Zitat:Computer discs seized in Britain may trigger new security alerts: report
NEW YORK (AFP) - US officials may issue new public safety alerts based on information contained in more than 1,000 computer discs seized during the arrests of suspected Al-Qaeda operatives in Britain last week, a newspaper reported.
US and British intelligence officials are analyzing the content of the discs, which "appear to contain evidence of previously unknown terrorist planning activities in the United States," the New York Times said, citing an unnamed senior US intelligence official.
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Zitat:Bin Laden hints major assassination
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published August 11, 2004
U.S. intelligence officials say a high-profile political assassination, triggered by the public release of a new message from Osama bin Laden, will lead off the next major al Qaeda terrorist attack, The Washington Times has learned.
The assassination plan is among new details of al Qaeda plots disclosed by U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports who, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the killing could be carried out against a U.S. or foreign leader either in the United States or abroad.
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Zitat:Suicide bombers are real Ummah: Qazi

Staff Report

LAHORE: “Suicide bombers represent the real Ummah,” Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed declared in his presidential address at the launch of the Urdu translation of Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammed’s book ‘A new deal for Asia’ on Sunday at a local hotel.

The JI chief said the Ummah was not represented by kings and dictators, but was ‘in the heart beat of every Muslim’. “The Ummah are the people who sacrifice their lives,” he said.
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Zitat:Pakistani arrested with videos of Southern cities
Tapes included scenes from Georgia, Texas, Louisiana
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 Posted: 10:00 AM EDT (1400 GMT)
(CNN) -- A Pakistani citizen who was arrested while videotaping buildings in Charlotte, North Carolina, was charged with federal immigration violations, authorities announced Tuesday.

Kamran Shaikh -- also known as Kamran Akhtar -- was carrying videotapes of other Southern cities, according to an affidavit signed by U.S. Immigrations and Customs agent John Sherrill.
Those videos included images of Mansfield Dam in Austin, Texas; the MARTA transit system in Atlanta, Georgia; the Downtown Transit Center and Downtown Metro Trolley in Houston, Texas; and trolley cars in Dallas and New Orleans, Louisiana, the affidavit said.
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Zitat:Schweigen der USA hilft Motassadeq
In Hamburg wird der erste Prozess zu den Terroranschlägen vom 11. September neu aufgerollt


100 Fragen hatten die Deutschen. Doch das 17-seitige Schreiben an das US-Justizministerium von Anfang Juni blieb bis heute unbeantwortet. Also begann am Dienstag in Hamburg die Neuauflage des ersten Prozesses um die Terroranschläge vom 11. September 2001 gegen den Marokkaner Mounir Al Motassadeq für Generalbundesanwalt Kay Nehm unter denkbar schlechten Vorzeichen.


Die Anklage steht mit leeren Händen da. Sie verfügt weder über Antworten auf die Fragen des Hanseatischen Oberlandesgerichts an die US-Regierung, noch hatten die Behörden der Vorladung von Zeugen zugestimmt. FBI-Agent Matthew Walsh, der frühere CIA-Chef George Tenet und der inhaftierte Ramzi Binalshibh dürfen nicht vernommen werden. Binalshibh gilt als Cheflogistiker der Hamburger Terrorzelle um den Todespiloten Mohammed Atta und ist eine Schlüsselfigur in diesem Prozess.

Zitat:80 Muslim converts trained under Janjalani

THE al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group has deployed 80 Muslim converts all over the country, most of them in key cities in Metro Manila, to bomb civilian and government targets.

Citing reports from the intelligence community, National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales said the Abu Sayyaf chieftain, Khadaffy Janjalani, trained these converts, who were former Christians, early last year in the jungles of Basilan.
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Zitat:Revealed: 20 al-Qaeda suspects on Scots hit-list

•Muslims named in M15 dossier
•80 people linked to UK ricin plot

BRITISH security services have compiled a ‘hit-list’ of 20 al-Qaeda terrorist suspects who are living in Scotland and said to be connected with a plot to unleash mass murder on the streets of the UK.
The dossier, compiled by MI5 and Special Branch, contains the names of more than 80 alleged extremists across Britain whom security services allege were involved in a plan to kill, using the deadly poison ricin.
The 20 suspects living north of the Border are all Muslims and based in the Central Belt. Some are said to be British citizens.
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Zitat:Italy quietly secures cities ahead of Al-Qaeda deadline

