Funny, you never really hear this about non-Muslim communities. From the BBC:
Category Archives: Pakistan
More Pakistani Muslim plans to attack Indian civilians
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.
Another Toronto 18 member goes free
National Post… BRAMPTON — After a surprise guilty plea yesterday, Toronto 18 member Jahmaal James is a free man.
James, 27, pleaded guilty in Superior Court to one count of participating in a terrorist group, an offence that carries a maximum 10-year jail term. He received seven years plus a day, but with time served taken into account on the customary two-for-one basis, he was to be freed from Maplehurst prison shortly after leaving court.
“[James] actually disassociated himself with the group before the arrests and moved in a different direction,” Justice Bruce Durno [aka dhimmi scumbag] said in approving the joint Crown-defence sentencing submission.
James, who spent just under three years and nine months in pretrial custody, was also handed three years probation, a lifetime weapons ban and an order requiring he submit a sample to the national DNA databank.
James, in a dark hoodie, blue shirt and close-cropped hair, chose to say nothing when asked by the judge if he wanted to make a statement.
James became involved with the terrorist group in 2005, Crown attorney Jason Wakely noted during his sentencing submission. In November of that year, James traveled from Toronto to Lahore, Pakistan, to obtain paramilitary training from one of the jihadist camps in Waziristan or the Northwest Frontier Province.
“His purpose was to later use his paramilitary training for the benefit of [the terrorist group],” Mr. Wakely told the court, noting the group’s goal was to further the cause of violent jihad.
But while in Pakistan, James contracted a serious medical condition that limited his health and mobility, the judge heard.
“This disrupted his plan,” Mr. Wakely said. “The Crown does not allege that James actually received paramilitary training.”
While overseas, James kept in frequent contact with a member of the terrorist group, speaking in “guarded language” because he was conscious of surveillance, Mr. Wakely said. But weeks after returning to Toronto in March 2006, he became “disgruntled” with the way the group was operating, and gradually severed ties.
He was arrested that June.
Defence lawyer Donald McLeod said his client “saw the light” after his return from Pakistan, realizing the terrorist group’s goals did not line up with his view of the Muslim religion.
James had mixed emotions about yesterday’s proceedings, Mr. McLeod said, “but I think now he can look forward to sort of doing things differently, better.”
New York City Terrorism Suspect to Plead Guilty
FOXNEWS… The key suspect in an alleged plot to attack New York City with homemade bombs has begun cooperating with investigators and is preparing to enter a guilty plea, Fox News has confirmed.
Najibullah Zazi, 24, has begun talking to authorities and plans a guilty plea that could come as early as Monday, according to law enforcement officials speaking on condition of anonymity.
As important as a plea would be, Zazi may be far more valuable to investigators as a source for information about co-conspirators in the United States and Pakistan.
Three people with inside knowledge of the investigation confirmed that the jailed Zazi recently volunteered information about the alleged bomb plot during a meeting with his attorney and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn. The sit-down, known as a proffer session, typically signals that a defendant has begun cooperating in a bid for a plea deal.
Zazi — accused of receiving explosives training in an Al Qaeda terrorism camp in Pakistan — told prosecutors that he was armed with bomb-making components while en route to New York City last year, but flushed them down the toilet in a New York City apartment after getting spooked by a traffic stop on the George Washington Bridge while entering the city, the people said.
Zazi had driven a rented car from Denver to New York, arriving Sept. 10, 2009, the day before the eighth anniversary of the 2001 attacks.
He was allowed to go free after what was described as a routine traffic stop on the bridge, which connects New Jersey and New York. Authorities days later raided several Queens apartments, including a friend’s home where Zazi had stayed.
The government alleges that the airport driver and others bought beauty supplies in Colorado to make peroxide-based bombs before he tried to mix the explosives in a hotel room there, then set out cross-country by car in September. Searches of his car after he arrived turned up bomb-making plans on a laptop computer, but no actual devices or materials.
The cooperation by Zazi suggests prosecutors hope to expand the case and bring charges against other suspects in his case and possibly other terrorism probes. At the time of Zazi’s arrest, Attorney General Eric Holder called the case the most serious terrorism threat since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Continue Reading →
The wannabe British jihadist who said no to Al-Qaeda
This is now what the Brits are calling a success story.
