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This group had been spreading its message in American prisons, mosques, and Islamic schools. From the Washington Post, with thanks to EPG:
The Treasury Department ordered banks yesterday to freeze the accounts of the Oregon and Missouri branches of a large Saudi charity that U.S. officials say has been used to finance the al Qaeda terrorist network around the world.FBI and Internal Revenue Service agents searched a home in Ashland, Ore., that is the U.S. headquarters for the charity, the al-Haramain Islamic Foundation. The search is part of an investigation into allegations that the Oregon branch was involved in money laundering and income tax and currency-reporting violations, Treasury officials said.
Over the past two years, U.S. and Saudi authorities have intensified a joint crackdown on al-Haramain offices around the globe after concluding that they had funneled money, personnel and equipment to al Qaeda. Branches in Bosnia and Somalia were shuttered in 2002, and last December others were closed in Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania and Pakistan.
U.S. officials continue to investigate the foundation's headquarters in Saudi Arabia. Several weeks ago al-Haramain's chief, Aqeel al-Aqeel, was fired by top Saudi clerical authorities amid growing suspicions about his role at the charity.
Lawrence Matasar, an attorney for the al-Haramain office in Oregon, said charity officials in that state are cooperating with the government in the investigation. "We believe no crimes have been committed," he said.
Al-Haramain's headquarters in Saudi Arabia launched its Oregon office in 1997 by funding the work of an Ashland landscaper, Pete Seda, who had been sending Korans to prison inmates. The two people now mainly under investigation are Seda and Soliman Albuthe, a Saudi citizen who also helped run the Oregon organization.
Officials are investigating numerous financial transactions involving Albuthe and Seda, also known as Pirouz Sedaghaty, including allegations of transporting large sums of undeclared traveler's checks across U.S. borders. Under U.S. law, anyone transporting $10,000 or more in or out of the country must declare it to customs agents.
Agents are looking into $131,000 that was wired by a man in London to the Oregon foundation, which then dispatched Albuthe to transport the funds by traveler's checks to Saudi Arabia. The transaction was not properly reported to U.S. authorities, according to an affidavit filed in court in Oregon. The funds were ultimately destined for Muslim fighters or refugees in Chechnya, it said.
The affidavit also disclosed that a federal grand jury has been investigating al-Haramain's U.S. operations.
The U.S. branch of the charity has mainly distributed Islamic books and videos to Americans, and also helped establish a mosque in Springfield, Mo., with more than $370,000 provided by the Saudi headquarters.
One of the top leaders of that mosque was Kamran Bokhari, a student at Southwest Missouri State University, who was also the U.S. representative of a radical London-based group called al-Mujahiroun, which supports al Qaeda, according to the Site Institute, a terrorism research group.
It's no secret that Al-Muhajiroun supports Al-Qaeda. They're quite open about it.
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Posted by: Wild Hare at February 20, 2004 12:04 PMApparently, the suspect was a walking charicature:
"A regular fixture in town, Seda appeared in the Fourth of July Parade with his pet camel, taught schoolchildren about Islam, and used the arborist business he built to relocate trees caught in the path of development, free of charge."
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at February 20, 2004 1:36 PMThe only charity which they know is the "Jihad" charity.
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Posted by: jihan at February 20, 2004 2:54 PM
February 21, 2004
Email: Glen Jenvey for site info
How Mr. Glen Jenvey saved American
taxpayers 5 Million Dollars!
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Mr. Glen Jenvey did not even receive a thank you, or a suggestion that he might be
entitled to Reward Money from
(Rewards For Justice )
for turning in information that led to capture and conviction of al-Qaeda Supporter
James Ujaama.
6 Video tape’s with information that has been forwarded to the FBI -
Which showed the ties to Abu Hamza, Supporters of Shariah- internet website.
James Ujaama, designed Hamza’s internet site under the name Abu Samaya, but
denied knowing Hamza when first arrested by the FBI. However, his defence crumbled
when the tape was produced.
6 Video’s given to Federal Officers save American life’s from Terrorist Attack’s.
Once a person is convicted a reward should be paid for information that led to the
person being convicted.
you can email: Mr.Jenvey at @
Read the articles below it shows that Mr. Glen Jenvey did in fact with tapes convict
al-Qaeda supporter James Ujaama to a 2 year sentence.
