Funny how that keeps happening. "Al-Qaeda 'groomed Abdulmutallab in London'," by Sean O'Neill and Giles Whitell for Times Online, December 30 (thanks to Kris):
The Christmas Day airline bomb plot suspect organised a conference under the banner "War on Terror Week" as he immersed himself in radical politics while a student in London, The Times has learnt.
This story does not address the possibility that Abdulmutallab could have encountered "extremism" indigenous to Nigeria, or that anyone but al-Qaeda could be the source of his interest in violent acts of jihad.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, a former president of the Islamic Society at University College London, advertised speakers including political figures, human rights lawyers and former Guantánamo detainees.
One lecture, Jihad v Terrorism, was billed as "a lecture on the Islamic position with respect to jihad".
It is worth noting amid Abdulmutallab's involvement in events like this that he had sought advice on when it is permissible to deceive non-Muslims.
Security sources are concerned that the picture emerging of his undergraduate years suggests that he was recruited by al-Qaeda in London. Security sources said that Islamist radicalisation was rife on university campuses, especially in London, and that college authorities had "a patchy record in facing up to the problem". Previous anti-terrorist inquiries have uncovered evidence of extremists using political meetings and religious study circles to identify potential recruits.
It emerged last night that Mr Abdulmutallab featured on the periphery of one counterterrorism intelligence operation in Britain. US intelligence authorities are also looking at conversations between him and at least one al-Qaeda member.
The event he organised took place in January 2007 and included talks on Guantánamo Bay, the alleged torture of prisoners and the War on Terror.
He is the fourth president of a London student Islamic society to face terrorist charges in three years. One is facing a retrial on charges that he was involved in the 2006 liquid bomb plot to blow up airliners. Two others have been convicted of terrorist offences since 2007.
Death coaching:
Mr Abdulmutallab left UCL last year. The Times has learnt that his attempt to renew his student visa in May this year was based on an application to study "life coaching" at a non-existent college. That visa refusal may have saved Britain from an attack. His terrorist training took a new turn in August when he moved to Yemen, ostensibly to study Arabic, and was schooled by al-Qaeda there...
Yeah, but this has NOTHING to do with ISLAM . . . see, we KNOW that because . . . Well, there's NO WAY ISLAM has anything to do with . . . Um . . .
OK. Here's the ultimate argument to prove that it has nothing to do with Islam: Is NOT!!!!!! nya nya plplplpl
/sarc off
Idiots. Wake UP!
OK,
I am going over there, and see if I can sign him up to "The Fraternal Order Of The Bearded Clams"
If he makes the sife sign up, we have ourselves a jihadist.
wife, if he makes the wife sign up ... rats
if he makes the sife sign up, he must be an alien
Londonistan
Good Save, Paleologos. And very funny too!
Yeah. Didn't the Nigerians say that he had learned all that nasty jihad stuff in some foreign rich-boy school?
Speaks volumes about the universities, particularly in pitiful old Jew-hating England.
British Universities are full to the brim with anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic pro-islamic academics, professors and teachers. Most “reputable” of these Unis receive huge grants from Saudi Arabia and promote pan Arabism. Student Unions are replete with Hamas/Hezbolla supporters who help organise and ferry students to and from anti-Israeli demonstrations, many carrying placards in support of Hitler.
All this is done in full knowledge of our venal politicians and media (Guardian openly promotes islam and airs virulently anti-Semetic comments) and no one dare raise a finger.
Britain is a servile nation to islam and to its muslim followers.
FOR FRENCH SPEAKERS ARTICLE TRANSLATED ON
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joeblough stated:
Not just in England . . . here we have our own in institutions of higher learning, such as Howard University, propagating the following red herring now:
Nigerians living in U.S. fear backlash after terror attempt
Imagine that . . .Nigerians are fearful. The main stream media is complicit in this dangerously defamatory libel. Non-muslim Nigerians should bring suit against any and all parties that libel them in this way. Sad but not unexpected that university professors believe the entire American public is gullable enough to buy into such intentionally ignorant obfuscation. It's even sadder that students who go to Howard University submit a single neuron to such intellectual slavery.
P-A-H-E-T-I-C.
Why black people who sign on to Islam are fools:
1)1400 years of an Islamic organized slave-trade in sub-Saharan Africa.
2)Continuous warfare against southern Sudan, resulting in 2 million casualties, including extensive enslavement.
3) Genocidal warfare against blacks in Darfur, despite they're being Muslim.
But then there are a lot of Jews who support "Palestine", and Christians who might as well be Muslim, given their views. There's a sucker born every minute.
Jockaira,
Thanks,
Note to self: Add glasses, and remove mittens when posting.
jewdog,
They also tend to ignore the FIRST Ali-Frazer fight, which might be the greatest heavyweight fight of all time.
It's very curious that only Islam, of all the major religions, has so many "misunderstanders" among its believers, and who all seem to "misunderstand" it as calling for violence against non-believers. Where are all the Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, or Jews who misunderstand their faiths and attack non-believers? It must be that Christianity et al are so simple and straightforward that even grade-schoolers can understand their message, and act accordingly. But Islam must be so deep, so obstruse, so convoluted, that even most college graduates have trouble understanding that it is really a ROP. Only the finest minds can penetrate to that level of understanding of Islam. Fortunately, we have such minds in abundance among our leaders -- our Presidents and Prime Ministers, Congressmen and MP's, cabinet secretaries, university professors, news editors, etc. They have delved to the deepest mysteries of Islam, and broadcast the good news to the ignorant and unthinking masses that it really is the ROP. Still, it's strange that the Moslems themselves don't seem convinced by the proclamations of our oh-so-wise leaders.
This insane "student visa" program needs to come to an end throughout the entire West and this "society" needs to be shut down given its track record. However, I suspect the Brooklyn Bridge will grow leaves before these things come to pass.
:) Very interesting point
Absolutely true, British Universities are teeming with anti-Semitism, unfortunately Israel-bashing seems acceptable culture. More than that, it is a way of showing that one is standing for human rights, peace and justice. What a twisted world we are living in!
Has it crossed anyone's mind that these 'failed attempts' were planned to fail because the 'leader' didn't want to die?