Short version. The murder of innocents during 9/11 and 7-7 inspire a British Muslim to travel to Pakistan and join in the killing. Young Muslim gets wounded and realizes this is no game and I don’t want to play anymore. British media reports it as proof that jihadists can be de-radicalized.
TIMESONLINE… It took months to get to the man I must call “Kasim”. I’d heard about a wannabe British jihadist who had been injured in a US drone attack in Waziristan, Pakistan, but he was not easy to find, and, once found, he was clearly uneasy. With good reason. There are probably many people far scarier than me who would like to meet him.
We met in Blackpool on a filthy day, in the pouring rain, when the sky was as dark as the sea. I guessed he was in his mid-twenties. He wore a baseball cap pulled well down over his eyes as we walked between the great iron gantries of the pier and talked.
Like many young Muslims who embrace extreme Islam, Kasim — who was born in Britain — didn’t come from a deprived area or a poor family. His parents were middle-class Pakistanis. Kasim rebelled, dated girls, went clubbing, drank alcohol and smoked cannabis — but never told his parents. Had they known, they would probably have placed him under curfew.
Nonetheless, he was essentially a typical British teenager — until 9/11 changed everything. “It was the catalyst. It gave me the hunger to learn more about Islam,” he says. His journey to jihad began with sampling different mosques in search of the “peacefulness” he believed would guarantee his path to paradise. “I realised that there were 73 different sects in Islam — only one was going to paradise and the rest were going to hellfire.” Continue Reading →
Mumbai terror lawyer Shahid Azmi killed in ‘professional hit’
TIMESONLINE… A Muslim lawyer who was defending a man accused of planning the Mumbai terror attacks has been gunned down in a suspected underworld hit.
Shahid Azmi, 33, was representing Fahim Ansari, an Indian accused of carrying out reconnaissance work for the Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people in November 2008.
Mr Ansari is on trial in Mumbai alongside Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the Pakistani national alleged to be one of ten Islamist militant gunmen who kept India’s commercial capital under virtual siege for 60 hours.
Mr Azmi, whose rise from convicted child terrorist to respected advocate had made him a Muslim hero, was shot four times in the chest and head on Thursday evening by four men at his home in the middle-class suburb of Kurla in Mumbai.
The attackers made their getaway in a diesel autorickshaw. Police suspect a professional hit.
The young lawyer, who grew up in a slum, had stood out among India’s legal fraternity. Aged 15, he was arrested for allegedly plotting to kill a right-wing Hindu leader in the wake of Hindu-Muslim riots in Mumbai.
He was found guilty of attending terrorist training camps in Kashmir and spent seven years in jail – time he used to study.
Before being acquitted by the Supreme Court he had shared a cell with Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar and Maulana Masood Azhar – two of the three terrorists who were released in exchange for hostages when an Indian Airlines flight was hijacked en route from Kathmandu to Delhi in 1999. Continue Reading →
Biden: Al Queda changing tactics
February 11, 2010
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said al Qaeda was moving toward smaller but “devastatingly frightening” attacks, adding that the chance of another 9/11-style mass assault is unlikely, Reuters reported Feb. 11. Biden also said the situation in Pakistan worried him more than that of Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, stating that it is a big country with nuclear weapons and a significant minority of radicalized population. He added that Pakistan does not have a completely functional democracy, making it his greatest concern. Biden said the concern relates to someone just strapping a backpack on them with weapons and blowing up.?
Bombs and beatings: Life among the Taliban
BBCNEWS… In Pakistan an account of life with the Taliban has emerged from a 13-year-old girl called Meena, who says her own family tried to turn her into a suicide bomber. There is no independent confirmation of her account but police say they believe she is telling the truth, and her information could be valuable. Meena told her story to our Pakistan correspondent Orla Guerin.
My brother used to tell me that the place for a woman is either at home or in the grave. I was always restricted to home.
He said: “If you leave the house I’ll cut off your head and put it on your chest.”
