Aabid Khan Update. "Islamic terror cell 'may have been plotting to attack Queen'," by Duncan Gardham for the Telegraph, August 18:
A terror cell caught with details of bomb-making and suicide vests may have been plotting to attack the Queen and members of the Royal family, it can be disclosed.
The cell, which included Britain's youngest ever terrorist, arrested on his way home from his GCSE chemistry exam, was found with information about the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh along with the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex and the Princess Royal.
Also on the list were Princess Michael of Kent, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and The Duke and Duchess of Kent.
Aabid Hussain Khan, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, had compiled pictures, maps and details of the opening hours of official residences from information available on the internet.
There were also details of London landmarks including the Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge and the underground as well as the New York and Washington metros and a home-made video of the Washington Memorial and World Bank in the US.
A counter-terrorism source said: "They had details of explosives and poisons along with information about London landmarks and a computer folder on Royal residences. We would be foolish to rule out the fact that they may have been planning an attack."
Detective Chief Superintendent John Parkinson, Head of the Counter Terrorism Unit in Leeds, said the men posed a "very real threat".
He added: "Let there be no doubt, these are dangerous individuals. These men were not simply in possession of material which expressed extremist views. They were also in possession of material that was operationally useful to anyone wishing to carry out an act of violence or terrorism."
Khan, 23, was yesterday convicted of three counts of possessing articles for terrorism but the jury was not told he was part of a network of international terrorists in Europe and North America.
It can now be revealed that Khan was closely connected to the alleged leader of a group of men currently awaiting trial for plotting an attack.
Khan, using the name Ocean Blue, was also in regular contact with an aspiring suicide bomber in Edinburgh, Mohammed Atif Siddique.
He had also communicated regularly with three terrorists who ran websites for Al-Qaeda in Iraq from London and Kent.
Khan groomed Hammaad Munshi, then 15, the grandson of the head of a sharia court in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
Munshi, who lived with his parents and four brothers, was carrying two small bags of ball bearings, a key component of a suicide vest, when he was arrested on his way home from Westborough High School in Dewsbury on the afternoon of June 2006.
He had been running his own website selling knives and Islamic flags and using the online identity Fidadee – meaning "to die for" - on the auction website ebay.
He also had hand-written notes on martyrdom and had created and circulated technical documents via email and secure web forums on how to make Napalm, how to make a detonator and the production of home made explosives.
Operation Praline, run by the Counter-Terrorism Unit in Leeds, was sparked when police, acting on intelligence, stopped Khan at Manchester airport as he returned from Pakistan....
I hope that the Brits will wake up before the Queen is forced to wear a burka.
No, the lefty Brits will expect the Queen to wear a burka. She cannot be seen as an Islamophobe and offending muslims every time she steps out.
Is civilian traffic between the UK and Pakistan such a desperately important economic lifeline that it cannot simply be suspended on the grounds of public safety. The idea of there being a busy pipeline between this country and a semi-failed state that specializes in training potential mass-murderers is not very comforting.
wallyUK
Not possible. I did not do a count but last time I was at Manchester Airport International terminal at least half the check in desks in the main hall were Pakistan International Airlines. It is said that at the time of the haj in February the "Asians" virtually take the airport over.
Grandpa--- the head of a sharia court in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.(???)) couldn't pull a few strings (read-- threats)& have his darling grandson tried in his court???
I have read many items on this site about attacks against pensioners and British youth that have had the misfortune to find themselves in a hostile foreign nation in their own country. But the British response has usually been to try harder to "understand" to shuck off their own culture, to even paint the victims as somehow being "insensitive".
Maybe now if the elites are threatened they will actually do something.
"Maybe now if the elites are threatened they will actually do something.
Posted by: stickman"
They are converting next week?..
Operation Praline, run by the Counter-Terrorism Unit in Leeds, was sparked when police, acting on intelligence, stopped Khan at Manchester airport as he returned from Pakistan....
Why is ANYONE allowed to RETURN from Pakistan?
When was the last time you met "an aspiring suicide bomber"?
The British have to get past the idea that Pakistan is a former member of the Empire.
We Americans have to get past the idea that our Cold War relationship means Pakistan is still a worthy ally. Those days are gone, for all of us.
From the article:
He had maps, now he needed access . . .
mentioned at Dhimmiwatch back in '06 ==> Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II gave orders allowing a room at Windsor Castle to be used by a Muslim employee as a prayer zone. . . .how many royal residences have since followed suit?
