Category Archives: Espionage

More Pakistani Muslim plans to attack Indian civilians

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INDIAN police say they have arrested two men for planning to attack a fuel facility and a shopping centre in Mumbai, where Pakistani gunmen killed 166 people 15 months ago.

Mumbai’s anti-terrorism police chief, K.P. Raghuvansh, told reporters that the two men were Indian and had taken orders from inside Pakistan.

They intended to target a fuel storage complex owned by state-run energy firm Oil and Natural Gas as well as a popular shopping arcade, he said.

“These two have been in constant touch with their handlers sitting across the border in Pakistan, who want to do something in India,” he said.

“When we thought they were planning to act, we arrested them.”

India has blamed the Pakistan-based Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba for the November 2008 attacks on luxury hotels, a restaurant and a cultural centre in Mumbai.

Nine of the ten people who carried out the attacks died as security forces fought to regain control of the city.

The sole surviving gunman, who is currently on trial, has said he is a Pakistani national.

The Press Trust of India news agency named the two men arrested late on Saturday as Abdul Latif Rashid, 29, and Riyaz Ali, 23.

Last month 11 people were killed in a blast at a restaurant in the city of Pune, near Mumbai.

A previously unknown Islamist group claimed responsibility.

official advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions threatens TV producers UK

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Backlash at the mosque The Telegraph

The influence of Muslim fundamentalists in east London is being challenged, says Andrew Gilligan .

By Andrew Gilligan
Published: 7:14PM GMT 13 Mar 2010

In the two weeks since the Islamic Forum of Europe were exposed by The Sunday Telegraph and Channel 4’s Dispatches as hardline fundamentalists secretly infiltrating the political system, they have been furiously protesting their “proven track record of community cohesion”. Last week, however, the organisation showed its true face.

“We’ve tracked you down,” said the IFE’s community affairs co-ordinator, Azad Ali, in a webcast targeting the Channel 4 reporter “Atif”, who went undercover at the IFE’s headquarters, the East London Mosque, filming the group’s true views – and its boasts that it controlled the local Tower Hamlets council. “Yes, Atif, we’ve got a picture of you and a lot more than you thought we had. We’ve tracked you down to different places. And if people are gonna turn what I’ve just said into a threat, that’s their fault, innit?”

Mr Ali’s words sit strangely with his role as an official advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, and to the police, but perhaps his annoyance is understandable. The undercover reporters filmed him saying: “Democracy, if it means not implementing the sharia, no one’s going to agree with that.”

The reporters found that, far from its protestations of being merely a “social welfare organisation”, the IFE is an organised political movement dedicated to creating an “Islamic social and political order” through “entryism” into mainstream democratic institutions. Continue Reading →

Al-Queda suspect worked at U.S. nuclear plants.

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H/T fred with thanks!

Al Qaeda suspect had worked at nuke plants in NJ and Pa

By Chelsea Conaboy

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

The American arrested in a sweep of al-Qaeda members worked as a laborer at five nuclear plants in South Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, federal officials said today.

Sharif Mobley had a “red badge” clearance, the highest level a laborer can obtain, while working on at the Salem-Hope Creek nuclear plants in Salem County, according to a spokesman from the local union of which he was a member.

Sharif was arrested last week with suspected al-Qaeda members in Yemen and officials said he then killed a guard while trying to escape from a hospital. He is under FBI investigation in Delaware. Law enforcement sources have said the investigation is terror-related.

In addition to PSEG’s Salem-Hope Creek plants on Artificial Island, Mobley worked at the Peach Bottom, Limerick and Three Mile Island I plants in Pennsylvania and at Clavert Cliffs in Maryland, according to an e-mail from Neil Sheehan, a spokesman for the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Continue Reading →

More Islamic infiltration of UK governments

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From the Telegraph:

Andrew Gilligan

I’m the Telegraph’s London Editor. This is where I write about London politics, London life and many other things I’m interested in, well beyond the capital. I’ll also post source material for many of my newspaper stories here, so you can read the documents I refer to for yourself. Got a tip or a story? Email me at an*************@**********co.uk

Fundamentalist-infiltrated council steps back from the cliff edge – just

At the eleventh hour, Tower Hamlets has drawn back from an act of stupidity stunning even by its own standards. The council’s initial response to our revelations that it has been infiltrated by Islamic fundamentalists – revelations which the council leader refuses to deny – has been not to investigate the matter, but to attack one of the people who helped expose it.