ROME, Italy -- Security was boosted -- but quietly -- in Italian cities, ports, train stations, subways and airports Saturday, the day before the deadline runs out from a group linked to the Al-Qaeda network warning Italy to pull its troops out of Iraq or face attack.
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Zitat:Terrorist" Who Worked For Holy Land Foundation To Be Deported

AYNAN ISMAIL FOUGHT TO STAY WITH WIFE AND 5 CHILDREN

Aug 6, 2004 11:44 am US/Central
By Todd Bensman and Robert Riggs
The Investigators
CBS-11 News

Accused Dallas terrorist Aynan Sabri Ismail took the stand in federal court and swore to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Despite professing love for his adoptive country, the 34-year-old illegal immigrant who came on a college student visa in 1988 now faces imminent expulsion, labeled a dangerous terrorist by the U.S. government. This week, Ismail decided not to appeal Judge Rogers' decision to reject an application to stay.

"He's not going to be in this country. He's not going to be acting as a sleeper. He's not going to be raising funds in this country," said Carl Rusnok, spokesman for the Dallas bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "He's going to be out of this country where he's not going to do us direct harm."
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Zitat:N.Y. man admits he aided al Qaeda, set up jihad camp
Mohammed Babar agrees to cooperate with investigation
By Jonathan Wald
CNN
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A New York man has admitted to smuggling money and military supplies to a senior member of al Qaeda in Pakistan, setting up a jihad training camp and assisting in a bombing plot in the United Kingdom.

Mohammed Junaid Babar, a naturalized American originally from Pakistan, pleaded guilty June 2 to five counts of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, as well as providing the support, according to a court transcript recently released.
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Zitat:Man detained after terror attacks deported
Friday, August 13, 2004 Posted: 10:11 AM EDT (1411 GMT)


HUDSON, New York (AP) -- Immigration authorities have deported a Pakistani immigrant who was detained after snapping photos of a reservoir during the jittery weeks after the 2001 terror attacks.
Ansar Mahmood, 27, a former pizza deliveryman, called a supporter Thursday night to say he was at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City and getting ready to board a plane for Pakistan.
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Zitat:Non-Arab recruits scout for Al-Qaeda
Officials provide detail on U.S. cells
By John Diamond and Toni Locy
USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — Al-Qaeda allies are believed to be scouting U.S. targets, and the terror organization is using non-Arab recruits to avoid detection, U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials say.
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Zitat:SUSPECTS 'PLOTTED ATTACK'

Eight men arrested in an anti-terrorism swoop have been charged with attempting to launch a radioactive or chemical attack.
The suspects were also charged with conspiracy to commit murder and some accused of plotting a terror campaign against major financial landmarks in the USA.
The men were among those seized in a series of raids in London, the Home Counties and in Lancashire two weeks ago.
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Zitat:German convert to Islam describes meeting 9/11 suicide pilot

17 August 2004

HAMBURG - A German who converted to Islam testified Tuesday to a Hamburg court about how he became acquainted with the main 11 September suicide attacker, Mohammed Atta, in a city mosque.

The 23-year-old witness, whose name was withheld in line with ethics guidelines, was testifying at the trial of Mounir al- Motassadeq, a Moroccan student accused for the second time on charges of aiding murder and being a member of the Hamburg terrorist cell.
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Zitat:Terror group threatens Dutch with 'Islamic earthquake'

16 August 2004

AMSTERDAM — Muslim extremists have threatened an "Islamic earthquake" and "nights of bloodshed" in the Netherlands unless Dutch troops are withdrawn from Iraq. The warning came a day after a Dutch soldier was shot dead in southern Iraq.

"We address this message to all crusader countries plotting against the Muslims, and which are sending forces to Iraq and Afghanistan, especially Italy and the Netherlands," organisation al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad said on an website on Sunday.
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Zitat:The Guantanamo Four
By Michael Radu
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 17, 2004

Their names: Mourad Benchellali, Nizar Sassi, Brahim Yadel and Imad Achab Kanouni.