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An Insight Investigation - Abu Hamza
The Sunday Times -London
July 20, 2003
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-750685,00.html
A SOPHISTICATED internet sting has provided fresh evidence linking Abu Hamza,
the British radical Islamic cleric, to terror camps, claim anti-terrorist police.
Hamza is said to have been so convinced by a British undercover investigator posing
as an extremist website operator that he allegedly sent him several secret propaganda
films designed to attract new recruits. The videos were used, say investigators, to
convince British Muslims to undergo jihad training at camps in Afghanistan and Bosnia.
The tapes and e-mails were obtained by Glen Jenvey, a 38-year-old freelance
counter intelligence investigator from Wiltshire, over a period of more than a year.
As the evidence flowed in, Jenvey forwarded it to the FBI, which is now building
a case to extradite Hamza to America. Last week Scotland Yard confirmed that
anti-terrorist branch officers had taken a statement from Jenvey and sent a copy
to the FBI. The evidence is being marshalled by US government prosecutors in
New York, where Hamza is part of a grand jury investigation into a plot to provide
weapons training to American mujaheddin on a cattle ranch in Bly, Oregon.
One tape given to Jenvey has already made an impact. It shows Hamza at a meeting
sharing a platform with the US terrorist suspect James Ujaama. Ujaama designed
Hamza’s internet site under the name Abu Samaya, but denied knowing Hamza when
first arrested by the FBI. However, his defence crumbled when the tape was produced.
He is now the key witness against Hamza in the grand jury investigation. According
to court papers, Hamza provided letters of "introduction or sponsorship" for people
to enter Al-Qaeda camps. The documents say he sent two "emissaries" to help Ujaama
set up the Bly training camp.
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Bin Laden's own doctor once treated Ujaama
By Mike Carter, Feb 12, 2004
Seattle Times staff reporter
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001856258_ujaama12m.html
Ujaama -will be sent to a halfway house to serve the remainder of his sentence.
It is expected the 38-year-old Ingraham High School graduate will be freed in July,
two years to the day after his arrest in Denver on a material-witness warrant.
Ujaama was arrested in July 2002 as part of an international investigation into
radical members of a mosque in South Seattle who traveled to Bly, Ore., in 1999
to set up and participate in a terrorist-training camp. Federal law-enforcement
sources have said Ujaama — who was a key member at the now-closed Dar-us-Salaam
mosque — and his plans for the camp have been directly linked to Abu Hamza al-Masri,
a fiery radical cleric in London who has praised bin Laden's attacks on the United
States and the West.
The plea agreement prohibits Ujaama from discussing his activities and information
he has provided to the government for up to 10 years after his release.
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GLOBAL JIHAD
Sheik: 'It's OK
to kill non-Muslims'
London Islamic cleric caught on tape calling for death of Americans
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29709
Posted: November 19, 2002
WorldNetDaily.com
A London-based Muslim cleric has been caught on film urging his followers to kill
non-Muslims – particularly Americans – and to commit other acts of terrorism.
Sheik Abu Hamza, affiliated with London's Finsbury Park mosque, tells an audience
that non-believers should be killed or sold into slavery in a tape converted to digital
files and smuggled onto the Internet.
The tapes were reportedly given by Hamza to a researcher who posed as a supporter
and infiltrated his inner circle. "If a kafir person (non-believer) goes in a Muslim
country, he is like a cow," explains Hamza. "Anybody can take him. That is the Islamic law."
"If a kafir is walking by and you catch him, he's booty," he says on one tape.
"You can sell him in the market. Most of them are spies. And even if they don't
do anything, if Muslims cannot take them and sell them in the market, you just
kill them. It's OK."
Hamza praises the al-Qaida bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that
killed 224 people.
"If Muslims are having a war against these people, than yes, it is legitimate,"
he says.
He praised attacks against ships from non-Muslim countries: "If a ship which loses
its way and comes to a Muslim land, they'll take it as booty."
A terrorist attack in 2000 on the USS Cole killed 17 American sailors. The attack
has been linked to Muslim militants in Britain, but Hamza has never been charged.
Despite accusations he recruits for al-Qaida, Hamza's only punishment in Britain
has been a High Court order banning him from preaching at the Finsbury Park mosque.