In the ongoing takeover process of the council by the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE), one of the key moments was the appointment of Lutfur Ali, a man with close links to the IFE, to the second most important job at the Town Hall – despite his palpable unfitness for the £125,000 post.

Apart from his IFE links, there wasn’t that much else going for Mr Ali. The council-appointed headhunters who considered applicants described him as “rather limited,” “superficial,” and “one-dimensional” and said he might “struggle with the intellectual challenges [of] a highly strategic role.” And the headhunters didn’t even know that Mr Ali had submitted a misleading CV, which gave false dates for a previous employment and omitted the fact that he had been forced to resign from that job for breaching the local authority code of conduct.

Mr Ali is responsible for council grants. Since his appointment, a lot more council money has started going to organisations closely linked to  – you guessed – the IFE. These organisations include a very generously-funded youth training project, Brick Lane Youth Development Association, or Blyda. Part of the purpose of this project, according to critics, is to take vulnerable young people off the streets and imbue them with the values of the IFE. Continue Reading →

More on the Quebec Niqkab woman.

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Turns out CTV and CBC not surprisingly have sanitized this story quite a bit, omitting more onerous demands that men not face her etc. in the class. This women clearly went in with the intention of agitating and eventually going to the HRC. The plain fact is, this was tactical. The women never intended to go there to learn French, but to teach sharia for control and profit. Another thing that really annoys me about the Canadian attitude. In the CTV video below, you see some professional Canadian from some Multi-Culti board or another use the usual platitudes of compromise and balance. Utterly emetic.. To these spoiled civil servants, when a Muslim demands that all Jews in Canada be dead, they believe that it would be a satisfying decision just to make them all really really sick.

Thanks to our reader Kaffir_Kanuc for finding this Gazzette article:

An unidentifed woman wears a niqab. A judge's decision not to allow a woman to wear the Muslim head covering has sparked a legal and religious debate.More Images »

An unidentifed woman wears a niqab. A judge’s decision not to allow a woman to wear the Muslim head covering has sparked a legal and religious debate.

Photograph by: Phil Noble/Reuters, np

Quebec Immigration Minister Yolande James authorized the expulsion of a Muslim woman from a government-sponsored French class at Cégep St. Laurent, a report said Tuesday.

The student, an Egyptian who is a permanent resident of Canada and who wears a veil over her face known as a niqab, apparently refused to reveal her face in class and insisted male students not face her, according to La Presse.

The Cégep tried various ways to accommodate the woman between February and November 2009. But the situation became tense and created problems at the school.

Roger Giroux, the director of francization with the Quebec Department of Immigration, made several requests to the woman for her to remove the veil at the risk of being expelled. She refused and insisted that Giroux’s ultimatum be confirmed in writing. Giroux informed the woman in a letter that she was indeed required to remove her niqab in order to participate in the class, since part of the objective of the class is to encourage interaction with other students.

The woman was informed, however, that she could take the same class on the Internet.

The woman has since then apparently complained to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which will study the complaint in the coming months, La Presse said.

The woman initially agreed to remove her niqab when meeting with a female student advisor and when posing for her school ID card. She also agreed to receive some instruction without the niqab from a female teacher in an isolated area of the school.

The school’s accommodations extended to allowing the woman to give an oral presentation at the far end of the classroom facing away from other students. It became difficult to provide the woman with the instuction that is part of the curriculum, the La Presse report explained, because it involves teaching proper elocution and seeing how a person pronounces words in French.

The report notes that although there are regular requests for special accommodations in French classes for cultural reasons – some of which are deemed acceptable and some not – the cases rarely lead to expulsion. This was the only student expelled because of that among 39,000 students last year.
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Below, please find a nicely sanitized version from CTV news:

Same tactic tried in England:

interesting analysis:
thank you don’t bend over for allah

Hamas founder spied for Israel

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BBC seems to have posted something which doesn’t de-legitimize Israel. Heads are gonna roll I suspect.

HT with thanks to Don’t Bend over

The reactions by west bankians are interesting.

From The BBC:

Hamas founder’s son ‘spied for Israel’

Mosab Hassan Yousef Mosab Hassan Yousef has converted to Christianity

The eldest son of a founding member of the Palestinian militant group, Hamas, has said he worked as a spy for Israel for more than ten years.

In a new book, Mosab Hassan Yousef said that after being released by the Israelis following his arrest in 1996, he began to supply intelligence to Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet.

