Zitat:Seit den Anschlägen von Madrid am 11. März vergeht kaum ein Tag ohne die Forderung an die Muslime in Deutschland, sich entschieden vom islamistischen Terrorismus zu distanzieren. Die Innenminister Schily, Beckstein und Schönbohm finden sich mit ihren Appellen zum Coming-out der friedliebenden Muslime in der ungewohnten Gesellschaft des PEN-Clubs, der die islamischen Intellektuellen aufruft, „das Schweigen gegenüber dem mörderischen Terror“ zu brechen. Und auch die Oberhäupter der beiden großen christlichen Kirchen in Deutschland, Bischof Huber und Kardinal Lehmann, sprechen in einem neuen Ton der Dringlichkeit von einer „Bringschuld des Islams“, endlich die Bejahung von Rechtsstaat und Demokratie ohne „taktische Anpassungsmanöver“ erkennbar zu machen..........

Zitat:Madrid Names Suspected Terrorist Leader
1 hour, 13 minutes ago

By MARIA JESUS PRADES, Associated Press Writer

MADRID, Spain - Investigators believe that a Tunisian being sought under an international arrest warrant is the leader of the group suspected in the March 11 railway bombings in Madrid, according to court documents released Thursday.
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Zitat:AL-QAEDA URGES ATTACKS ON CANADIANS: INSTRUCTIONS IN MANUAL: ADVISES HITTING 'EASY TARGETS THAT ARE NOT PROTECTED'

Stewart Bell

National Post,3/31/2004 - A new al-Qaeda manual posted on the Internet is calling for terrorist attacks against Canadians, and specifies that businessmen, politicians, scientists, soldiers and tourists should be targeted, according to U.S. researchers.

Canada is one of six nations whose citizens are identified as "human targets" in the Arabic-language publication, which is reported to be the work of senior Egyptian al-Qaeda figure Saif al-Adel.
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Zitat:Bomb plot suspects 'innocent'
From correspondents in Crawley, England
01apr04

RELATIVES of young men arrested in a police anti-terrorist sweep that netted half a ton of potentially explosive fertiliser proclaimed their innocence today, while British Muslim leaders called for vigilance against terrorist activity
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Zitat:Muslims 'must not denounce other Muslims'
(Filed: 01/04/2004)

Muslims cannot co-operate with local authorities against other members of the faith, the outspoken leader of an Islamic group has said.
Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad was reacting to a call from the Muslim Council of Britain for the community to play its part in the fight against terrorism, following the anti-terrorism raids earlier this week in which eight men were arrested.
The mainstream Council is trying to limit "rogue" Islamic preachers, blaming them for brainwashing young men and promoting holy war against the West
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Zitat:Pakistani Police Nab Suspected Islamic Militant

Thursday, April 01, 2004

KARACHI, Pakistan — Police arrested a suspected Islamic militant
(search) with time bombs and hand grenades in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi (search) on Thursday, officials said.
Senior police officials denied media reports the suspect was planning to assassinate Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali (search), who is currently visiting Karachi — a city hit by a wave of terrorist attacks in recent years.
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Zitat:ATC gives three men death, 4 life, for Murree attack

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court judge delivered death sentences to three convicts and life imprisonment to another four for a terrorist attack on a missionary school in Murree in May 2002, on Wednesday.

Anti-terrorism Court Judge Safdar Hussain Malik, handing down the sentences at Adiala Jail due to security reasons, gave death to Attaullah, Saifur Rehman and Abu Bakr, while Abdul Qadeer, Muhammad Izhar, Muhammad Asif and Saifur Rehman were given life sentences.
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Zitat:Uzbekistan Suicide Bomber Kills One
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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan - A woman blew herself up in Uzbekistan's central Bukhara region Thursday, killing a man and critically injuring herself, police said.
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Zitat:A number of mosques across the UK are expected to use Friday prayers to call on Muslims to co-operate with the police in the fight against terrorism.
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has urged imams to make the appeal but some are thought to be angry their religion has been linked with terrorism.

