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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
The Evidence Behind the London Ricin Plot
Last Updated (Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00) Written by Evan Kohlmann Thursday, 14 April 2005 06:34
Despite damning evidence and the violent murder of a British constable, four of five men accused of plotting to spread ricin and other poisons throughout downtown London have been acquitted by a court in the United Kingdom. When British counterterrorism forces raided the headquarters of the alleged terror cell in January 2003, they found a makeshift chemical weapons factory, replete with castor oil beans (the raw material for ricin), lab equipment, and recipes for ricin, cyanide, botulinum, and the preparation of explosives.
Al-Qaida Supporters in London Call for Death to Jews
Last Updated (Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00) Written by Evan Kohlmann Tuesday, 12 October 2004 06:30
Al-Qaida supporters in London, led by the notorious Shaykh Omar Bakri Mohammed (Al-Muhajiroun) and Yasser al-Sirri (the Islamic Observation Centre), held a protest rally outside the Saudi embassy in London on October 8. Only a day after the terrorist attacks on Israeli tourists in Taba, Egypt, the militants shouted: "Taba, Taba, O' Jews! The Army of Mohammed is Coming!"
Captured Pakistani Al-Qaida Operative Leads to Arrests in the U.K.
Last Updated (Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00) Written by Evan Kohlmann Thursday, 05 August 2004 06:24
Analysis of computers and documents seized during the capture of Pakistani Al-Qaida operative Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan has led to increased terror alerts both in the U.S. and the U.K., where British authorities have detained a dozen individuals suspected of plotting an imminent act of terrorism, perhaps directed at London's Heathrow International Airport. According to the British Daily Telegraph, Khan was in contact with a ringleader known as "Abu Eisa al-Hindi"--reputed to be "the head of Al-Qaida operations in Britain." It is likely that the pseudonym "Abu Eisa al-Hindi" refers to the same extremist leader who wrote the infamous jihad text, The Army of Madinah in Kashmir. According to that book, "Esa al-Hindi" was born in the U.K. as a Hindu, but later converted to Islam and fought alongside Muslim militants in Kashmir. After working as a combat trainer at a mujahideen terror camp in Afghanistan, al-Hindi moved to southern Thailand in 1998 and married a local woman there.
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