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Three charged with planning 7/7 bombings By Matthew Moore and agencies Last Updated: 2:01pm BST 05/04/2007 Three men were today charged over the July 7 terror attacks on London in which 52 innocent people died. It is alleged "that between November 1 2004 and June 29 2005 they unlawfully and maliciously conspired" with the four suicide bombers and others "to cause explosions on the Transport for London system and/or tourist attractions in London", the Crown Prosecution Service said. The three were arrested last month, two of them as they were about to fly to Pakistan from Manchester airport. The third...

Arab Racism, Arabism, Arabization, Islamism - Islamofascism, Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, etc. Arab Racism, Arabization, Islamism - Islamofascism, Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, etc. On Blacks, Africans * Kurds * Berbers * Israelis * Jews * Afghanis * Iranians, Farsi * Pakistanis * English * Asians * Europeans * Marsh Arabs * Nubians * Al Akhdam * Iraqi Arabs vs Ahwazi Arabs * by "palestinians" (on others) General Arabism Equals Racismhttp://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24912 FrontPageMagazine.com October 13, 2006 ThereÂ’s an expression, "The pot calling the kettle black." It refers to someone claiming a sin in others that is at least as prevalent - if not...

Muslim unrest as police carry out new raids By Nick Britten and Nigel Bunyan Last Updated: 8:08am GMT 03/02/2007 Police raided three more addresses in Birmingham yesterday as they continued to question nine men over their involvement in the alleged plot to kidnap and behead a serving British Muslim soldier. Men leave Birmingham Central mosque after Friday prayers No further arrests were made but West Midlands Police said that a "significant quantity of exhibits" taken from the 12 other properties were being examined following Wednesday's arrests. Officers were granted an extension to hold the men until Feb 5 and said...

LODI, Calif. - Eighteen months after FBI agents swarmed Lodi's Muslim community and arrested a father and son on terrorism-related charges, investigators said they are still examining several individuals named by the pair. U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott and Drew Parenti, who heads the FBI's Sacramento office, met Friday with about 100 members of the Pakistani community at the Lodi Muslim Mosque. The site was part of a federal probe into what investigators initially said was a suspected terrorist cell in the agricultural community south of Sacramento. Hamid Hayat, 24, was convicted in April of one count of providing material support...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - ABC News reported on Friday that Pakistani officials have arrested a top al Qaeda commander and that he could provide clues on the whereabouts of Islamic militant cells worldwide and Osama bin Laden. The television network said Pakistani police arrested Matiur Rehman based on leads in the investigation of a foiled plot to bomb U.S.-bound airplanes from London. U.S. law enforcement officials have been notified by the Pakistanis that Rehman is in custody, according to ABC. No independent confirmation of the report was immediately available. U.S. intelligence officials say they cannot confirm his arrest and remain skeptical...

An investigation into an alleged al-Qaida terrorist cell in Lodi that has netted a father and son and two Muslim religious leaders widened Wednesday with a fifth arrest of a member of a local Pakistani community, according federal authorities. An official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that the Mohammad Hassan Adil, 19, was detained Wednesday on immigration violations. He is the son of Muhammed Adil Khan, who was recently taken into custody for immigration violations. "He's being held on administrative immigration violations," Virginia Kice, an immigration spokeswoman, said of the son. She declined to discuss the details of...

Around 1:00am August 11th three men purchased cell phones from the Wal-Mart store on M-81 near the corner of M-24 in Caro. Wal-Mart places a limit on the number of cell phones that can be purchased at once, that number is three. The three men allegedly bought 80 by purchasing them three at time so that an alert wouldn't be triggered by the cash register. They also paid cash. An alert clerk grew suspicious and called Tuscola County central dispatch. The Caro Police Department sent a unit and stopped the rented van on M-81 just east of Caro. The suspects...

Has any one made a map, or done any tracking, of cities/towns the cell phones are being purchased? or of where the suspects are being picked up? Thanks.

