Zitat:Muslim areas get martial law


By Richard S. Ehrlich
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

BANGKOK — Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday he will enforce martial law in Thailand's mainly Muslim south, where insurgents this week have seized weapons, burned schools and attacked police outposts, killing four soldiers and three policemen.
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Zitat:Court orders Mullah Krekar's release

An Oslo city court ordered the release on Monday of Mullah Krekar, the controversial former leader of guerrilla group Ansar al-Islam. State prosecutors had arrested him Friday on charges tied to at least two suicide bombings.
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Zitat:Insight News Television presents a film on Ansar al-Islam - the radical Islamic militia named by US Secretary of State Colin Powell in his speach to the UN. He said it was one of the missing links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

Zitat:'Taliban' of Nigeria: Who Are They?

Abdullahi Bego
Damaturu

In addition to numerous national problems of fuel scarcity, poverty, banditry, unemployment and ecological dangers, the people of the north-eastern region and indeed the entire nation were last week stunned by the eruption of a new form of civil insurrection by a group of youths who style themselves the 'Taliban.' The violent clash between security agents and the youths who reportedly sought to establish an independent Muslim state close to Nigeria's boarder with Niger Republic have sent chills of fear across the nation of a new era of religious and social insurgence.
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Zitat:Nigeria: Six Die As Troops Quell Uprising By Muslim Extremists

January 5, 2004
Posted to the web January 5, 2004

Kano

At least six people were killed when soldiers and police quelled an uprising by Muslim extremists who had attacked several police stations in Northeastern Nigeria over the past two weeks, a government spokesman said.
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Zitat:Taiwan has been targeted by Al Qaeda network’

TAIPEI: A top Taiwanese intelligence official confirmed for the first time on Monday that the island had been targeted by Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network and had beefed up security.
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Zitat:Masquerading as 'mainstream'
How extremist Muslims intimidate press, true moderates into silence
The Islamic Circle of North America, or ICNA, along with the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA, and representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, are mainstays of the American Islamic conference circuit, which has featured radical clerics and ideology derived from its overseas forebears.
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Zitat:Third Communique from 'Islamic Bayan Movement' Warns of an Upcoming Terrorist Attack: 'We Are Capable of Destroying an American City'

Third Communique from 'Islamic Bayan Movement' Warns of an Upcoming Terrorist Attack: 'We Are Capable of Destroying an American City'
A third communique attributed to the "Islamic Bayan Movement" threatening attacks in the U.S. was published on an Islamist Web site. The communique, titled "Very Urgent - From the Nation of Islam to the American People," was published at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/global-islamic-news/message/77">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/global-is ... message/77</a><!-- m --> .
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Zitat:Islamic terror suspects held near Lyon

LYON, France, Jan 6 (AFP) - French anti-terrorist police detained seven people including the imam of a mosque in a series of dawn raids Tuesday targetting Islamic militant circles near the southeastern city of Lyon, police officials said.
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Zitat:France Seeks Passenger Who Missed Flight
Wed Jan 7, 3:22 PM ET Add Top Stories - AP to My Yahoo!


By VERENA VON DERSCHAU, Associated Press Writer

PARIS - France is searching for an Afghan on a U.S. list of suspected terrorists because someone with his name failed to board a Christmas Eve flight across the Atlantic that was canceled amid security fears, officials said Wednesday.
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Zitat:TERRORISM
JI still going strong, experts warn
By Shefali Rekhi

A FRESH batch of Jemaah Islamiah recruits (JI) graduates from a Mindanao training camp next week, some others are being groomed in Pakistan and dozens more recruited from mosques and pesantrens in Indonesia.
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Zitat:Bangkok - Nach mehreren Anschlägen zu Beginn der Woche hat die thailändische Regierung erstmals eingeräumt, dass sie im Süden des Landes mit einem Aufstand von Islamisten konfrontiert ist. Die Anschläge seien vermutlich das Werk der separatistischen Organisation Mujaheddin Pattani, sagte am Donnerstag der neue Sicherheitsberater der Regierung, Kitti Rattanachaya. Bei den Anschlägen kamen vier Soldaten und zwei Polizisten ums Leben; außerdem raubten die Rebellen mehr als 100 Schusswaffen aus einer Kaserne. (APA/AP)

Zitat:Weihnachten 1994 – da hätten die Franzosen beinahe ihren 11.September erlebt. Ein algerisches Selbstmordkommando hatte einen Airbus der Air France auf dem Linienflug Algier–Paris entführt, um sich mit ihm in den Eiffelturm zu stürzen. Doch bei der Zwischenlandung in Marseille konnten französische Spezialtruppen das Flugzeug stürmen.

