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Austin bar owners busted for funding Hizb’allah with drug money etc.
Al-Qaeda plotting cyanide attack at Games
Damn I am sick to death of these guys.
The SUN.UK
Web fanatics target Olympics
Security … fans are searched in test run before Olympics
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By SIMON HUGHES, Chief Investigative Reporter
Published: Today at 00:11
AL-QAEDA fanatics are plotting a deadly cyanide poison attack on the London Olympics, a Sun investigation has found.
Extremists on a website with links to the terror group have posted detailed instructions on how to cause carnage at this summer’s Games.
The chilling online plot was uncovered as two convicted al-Qaeda terrorists were released early from jail and put back on the streets ahead of the Olympics.
And the specific nature of the “cyanide slaughter” web posts suggest they should be taken seriously by the security services.
An extremist who called himself Abu Hija Ansari said the poison should be mixed with a handcream that would enable it to be absorbed through the skin.
He wrote in Arabic: “Through skin: 1 — cyanide, 2 — skin cream. Mix the ingredients. The skin cream will open the pores in the skin and speed up the absorption and effectiveness of the poison.”
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Toulouse gunman’s brother ‘proud’ of killings, say police
There is also now a fan page for him on Facebook.
The Guardian:
Mohamed Merah’s brother Abdelkader transferred to Paris for questioning after explosives found in his car
French Shooting Suspect Was on U.S. No-Fly List
WSJ.COM:
By DEVLIN BARRETT
WASHINGTON—The gunman suspected in a string of shootings in southern France was on the U.S.’s no-fly list as a suspected terrorist, according to people familiar with the matter.
A 23-year-old gunman suspected of killing seven people in southwestern jumped from a window to his death in a hail of bullets after police stormed his apartment. (Video: Reuters/Photo: AP)
Two people familiar with the case said Mohammed Merah was on the list because in 2010 he had been in custody in Afghanistan, then sent back to France. Counterterrorism officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which manages the U.S. no-fly list, also had collected information on Mr. Merah before the recent shootings in France, including the 2010 encounter, officials said.
The circumstances of his apprehension, detention and return to France weren’t entirely clear. U.S. military officials said they don’t have a record of his being in American custody while in Afghanistan.
ICSR Insight: Toulouse Gunman’s Link to UK Extremists
Please click through and read this whole article. It is quite revealing and should put to rest any notions of a ‘lone wolf’ or, ‘this action is from poverty’ etc.
From ICSR.INFO
Toulouse Gunman’s Link to UK Extremists
By Peter Neumann, Alexander Hitchens, and Scott Kleinmann
News reports today have linked the Toulouse gunman responsible for the murders of seven people, now identified as French citizen Mohammed Merah, to a recently banned French extremist group with connections to Britain.
Named Forsane Alizza (FA – the Knights of Pride), the group bears many similarities to the UK-based al-Muhajiroun/Islam4UK network.
Who are Forsane Alizza?
FA is led by a young French Muslim called Mohamed Achamlane, and has between 30 and 100 official members. However, it is not a formally structured organisation, and likely has many more sympathisers. On the internet, the group can count on nearly 2,000 supporters on Facebook and 400 followers on Twitter.
The group appears to be part of a loosely connected European network of extremist Islamists who share the same ideology and use similar tactics. Each group often has a number of names, one of which typically begins with the label ‘Sharia4’ followed by the country, such as ‘UK’, Belgium, or ‘France’. Among the names used by FA is ‘Sharia4France’.
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French gunman: I was planning more attacks, with outside funds
Christian Science Monitor:
Police say Mohammed Merah, the gunman responsible for killing three soldiers, a rabbi, and three schoolchildren, made an early morning phone call to France 24 to talk about his motives.
By Robert Marquand, Staff writer / March 21, 2012
Police officers walk next to the building in Toulouse, France, on March 21, where the suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school has been spotted.
Bob Edme/AP
Paris
Intensive sleuthing, videotape, a scooter repairman, and apparent good fortune helped French police apprehend a serial killer hours before he said he planned to kill again.
ISLAMIC TERRORIST MOHAMMED MERA PLANNED TO POST HIS MURDERS OF JEWS IN TOULOUSE FRANCE ONLINE
Mohammed Merah
An outrage beyond words.
UPDATE: Reuters report that the suspect had been serving a three year sentence when he escaped from jail, quoting the director of Kandahar prison. According to Reuters news agency, the head of Kandahar prison in Afghanistan, says the suspect Mohammed Merah, escaped from the prison in a mass Taliban jailbreak.