A major terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight has been disrupted by police, Scotland Yard says. It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled on board aircraft in hand luggage. During the night, police arrested a number of people in London after a counter-terrorist operation they said had lasted several months. Police believe the attacks would have been particularly targeted at flights from the UK to the US. The Department for Transport said security at all UK airports has been increased. Passengers on all flights will not be allowed to take any hand luggage on...

ANKARA, Turkey – A truck carrying illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and Bangladesh crashed into a parked transport truck Friday, killing at least 40 people, an official in southern Turkey said. The accident occurred near Osmaniye, Gov. Zubeyir Kemelek told private NTV television. At least seven people were injured. Kemelek said the driver of the truck carrying the illegal immigrants was believed to be dead. “The front of the truck is compressed. We have not been able to reach that part yet,” Kemelek said.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suspected foreign Islamic militant linked to al-Qaida and a security official were killed Thursday in a gunfight at a roadblock near Afghan border, according to the Pakistani army and intelligence agents. Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan said the shootout began when security officials signaled a vehicle carrying the suspected militant to halt at a roadblock in the remote northwestern Bajur tribal region, and the suspect opened fire. Two local intelligence agents, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment to the media, said the slain militant was an Arab and had...

KARACHI (AFP) - Commercial life ground to a halt in several Pakistani cities in a strike called by an Islamic party to protest this week's suicide attack that killed its top leaders and some 50 others. Army troops took up positions in Karachi, where a suicide bomber Tuesday blew himself up on the dais at a public rally commemorating the anniversary of the birth of Prophet Mohammed. The bombing killed the entire leadership of Sunni Tehreek, a moderate Muslim group, sparking rioting in the volatile port city during which protestors burned shops, vehicles and public property. The attack placed the...

MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan - Pakistani security forces backed by helicopter gunships struck a militant hideout Wednesday in a tribal region near the Afghan border, killing or wounding at least 25 militants, an official said. The militants had entered Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region after a raid inside Afghanistan. Army troops and three helicopter gunships attacked them, said Syed Zaheerul Islam, the top government administrator of the region. He said between 25 and 30 militants were killed or wounded in the raid. He said militants were running a training camp and that the strike triggered explosions in an arms dump at...

Pakistanis rampage over cartoons The protests in Peshawar were the first to turn violent there Police in Pakistan have fired tear gas to disperse at least 3,000 students demonstrating against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad. Sixteen people were held for damaging public property in the protest in the north-western city of Peshawar. Students also smashed hoardings advertising the Norwegian telecom giant, Telenor, and chanted "Death to America" and "God is Great". The controversial cartoons were first published in Denmark last year. They have sparked protests across the Muslim world. Denmark's Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Monday again tried to...

Pakistanis 'killed in US strike' Two Pakistani nomad women have been killed after a rocket fired across the border from Afghanistan landed on their tent, Pakistani officials say. Four children were hurt in the attack late on Saturday in North Waziristan. Locals say US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan fired four rockets into Pakistan's tribal area after coming under fire from unknown attackers. A US spokesman confirmed coalition forces had returned fire into Pakistan, but was not aware of casualties. Post 'attacked'The incident is the third this year in which civilians have been killed inside Pakistani territory in apparent missile strikes...

<p>Just heard as news alert on Fox News. One beieved dead. No other details.</p>

PARIS: The Pakistani community in France and elsewhere in Europe is now, more than ever, being watched by intelligence services concerned about its role as a breeding ground for Islamic extremism that could give rise to attacks like those in London last month, French experts say. The daily Le Figaro said on Monday that a confidential report by intelligence service of France that was finalised days before the July 7 London bombings pointed to the threat of an al-Qaeda attack in Britain. It said the report by the DCRG intelligence agency also highlighted the need to closely observe France's 40,000-strong...

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's July 16 keynote speech about the London bombings contained sweeping generalisations that have laid the foundation of a paranoid witch hunt against Muslims, much like McCarthyism's witch-hunts against communist ideologues in America during the fifties. Whilst calling for the eradication of an "evil ideology," Blair blurred the lines between legitimate grievances against Western double standards towards the Muslim World and the crime of killing innocent civilians. As such, Blair is exploiting one injustice to perpetrate another -- a carte blanche to persecute Muslims for their political beliefs. Furthermore, how can Britain, or indeed the West...

