More on Pakistan's well-documented jihad factories -- and more adventures of the notorious Omar Bakri. "Pakistani Islamist group training, exporting youths for Al Qaeda," from the Indo Asian News Service, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
Islamabad, June 19 (IANS) An US-based security think tank has linked recent arrests in the US and one associated with the July 7, 2005, London bombings to the Pakistani branch of the Islamist militant group al-Muhajiroun.The group has evolved into one of many support networks connecting Western Muslim youths, mostly from Europe, to jihad in southwest Asia, according to an analysis circulated by Stratfor, the US-based online news analysis service.
This occurred after the Pakistani branch's 2003 announcement of independence from the parent group in London. The Pakistani branch of al-Muhajiroun had decided to participate more actively in the jihad in Afghanistan, which necessitated its secession from the parent body.
Omer Bakri Mohammed, the organisation's founder, blessed this decision as he wanted to maintain plausible deniability for the group as a whole, the Daily Times newspaper said in a report from Washington.
Stratfor writes: 'Groups like al-Muhajiroun's Pakistani branch are channels for bringing conditioned Western Muslim youths into contact with Al Qaeda recruiters. This is likely the same medium that allowed the July 7 London bombers to go from being radicalised youth to becoming actual suicide bombers.'
Stratfor cites the example of Syed Hashmi, a 26-year-old US Muslim and New York City resident, who was arrested on June 6 at London's Heathrow Airport as he prepared to board a plane for Pakistan. He was charged with aiding an Al Qaeda plot to stage attacks in London and shipping equipment to the jihadi network headquartered in Pakistan.
Hashmi, the analysis notes, is a US citizen of Pakistani origin who grew up in New York. He graduated from college in 2003. During his student days, he was exposed to radical Islamic ideas, particularly those of the now defunct London-based group al-Muhajiroun.
Care to venture where some of the GITMO detainees who have been released went to and just what activities were resumed?
Those who object to "detainees" should go to any Muslim country and attend the funerals which are a direct result of the associates of the "detainees", A) They have them everyday and B) be careful as funeral processions are often attacked.
The GITMO detainees not only attack Americans, they attack everyone.
Their goal is death, nothing else will suffice.
And not to forget--Al Quaeda also imports trainors, educational material and other support to Palistine.
Two Bodies Found; Believed to Be Missing U.S. Soldiers.............GOD Bless the familys of these brave men. And may the Evil of Islam soon be known to all!
...but...but Pakistan has a secular government! How can it be that PakistaniMoslem, CanadianMoslem and BritishMoslem communities are all breeding jihadis? Could it be that there's some kind of "conspiracy" going on? Seems to me all the evidence points to Zionists...
Common sense would agree. The British establishment however is able to rise above such logical thinking...
"Assalamu Alaikum..."
"My constituency has 23 mosques and 25,000 Muslims. It is in places like Blackburn that a new European Islam will emerge"
"A large number of Muslims in this country were understandably upset by those cartoons being reprinted across Europe and at their deeply held beliefs being insulted. They expressed their hurt and outrage but did so in a way which epitomized the learned, peaceful religion of Islam. In doing so they were not being 'unreasonable' or 'un-European'. They were not threatening anyone's values."
"by highlighting the success of the Muslim communities in Britain it reveals the nonsense in the claim that there is some sort of inherent contradiction between being Muslim and being British."
"British Muslims are where Britain and Islam intersect. Celebrating their success is the best way of showing that these two identities can and do thrive in the same place and in the same person."
ex-Foreign Secretary Jack "aluha akbar" Straw
I try to avoid Brit-bashing, but sometimes, I wonder how the original Brits who encouraged Islamic movements in India during the British Raj that resulted in the demands for, and creation of, Pakistan, would feel now if they saw how British society was being overrun by Pakistanis & Bangladeshis