Their current status: captured in Afghanistan by US forces, the four—all of whom are French citizens or residents— were held at Camp Guantanamo for over two years. That is, until last month, when they were sent back to France and placed under arrest on charges of “criminal association with the intent of committing acts of terrorism” and, more specifically, of membership in the terrorist “Chechen connection.”
The case of these four men is typical of the terrorists held at Guantanamo and thus, deserves some examination. While we are constantly being told by “human rights” activists that the prisoners at Guantanamo are “ illegally” held, and that many, if not all are “innocent” and have been mistreated by the Americans, the reality is something far different.
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Zitat:Terror's South African Front
By Josh Lefkowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 19, 2004

On July 25, following a twelve-hour shootout, two South African Al Qaeda operatives were nabbed in Pakistan, along with Africa Embassy bombing suspect Ahmed Ghailani. According to reports, the pair was plotting attacks against a number of targets in South Africa, including the Johannnesburg Stock Exchange and the National Parliament in Cape Town.
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Zitat:8 Terror Suspects Appear in British Court

JILL LAWLESS

Associated Press


LONDON - Eight suspects, including a man identified by the United States as a senior al-Qaida figure, appeared in a London court under heavy guard Wednesday as police investigated their alleged plot to commit murder and to cause mayhem with chemical, biological or radioactive materials.
A prosecutor also said police were searching about 100 computers and thousands of files, suggesting a protracted investigation that could produce more charges against the suspects, who were seized in raids across England two weeks ago.
The eight suspects, including an alleged al-Qaida operative linked to a terror alert in the United States this month, did not enter pleas Wednesday and were ordered detained until their next court appearance Aug. 25.
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Zitat:'A lot' of Canadians in al-Qaeda track between words
Toronto, Vancouver men at terror training camp, Khadr says

A lot" of Canadians trained at al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and some still live freely in Canada, Abdurahman Khadr testified at a court hearing at which he revealed chilling new details about Canadian terror suspects and his father's ties to Osama bin Laden's training camps.
Mr. Khadr, a 21-year-old Toronto man who underwent weapons and explosives training at four camps in Afghanistan, said in testimony made public yesterday that he had given CIA agents the names of several Canadians who trained at camps such as Khalden.
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Zitat:Saudi export of strict Islam raises suspicions
U.S. is eyeing money trails of charities backed by kingdom
SAN DIEGO - Omar Abdi Mohamed, a lanky, soft-spoken political refugee from war-ruined Somalia in East Africa, had been preaching the word of Islam in the United States for the past nine years. Two things make him unusual.
In January, U.S. immigration authorities arrested him, saying they suspected him of being a conduit for terrorist funds, federal court records show. At the time, he was on the payroll of Saudi Arabia's government.
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Zitat:Merowig postete
tjo der sturm wuetete schon ueber Afghanistan und irak- ,mal seh wo die world freedom tour aehm der hurrican dann als naechstes auftaucht
Und das Terroristen in den vollen Genuss von Menschenrechte komme wag ich mal zu bezweifeln - sag nur Gitmo, Baghram Airbase und Diego Garcia....

Zitat:tjo der sturm wuetete schon ueber Afghanistan und irak- ,mal seh wo die world freedom tour aehm der hurrican dann als naechstes auftaucht

Zitat:Grundsatzrede der US-Sicherheitsberaterin
"Kampf gegen den Terror ist ein Krieg der Visionen"

Während US-Präsident George W. Bush sich auf seiner Ranch in Crawford eine Woche Auszeit gönnt, um - so seine Mitarbeiter - die Batterie wieder aufzuladen für die anstrengenden Wahlkampfwochen, die vor ihm liegen, wurde seine Sicherheitsberaterin Condoleezza Rice in Washington grundsätzlich.

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Quintessenz nach einer Stunde Rede und Diskussion: Vom Kalten Krieg lernen heißt siegen lernen. Der Krieg gegen den Terror jedenfalls, das habe auch Präsident Bush von Anfang an begriffen, werde nicht nur mit Waffen geführt. Er sei ebenso ein Krieg der Ideen und Visionen.

Stand: 20.08.2004 12:44 Uhr

Zitat:Erich postete


damit haben Sie die Ursachen der islamischen Restauration immer noch nicht begriffen.
Wer - wie die Palästinenser in Israel - über Jahrzehnte hin nur Unterdrückung und Knebelung erlebt, sucht seine Hilfe nicht bei den Werten des Unterdrückers sondern in den "glorreichen Zeiten" der Vergangenheit - und in einer Ideologie, die sich scheinbar in diesen Zeiten bewährt hat.

Zitat:mehr Verständnis für die Ursachen von Selbstmordattentaten gezeigt als Sie als Universitätsprofessorin.

Zitat:Der Terror und die islamische Restauration kann nur beseitigt werden, wenn die Ursachen für diese "geistige Flucht in die Vergangenheit" beseitigt werden. Dazu gehört ein Ende von Gewalt, Besatzung und Unterdrückung, die von denjenigen ausgeübt wird, die sich als Repräsentanten der sogenannten "westlich ziviliserten Werte" darstellen.