However, when the Ottawa Citizen visited the mosque several weeks ago, worshippers
had his phone number handy, the newspaper reported.
"It's all fabrication. He's just taking clips and taking it out of context, as usual,"
Hamza said last night when asked about the videos.
He scoffed at suggestions the tapes may lead to his arrest.
He said he can't be accused of inciting people to commit violent acts because he's
a cleric who only preaches Muslim law. "I say the reality that's in the Muslim books anyway.
Whether I say it or not, it's in the books."
The sheik, who was born in Egypt and grew up in England, then alluded to more violence –
using language similar to that used by Osama bin Laden.
"Just as non-Muslim blood is hot, Muslim blood is hot, too," he said. "It's for them
to worry about. When they kill, they will be killed."
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An Insight Investigation - Abu Hamza
The Sunday Times -London
July 20, 2003
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-750685,00.html
A SOPHISTICATED internet sting has provided fresh evidence linking Abu Hamza,
the British radical Islamic cleric, to terror camps, claim anti-terrorist police.
Hamza is said to have been so convinced by a British undercover investigator
posing as an extremist website operator that he allegedly sent him several secret
propaganda films designed to attract new recruits. The videos were used, say
investigators, to convince British Muslims to undergo jihad training at camps
in Afghanistan and Bosnia. The tapes and e-mails were obtained by Glen Jenvey,
a 38-year-old freelance counterintelligence investigator from Wiltshire, over a
period of more than a year. As the evidence flowed in, Jenvey forwarded it to the
FBI, which is now building a case to extradite Hamza to America. Last week
Scotland Yard confirmed that anti-terrorist branch officers had taken a statement
from Jenvey and sent a copy to the FBI. The evidence is being marshalled by US
government prosecutors in New York, where Hamza is part of a grand jury
investigation into a plot to provide weapons training to American mujaheddin on
a cattle ranch in Bly, Oregon. If the grand jury charges Hamza with conspiracy
to provide material support to terrorists, which carries a 25-year jail sentence,
sources close to the case say they will press for his extradition to America.
According to statements given to the anti-terrorist branch in March, Jenvey set
up an internet site called islamic-news.co.uk in 2002 using the fictitious name
Pervez Khan. He published news items on the site from Kashmiri extremist groups
and other hardline Islamic propaganda. Once established, he sent the material to
Hamza’s website — supportersofshariah.org, which is now shut down. "He was so
pleased with this he decided to put a link to my site from his site. That was his
first big mistake," said Jenvey last week. As a consequence, Jenvey was able to
monitor everyone who logged on to Hamza’s website, a facility he passed on to the
FBI so that it could also monitor Hamza’s activities. He then decided to take the
operation a step further. "By now I was getting close to Hamza.
He trusted me," said Jenvey. "We had been e-mailing each other a lot and I had
been passing the e-mails to the FBI. We also started to speak on the phone. "I
started to suggest I could help him recruit people for his jihad. He became very
excited by this. He would burble prayers down the phone in an almost demented
fashion. I thought he must be a bit mad. "He said he would send me some material
to help me win supporters and prepare them for jihad. He said he had some special
tapes but that they were somewhere secret and he did not keep them in the mosque.
He said they would be sent to me." Less than a month later a package arrived at
Jenvey’s home. Inside were 20 audio tapes. A second package arrived a week later
with six two-hour video tapes. Jenvey was shocked by what he saw. One tape starts
by showing a training camp in Bosnia and scenes of urban combat training. Jihad
anthems play in the background and a voice in English says: "Make ready to continue
to terrorise the enemy of Allah." The tape later cuts to Hamza speaking to a
private audience in London about "so-called" suicide bombers. He appears to use
the Koran to justify the tactic. "It is to inflict suffering, it is in the time,
in the methodology of suicide, it is there and at its peak," says Hamza. In another
tape, three British volunteers are interviewed in Bosnia about their experiences.
All three urge Muslims at home to undergo jihad training and criticise those who
are content to merely donate money or lend moral support. The first volunteer
identifies himself as being from north London. He says he is a third-year medical
student at Birmingham University. Hiding his face behind a black scarf, he holds
an assault rifle aloft as he speaks to the camera and talks about the satisfaction
of seeing "hundreds of dead bodies" in Bosnia. Another tape opens with scenes of
what appears to be a massacre of Serbian civilians in a village in Bosnia. The
camera roves around the cene, focusing on corpses that litter the ground.
