Catalonia emerging as continental European base of Pakistani jihad groups

Eurabia Alert. "Catalunya es la base europea de una filial paquistaní de Al Qaeda," by Antonio Baquero and Jordi Curachan for El Periódico (my translation):

Spain, and especially Catalonia, has been converted into the principal base of Jaish-e-Mohammed (the Army of Mohammed) in continental Europe, a Pakistani terrorist group tied to the central command of Al Qaeda and implicated in the July 7, 2005 attacks in London.

Sources from the Pakistani security forces alerted this paper that JEM "has recruited Pakistanis residing in Spain, and have sent them to Pakistan, where they have put them at the disposal of the networks of Al Qaeda in the tribal zones," in an itinerary tracing the route which Shehzad Tanweer and Mohammad Sidique Khan, the authors of July 7, took in November, 2004.

These sources emphasized the "collaboration" between the Spanish and Pakistani spy services, which allowed them to follow very closely the travels between Spain and Pakistan by various individuals.

The same sources said that, in Spain, JEM uses "mosques to recruit and mobilize volunteers for jihad, as they do in Great Britain as well." The Pakistani officials indicated that JEM uses Spain, and especially the Catalonian territory, as a logistical base. "In Catalonia, its members raise funds and send stolen European passports to Pakistan," they advised.

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JEM is not the only Pakistani group that has penetrated Spanish territory. The sources from the Pakistani security forces indicate that another group, Lashkar e Toiba (LET, the Army of the Pure), a movement responsible for numerous attacks in India, has succeeded in implanting itself in Spain, where it is essentially dedicated to raising funds."

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17 Comments

A.I. Steamroller | February 10, 2007 9:25 AM

Spain's cowardice and treachery has brought it nothing but more war and terror. Its' betrayal of the free peoples of the world in this war won it no peace from its enemies. Reflect upon this, little Spaniards (along with your partners in treachery the new Vichy French), wolves are wolves even if you choose to call them sheep. They will still eat you regardless of whether or not you declare yourselves at peace with them. You are reaping exactly what you have sown.

Snippet | February 10, 2007 9:56 AM

Is the group using Spain as a launching pad to attack America and Israel, or is it using Spain as a launching pad to attack Spain?

exsgtbrown | February 10, 2007 10:37 AM

...Spain, in effect, capitulated when allowed the Muslims to scare them into withdrawing from Iraq and when they allowed the Muslims to dictate their political election...All it took were a small number of bullets and a couple of explosions and the threat of future violence...

,,,Spain has no leadership with backbone and even worse, the population seems unconcerned...

...Maybe Spaniards are unhappy at being free....They deserve the torment that they are allowing to percolate inside of their borders...

...blind ignorance, no matter how you view it, is blind ignorance....

...The new Spanish flag should be a white one with a chicken proudly embroidered in the center...

darcy | February 10, 2007 10:42 AM

For centuries Spain had a celebration on the day all Muslims were expelled from that country. Sadly, as of this year, the celebration is no more - being as the Spaniards don't want to "offend" anyone. How sad. They truly deserve the fate they are getting and are going to get.

Does anyone know the name of this celebration? I read about it on "The Middle East Times" (metimes.com)

"La problema d'Espagna" continues...

Mackie | February 10, 2007 11:33 AM

Interesting to note that Spain has allowed these two Islamic terrorist organizations within their midst when they are a country with a 94 Pct. Catholic population. Equally interesting is the Country of Venezuela who has a country made up of 96Pct.Catholic, and yet their newly forming dictatorship being developed by Hugo chavez under the guidence of his hero Fidel Castro is embracing the radical Islamic state of Iran at every turn. Hugo's Government is signing pacts, or contracts left and right with Iran and within a months time will be having direct flights between Iran, and Venezuela.

BREAKING NEWS:-- Barack Obama has just announced his intention to run for President of the United States, I wonder if he will be choosing as his running mate for the Vice Presidency Keith Ellison?

Lame Cherry | February 10, 2007 12:17 PM

The is going to be civil war in Europe. The globalists set this up so Putin could control Europe as Stalin set out to. They have imported immigrants to destroy the European cultures to gain control.

I would advise the same thing is being accomplished in America, Canada and Oz.

I would also advise a warning that once global dictatorial rule is established these "immigrants and muslims" are going to witness a holocaust on them that will make what the Jews went through look like a picnic.
The cartel will wipe them out just like they thinned the ranks of Jews by getting rid of the Orthodox Judean majority. That is how they have always operated and all the Dan Rathers, Tedward Kennedys of that ilk who are their tools now will be the second group rounded up too.
These world socialists are the most racist and murderous backstabbing lot in the history of mankind.

Ab Ordo Chao is their moto....Order out of Chaos. They have sown the chaos and it will be civil war to which they will emerge the dicators of the peace rounding up all enemies of the state (that means the Americans of this site).

Miss Kelly | February 10, 2007 12:32 PM

Yes, LeT appears to be setting up bases in countries far, far away from their supposed area of concern, the Kashmir region. Not only Spain, but Australia too:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21190263-1702,00.html

Let's not forget that the founder of LeT is Hafiz Saeed, who has three - count 'em, THREE - close family relations who are imams in Massachusetts (two brothers and one brother-in-law). Two of the imams were picked up last November as part of the nation-side religious visa fraud sweep.