POLICE SEIZE EXPLOSIVES Eight men are continuing to be being questioned over an alleged plot to unleash a terrorist bombing campaign in Britain. Detectives found more than half a ton of ammonium nitrate fertiliser - the same explosive ingredient already used in terror attacks in Bali, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Africa and the United States. It was the biggest seizure of potential bomb-making material since the IRA suspended its terror campaign in 1997. Police and security chiefs believe a series of "spectacular" terror attacks including truck bombs could have been launched within weeks. It could have been used to target "postcard"...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistanis have turned to Europe after the 9/11 events, which created difficult conditions for asylum seekers in the United States and other industrialized countries. A latest report of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) asylum seekers in the major industrialized countries have shown a steep fall for the third year in a row, totalling just 368,000 in 2004, the lowest level since 1988. Since 2001, asylum applications have dropped 40 per cent. In the EU, the number fell by 19 percent, in North America by 26 percent and in Australia and New Zealand by 28 percent. The strict...

<p>At least three men reportedly were taken into federal custody in two Pensacola malls as the FBI and the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service initiated a nationwide sweep Wednesday.</p> <p>Witnesses said plain-clothes agents closed Intrigue jewelry vendors at Cordova and University malls, Wild Things at University and possibly other shops.</p>

FBI and INS Raid Dozens of Jewelry Stores in Search for Terrorist Financiers and Immigration Violators WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal investigators are conducting raids nationwide on jewelry stores owned by Pakistanis and others from the Middle East, hoping to break up fronts for terrorist groups or their financial backers, U.S. officials say. The raids have taken place in several cities over the past two weeks, including Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Atlanta and New York. About 75 jewelry stores have been raided, said a law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity. Tariq Hussain, 27, a recently discharged U.S. Army mechanic whose Intrigue...

THE WAY IT WAS: Infidels and brother Muslims Mian Ijaz Ul Hassan Most Pakistanis living in some Muslim countries on worke visas have a sharp contradiction with the locals, but the Mullah praises them for being our Muslim Brothers. People that give you equal rights of citizenship are branded as infidels, those that deny you the status are embraced as brothers. What impeccable logic! We are unfortunately divided about our identity. There are some who desist from linking themselves to South Asian history. They insist that their history does not go beyond Mohammad bin Qasim. They go as far as...

An Al-Qaida Terrorist Related To Bosnian Goverment Arrested In Italy,AP & Reuters, October 1st, 2002.Alleged Tunisian terrorist arrested in southern Italy, reports say BARI, Italy (AP) - Police arrested a Tunisian man Saturday who had been sought by Italian and French authorities for alleged links to Islamic terrorism, news reports said. Bazaaoui Mondher Ben Mohsen, 35, was taken into custody by Italy's DIGOS anti-terrorism police in the southern city of Bari, the AGI news agency reported. He was to be held in Bologna, where he was charged in 1998 with "criminal association" for allegedly supporting Islamic fighters in Bosnia, the...

The Associated Press NAPLES, Italy Jan. 31 — Police arrested 28 Pakistanis found in possession of explosives, hundreds of forged documents and maps of the Naples area with "sensitive targets" circled, authorities said Friday.In a statement, police said they had uncovered an "al-Qaida terrorist cell," but gave no further details on the Pakistanis' alleged involvement with al-Qaida or any other international terrorist group.A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said late Friday officers "might have gotten ahead of themselves" in announcing an al-Qaida link in the headline of their news release.The official also dismissed Italian news reports that the...

TORONTO - An anti-terrorism probe that led to the arrest of 19 Pakistani men, including one who took commercial flight training over a nuclear power plant, highlights security holes that should have been plugged after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, Ontario officials said. The Public Security and Anti-Terrorism Unit, a federal national security task force, quietly arrested the group of mostly young men last week. The men appear to have used fraudulent student visas to enter Canada or to maintain their residency here. Federal authorities documented a pattern of suspicious behaviour that shows an interest in Ontario's nuclear generators...