My brother had been to the local school and beaten the girls and the teachers.
He said anyone who wanted to study was a friend of America.
I wanted to be a doctor. I wanted it so much that once I dreamt I was sitting in a hospital, working as a doctor. I wanted to help the poor, those who cannot afford medical fees.
Taliban commanders used to come to our house. There was an underground bunker beside the house, with electricity.
It was concrete and very strong. Cars would drive on top but no-one would realise what was underneath. In that hideout they used to train suicide bombers.
Most were children of my age or younger than me. They were used for these activities because they were too young to know any better.
Going to ‘paradise’
I used to see these children getting on a vehicle to go for their missions. They used loud Islamic CDs to motivate them.
And I would think, “My God, more Muslims are going to be buried”. Then the news would come that more Muslims were wiped out.
My brother used to prepare bombs and my sister-in-law did too. He told me that he would teach me this. I told him no. I would not even look at what they were doing.
My father and brother told me to carry out a suicide attack. They were pressuring me to do this.
They told me: “If you do it you will go to paradise long before us.” I replied: “Why don’t you tell me I will go to hell long before you?”
Every day they used to tell me this. Every day. I was very young when they started telling me this. I said to them: “What about all the people I will kill? They are all Muslims.”
They started beating me when I refused. They beat me non-stop. They made my life hell. I never had a single moment of happiness. They did everything other than kill me.
Bomber’s medicine
They said: “The bomb will be connected with a button, or something like the remote control of a TV. We will give you this kind of remote, and you will go to the place.
“We will also give you a mobile, and we will ring that phone, and press the remote, and you will be blown up with this bomb.” Continue Reading →
Police warn of Jihad training for children
From Britain’s The Telegraph: (Video not in original Telegraph article)
Some young children in Britain are being indoctrinated to hate non-Muslims and champion a holy war, according to a new documentary.
”No child is ever too young to be started off on Jihad training,” states one document recovered by police from the North West’s Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) during raids.
CTU officers, interviewed by the BBC’s Inside Out team for a special programme, show the document and a film they recovered of two children aged about three and six playing with a pistol and Kalashnikov rifle.
The officers say the discoveries are evidence of attempts to radicalise youngsters. The footage, which police believe was filmed in Pakistan, was uncovered on the hard drive of a suspect’s computer – though investigators have not revealed when the material was seized.
The video shows a girl and young boy playing with guns, which police believe are real. ”What do you do with the weapon?” asks a man’s voice. He answers his own question: ”I want to kill the infidels.”
A senior CTU officer, who cannot be identified for security reasons, tells the programme makers: ”We believe this was filmed abroad. We have no idea who the children are. We were shocked to find it at the house. We have no reason to believe this is faked. The guns are real.”
The officer said of another raid: ”We found a series of flash cards and documents on how to raise Mujahid children. The cards were written in English – and instead of having M for Muhammad they had M for Mujahideen. They have the potential to indoctrinate. It just shows the mindset of some people and what we are up against.”
Police also found documents downloaded from an extremist website instructing parents to raise Mujahid children. The documents say: ”The key is to start instilling these values in them while they are babies. Don’t wait until they are seven. No child is ever too young to be started off on Jihad training.” Continue Reading →
Violent Death of Girl in Pakistan Spurs Push for Justice
Compass Direct News… Rare protest by family of tortured child puts spotlight on abuse of Christian working poor.
LAHORE, Pakistan, January 28 (CDN) — A daring protest and a high-profile funeral here on Monday (Jan. 25) for a 12-year-old Christian girl who died from torture and malnourishment has cast a rare spotlight on abuse of the Christian poor in Pakistan.
In an uncommon challenge in the predominantly Muslim nation, the Christian parents of Shazia Bashir Masih protested police unresponsiveness to the alleged violence against their daughter by Muslim attorney Chaudhary Muhammad Naeem and his family and his attempt to buy their silence after her death. The house servant died on Friday (Jan. 22) after working eight months in Naeem’s house.
An initial medical report indicated she died gradually from blows from a blunt instrument, wounds from a sharp-edged weapon, misuse of medicines and malnourishment. Key media highlighted the case on Pakistan’s airwaves, and minority rights groups along with high-ranking Christian politicians have swooped in to help.