Some of the bodies are being taken away on stretchers by distraught relatives.
A jihad anthem plays in the background. Another tape, allegedly provided by Hamza,
is a documentary in Arabic about the building of the World Trade Center in New York
and the Petronas Towers in Malaysia. It was made prior to September 11. Jenvey
continued to monitor Hamza’s website. In April this year he noticed a film showing
Russian soldiers being blown up by Chechnyan terrorists. The rest off the film was
available through a link from Hamza’s website. It showed training with live
ammunition at a camp in Afghanistan and appears to be an exercise for would-be
assassins. Some of the target images projected on to a screen are of western politicians.
Many of the faces are obscured, but Bill Clinton, the former US president, is clearly
recognisable. Shortly after Jenvey reported this Hamza’s website was shut down by the
internet service provider. One tape given to Jenvey has already made an impact.
It shows Hamza at a meeting sharing a platform with the US terrorist suspect James Ujaama.
Ujaama designed Hamza’s internet site under the name Abu Samaya, but denied knowing
Hamza when first arrested by the FBI. However, his defence crumbled when the tape
was produced. He is now the key witness against Hamza in the grand jury investigation.
According to court papers, Hamza provided letters of "introduction or sponsorship"
for people to enter Al-Qaeda camps. The documents say he sent two "emissaries"
to help Ujaama set up the Bly training camp. Despite his activities, Hamza is still
at liberty in Britain, although his assets have been frozen and his disability benefits
stopped. The Home Office is trying to strip him of his British citizenship in order
to deport him. The cleric preached at the North London mosque in Finsbury Park before
it was closed down following a police raid in January. A senior legal source involved
in Hamza’s case said: "Either they will strip him of his citizenship and then detain
him under new immigration laws so he rots in prison or they will extradite him to America."
A spokesman for Hamza denied he played any role in terror. "Supportersofshariah.org
had many affiliate websites to whom we would send videos," he said. "Abu Hamza’s
tapes were on sale openly at Finsbury Park mosque. The grand jury investigation
in America is a joke and a kangaroo court. They have put pressure on Ujaama to say
these things."
Note: Ujaama is said to be also heard on some of the new tapes un
covered.If the tapes link Hamza to taking part in the planning from the
UK in the world's biggest terrorists attack's. Tony Blair will face more
than egg on his face. But the 3000 death's of civillians slaughtered from
around the globe. As its looking more and more likly that Sept. 11th
attacks where in fact planned via London.
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Abu Hamza's former webmaster -- met with Ayman al-Zawahiri:
"It gives you an idea of the circles in which Ujaama found himself,"
noted one federal law-enforcement source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"It would be like you or me getting a bellyache and having the U.S. surgeon general show up at the door."
A little background.
When Ujaama was first arrested he denied ever having direct contact with
Abu Hamza. His lawyer and other defenders had claimed that there was no direct
connection between him and al Qaida. A terrorist Islamist is allowed
to lie as part of their religion -- it's called Al-Takeyya -- however no one is
allowed to lie to Federal prosecutors.
Then this video appeared, courtesy of Johnathangaltfilms.com,
with Ujaama speaking in defence of Osama and Jamil al Amin (H. Rap Brown) and stating that he
had fought in Afghanistan. As part of the plea agreement, Ujaama has given a lot of inside information about Hamza's operation to Federal authorities. "Security concerns" prohibit the government from telling the court the "full nature and
scope of Ujaama's cooperation."
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Bin Laden's own doctor once treated Ujaama
By Mike Carter, Feb 12, 2004
Seattle Times staff reporter
During one of James Ujaama's trips to aid the Taliban government
in Afghanistan in late 2000, the former Seattle native fell ill and was treated
by Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the most-wanted terrorists in the world and
Osama bin Laden's adviser, confidant and personal physician.
"It gives you an idea of the circles in which Ujaama found himself,"
noted one federal law-enforcement source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"It would be like you or me getting a bellyache and having the U.S. surgeon
general show up at the door."