Gee, ya think?
What's the rationale behind Britain's immigration policy? Does that country owe a special debt to Pakistan? I know that Britain once ruled the Indian subcontinent. Is this some kind of guilt trip over colonialism, or is it the need for cheap labor? It seems like these Pakis are a nuisance to keep tabs on since I'm often reading about arrests, and then there were the subway bombings.
"Please to remember
the fifth of November
gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason
why gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot."
This fifth of November, Guy Fawkes Day, lots of Mohammedan-style turbaned effigies representing Mohammed, Bin Laden, and the generic Evil Jihad Plotter, should be burning merrily in the bonfires all over England, back to back with the Old Guy. Start preparing it now, UK jihadwatchers. Raise the bloodred Dragon of Gwent, the Cross of St George, the Cross of St Andrew (raise them all together); wear the leek, the thistle and the rose.
Recite G K Chesterton's "the Ballad of the White Horse". Toast the Queen - and remember Arthur and Alfred who both fought enemies and invaders.
As for this latest lot of jihad plotters: throw the kafir book at them.
Treason.
Sedition.
Conspiring to kill the head of state.
Punishment - execution or permanent exile.
Out with them!
And first: shut down that sharia court. Give grandpa and his mates the fifth degree.
Search every mosque even remotely connected with them: basement to attic, with a whole pack of sniffer dogs. Anything irregular found? - shut the thing down. Bulldoze it flat.
And don't let any more Muslims into Britain, period. It's just too damnably dangerous. How many plots have there been so far? Lots. How many rapes? How many assaults? How many frauds? Lots.
And has the same seething pullulation of active, hate-fuelled sedition and persistent, determined, out-and-out contemptuous and arrogant violation of every kind of English law (from traffic violations and brazen welfare fraud, all the way up to the London Train Bombings) been observed among other non-Muslim immigrant/ ethnic communities, say, among Jews, Hindu and Sikh Indians, Chinese, Poles, etc?...NO. Have Hindus, Sikhs, Chinese, Poles or Afro-Caribbean blacks walked up to Jews in the street and stabbed them? - NO. ONLY the Muslims.
Islam is the source of the hate and the violence. Islam is the problem.
Beginning from yesterday, a word in the ear of Her Majesty: SACK any and all Muslims on your payroll!
There should not be *one* single Muslim in the employ of the Royal Family - ANYWHERE, not even as a kitchen maid. It is just too dangerous.
For security, I respectfully suggest a combination of Scottish Highlanders and Sikhs. Sikhs know all about Muslims: they fought them for centuries; and *they* will teach the Highlanders what they need to know.
Then, Your Majesty, you will be safe. And guard those grandchildren!
Nah, they wouldn't do that to prince Charley, he is already a good Muslim, no? He even went on a PR-tour to the US to promote Islam, because its so 'misunderstood'. Even Camilla covers up as she should: nah, such good dhimmies?
But then again, he might not belong to the right sect, you never know which is the right brand with these people.
But the Queen wears hijab already. she even has a maid with a prayer-room in Buckingham palace, so what's the beef with her?
Here's something for Her Majesty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mklUNvwcMJI
Christian jihadwatchers from England, Scotland, Wales and from Commonwealth countries might like to join me in the following petitions
From the Book of Common Prayer (Australian Version):
"Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness
we humbly pray you to bless our sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth, and all who hold public office in the land:
that all things may be ordered in wisdom, righteousness and peace, to the honour of your holy name, and the good of your church and people, through Jesus Christ our Lord"
or,
"Lord God almighty, ruler of the nations of the earth, regard with favour our sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth, that in all things she may be led by your Spirit and protected by your power.
"Give wisdom to her ministers, especially the Prime Minister, the members of parliament, and all who hold office.
"Grant that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours on the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, faithfulness and true religion, may be firmly established among us, and make us a blessing to other nations; through Jesus Christ our Lord."
I recommend also, to Catholics and Anglicans, the recitation of the Litany.
How much more of this is going to be necessary before enough people come to their senses? It isn't really very difficult, at this point, to connect the dots, to read the texts, to distinguish Islam as a Total Belief-System from all those other things we call "religions," and to recognize its sinister politics and geopolitics.