Initially police were unresponsive to the family’s efforts to file charges against Muslim attorney Naeem, and on Saturday (Jan. 23) they staged a protest in front of the Punjab Assembly. The power of Naeem, a former president of the Lahore Bar Association, was such that officers at Litton Road police station refused to listen to Shazia’s relatives when they tried to file a complaint to retrieve her three months ago, telling the girl’s relatives, “a case against a lawyer cannot be registered,” her uncle Rafiq Masih told Compass.
Her mother, Nasreen Bibi, told Compass Naeem came to their home on the day Shazia died and offered 30,000 rupees (US$350) to keep the death secret and to pay for burial expenses.
“I refused to accept their offer, and they went they went away hurling death threats,” she said. Continue Reading →
Pigs head found in a few Malaysian Mosques
I have my doubts Christians did this in retaliation for burning down a dozen or so churches. I mean retaliation should take the form of some serious action for the utter hate filled destruction of a dozen houses of worship just because the supreme court of Malaysia decided that it was OK for Christians to use the word ‘Allah’ to mean god. No idea why they would want to, Allah is an invention of the paedophile Mohamed who has attributes nothing like the Christian or Jewish gods. ‘Allah is the greatest of tricksters’ is one paraphrase from Koran about Allah. Don’t remember that from bible school about Jesus.
My guess is, like in Pakistan, some Muslims did this in order to create a religious false flag to really start some Christian killing like when Christians were accused of tearing pages from Koran and whole villages were burned and so on.
Anyway here is the news report with thanks to Taffy
Border skirmish as India marks Republic Day
Krittivas Mukherjee Reuters:
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Tanks rolled and fighter jets roared above India’s main ceremonial avenue in an annual Republic Day military parade on Tuesday, hours after Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged heavy fire in the disputed Kashmir region.
Celebrations were held under heavy security across India after recent hijack warnings and a spike in separatist violence in Kashmir, as well as border skirmishes between India and Pakistan.
The border firing began shortly after midnight, the latest in recent security flare-ups between the South Asia rivals that have added to tensions, heightened by the 2008 Mumbai attack.
A spokesman for Indian border guards said Pakistani troops fired to provide cover to separatist militants trying to sneak into Indian Kashmir from the Pakistani side.
But a Pakistani security official said Indian forces used automatic weapons and mortar bombs in “unprovoked firing” that hit Bijhwat village near the Pakistani city of Sialkot.
“Our troops retaliated with full force, also using heavy weapons, which ended the Indian firing that lasted for about half an hour,” spokesman Nadeem Raza said. No casualties were reported.
In New Delhi, thousands of police and soldiers lined the 8-km route of the military parade as chief guest South Korean President Lee Myung-bak joined his Indian counterpart Pratibha Patil in a bullet-proof stand for Republic Day celebrations. Continue Reading →
Report on Acid attacks in Pakistan.
Not for the feint of heart.
This shows that it is not just man on woman but is indeed an Islamic problem, in terms of the way entire cultures perceive the worth and role of women.
H/T Lili G
US trains elite squad to ‘rescue’ Pakistani nukes.
Like no one saw this coming at all. Thanks to GOV for the link to Times online
It is worth noting, Pakistan does not have nuclear power for electricity. But they do have the standard 40 megawatt reactor required for building bombs.
Elite US troops ready to combat Pakistani nuclear hijacks
Iran’s nuclear program now unstoppable
From STRATFOR.COM
Iran: Nuclear Program Unstoppable – Ahmadinejad
January 14, 2010
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Jan. 14 that Iran’s nuclear program has reached the point where Tehran’s enemies will not be able to stop its progress, IRNA reported. He said Iran’s enemies will surrender because of its nuclear achievements.
Well, I guess the UN’s AEA can expect another shiny new trophy to sit next to the one they got from Pakistan for all the help they got from the world body for their assistance in getting the bomb. I bet the UNAEA is really pissed that North Korea hasnt sent one yet. But I’m sure Iran will send one. They are good sports that way.