Toulouse ‘serial killer’ WAS going to post footage of murders online… but police swooped on house of ‘Islamic warrior’ before he had the chance
- Siege continues outside house as more than 300 officers are on high alert
- Self-confessed terrorist thought to have killed seven people in two weeks
- Mohammed Mera, 24, is ‘armed and dangerous’ and likely to kill again
- Has Uzi machine gun, Kalashnikov assault rifle and other weapons
- Three tactical police officers wounded as they tried to arrest suspect
- Second man believed to be his brother arrested nearby
- Gunman’s mother at the siege trying to persuade him to give himself up
By PETER ALLEN PUBLISHED: 08:27 GMT, 21 March 2012 | UPDATED: 10:23 GMT, 21 March 2012
A self-confessed Al Qaeda terrorist thought to have murdered seven people across south west France over the past two weeks was going to post footage of his crimes online today, he claimed.
Mohammed Mera, 24, told news channel France 24’s editor Ebba Kalondo at 1am this morning he had ‘filmed everything’ with a small video camera and ‘intended to put the videos online’.
But just two hours later more than 300 armed police dramatically raided his Toulouse home – where three officers were injured – and he is now cornered and under siege.
He has been described as ‘armed and dangerous’ with a cache including an Uzi machine gun and Kalashnikov assault rifle, with police saying he is likely to kill again.
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James Stocks, in Toulouse writes: We are inundated with military, police, journalists, helicopters and countless extra security checks. Toulouse is going crazy!
1110: Reuters report that the suspect had been serving a three year sentence when he escaped from jail, quoting the director of Kandahar prison.
1105: According to Reuters news agency, the head of Kandahar prison in Afghanistan, says the suspect Mohammed Merah, escaped from the prison in a mass Taliban jailbreak.
1102: A man who claimed to have carried out the shootings telephoned France’s continuous news channel France24 before the police raid. According to one of the channel’s editors, he claimed to have filmed Monday’s attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse and planned to put the film on the web. You can see an interview with the France24 editor, in French, on YouTube.
Guardian: Group known as, ‘Forsane Alizza’ could be responsible for the school shootings
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Police on guard in Toulouse after the Jewish school shootings. Two officers were injured early on Wednesday morning during a raid to arrest suspects, according to sources. Photograph: Caroline Blumberg/EPA
Two French police officers have been injured in a shoot-out during a raid on a house in Toulouse on Wednesday to arrest suspects in the killings of three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in south-west France this week, a police source said.
The source said the raid began at 3am local time and was continuing but did not provide further details.
The French news channel BFM TV said the suspects were linked to an Islamist group that it identified as Forsane Alizza but it was not immediately possible to confirm this.
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Here is the webpage for these ‘tardorists’. http://www.forsane-alizza.com/
It is not a hot link as for obvious reasons I do not want a direct link to these sick-fucks. (Forgive my French)
Eeyore
MSNBC report on early raid on school shooter
MSNBC:
By msnbc.com staff and news services
TOULOUSE, France — Two French police officers were injured in a shoot-out during a raid on a house in Toulouse on Wednesday to arrest suspects in the killings of three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in southwest France this week, a police source told Reuters.
The source said the raid began at 3.00 a.m. local time and was ongoing, but did not provide further details.
French news channel BFM TV said the suspects were linked to an Islamist group which it identified as Forsane Alizza but it was not immediately possible to confirm this.
On Tuesday, Police spread out across southern France by the hundreds in the hunt for an expert gunman suspected in three deadly attacks. Authorities suspect the school killer was also behind two recent attacks in the same area on French paratroopers that left three soldiers dead and one seriously wounded. The victims were of North African and French Caribbean backgrounds
Jihadists “Liberating” Spain for Islam
Stonegate:
by Soeren Kern
March 20, 2012 at 5:00 am
The problem is so grave that the United States has proposed setting up an intelligence hub at the U.S. Consulate in Barcelona to counter the growing threat.
Nine Islamists accused of planning terrorist attacks aimed at “liberating” Spain for Islam are standing trial in Madrid.
Spanish public prosecutors say the men — Salafi-Jihadists who belonged to an Islamist cell known as the “Army of the Messiah” (Ansar al-Mahdi) — sought to “free” the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, two Spanish enclaves in northern Africa, from Spanish rule and thus begin the Islamic re-conquest of Spain.
Salafism is a branch of radical Islam that seeks forcibly to re-establish an Islamic empire (Caliphate) across the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, which Salafists view as a Muslim state that must be reconquered for Islam.
Much of Spain was ruled by Muslim conquerors from 711 and 1492; Salafists believe that the territories the Muslims lost during the Spanish Reconquista still belong to them and that they have a right to return and establish their rule there. This belief is based on the Islamic precept that territories once occupied by Muslims must forever remain under Muslim domination as part of the Waqf [detained or preserved] — a religious endowment now implicitly owned forever by Allah.
Spanish prosecutors say the jihadist cell operated out of the Darkawia mosque in the El Príncipe Alfonso neighborhood of Ceuta. The ringleader of the group is a Moroccan imam named Mohammed Abdessalam, who prosecutors say “preached the most extreme version of Islam.”