On the eve of Ujaama's sentencing in federal court on charges of
illegally aiding the Taliban government, three sources familiar with Ujaama's
statements to agents said he detailed the meeting as part of a plea agreement.
The deal reduced his possible 10-year prison sentence to two years.
He will be formally sentenced in Seattle tomorrow and likely will
be sent to a halfway house to serve the remainder of his sentence. It is
expected the 38-year-old Ingraham High School graduate will be freed in July,
two years to the day after his arrest in Denver on a material-witness warrant.
Ujaama was arrested in July 2002 as part of an international investigation
into radical members of a mosque in South Seattle who traveled to Bly, Ore.,
in 1999 to set up and participate in a terrorist-training camp. Federal
law-enforcementsources have said Ujaama — who was a key member at the
now-closed Dar-us-Salaam mosque — and his plans for the camp have been directly
linked to Abu Hamza al-Masri, a fiery radical cleric in London who has praised
bin Laden's attacks on the United States and the West.
Ujaama has testified at least once before a federal grand jury in
Manhattan, where counterterrorism prosecutors are building a case against
Abu Hamza for his role in helping Ujaama with his plans in Bly. At Ujaama's
sentencing, the New York prosecutor overseeing that investigation, Assistant
U.S. Attorney Eric Bruce, is expected to appear on the behalf of the government.
It was as an emissary of Abu Hamza that Ujaama traveled to Afghanistan
in late 2000 in violation of a presidential order prohibiting U.S. citizens
from providing services, goods or aid to the Taliban. President Clinton issued
that order because of the Taliban's insistence on protecting bin Laden and
his al-Qaida terrorist network, which the United States blamed for bombings
at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. The bombings killed
213 people, including 12 Americans.
Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri — the Egyptian doctor who made the house
call to treat Ujaama — have been indicted for those attacks. Al-Zawahiri,
according to the FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists" Web site, is the founder
of the violent Egyptian Islamic Jihad and is believed to be an "adviser and
doctor" to bin Laden, who is thought to be hiding in Afghanistan. The U.S.
government has offered a $25 million reward for al-Zawahiri's arrest.
Peter Bergen, one of the few Western journalists to interview bin
Laden and the author of "Holy War Inc.," wrote that "the profound impact
of al-Zawahiri on bin Laden's thinking has become increasingly clear, and
some have suggested that this little-known physician is more important to
al-Qaida than bin Laden himself."
"We have said that we believe James Ujaama had made important contacts
that justified the plea agreement," said U.S. Attorney John McKay, who otherwise
would not comment. Ujaama's attorneys, Peter Offenbecher and Robert Mahler,
declined comment.
When Ujaama pleaded guilty last April, U.S. Attorney General John
Ashcroft said the government expected Ujaama's cooperation "to lead to the
arrest of additional terrorists and the disruption of future terrorist activities."
A sentencing memorandum filed by prosecutors Feb. 3 states, "security
concerns" prohibit the government from telling the court the "full nature
and scope of Ujaama's cooperation."
Despite the activities in Bly, Ujaama was never the primary target
of the investigation. The probe has focused on Abu Hamza and other of his
followers for their role in helping finance and set up the camp.
The various charges filed against Ujaama, including the felony
to which he pleaded guilty, refer to an "unindicted co-conspirator" in London
whom sources have identified as Abu Hamza.
Ujaama lived for several years in London, where he designed and
operated a Web site for Abu Hamza called the Supporters of Shariah, the
fundamentalist Islamic law preached by the Taliban. That Web site promoted
violent Jihadagainst the United States and solicited aid for the Taliban
government.
Ujaama also can be seen sitting alongside Abu Hamza on a series
of vitriolic videotapes obtained by The Seattle Times. On the tapes, Ujaama
defends bin Laden, praises the Taliban and reminds his audience that Christians
and Jews "are our enemies." Abu Hamza, with Ujaama looking on, talks of killing
Jews and Westerners.
Ujaama's attorneys and supporters have framed his visit to Afghanistan
as a "humanitarian" trip to give computers to a girls school. But charging
papers provide additional motives.
"It was also part of the conspiracy that members of the conspiracy,
including Ujaama, provided and attempted to provide funds, goods and services
to the Taliban including Jihad fighters, currency, computers, software, computer
disks and other items," the papers state.