Zitat:Rom (AFP) - Italienische Sicherheitskräfte haben in der Wohnung eines mutmaßlichen islamistischen Terroristen ein El-Kaida-Video sichergestellt, das die Zerstörung Roms ankündigt. "Derjenige, der Rom zerstören wird, bereitet bereits die Schwerter vor", zitierte die Zeitschrift "Panorama" aus dem Band. Wie die Tageszeitung "La Stampa" berichtete, nehmen die Sicherheitskräfte die Drohungen angesichts der bevorstehenden Osterfeierlichkeiten in Rom sehr ernst.

Die Botschaften stammen laut "Panorama" von dem jordanischen El-Kaida-Mitglied Scheich Abu Qatadah Al Falastini, der derzeit in London inhaftiert ist. In dem Video werde Rom als Zentrum des Christentums zum Anschlagsziel erklärt. "Rom ist das Kreuz, und der Westen ist das Kreuz. Die Römer sind die Patrone des Kreuzes und das Ziel der Moslems ist der Westen. Wir werden Rom öffnen", zitierte die Zeitschrif aus dem Band. "Öffnen" sei laut einem Übersetzer aus dem Arabischen eine altertümliche Formulierung für "mit Gewalt und Blutvergießen einnehmen".

Anti-Terror-Spezialisten hätten das Band bei der Durchsuchung einer Wohnung im norditalienischen Cremona entdeckt, die als "Hauptquartier" eines terroristischen Netzwerks angesehen werde. Kopf der Gruppe soll der 35-jährige Mohammed Trabelsi sein, der vor einigen Wochen in der lombardischen Stadt festgenommen und in ein Mailänder Gefängnis gebracht wurde. Laut "Panorama" drohte Trabelsi: "Wir wollen Italien treffen, weil dieser Hund Berlusconi diesen Hund Bush unterstützt hat."

Zitat:FBI fears terrorists may use cultural visas to enter U.S.

April 2, 2004

BY CURT ANDERSON
WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials have received intelligence indicating terrorists might attempt to slip into the United States using cultural, arts or sports visas, according to the FBI.
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Zitat:Outsourcing the Hunt for Bin Laden
Pakistan should be at the top of Bush's 'axis of evil.'
By Leon Hadar
Imagine the following scenario, which includes all the historical analogies that neoconservative ideologues like to apply — World War II, Hitler, appeasement — plus a bonus reference to the evil du jour, Spain.

As American and Allied forces invade Nazi Germany in 1945, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and several SS troops flee to Fascist Spain, where they hide in the Pyrenees Mountains and mount guerrilla attacks against the Free French government. The American response? To ask Generalissimo Francisco Franco if he would be kind enough to send some of his forces to catch those Nazis — and it would be nice if it could all be wrapped up before the 1948 presidential election.

Sound absurd? Well, there is an element of the absurd in the acrimonious debate on 9/11 taking place these days. Lawmakers and pundits are arguing about what could have been done to prevent the terrorist attacks. But they all agree that if Americans could rewind history to pre-9/11, they would have done everything humanly possible to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda associates — sooner rather than later.
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Zitat:Police find videotape with terror threats to Rome
April 2, 2004 - 9:13PM

Italian police have found a video tape, thought to be from Al-Qaeda, containing threats to destroy Rome, right-wing weekly magazine Panorama said on Friday.

"The person who will destroy Rome is already preparing his swords. Rome will not be conquered by words but by force and weapons," Panorama quoted the message on the tape as saying.

The video was discovered at a flat in the northern city of Cremona suspected by investigators of being used as a base for an Islamic extremist group, the magazine said.
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Zitat:Report says terrorist teams stalk Manila

MANILA, Philippines, April 1 (UPI) -- At least 10 terrorist teams are in the Philippines metro Manila area to attack "soft targets," the Manila Times reported Friday.