The jihadists are accused of plotting a series of bombings in Ceuta, including churches, the city’s main port and other parts of the city’s infrastructure, in an effort to “duplicate the train bombings that occurred in Madrid on March 11, 2004.” The Madrid bombings, which killed 191 people and wounded 1,800, are considered to be one of the worst terrorist attacks in modern European history.
Prosecutors are seeking prison sentences of eight years for each of the suspects, whose trial is taking place at the Spanish High Court (Audiencia Nacional) in Madrid.
The trial comes as a leaked secret report prepared by Spain’s National Intelligence Center (CNI) in January warns that Salafi Islamists pose the greatest threat to security in Spain.
The document warns of “alarming symptoms” of the presence in Spain of members and cells of an Islamist group, Takfir wal-Hijra, which subscribes to the “most radical and violent version of Salafi-Jihadism.
‘Suicide attack bid’ on US Defence Secretary
H/T Tundra T
The Sun UK:
– Car bursts into flames on runway
– Fears Leon Panetta’s plane was target
Drama … US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta feared to have been target of assassination bid
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By DAVID WILLETTS, Defence CorrespondentPublished: Today at 13:59
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta is feared to have been the target of a suicide attack at Camp Bastion today.
A vehicle got on to the runway and burst into flames as Mr Panetta’s plane landed in Afghanistan this morning.
The suspected attack also hurt a British squaddie but the extent of the injuries are currently unknown.
The drama unfolded just hours ago on the sprawling base — Britain’s main outpost in the warzone.
Defence supremo Mr Panetta flew into Afghanistan today to quell fears after a US soldier went on the rampage killing 16 innocent Afghans.
But as his plane was landing a vehicle appeared on the runway and subsequently caught fire.
Sources at the scene claim it was a suicide attack — but those allegations have not yet been officially confirmed.
Camp Bastion … Leon Panetta’s plane was landing at British base in Afghanistan
An individual inside the vehicle is receiving medical care for burns, sources say.
More here at the New York Times. The question of course is, ‘Was it a Chevy Volt?’
In which case, no cause for alarm.
Portrait of Britain 2012: Armed police arrest woman, 40, after fearing she had a bomb in eight-hour stand-off ixzz1p3AJeK00
The Daily Mail:
- Police in Teesside were alerted shortly after 11am
- Incident went on until around 7.30pm
- Bomb disposal experts were called and a helicopter was scrambled
By Leon Watson
PUBLISHED: 17:25 GMT, 13 March 2012 | UPDATED: 22:11 GMT, 13 March 2012
Armed police talked down a veiled woman who had been suspected of being a bomber today after a chilling eight-hour stand-off in a quiet seaside town.
Officers took aim at her shortly after 11am having received a tip-off claiming she could have an explosive device in her bag.
A 40-year-old woman was then arrested in connection with the incident around 7.30pm under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act.
The drama unfolded at the seafront in Saltburn, Teesside. Army bomb disposal experts were called in immediately.
Armed Police surrounded the woman in Saltburn, Teesside, and took aim. Her bag was behind herIt followed information received by Cleveland Police about the woman’s conduct. The area was cordoned off.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing a white woman wearing a dress with a veil sitting on a bench surrounded by armed police, who were alerted shortly after 11am. At 6.40pm, negotiations with her were still taking place.
Superintendent Ciaron Irvine said: ‘This was a fairly lengthy incident with a successful outcome.’
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He said the matter had been brought to a safe conclusion. Officers also thanked residents for their patience and co-operation. Residents had said they believe it was a woman local to the area.
A bomb disposal team was sent to the scene and a police helicopter scrambled.
It is understood that a bag was examined by bomb disposal experts and at one point the woman was face down on the ground as officers covered her with their weapons.
Some locals claimed the woman had been to a hardware store in the town earlier in the day and purchased items.
The woman was ordered to walk forward, away from the bag as armed police kept their guns trained on her
Deported preacher of hate transmits terror rants to UK from sun-soaked Caribbean exile
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Daily Mail:
- Abdullah el-Faisal broadcasts his extremist rants live from Jamaica six nights a week
By Damien Gayle
PUBLISHED: 05:41 GMT, 13 March 2012 | UPDATED: 11:17 GMT, 13 March 2012
Broadcasts: Muslim Cleric Abdullah el-Faisal is preaching to his British followers over the web from JamaicaA Muslim cleric who was deported from the UK is still preaching hate-filled sermons to his British followers from his sun-soaked exile.
Abdullah el-Faisal, who has ties to notorious preachers Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada, broadcasts his extremist rants live from Jamaica over the internet six nights a week.
The 48-year-old, who was deported from Britain after serving a seven-year-sentence for soliciting murder, is thought to be recruiting fanatics who hide behind code names.
His vile speeches urge the establishment of a network of secret mosques where extremist views can be voiced and spread.
His rants from his Caribbean homeland, visited last week by Prince Harry, have now triggered demands for intervention by Foreign Secretary William Hague.