Damals lernte der Pariser Richter Jean-Louis Bruguière eine fundamentale Lektion: „Jeder gescheiterte Anschlag zieht automatisch weitere nach sich.“ In der Tat erlebte Frankreich 1995, wie schon in den achtziger Jahren, eine mörderische Anschlagsserie auf Kaufhäuser und Bahnstationen. Mit einer beispiellosen Großrazzia gelang es Bruguière, die konspirativen Netzwerke zu zerschlagen. Seitdem hat das Land keine schweren Anschläge mehr gesehen, obgleich die Bedrohung geblieben ist. „Frankreich“, sagt ein Kollege des Richters, sei „zusammen mit den USA und Israel weiterhin das terroristische Hauptziel in der westlichen Welt“.........

Zitat:FBI: Al Qaida still recruiting
in U.S. prisons

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Monday, January 5, 2004
Al Qaida continues to recruit members in U.S. prisons despite a government crackdown, FBI officials told a congressional panel.

U.S. officials said Al Qaida's recruitment has been facilitated by Muslim clergy with access to federal and state prisons. They said the organization has succeeded in winning new members despite tighter rules instituted by authorities since the Al Qaida suicide attacks in September 2001.
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Zitat:Two years ago today, Feroz Abbasi, a British citizen arrested in Afghanistan, was one of the first detainees to be transferred hooded, shackled and manacled by the US military to Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay. His mother, Zumrati, who lives in Croydon, was informed about five days later - by the media. It took a further six days for a British government official to contact her. Significantly, she was assured that her son did not need a lawyer.

Zitat:Krekar contradicts his own defense

Mullah Krekar, under arrest in Norway for suspected terror links, represented himself in an Al-Jazeera TV program as leader of the suspected terrorist group Ansar al-Islam just last month. He also confirmed the group was behind a suicide bombing in Northern Iraq last year.
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Zitat:Saudi in Idaho Charged with Supporting Terrorism
Fri Jan 9, 8:09 PM ET Add U.S. National - Reuters to My Yahoo!


BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - Close to a year after his arrest, a university computer science student from Saudi Arabia studying in Idaho was charged on Friday with supporting terrorism.
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Zitat:X-Ray detainee's sister held
From correspondents in Paris
January 10, 2004
THE sister of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner was held for questioning today, joining her father and other members of her family in French police custody in an investigation into suspected terror networks, judicial officials said.
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Zitat:Swiss arrests over Saudi attacks
Eight foreigners have been arrested in Switzerland in connection with suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia.
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Zitat:WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Iraq invasion was "an unnecessary preventive war of choice" that has robbed resources and attention from the more critical fight against al Qaeda in a hopeless U.S. quest for absolute security, according to a study recently published by the U.S. Army War College.

The 56-page document written by Jeffrey Record, a veteran defense expert who serves as a visiting research professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the Army War College, represents a blistering assessment of what President Bush calls the U.S. global war on terrorism.

Pentagon officials on Monday said Record was entitled to his opinion, but reiterated Bush's view that Iraq is the "central front" in the war on terrorism.

Zitat:IRAK-KRIEG

Saddam Hussein wollte keine Hilfe von al-Qaida

Auch der zweite Kriegsgrund von US-Präsident Bush erweist sich als falsch: Nachdem sich herausgestellt hat, dass der Irak keine Massenvernichtungswaffen besaß, zeigt sich nun, dass Saddam auch keine Verbindung zu Terrorchef bin Laden hatte. Im Gegenteil: Er warnte sogar davor, al-Qaida-Kämpfer ins Land zu holen.

Zitat:The women of Jemaah Islamiah

By Kelly McEvers
BBC East Asia Today, Jakarta


Mira Augustina married her husband the same day she met him. It was the first time he had proposed, by way of the 21-year-old's father
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Zitat:Al-Qaeda hiding in plain sight
09/01/2004 08:22 - (SA)

Siyu, Kenya - When Fazul Abdullah Mohammed showed up in this little fishing village, there was already a local soccer club - and its name was al-Qaeda.
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Zitat:Terror cells regroup - and now their target is Europe

Secret intelligence papers from across the continent reveal a growing danger from a widening network of fanatics - and this is a struggle the West cannot lose

Antony Barnett, Jason Burke and Zoe Smith
Sunday January 11, 2004
They had been watching him for months, aware that his pop star good looks concealed a secret life as one of Europe's new terrorist kingpins. Finally, on a cold winter dawn, the police moved in. Abderrazak Mahdjoub did not resist as armed German officers surrounded his Hamburg home and led him away.
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Zitat:FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
Saudi funds still flow to al-Qaida
Only 4% of terror money frozen by Riyadh kingdom

Saudi Arabia, the source of most of al-Qaida's funding prior to Sept. 11, 2001, has frozen only a tiny percentage of the money flowing to Osama bin Laden's terror network since the biggest terror attack in history, according to a new report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium, online intelligence newsletter.
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Zitat:Close shave on 'suicide bomber'
By David Leppard, The Sunday Times
January 12, 2004
An Islamic terrorist suspect linked to al-Qa'ida has been arrested after apparently preparing himself for a suicide bombing in Britain.