The times quoted a "source in the police intelligence community" as saying the teams are from the Abu Sayyaf and its affiliate groups. The five or six members in each team reportedly trained in central Mindanao to prepare and set off explosives.
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Zitat:Untested Islamic Militants Emerging, U.S. Official Says

By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 2, 2004; Page A20


A new cadre of untested Islamic militants is emerging to take the place of leaders in Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, which is now under "catastrophic stress" as a result of international operations over the past 30 months, the senior State Department counterterrorism official told a House International Relations subcommittee yesterday.
At least 70 percent of al Qaeda's senior leadership has been detained or killed since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks triggered a worldwide offensive against the network, and the remaining 30 percent is largely on the run, State Department counterterrorism coordinator J. Cofer Black testified.
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Zitat:Al-Qaeda vows to make Australia a land of hell

03apr04
AUSTRALIA is high on Al-Qaeda's list, with a threat to "turn the land of infidels into hell".



The threat, listed in a document, was obtained by America's NBC television and was reported to also be on a website known to the operatives of the terror group.

In what appeared to be a planning document signed by a Saudi leader of the group, Abdul Aziz Al-Mukrin, it specifies which Australians and targets to be hit.
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Zitat:Brits and Americans on Al Qaeda "memo"
Fri 2 April, 2004 14:34

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An alleged al Qaeda "planning memo" lists specific nationalities and occupations to be targeted, with Americans and British citizens topping the list, according to a televised report.

The document, shown on NBC's "Today" programme on Friday, was described as "a planning memo from al Qaeda that lists who terrorists should target."

It ranks nationalities to target by importance, starting with Americans and British, followed by Spanish, Australians, Canadians and Italians, the report said.
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Zitat:U.S. to Fingerprint More Foreigners
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By SUZANNE GAMBOA, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - A program requiring foreigners to be fingerprinted and photographed before entering the country is being expanded to include millions of travelers from some of America's closest allies, U.S. officials said Friday.
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Zitat:Gov't Warns of Summer Bomb Plots in U.S.
34 minutes ago


By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Terrorists might try to bomb buses and rail lines in major U.S. cities this summer, according to a government bulletin issued to law enforcement officials nationwide.
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Zitat:Bomb Found on Rail Line in Spain
2 hours, 51 minutes ago

By DANIEL WOOLLS, Associated Press Writer

MADRID, Spain - Police found a bomb Friday under the tracks of Spain's bullet train line between Madrid and Seville, the interior minister said, less than a month after a deadly commuter rail attack. Bomb-disposal experts alerted by a railway employee found the 26-pound bomb about 40 miles south of Madrid, Interior Minister Angel Acebes said.
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Zitat:TERROR

Al-Qaida droht Spanien mit neuen Anschlägen

Das Terrornetzwerk al-Qaida droht Spanien angeblich mit neuen Anschlägen. Die spanischen Zeitungen berichten heute von einem Brief an die Botschaft des Landes in Kairo, in dem weitere Attentate angekündigt werden. US-Behörden fürchten ähnliche Anschläge wie jüngst in Madrid auch in ihrem Land.
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Zitat:PAKISTAN

Die Meister des Dschihad

Armenhaus und Atommacht, Verbündeter der USA und Brutstätte islamistischer Gewalt: Pakistan ist ein Land der Gegensätze - und eine Gefahr für die Welt. Washington setzt auf Militärherrscher Musharraf, der radikale Mullahs hätschelt, aber CIA-Spezialeinheiten Bin Laden jagen lässt.
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Zitat:“Rome is a cross. The West is a cross and Romans are the owners of the cross. Muslims’ target is the West. We will split Rome open”

Zitat:Bei der Explosion einer Bombe während einer Großrazzia gegen mutmaßliche islamische Terroristen sind am Samstag in einem Vorort von Madrid vier Menschen getötet worden. Bei den Opfern handele es sich um einen Polizisten sowie drei mutmaßliche Extremisten, die sich selbst in die Luft gesprengt hätten, teilte Innenminister Angel Acebes am Abend mit. (...)

Zitat:RAZZIA IN MADRID

Tunesischer Terror-Planer starb bei der Explosion

Sie schrien "Allah ist groß", dann explodierte die Bombe: Vier mutmaßliche Terroristen starben, als Spezialeinheiten in der Nacht ein Haus bei Madrid stürmen wollten. Unter den Toten sei der Rädelsführer der Attacken vom 11. März, sagt Spaniens Innenminister.
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