Tyler, TX – A virtually unnoticed federal arrest here this Spring of a well-educated Pakistani man caught trying to buy illegal silencers, firearms and C-4 explosives has set off a nationwide FBI counterterrorism investigation, CBS-11 has learned. The investigation centers on whether Osama Haroon Satti, 35, came to Tyler on behalf of a terrorist cell hoping to arm for a plot to rob and murder wealthy Jews and other non-Muslims on the West Coast, sources familiar with the FBI investigation tell CBS-11. Satti is currently in federal custody on charges of buying an illegal silencer and handgun. Federal prosecutors connected...

Two Pakistanis Executed by Al Qaeda Militants Tue Mar 30, 2:51 AM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Hafiz Wazir WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Islamic militants on the Afghan border shot dead two Pakistanis hostages, a government official said on Tuesday, a day after the military said it had killed an al Qaeda spy chief. The deaths heighten tension on Pakistan's remote Afghan border where about 5,000 troops attacked 400 to 500 al Qaeda and other Islamist fighters in a 12-day offensive that ended on Sunday with more than 100 people dead. The hostages, among 14...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani troops believe they have surrounded al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri in an operation near the Afghan border, three senior Pakistani officials said Thursday. The officials told The Associated Press that intelligence indicated the Egyptian-born al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's top deputy, has been cornered in an operation. One intelligence official said captured fighters said al-Zawahri had been wounded. The operation began Tuesday in South Waziristan with hundreds of troops and paramilitary rangers, who fired artillery and used helicopter gunships to attack dug-in al-Qaida fighters. Dozens of fighters were killed and 18 were captured, the intelligence official said.

Wednesday, 24 October, 2001, 09:40 GMT 10:40 UK Pakistanis arrested in Mali By Joan Baxter in Bamako Police in Mali have arrested a group of about 20 Pakistani citizens following a meeting called to express solidarity for Osama Bin Laden and the people of Afghanistan. Bin Laden is the chief suspect of the 11 September bombings in the United States. Government sources say the arrests follow a meeting last week between US officials and Malian security forces, in which the Americans expressed concerns about the activities of the Pakistanis in Mali. According to police sources not just in Bamako but ...

Three Pakistani gang rapists who are facing life in jail yesterday begged a judge to be pardoned, citing cultural differences that led to the brutal attack, immaturity on their part and hardship within their families if they were imprisoned. But Supreme Court Justice Brian Sully said "culture or no culture", a strong message needed to be sent to other young men that such horrific sex crimes against women will not be tolerated in modern society. Andrew Haesler, for one of the defendants, known as MMK, 17, said his client was immature and had lived in Australia for two years without...

Riga: Police in Latvia have detained 10 Pakistani citizens, fearing they might have been preparing a terrorist attack targetting the visiting Israeli basketball team, a police spokeswoman told AFP Tuesday. "Bearing in mind the likelihood of a terror attack and illegal immigration, the Security Police informed the state border guard and the 10 Pakistanis were detained on November 21," Kristine Apse-Krumina, an aide to the chief of the Security Police told AFP. She said authorities became suspicious after the 10 entered the Baltic state to participate in an international martial arts tournament, and only one took part. "We are carrying...

Attack of the INGOTs Posted: November 22, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Tom Marzullo © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Currently, "What next?" seems to be a common thread in the mainstream media. For a group of educated people who spend most of their waking hours broadcasting and writing about everything that they think you should know about trees, there seems to be a certain lack of understanding that a sufficient number of them will join to comprise a forest. Now that I have been sufficiently obscure, let us look at one such military and political forest in Saudi Arabia by discussing a...

KIRO 7 Eyewitness News has learned that two passengers arrested at Sea-Tac Airport last weekend may be linked to a suspect's deadly plunge from a high-rise balcony in Vancouver, British Columbia during a raid. Federal sources both in British Columbia and in Seattle tell KIRO Team 7 Investigators the weekend arrest at Sea-Tac of two men on the terrorist "no-fly" list may be just the tip of the iceberg. We're told the FBI is very interested in trying to connect three separate — and recent — incidents involving Pakistani illegals. Federal sources told KIRO Team 7 Investigators that about a...

