Abdulmutallab could be just the beginning, if this report is accurate. "25 Brits in jet bomb plots," by Anthony France and Alex West for The Sun, December 27 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):
COPS fear that 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners.The fanatics, in five groups, are now training at secret terror camps in Yemen.
It was there London-educated Umar Abdulmutallab, 23, prepared for his Christmas Day bid to blow up a US jet.
The British extremists in Yemen are in their early 20s and from Bradford, Luton and Leytonstone, East London.
They are due to return to the UK early in 2010 and will then await internet instructions from al-Qaeda on when to strike.
A Scotland Yard source said: "The great fear is Abdulmutallab is the first of many ready to attack planes and kill tens of thousands.
"We know there are four or five radicalised British Muslim cells in the Yemen.
"They are due back within months when they will be under constant surveillance."
The 25 suspects, of Pakistani and Somali descent, were radicalised in UK mosques.
Uh, how'd that happen? I thought they were all serenely moderate.
OK, so they know all this. The question is, are they going to do anything more than just "watch" them?
The 25 suspects, of Pakistani and Somali descent, were radicalised in UK mosques."
The center of the "war on terrorism" is:
1) Iraq
2) Afghanistan
3) Pakistan
4) Yemen
5) Saudi Arabia
6) Iran
7) Everywhere, anywhere, that there are Muslims who take Islam fully to heart and are prepared to participate in Jihad directly, and to take as their chosen instrument violence (qitaal or what we have no trouble identifying as "terrorism" and that many Muslims see as a way merely to equalize the military aspect of the battle, given Infidel superiority in weaponry)
You know the correct answer. I needn't bother to supply it.
"radicalised British Muslims"
translation - military wing of Islam.
The first presidential candidate that promises to appoint Robert Spencer to the cabinet as Chief Advisor on Middle Eastern and Muslim affairs, and Diana West as the Chief Speech Writer is the one I'm voting for.
If we get a choice between Obama and another squishy moderate Repub like John McCain, I may just stay home.
Best thing to do, is to deport them all to their home countries, and bar all Muslim immigrants from Europe and we'll be safe.
Robert Spencer in a dual role as as Chief Advisor on Middle Eastern and Muslim Affairs/Presidential Spokesman, Diana West as Chief Speech Writer and Hugh Fitzgerald as National Security Advisor. Hey, we're dreaming so why not DREAM BIG !!!
When is a wealthy industrialist going to get the idea for 'Infidel Airlines" Fly with Confidence?
It's a catchy business name and I feel sure it would be flooded with passengers, who've given up on the ignorant idiots who claim to run Western governments and those dickheads who are still trying to discover the 'root causes' of Islamic mass murder jihadis.
I don't think Hussein has even made a comment concerning this Jihad that nearly killed almost 300 people, excuse me, "Infidels."
He's probably so pizzed off it's another Muslim. How is he going to continue to praise Islam if Muslims continue behaving this way? You know, that "great religion" of which he often speaks?
Never mentions Christianity even though he's supposed to be a Christian. Didn't go to Church on Christmas Eve - the first U.S. president to have this distinction.
When he does deign to comment on this latest Islamic Jihad on his watch, he'll probably reiterate the famous "don't jump to conclusions" of the Ft. Hood Islamic Jihad.
Actually, Islam IS a "man-made disaster." It's a disaster made-up by a man, Warlord Mo.
I don't think Hussein has even made a comment concerning this Jihad that nearly killed almost 300 people, excuse me, "Infidels."
He's probably so pizzed off it's another Muslim. How is he going to continue to praise Islam if Muslims continue behaving this way? You know, that "great religion" of which he often speaks?
Never mentions Christianity even though he's supposed to be a Christian. Didn't go to Church on Christmas Eve - the first U.S. president to have this distinction.
When he does deign to comment on this latest Islamic Jihad on his watch, he'll probably reiterate the famous "don't jump to conclusions" of the Ft. Hood Islamic Jihad.
Actually, Islam IS a "man-made disaster." It's a disaster made-up by a man, Warlord Mo.
I think Hugh Fitzgerald would be better suited for the position of Secretary of Defense. I've read enough of his plans for dividing and weakening the Camp of Islam that I'm a believer. He'd get it done.
Let's see, now, Mark Steyn would be great as Secretary of Homeland Security.
Yep, I'm likin' the looks of this team more all the time.
Yeah.
Hugh, whadda ya think?
The apparent MSM operating definition of 'moderate' is:
One who does not seriously believe anything that he professes to believe.
I do not think the word means what they think it means.
Why are the British going to allow these jihadists to return at all?
Hmmmm.....maybe this is where the men in the various Islamburgs have disappeared to? Gone to "finishing school" in Yemen, perhaps?
Let's just convince Robert to run for President. I think we can trust him to make appropriate choices for his Cabinet.
"They are due back within months when they will be under constant surveillance."
Oh yes, by aaaall means let them back in! Otherwise they'll never be able to complete thier mission.
In the meantime, keep a lock down on Geert Wilders.
/sarc
"They are due back within months when they will be under constant surveillance."
At what enormous cost? What madness is this?
In a war that was recognized, and conducted according to the methods used in the past (see World War II, see the Cold War) such people would never be allowed back in, not even "under constant surveillance." In wars past, the only debate would be whether to have British agents, or local, doing-it-for-pay helpers -- dispatch them in Yemen, or dispatch them somewhere else.