Spanish diplomat | February 10, 2007 1:30 PM

Most of the comments here today are misplaced.
Being a Spaniard myself, I am even angrier than you are about all the developments which have taken place in my country since March 11, 2004.
But you focus your attention only on what happened to our troops and our commitment to the allies in Iraq, while many more, and much more appalling things have being taking place here under PM Zapatero's leadership and influence.
Mr Zapatero and his Socialists, with the active support from the United Left and the regional separatists is pushing forward with a very divisive agenda which leaves practically not a single issue left untouched. In our minds, Iraq is very far away by now.
Suffice it to say that Mr Zapatero's reelection is far from secured, and he is becoming more and more radical.
As for the Jaish-e-Mohammed issue, well, it is true there is leniency at a political level from the authorities. But this is especially so in Catalonia, whose regional Government is progressive "ad nausseam". It does not mean, however, the police is inactive or the intelligence community is blind. So it is expected once the political situation changes in Spain it will be possible to act on them.
The problem here, as elsewhere, is the fatal combination of the local progressive useful idiots with the patient and determined Jihadists.
The public mood is changing in Spain nowadays. The opposition to all what is wrong with Zapatero and his allies is growing up, and even his supporters are harbouring doubts. Please remember Zapatero only won his elections by a small margin and remains in power due to the support he receives from leftists and separatists. There is hope

Paolo | February 10, 2007 1:30 PM

Forgetting the tinfoil-hatted tendency in this thread, what people do not understand is that Zapatero and his freak show do not think they are being cowardly. They hardly think about Islam at all, which can be seen by their complete inability to formulate a coherent line about it - one day they are for fighting the terrorists, the next they open their country to immigration. Their main concern in politics is the destruction of the Catholic Church in Spain. For the last 300 years, the Spanish have suffered from a chronic fear of being left behind by the West, of subsiding into a dreary Third World condition of poverty and backwardness; and the people most concerned with this have long identified the Catholic Church as the power itself of backwardness and isolation. This is crap, of course, but it does not stop generation after generation of Spanish politicians from trying to victimize the Church in the name of progress. Zapatero is the last, far from the worst, but definitely the most ridiculous, of the lot. And if his inherited and imbecilic hostility to Catholicism causes him to open his country to Islam, future generations will know how to judge this Spanish mental illness.

Mackie | February 10, 2007 2:02 PM

Spanish diplomat & Paolo:

Very enlightning comments.

ebonystone | February 10, 2007 2:15 PM

Sources from the Pakistani security forces alerted this paper that JEM "has recruited Pakistanis residing in Spain, and have sent them to Pakistan, where they have put them at the disposal of the networks of Al Qaeda in the tribal zones,"

This just might be good news. It would seem that the Paki authorities are doing something right, and that the jihadists are having a hard time recruiting among the Pakis themselves. After all, Pakistan is the 2nd largest moslem country, with 160 million pop. The jihadists should be able to get all the numbers they want from such a pop. without having to get recruits from the 2 or 3 million ex-pat Pakis in Europe.
Also, note that they're being sent to the "tribal areas", i.e. being used to terrorize other moslems, rather than being used in European plots.
The bad news is the still-continuing financial and documentary support of the groups in Europe.

hierophant | February 10, 2007 5:04 PM

Does anyone know the name of this celebration? I read about it on "The Middle East Times" (metimes.com)

"La problema d'Espagna" continues...
Posted by: darcy

I also read that some of them have been banned or at least toned down so as not to upset muslim sensitivities. Below is a link to some of the festivals that celebrate the victory of the Christians over the ROP
http://www.fiestasiesta.co.uk/fiestas/moors_christians.html

hierophant | February 10, 2007 5:08 PM

some moor
http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/12045

Spanish diplomat | February 10, 2007 5:23 PM

I forgot earlier to say something about the festivities.
ALL, I repeat, ALL places where some kind of local celebration is held every year to commemorate the Christian Reconquest of Spain, and, especifically, the local taking over by the Christians, is still going on.
One of the most important ones is on January 2 in Granada, the town that was the last Muslim kingdom of Spain. The celebration there is alive and kicking, all efforts by local progressives and others to challenge it having failed. Actually, the controversy has only made the celebration much more popular. Another recent example of this is the attempt by the 1000-strong Muslim community in Córdoba to "share" in the Mosque-Cathedral; attempt which has actually backfired.
As for the "Moros y Cristianos", these are local, colourful celebrations in different towns and villages of the Spanish Levant (the area around Valencia). Some local celebrations have, effectively, tone down the event. Most others, haven´t. So the show does go on.
Official Spain now is clearly dhimmi, out of its declared leftist bias. However, popular Spain -including the majority of those who vote for Mr. Zapatero- is, clearly not.

Franze | February 11, 2007 8:12 AM

Like an spaniard, I would say that I am ashamed for many things happening in my country, but the islamic toilets in the british prisons, or the CAIR or the election of Keith Elisson in the US, is a warning that the problem isn´t Europe but worldwide, and the dhimmis aren´t only in Spain but in other countries, the list is spreading and the idiocy works.

waterdragon52 | February 12, 2007 8:31 AM

Paolo:

You say the Spanish hardly think of Islam. Perhaps. It's hard to say what thought processes were at work when Zapatero made nice for the cameras with that kefaya around his neck.

pythagoras | February 12, 2007 9:38 PM

It has been claimed (on this blog in fact) by Europeans that Muslim immigrants in Europe number around twenty million at most. But the above article makes me suspicious of this figure.

It may well be that Europeans have absolutely no idea how many Muslims are presently in Europe. I suspect that the REAL figure is going to be close to double what is now believed.

So when the jihadists begin their campaigns of "conversion" the Euros may be twice as surprised by the degree of violence being perpetrated against them.

These people should have known that turning against America and Christianity in general was a rotten idea.

Because burning bridges this way usually is.

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