And how much more time will pass before Infidels in one country begin to learn from the experience of those in other Infidel lands, begin to compare notes, begin to admit to themselves that they all share a common threat, some more acutely and some less, and that that threat comes not from "immigrants" in general, and not from "impoverished" immigrants, or those suffering from anything more than the sense that Islam deserves to spread, and to dominate, here and there and everywhere, and all those who are seen to stand in its way, or to symbolize those legal and political institutions that stand in its way, are appropriate targets.
If the headline was "KKK cell arrested in Nepal trying to kill the Dalai Lama," you can bet the Left would move mountains to destroy the remnants of the Klan. But Jihadists in Britain plotting to kill the Queen? Silence. The Blairs, Galloways, and Livingstons et al and their leftist underlings are mentally disturbed, auto-genocidal bots bent on smashing the very cultural soul of Britain. They view other cultures as art worth perserving no matter what imperfections, while they view their own culture clinically as something that must be flawless or else must be thrown out along with the very people and history that created it.
Recall
First Muslim Battalion Guards the Queen
Malay Regiment = Muslim Battalion
Good luck with that.
How much more of this Islamic nonsense is going to be necessary, Hugh asks, before people come to their senses? I believe a lot. Things are beginning to filter upwards from the Western common man, who somewhat grasps the multi-faceted, control-freak monster which is rooted in Islamic thinking, but much more Islamic nonsense will have to manifest itself in tragic or annoying ways before comfortable Western folk (and who in all of history has been more comfortable, and in so many ways, than Western folk?) finally realize that they let the greatest cultural cancer of all time into their midst. Bottom line: Until there is a consensus in Western nations that Islam is rotten to the core, expect more nonsense followed by additional doses of nonsense, courtesy of the Islamic faith at the expense, of course, of the West.
Hugh:
The "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" (notice date) which is ever so slowly working it's way through Congress has as part of its provisions just that type of "note comparing".
Here's a couple of sections:
(C) foreign government studies of, reviews of, and experiences with violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence.
I'm not sure what the delay is in implementing this legislation but I suspect it has something to do with election year politics. I cut and pasted the contents of the bill and posted it at my blog a long while back. It may have changed by now. But here's the url for reference purposes:
Link
A bit OT:
As I remember, the first big wave of "Asians" into the U.K. was in the late 60's, when the recently-independent former colonies of Uganda, Kenya, and/or Tanzania undertook a policy of ethnic cleansing (to use an anachronistic term) and ordered all the Asians out of their countries with what they could carry. Most of them were 2nd or 3rd generation inhabitants, and India and Pakistan refused to take them. I believe a few went to Australia or Canada or South Africa, but most of them -- numbering some hundreds of thousands -- went to the U.K.
I'm wondering how many were Moslem, and how many Hindu. Are there any figures on this? Perhaps some British reader can supply more (or better) information.
Here's Wkiki's take on it, Ebony:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslims_in_Britain
The Ummah has had the Queen in their crosshairs for a while.
See *this* story from January this year: 'Jihadists plotted to kill Queen'.
http://jihadwatch.org/archives/019547.php
If you scroll down to the bottom of the comments field you'll find some discussion, from me, of the significance of the Queen.
I will re-post here my concluding remarks.
Here's the Youtube link for 'Zadok the Priest', which was sung at Her Majesty's coronation (the text has been recited at the crowning of every English ruler since 973; the Handel musical setting of it has been used at every coronation since 1727).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCHUCMiJ_Ew
And here, by way of a prayer for the safety of the Queen, is Thomas Tallis' magnficent 40-part motet 'Spem in alium' ('I hope in no other [than in God]'), composed for Elizabeth I, who was well aware of the menace of Islam (after the Knights of Malta withstood the Turkish Muslim fleet in 1565 Elizabeth I ordered the church bells rung and prayers of thanksgiving recited in every church in England).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2tEt5q7Glo
May Elizabeth II, her family (including her foolish heir who seems far too much in love with Arab Muslims) and all her government, be awakened to the nature and menace of the Third Jihad; and may the plots of all Jihadi Assassins be exposed and thwarted, as was this plot in Uganda."
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at January 14, 2008 6:23 PM".
Sorry for the typo. I can spell. I just can't type.
Anyway, here's the BBC version:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/uk_1.shtml
skevin: Went to the link you provided "ebonystone" and saw that there was listed 890 "White Irish" Muslims. What the hell is going on? Is the world really becoming this mad? What would St. Patrick have said of all this? Damn, I need an Irish beer.