The sequestering of war materiel up one's very own poop chute provides a perfect intersection between jihad and G.G. Allin. The latter was the punk rock nihilist whose feces throwing campaign to purify the temple of rock and roll won him a devoted stable of young hate junkies alienated by the bland civility of corporatist America. He promised to go out in style via TNT up the rectum, but tragically never got the chance when he OD'd on smack.
Libertine nihilist conformists have found a bridge to the barbarians before. Manson was the portal from Ayers/Dohrn left-terror to Nazi "helter skelter."
Let a thousand flowers bloom.
I guess Yemeni terror weapon technology is state of the art (the Ass Bomb and the Crotch Cooker) But do these jihadis really know what they're getting into? Abdulmutallab is expected to lose the use of his privates, and the ass bomb will obviously need more nails to be effective.
/Nelson laugh. Losing the loss of his privates. Well, that right there is poetic justice for a Muslim male, whose honor and pride seems to rest solely in his gonads (and those he wishes to use them on.)
The Brits are essentially letting trained enemy combatants back into their country, not unlike letting newly trained Nazis' back into your country that are planning attacks. The only differences are they are not wearing military uniforms, they are not necessarily lead by General and represent a specific army of a country.
It is long overdue that EU Countries, America,Canada,and Australia need to create a body of laws that deals firmly with these enemy combatants and yet we seem to be doing just the opposite. No doubt it is going to take more serious attacks, more lives lost to change the rules of engagement on our own sovereign soil.
It is to bad that America and the EU Countries will only act after more serious attacks occur, and they will with absolute certainty. You know it and I know it.
I never thought I would say it but Manzinar is looking like the way to go everyday.
The scary thing for us is that the Nigerian attempted bomber studied at the same Institute as my team. Are they also watching us here in Yemen? How much do they know? How extensive is their underground network. They call themselves "the nation of Islam" and this nation spreads across all national boundaries. Their loyalty is first to "their" nation. So the 25 Brits, the US Colonel etc are involved in an international spy, intelligence, conspiracy and terrorism ring under the auspices of the Religion of Pieces. Yemen is dangerous and is getting worse. The government is not in control, other than the Capital Sana'a and one wonders how long the discontent in the capital can be muted. It is another Afghanistan or Somalia in the making.
"Why are the British going to allow these jihadists to return at all?"
My thoughts, too, Annie. The British authorities seem to know who these guys are, where they were brought up, what mosques they attended in the U.K., etc. So if they do return, it should be straight to jail with them.
And for that matter, why don't the Brits attack these camps with drones, or air strikes?
Why are they allowed reentry? Or, if you really must allow them in, has the United Kingdom legalized jihad training? Could New Labour stop pandering to the Islamists for at least a day?
Robert Spencer in a dual role as as Chief Advisor on Middle Eastern and Muslim Affairs/Presidential Spokesman, Diana West as Chief Speech Writer and Hugh Fitzgerald as National Security Advisor. Hey, we're dreaming so why not DREAM BIG !!!
They will be 'under surveillance '
For what ? You know what they plan to do .
Any sane society would kill them without a second thought .
"They are due back within months when they will be under constant surveillance."
they should be banned from re-entering....Geert Wilders was banned and he certainly is no terrorist....he only tried to warn the people of the threat that resides in their midst...
but , true to form, dummies are not listening...errr, dhimmies are not listening....dummies? Dhimmis?...not much difference...
Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners.
Used to be you could walk into an airport and head straight to the gate with no interference. The cops and security guards, when there were any present, were basically there to keep an eye out for pickpockets and purse snatchers.
We can thank Moslems for all the process improvements made since. Show up two hours early. Stand in a half-hr security gate, in your stocking feet, let me see your laptop. Have you allowed any body to handle your bags since arriving. Doing time for Allah, being questioned, half the time by Somali Moslem TSA workers. Praise Allah and his Apostle and the Companions and every snivelling scraggly Moslem since. Praise them all.
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I got the obligatory Merry Christmas phone call from a flight attendant on Christmas eve, told me she was doing a turnaround to Amsterdam. I made a wisecrack about watch out that place is crawling with Moslems and she blew me off as prejudiced.
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She wasn't so unprejudiced when she called yesterday. She admitted that flight crews quiety groan when they see a Moslem at the gate, and have been doing that for years. Imagine that, prejudiced flight crews.
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On Christmas day a Nigerian passenger got on his prayer rug in the gate area at the Amsterdam Airport (my friend was working a flight to MSP, not DET) and put on a 15 minute spectacle of him and his beads and his scraggly beard and his funny punk white hat and his pious murmurs. Just to make sure everybody was a little scared and totally hip to who was in charge, daring anybody to even look at him cross eyed.
Nice of these bearded punks to think of us on Christmas. There always there for ya. Can't get rid of 'em.
I am waiting to hear that Gordon Al-Broon has ordered a military offensive against Al Qaeda in the Yemen, just like the one in Afghanistan.
And why is the Nigerian jihadi being treated as a criminal rather than an enemy combatant? This concept of treating everything as a criminal justice issue is so wrongheaded--worst case this guy goes to jail for 20 years (means 10)--where he'll be able to recruit more to his jihadist views.
Now that this guy has been tied to the same online Imam as Nidal Hassan, seems to me that we have plenty of evidence to (1) shut him down and/or (2) to detain and question all who are followers of his online.
Meanwhile, we're sending enemy combatants from GITMO back to Yemen so that they can get further training.
And finally, Obama continues to play golf and vacation (where's the MSM that derided President Bush for continuing to finish a story reading to a child so as not to alarm the kids??) Obama is so unconcerned--one almost thinks he's happy about this.