Internet campaigns in support of the British rioters and to urge them to topple the government. Dozens of contributors on Wednesday suggested Muslims in Britain should flood social media websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, with slogans and writings inciting the British youth to continue rioting. One contributor says the rioters should adopt slogans similar to those used by Arab protesters during the uprisings in the Middle East this year. "The people want the killer of Mark Duggan punished" is suggested — a reference...