The man, an Algerian asylum-seeker, had left suicide notes to his mother and sister warning them that he planned to "martyr" himself.
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Zitat:Cracks in the Door for Terror
By Lorenzo Vidino and Erick Stakelbeck
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 12, 2004


On January 5, following months of deliberation, the Department of Homeland Security instituted a new security procedure requiring foreigners entering the U.S. to be fingerprinted and photographed. While the program, called US-VISIT (U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology), is chiefly intended to monitor potential terrorists who attempt to enter the U.S., it is not applied to citizens from several countries where Islamic terrorists and their supporters operate. For example, while citizens from notorious terrorist-sponsoring states like Iran and Syria are included, visitors from France and England—both growing hotbeds of Islamic militancy—are not subject to US-VISIT.
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Zitat:Interview with Algerian Terror Leader Associated with Al-Qa'ida: The Islamic State Will Arise Only Through Blood and Body Parts

The Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat published an interview with Nabil Sahrawi, also known as Abu Ibrahim Mustafa, a leader of the Salafi Group for Da'wa and Fighting in Algeria. This group has been linked with Al-Qa'ida. Prior to publication, the interview, which is Sahrawi's first, was posted on Islamist websites.
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Zitat:Indonesian police say arrested Islamic teacher is a terrorist leader
JAKARTA Jan 12 - Indonesian police said Monday an Islamic teacher arrested in East Java province last week planned to bomb police headquarters and has long been on their wanted list.
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Zitat:48 militant camps in Bangladesh: Report

Press Trust of India

New Delhi, January 13: With pressure mounting on Dhaka to act against North Eastern insurgent camps there, media reports say that there were at least 48 camps across Bangladesh to impart arms training to Islamic militants, some of whom are known to be close to al-Qaeda and Taliban.
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Zitat:Bulgaria dismantles Islamic centres

SOFIA: Bulgaria has dismantled Islamic centres with possible links to Saudi-funded extremist movements, the head of military intelligence, Plamen Stoudenkov, said on Monday.
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Zitat:The Changing Threat of Al-Qaeda
Banjul

Today, al-Qaeda is in a period of transition, having temporarily lost its operating base, Afghanistan, and its sponsor, the Taliban. More significantly, its organizational effectiveness has been dented by the deaths or captures of so many of its operational leaders, members and key supporters. Yet despite the dismantling of its training and operational infrastructure in Afghanistan, al-Qaeda is adapting by seeking to establish bases elsewhere and therefore remains a serious, immediate and direct threat. And that threat is not aimed just at Western "infidel" governments. The latest attacks in Riyadh and Istanbul are proof that Muslim governments are also under attack.
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Zitat:Young JI: Even more hardcore
They have been indoctrinated from young and believe strongly in holy war

By Felix Soh

THE second generation of Muslim terrorist leaders in South-east Asia is even more hardcore than its forbear.
Regional intelligence sources said that the new and younger elite of Jemaah Islamiah (JI) is imbued with the strongest commitment to the terrorist group's cause of jihad or holy war.
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Zitat:Muslim Groups' IRS Files Sought
Hill Panel Probing Alleged Terror Ties
By Dan Eggen and John Mintz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, January 14, 2004; Page A01

The Senate Finance Committee has asked the Internal Revenue Service to turn over confidential tax and financial records, including donor lists, on dozens of Muslim charities and foundations as part of a widening congressional investigation into alleged ties between tax-exempt organizations and terrorist groups, according to documents and officials.
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Zitat:Krekar gets bill after Hagen trial

Norway's controversial refugee mullah Krekar has lost his lawsuit against Progress Party leader Carl I. Hagen (picture). Hagen's characterization of Krekar as a terrorist was ruled protected by free speech and the Oslo court instructed the former Ansar al-Islam leader to pay court costs totaling NOK 199,600 (USD 29,500).
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Zitat:Devotee's bid to flee ends in jail
By Mark Dunn
January 15, 2004

A MELBOURNE Muslim fled Australia in 2002 fearing he would be arrested for allegedly training at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan.
But Ahmad, 23, was arrested and jailed in Cairo eight months ago and faces indefinite detention by Egyptian authorities under suspicion of links to terrorism.
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Zitat:CENTRAL ASIA: Focus on security threat from radical Islamic groups

[ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
ANKARA, 14 Jan 2004 (IRIN) - Although recent reports suggest that the outlawed Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) has been regrouping and could threaten stability in Central Asia, experts and regional observers remain unconvinced. The IMU is a coalition of Islamic militants from Uzbekistan and other Central Asian states opposed to Uzbek President Islam Karimov's secular regime.
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Zitat:Boston Muslim group linked to terrorists

BOSTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The leader of an Islamic group preparing to build a mosque in Boston reportedly has previously undisclosed ties to terroristic groups.
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