Sheikh Yermani
You beat me to it - I was about to note how Price Charles was conspicuous by his absence from the above list. A cynical part of me believes the plotters want to accelerate his ascension to the throne. Once he becomes the head of the Anglican Church, he, combined with Shariah advocate Canterbury Archbish Rowan Williams, would inspire Anglicans to quit in droves. What the plotters probably hope is that they discard the Anglican church for Islam.
Prince Charles is a semi-loon. I hope one way or another his older son can succeed the Queen directly. I have some hope here because Charles is beginning to look older than his Mum.
Thanks for the links, Skevin!
Like Wellington, I was surprised by the 890 Irish Moslems. And those are just the ones living in the U.K. Probably there are even more back in the Emerald Isle. But what really got me was the 115,000 "other white" Moslems. Who are they? They can't all be Bosnians or Albanians. Are there really that many European who have perverted to Islam? And these are just the ones in the U.K! Or is this the category for Turks, Arabs, and Iranians, who don't seem to fit any of the other boxes, or do they come under the one called "other ethnic"?
St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, they say. Well, they're back.
Hi ebonystone:
Here is another link about the "Asians" from east Africa who were mostly Hindus and also a section that talks about term "Asians" to classify them. Many Hindus and Sikhs no longer want to classified under that term because they want to distance themselves form Muslims. Muslims, on the other hand, want to be classified under "Asians". http://postcardsfromuk.blogspot.com/
Serbs learned the hard way - "poturica gori od turcina" (convert to Islam is worse than genuine muslim). The West will learn that very soon.
All Americans are encouraged to contrat their Congress people about the Islamic threat. This thing is sneaking up on us very quietly and few people are aware of the threat. Let your people know!!!
I'm not even an English citizen and this saddens and enrages me all at once.
If they killed Prince Charles wouldn't that make him a martyr?
Seeing how relentless a campaigner he is for the interests of islam and all..
If they killed Prince Charles wouldn't that make him a martyr?
Seeing how relentless a campaigner he is for the interests of islam and all..
This deeply angers me; I am not English man but from a country which was ruled by English men for 200 years. Islamic terrorism is a world phenomenon and world has to jointly fight it before we all will start offering namaz 5 times a day and marry our own sisters.
thekashmir-wordpress-com
I'll bet the founders of the "Islam is Peace" campaign are preparing their press conference to explain that these are common criminals who have NOTHING to do with that glorious, wonderful, noble, rich, peaceful, dignified "religion" of Islam.
Hmm, I don't know.
The only positive thing that I always thought might result from an Islamic invasion of Great Britain, is that at least they might get rid of the British class system.
Now it looks as though they have tried.
So, these "people" will be hung, litterally, after this, right?
When will the world WAKE UP???????
Islamists have come a long way in taking over England. Could it be possible that this threat on the Queen will wake up the English multiculturists to this imminent danger?
"If they killed Prince Charles wouldn't that make him a martyr?"
Ummah Gummah,
I'm almost certain his friends would insist he himself up, to attain martyrdom. True, it would be the waste of a powerful ally to Islam, but the shock value might be worth it. The rest of us would be so scared, we would immediately convert.
I'm not English, but I share the wish expressed by some that Charles be taken off the list of succession. He's duplicitous, ineffectual, and should run for office as Obama's VP. That might be one way to keep Obama out of the White House...
Uh, that was supposed to be "blow himself up".
If Charles ever made it to the Throne they could say the Queen is dead. Long live the Queen!
If there was ever a Prince less deserving of the name Charles..
Infidel Pride -
Prince Charles *was* on the hit-list, only listed by his title not his first name.
To wit "information about the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh along with the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex and the Princess Royal."
"Prince of Wales" is Charles' official title.
DDA
Thanks - I overlooked that
To our friends in the UK - keep your powder dry! Now there is time for a little "Harry in the night". "Once more into the breach!"
I would advise Her Majesty, and her heirs, to make sure they stand well clear of any Muslim - even cute little girls with bunches of flowers at a garden party or school opening might turn out to be bombs in disguise, that's how Benazir Bhutto got killed.
any Muslim who for whatever reason - e.g. diplomacy - is going to be in the same *room* as Her Majesty or one of her heirs, should know that they will have to undergo a complete strip and body search first (conducted, preferably, by implacable Sikhs, turban, kukris and all) and be examined by sniffer dogs trained to detect explosives. Yep - even Muslim parliamentarians should get the full going-over.