He gave them information about suicide bombers and key leaders of both Hamas and its rival, Fatah.

Mosab Hassan Yousef now lives in exile in the US, where he spoke to the BBC’s Lyse Doucet.

How have people in the West Bank taken this news of Mosab Hassan Yousef spying for Israel?

The BBC’s Jon Donnison, has been gauging opinion.

Italy Arrests 9 People on Weapons Trafficking to Iran (Update2)

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From Bloomberg:

By Flavia Krause-Jackson and Dan Liefgreen

March 3 (Bloomberg) — Italy’s Finance Police said it arrested five Italians and four suspected Iranian agents on suspicion of weapons trafficking to Iran.

The authorities blocked the export of explosive materials to Iran and intercepted a supply of 1,000 German-produced optical-precision equipment and 120 scuba-diving jackets and oxygen tanks, according to an e-mailed statement. Two of the four Iranians were Italian residents while the five Italians lived in northern Italy and in Switzerland, police said today.

Armando Spataro, the same prosecutor who requested the extradition of CIA agents for the 2003 kidnapping of a Muslim cleric, is leading the investigation, which began in June 2009 and was dubbed “Operation Sniper.”

The police believe the suspects are part of a criminal gang that sells weapons and explosives to Iran through eastern Europe, the statement said.

The arrests come as the U.S. pushes for tougher United Nations sanctions on Tehran’s government over its nuclear program. The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency said in a Feb. 19 report that Iran enriched uranium to 19.8 percent, 0.2 percentage point below the threshold needed to start the chain reaction seen in an atomic bomb.

Spataro made headlines in 2007 when he accused U.S. agents, with the support of Italian counterparts, of abducting Egyptian- born Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, on a Milan street. An Italian judge convicted 22 suspected CIA agents and an American military official on Nov. 4. They were tried on absentia and can appeal twice.

The U.S. has been in talks with the four other permanent members of the UN Security Council — France, Britain, Russia and China — to shape a sanctions resolution on Iran, possibly aimed at the Revolutionary Guard Corps that is involved in the nuclear work. Iran insists its nuclear aims are peaceful, while it has barred UN inspectors from some facilities.

To contact the reporter on this story: Flavia Krause-Jackson in Rome at fj******@*******rg.net; Dan Liefgreen in Milan at dl********@*******rg.net

Report: Mabhouh aide arrested in Syria

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from Ynet News Israel:

Report: Mabhouh aide arrested in Syria

Fatah-affiliated website says Damascus authorities detained Muhammad Nasser, who arrived in Dubai before Hamas man’s assassination, for possible involvement in plot. Police uncover identity of four other people involved in operation

Roee Nahmias

Published: 02.23.10, 21:53 / Israel News

Syrian authorities have arrested one of the associates of assassinated Hamas member Mahmoud al-Mabhouh for possible involvement in the plot, a Fatah-affiliated website reported Tuesday.

The man, Mahmoud Nasser, was said to have been aware of all of Mabhouh’s movements and flights. According to an Arab diplomatic source, the Dubai police asked the Syrians to turn over Hamas members for questioning, including Nasser.

Nasser arrived in Dubai shortly before the assassination, and the Syrians suspect he cooperated with the assassins and provided information on Mabhouh’s whereabouts. According to the reports, Nasser was one of those who rook part in the kidnapping and killing of Israel Defense Forces soldiers Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon during the first intifada, together with Mabhouh.

Deterrent Power
Halutz: Dubai hit helped deterrence / Aviel Magnezi
Former IDF chief of staff explains Hamas man’s assassination contributed to Israel’s deterrence against terrorist organizations and states that support them. ‘Anyone like Mabhouh needs to think twice before every move,’ he states, adding he opposes military strike against Iran
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Video of Hamas target and suspects

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This is the best video I have seen yet of the suspects who assassinated the Hamas arms procurement man. Quite well put together. It has been very very busy over here at Vlad so I forget where I got this particular tip, but thank you for it whoever it was. This is an entertaining 25 minutes.

Police warn EDL that ‘suicide’ bombers may explode at rallies

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This from an article and website that is very clearly anti-EDL. I find it somewhat ironic that this publication cannot tell who the good guys or bad guys are, when even they say that it is the Muslims who are threatening to set of bombs and create violent death and mayhem wherever a group that stands for British Law and against sharia law in England march. Yet still, EDL are painted as the bad guys. Truly post modern horror.