February 25, 2003 U.S. Crackdown Sets Off Unusual Rush to CanadaBy SUSAN SACHS URLINGTON, Vt., Feb. 21 — Once Jalil Mirza decided to leave the United States to avoid possible deportation, nothing happened quite as he expected, not even goodbye. As did hundreds of other Pakistanis fleeing a post-9/11 crackdown on illegal immigrants, Mr. Mirza quit his job, packed up his possessions and headed north rather than face a forced return to Pakistan. After a 16-hour bus ride from Virginia with his wife and seven children, he arrived at the Canadian border, hoping to take advantage of Canada's political asylum...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Feb 03 (PNS) - Since the inception of registration process of nationals of several countries including Pakistanis in USA, a large number of Pakistanis have started shifting to Canada to seek asylum. The Canadian newspaper warned the number of immigrants could increase manifold by the end of this month when last date for the registration with INS will end, reported VOA. There are speculations in Canada that after the US announcement that immigrants belong to some specific countries should compulsorily get them registered with INS, a large number of Pakistanis will be shifted to Canada in the end...

A U.S. anti-terrorism program that requires Muslim and Arab nationals in the United States to report to the government for fingerprinting and photographing is expanding to include Saudis and Pakistanis raising new cries of ethnic and religious discrimination. The post-Sept. 11th law, which resulted in the arrest of hundreds of Iranians who were illegally living in California last month, sent a ripple of fear through Muslim communities across the United States and threatens to tear families apart, immigrant advocates say. Of course there is a very valid question that should be asked before all of the left coast liberals decide...

VANCOUVER (CP) - The number of Americans making refugee claims in Canada has skyrocketed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to statistics from the Immigration and Refugee Board. The number of Americans seeking refuge in Canada increased by 135 per cent before the end of October over the entire previous year. From January to the end of October this year, 191 filed refugee claims citing persecution in the U.S., compared to 81 in 2001. In 2000, 85 had sought refugee status, already a huge jump from the 40 that sought refuge in 1999. The increase comes as no surprise...

SHEBERGHÁN, Afghanistan – There are no scales to weigh the misery of a captured holy warrior stuck in one of Afghanistan's most isolated and desolate prisoner-of-war camps. "Nobody knows how long we'll be here. It might be one day, it might be 10 years," said Obeidullah, 28, a former Taliban fighter who was captured last November when U.S.- backed opposition forces overran his unit in the northern city of Kunduz. Unlike the hundreds of attention-grabbing war prisoners awaiting trial by the United States at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, the nearly 3,000 inmates in Sheberghán say they have...

Missing Pakistanis took cab, then left by busBy TIM MCGLONE, The Virginian-Pilot© March 28, 2002 Three of the four Pakistanis who jumped ship from a freighter earlier this month took a cab to Waterside and hopped a bus to Philadelphia and New York. Those details about how the men disappeared from the region emerged Wednesday in interviews with employees of a local cab company and the Norfolk bus terminal. The men seemed to be in a hurry the evening of March 16, said a dispatcher at the Blue & White cab company. They sounded increasingly impatient when a taxi did...

INS moves Norfolk official as 4 crewmen stay missingBy STEVE STONE, The Virginian-Pilot© March 25, 2002 William W. Bittner NORFOLK -- The head of the area's Immigration and Naturalization Service office has been reassigned after four Pakistani crewmen were improperly allowed to come ashore from a cargo ship docked in Chesapeake. The four have since vanished. ``We have launched a very substantial investigation,'' Attorney General John Ashcroft said Sunday. ``I'm not going to report on various aspects of the progress of that investigation.'' He said, however, that he found the situation ``maddening.'' A Justice Department spokesman said the INS is...

4 Pakistanis are somewhere at large in the country and being sought by the INS. The four were on the ship PROGRESSO, INS inspector granted them shore leave in Norfolk VA in error...One is on the terrorist list..