Category Archives: Terrorism

Fort Hood Murderer Shared Imam With 9/11 Hijackers

And guess who it was… Whilst Sunny, Harry’s Place and many more speculate about what lay behind Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s murderous rampage in Fort Hood, the Huffington Post carries a piece written by Kamran Pasha, who has a Muslim soldier friend, Richard, who knew Hasan. It contains a fascinating and troubling detail. As Richard got to [...]
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Charles Farr on Countering Extremism

The Guardian yesterday reported on Charles Farr (director-general of the Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism) and a briefing he gave on 26th February this year to MPs on the topic of the government’s counter-terrorism strategy. It appears to have been online for a while but only recently to have been picked up on by the [...]
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the blue djinn of 9/11: a saudi moment of reflection and challenge

i read this at asharq al-awsat, the arab daily produced in london (presumably so it’s harder for authoritarian governments to interfere with) and, although i generally don’t tend to see eye-to-eye with their 0pinion page editor mshari al-zaydi, he makes a thoughtful and challenging set of observations about the prevalence of conspiracy theories circulating in [...]
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The “One True” Jihad?

Abdulla Ahmed Ali 28, Tanvir Hussain 28 and Assad Sarwar 29 were arrested in August 2006. They were each accused of two charges of conspiracy to murder using home-made explosives. All three were found guilty in an earlier trial of conspiracy to murder involving liquid bombs – but that jury could not decide whether their plans [...]
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Kensington Welcomes Jihadi Preacher

Anwal al-Awlaki is an American extremist based in Yemen. This is his website. Note the picture of a man with AK47 which, very appropriately, Awlaki uses to represent his website. It also distributes a video of British and American troops suffering in Afghanistan, suffering which is celebrated. On his website, Awlaki publishes a leaflet called 44 [...]
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The Realities of Islamist Rule

This is a guest post by Bravo56 **** Since returning from Baghdad in 2008 I have been amazed to see how Islamist groups have gained such popularity and standing among Muslims in the UK. The Middle Eastern “Islamic” states for over a decade have lived with their ethos and agenda that have failed morally, ethically and practically. [...]
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Misunderstanding the 7/7 bombings

Today is the fourth anniversary of the 7 July 2005 terrorist bombings which took the lives of 52 innocent Londoners and injured 784 others. In the absence of a full public inquiry into this horrific attack on the British public, we still don’t fully know why 4 British born Muslims believed it was justified to carry [...]
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How to defeat white racist terrorism – the IPPR approach

This is guest post by Al-Qanaas Al-Masri ****************************** During the weekend, the British police announced that they had arrested 32 white extremists in Northern England and uncovered huge stocks of rocket-launchers, hand grenades and explosives. The men, at least one of who appears to be a member of the British National Party, were apparently planning attacks on [...]
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al-Qaeda would use Pakistani nuclear weapons – surprised?

The leader of al-Qaeda (AQ) in Afghanistan, Abu al-Yazid (aka Abu Saeed al-Misri – the Egyptian), has said they would use Pakistan’s nuclear weapons to fight against the ‘Serpent’ United States of America. God willing, the nuclear weapons will not fall into the hands of the Americans and the mujahideen would take them and use them [...]
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Men questioned in UK over white supremacist terror plot

Nicky Davison, an 18 year old from Durham County, accused of plotting a terror attack, appeared in Westminster court yesterday. Nicky – initially arrested for inciting racial hatred – and his father, Ian Davison, were arrested on the 6 June 2009 under the Terrorism Act 2000, on suspicion for being part of a global network of [...]
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