Fears of violence as far-right group admits it can’t control followers

  • SDL
  • The Scottish Defence League march in Edinburgh will face a counter protest

Jasper Hamill

Published on 14 Feb 2010

With only a week to go before the Scottish Defence League takes to the streets of Edinburgh for a second time, the leaders of the far-right organisation have admitted that they have lost control over the supporters that follow their protests.

A recent English Defence League demonstration in Stoke turned into a “pogrom” against Muslims, according to anti-fascists, that was so violent it shocked even the Defence League leadership, who were quick to deny responsibility. Now Defence League organisers say that this Saturday’s planned demonstration in the capital is at risk of descending into chaos because leaders are losing control of the mass movement.

More than 1,500 people turned up on the side of the English Defence League in Stoke – the sister organisation of the Scottish Defence League – dwarfing the tiny number of anti-fascists that gathered to stand against them.

The mob turned over police riot vans, smashed the windows of Muslim homes and tried to attack a mosque. Organisers believe some 500 Scottish Defence League supporters will turn up in the capital next weekend.

Defence League leaders claim that hundreds of BNP supporters and other thugs turned up in Stoke simply looking for a fight.

Mickey, who leads Casuals United and is part of the EDL leadership, said: “Stoke was horrendous. It went mental. Hundreds of BNP members turned up. You can’t go around rioting like that, because eventually they’ll ban the movement. The people that came don’t care about the EDL, they just turn up for the riots.”

He added: “We’re not conspiring to cause riots. Yes, we have a lot of criminals attaching themselves to us and people that come along to kick off, but we’re trying to deal with that.”

The police are now so concerned about the Defence Leagues that the have set up a special unit to try and combat them.

Fear of infiltration is at fever pitch amongst the far-right group, with leaders even claiming that Special Branch tried to sneak into their ranks by disguising an officer as a Hells Angel.

The biker allegedly visited every regional Defence League leader in the county, asking for membership details and taking photographs. When enquires were made, no motorcycle gang had heard of him.

Police have also warned the EDL that Islamic extremists are plotting to attack their demonstrations and told them that any future protests in Birmingham could be attacked by suicide bombers. Continue Reading →

T’was Hamas that killed Hamas

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Go figure ay?

From Indymedia.com

Report: Hamas security official aided Dubai assassins Print E-mail

Published by Haaretz Thursday, 18 February 2010

A Hamas security operative is under arrest in Syria on suspicion of having assisted the hit squad that assassinated Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the British Guardian daily reported late Wednesday.

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Gazans mourn the assassinated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Wednesday in a mass demonstration organized by Hamas. (© AP)

Palestinian sources in the Gulf said Nahro Massoud was in detention and under interrogation in Damascus, the Guardian reported. Last week, Jordan said it had extradited two Palestinians to Dubai in connection with the killing.

However, Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshal denied the allegation, according to the report. “It is not correct at all,” he was quoted as saying. But Palestinian sources insisted Massoud was being questioned amid speculation that potentially senior Palestinian defectors may have been involved in the plot. Al-Jazeera reported that one of the Palestinians extradited to Dubai worked for Fatah’s security services, but the Palestinian Authority has denied that.

Dubai police announced on Wednesday that their inquiry into the assassination of Mabhouh is focusing on bringing the suspected assailants to trial. They said investigators had successfully recreated a detailed picture of the operation. The official Web site of the Dubai police featured the suspects’ pictures and personal information in an effort to locate the assailants.

According to Palestinian news agency Ma’an, Dubai police said on Wednesday that they hold retinal scans of the suspected assassins, which they plan to publish through international police intelligence service Interpol.

Airport officials carried out routine retinal scans on 11 suspects sought by Dubai when they entered the country in the days before the hit. An official source in Britain said that the investigation has now widened, with police seeking a further six members of the assassination team – making 17 in all.

Dubai police also identified Austria as the “command center” for the assassins, after mobile phone data showed at least seven numbers originating there, the Guardian reported. Dubai police speculated members of the group communicated using “encrypted” messages, and that contact was maintained via several Austrian mobile phone Sim cards. Austria has confirmed its officials were investigating the claims.

Stratfor: Hotel footage of the assasination of the head of Hamas

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I am betting it was an Iranian false flag op. Iranian agents did this probably because the head of Hamas was not as useful to them as his replacement will be, and killed him posing as Israeli’s in order to have the false flag they need for the war they want so badly.