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Video of Anti-Denmark Protest in London
Last Updated (Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00) Written by Evan Kohlmann Friday, 24 February 2006 06:48
The January 2006 republication of cartoons from Denmark lampooning the Prophet Mohammed has caused a growing wave of bitter anger and violence to spread throughout the Muslim world--and likewise among well-organized groups of extremists living in Western nations. On February 3, a U.K.-based militant faction formerly known as "Al-Muhajiroun" ("The Emigrants") helped organize a raucous demonstration outside the Danish, Norwegian, and French embassies in central London. Video excerpts from the demonstration are now available for download c/o the NEFA Foundation website.
Purported Threat by "Al-Qaida in Northern Europe"
Last Updated (Thursday, 17 December 2009 06:51) Written by Evan Kohlmann Thursday, 15 September 2005 06:47
In a new communiqué verified as authentic by the same online authority responsible for distributing credible material from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a group calling itself "Al-Qaida's Committee in Northern Europe" has issued a threat to carry out additional suicide bombing attacks similar those that took place on July 7 in downtown London. According to an electronic statement issued on September 11, members of the purported Al-Qaida unit announced their intention to "sacrifice our souls and dead bodies for this religion, in order to raise the flag of the mujahideen, and to preserve the souls of the Muslims in the same way that our brothers in Britain have done previously." No specific European nation or target was mentioned in the communiqué.
"Junior Osama Bin Laden" Resurfaces in Bosnia
Last Updated (Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00) Written by Evan Kohlmann Monday, 29 August 2005 06:45
An Algerian terrorist commander once thought to head a transnational sleeper cell network that included would-be Al-Qaida Millenium bomber Ahmed Ressam has resurfaced in Bosnia-Herzegovina, vehemently denying allegations recently presented to the Bosnian Supreme Court in Sarajevo that his foreign mujahideen unit committed war crimes during the Bosnian civil conflict of the 1990s. Algerian militant commander Abu el-Maali--the former chief of the foreign mujahideen unit in Bosnia--granted an exclusive interview to a mujahideen-affiliated magazine in Bosnia in order to respond to charges leveled during the recent trial of Iraqi-born Abduladhim Maktouf--convicted in early July of aiding in the 1993 kidnapping of three Croat civilians subsequently held prisoner in a mujahideen-run torture camp.
Calls for American Blood at May Rally in London
Last Updated (Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00) Written by Evan Kohlmann Thursday, 28 July 2005 06:44
Last May, at the height of the Newsweek-Quran desecration fiasco, a group of Al-Qaida supporters and clerics held an anti-American rally in central London. The organizers included Shaykh Omar Bakri Mohammed (founder of the fanatical British Al-Muhajiroun movement) and Yasser al-Sirri (a leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad in exile). During the rally, dozens of demonstrators chanted responsively, "USA, you will pay! With your blood, with your blood! ...Bomb, bomb USA! Scud, scud USA! Nuke, nuke USA! The mujahideen are on their way! Jihad! Jihad! Jihad!" Omar Bakri can be seen dressed in a white gown, greeting the other speakers at the front of the crowd and wearing a photo of the Egyptian Shaykh Omar Abdel Rahman--currently imprisoned in the United States for his involvement in a series of terrorist plots targeting New York landmarks.
U.K. Cleric: Make the Earth "Warm with Blood"
Last Updated (Thursday, 17 December 2009 06:43) Written by Evan Kohlmann Sunday, 24 July 2005 06:37
Not far from the south London neighborhood where British police have been frantically searching for additional would-be suicide bombers, lies the unassuming town of Brixton. Coincidentally or not, Brixton is also the former home of Shaykh Abdullah al-Faisal, a Jamaican-born Islamic convert and religious leader now serving a lengthy prison sentence for inciting young Muslims to kill Jews and Hindus.
- Where do British Suicide Bombers Come From? Part II
Audio clip of Shaykh Abdullah al-Faisal #1 Audio clip of Shaykh Abdullah al-Faisal #2
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