Zitat:nun ja sollten vielleicht ja mal wirkliche Sozialwissenschaftler da ranlassen

Zitat:Terror leaflets found at mosque
By Jeanette Oldham, Sunday Mercury


Hundreds of leaflets urging Muslims to become terrorist fight-ers have been distributed at a Midland mosque.
Police have been called in to investigate after the flyers were found at Birmingham Central Mosque last week.
The leaflets urge worshippers to become Mujahideen fighters and ask them to 'pray for death and decay to be visited upon the West'.
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Zitat:Possible terrorist sighting roils isle
Suspect sought on Nantucket
By Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff | August 21, 2004

HYANNIS -- A long-sought suspected Al Qaeda member who has eluded a concerted international dragnet may have been sighted at a Nantucket airport this week, prompting the FBI to distribute a picture of the suspect to law enforcement and transportation officials on the island.
Law enforcement authorities declined to disclose details of the possible sighting of Amer el-Maati, who allegedly has talked about hijacking a plane in Canada and flying it into a building in the United States. The sighting was first reported in the Inquirer and Mirror newspaper of Nantucket yesterday, citing unnamed town and airport sources.
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Zitat:Bali bomber pledges fresh attack
August 22, 2004

UNREPENTANT Bali bomber Imam Samudra has warned he will continue to wage jihad if a recent constitutional court decision means he is set free.
Vowing to carry out more bombings against "unbelievers", Samudra said: "I want to continue my Jihad Fie Sabililah (violent holy struggle).
"I want to go to Moro (in the Philippines). I want to go to Afghanistan. I want to go to Israel to kill Sharon."
Speaking from his death-row cell in Bali's Kerobokan prison, Samudra vowed to kill again. "If I get the death penalty, I will die a martyr's death. If I'm free, I'll bomb again. You got it?"
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Zitat:Frenchman suspected of planning terrorist attack arrested in Poland

WARSAW, Aug 18 (AFP) - Police have arrested a Frenchman near a gas pumping station in western Poland suspecting he is preparing a terrorist attack, an official from the Polish security services said on Wednesday.
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The suspect is of Algerian origin, according to Poland's Fakt newspaper.
He "was arrested Friday while he was cycling around the pumping station at Swarzedz and taking photos of the site," the newspaper said.
According to another newspaper, the Rzeczpospolita, he is suspected of "having prepared the ground to blow up the pumping station".
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Zitat:Swiss Tie Arabs to al-Qaida Suspect

By JONATHAN FOWLER
Associated Press Writer
GENEVA (AP) -- Swiss investigators have established a link between at least three Arabs detained in a nationwide anti-terror sweep and a purported key al-Qaida member, a newspaper reported Saturday.

The Geneva daily Le Temps said it obtained a copy of a document written by Deputy Federal Prosecutor Claude Nicati in which he detailed his case against 10 people arrested in raids since December and ordered the launch of preliminary judicial proceedings. Five suspects have been released but remain under investigation.
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Zitat:With restructuring, military focus may move to Africa
Outposts could counter pirates, smugglers, terrorists
By LISA HOFFMAN
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE
When a contingent of U.S. soldiers arrived at a barren and torrid spot in remote Ethiopia earlier this year, it was distinguished only by six concrete slabs and abundant piles of dirt.
In mere days, troops from the Army's 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment transformed the desolate Horn of Africa acreage into a "forward operating base" that they dubbed "Camp United."
Complete with living tents, showers, toilets, a medical center and a recreation tent, the camp served as a temporary training facility for Ethiopian troops to learn a host of skills from American forces.
It also could serve as a base for U.S. anti-terror missions or humanitarian efforts in the future.
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"We are seeing indications of (the terrorists') willingness to move to Africa to start to develop their footholds and to export their particular brand of terrorism and instability," Jones told Congress earlier this year.
Already, Nigeria is home to at least one terrorist cell linked to al-Qaida.
The Pentagon's first focus has been on the Horn of Africa and its eastern reaches.
There, Sudan had served as a base for the al-Qaida network, while Kenya and Tanzania had been the sites for al-Qaida's terror bombings of two U.S. embassies.
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Zitat:South America increases security at Western embassies

GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT

AL-QAEDA appears to be expanding its operations into Latin America, security officials are warning, with Western embassies appearing high up on the target list.
Honduras has stepped up security after the government received information that the terrorist network led by Osama bin Laden was trying to recruit Hondurans to attack the embassies of the United States, Britain, Spain and El Salvador.
And Mexican and Central American officials are on alert after uncovering evidence to suggest al-Qaeda members were in the region looking for recruits to carry out attacks.
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