On that trip, Ujaama was accompanied — at Abu Hamza's direction
— by a young Briton identified by federal law-enforcement sources as Feroz
Abassi. Abassi has been identified by several sources as the unnamed, unindicted
co-conspirator in the complaint who desired "to undergo violent Jihad training."
Abassi was captured fighting U.S. troops in the battle at bin Laden's
stronghold in Kandahar, Afghanistan, after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He
is being held as an enemy combatant at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
According to the charges, Ujaama attempted to enter Afghanistan
a second time with money and computers for the Taliban in the days immediately
after Sept. 11 but was turned away "because of the local response to the
attacks."
The plea agreement prohibits Ujaama from discussing his activities
and information he has provided to the government for up to 10 years after
his release.
Ujaama's two-year sentence is a significant departure from sentences
handed out to others arrested on similar charges. In Portland, six Muslim
men who tried to enter Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban received sentences
ranging from seven to 18 years in prison.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001856258_ujaama12m.html
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FBI eyes evidence to extradite Muslim cleric
By Neil Doyle
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20030722-093656-1865r.htm
LONDON — The FBI is examining evidence from a sting operation mounted
against the radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri in Britain to determine
whether it bolsters the case for his extradition to the United States on
terrorism-related charges.
A cache of secret video and audiotapes was given by al-Masri to a researcher,
who infiltrated his group based at the Finsbury Park mosque in London.
One of the tapes includes a documentary in Arabic detailing the engineering
methods used in building the World Trade Center's Twin Towers.
Recorded before the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tape also details the
construction of the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, currently
the world's tallest structures.
In footage of a meeting of militant Islamists on one of the tapes, a voice can
be heard repeatedly shouting in the background: "Brother Atta."
Mohamed Atta was the lead hijacker in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Several of the hijackers are thought to have visited the United Kingdom in 1999,
staying at an address in Wood Green in north London.
Glen Jenvey, 38-year-old British free-lance counterintelligence investigator,
was sent the tapes after he set up a fake Web site for al Qaeda supporters.
Mr. Jenvey published militant Islamic propaganda on the site and passed on
details of people visiting the site to the FBI. He then contacted al-Masri,
who was said to be delighted with the site and sent him several films used
for recruitment.
Mr. Jenvey told the London Sunday Times: "I started to suggest I could help him
recruit people for his jihad. He got very excited by this.
"He would burble prayers down the phone in an almost demented fashion. I thought
he must be a bit mad."
Antiterrorist branch officers at Scotland Yard in London took a statement from
Mr. Jenvey in March and sent it to the FBI, which is building a case for the
extradition of al-Masri to the United States.
Other material on the tapes shows al-Masri talking at a private meeting about
so-called suicide bombers and three Britons being interviewed about their
experiences fighting jihad in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Another of the videos shows him holding a meeting with James Ujaama, who used
to oversee al-Masri's Web site in London and has been convicted in the United
States of aiding the Taliban.
Ujaama, 37, pleaded guilty in April to conspiring to provide cash, computers
and services to the Taliban, the radical Muslim sect that ruled Afghanistan until
being ousted by a U.S.-led coalition after the September 11 attacks.
The Seattle Times reported at the time that other charges were dropped under a
plea agreement with the Justice Department, in which Ujaama received a two-year
prison sentence in exchange for his testimony against al-Masri.
Ujaama has now agreed to testify against al-Masri before a federal grand jury
in New York.
Al-Masri, 44, is wanted in the United States as a suspected terrorist and is
accused of conspiring with Ujaama to set up a jihad training camp in Bly, Ore.
A spokesman for al-Masri has described the New York grand jury investigation
as a joke and a kangaroo court.
British Home Secretary David Blunkett has stripped al-Masri of his United
Kingdom citizenship, using powers granted to him under new immigration laws that
came into effect in April.
The move has been seen as paving the way for
al-Masri's deportation, although his attorneys have filed an appeal against
the decision.
He is known for recruiting militant Islamists and for
his public praise of Osama bin Laden and the September 2001 attacks. In February,
he described the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster as "a punishment from God."
Al-Masri's inflammatory remarks have led to him being
barred from preaching at the Finsbury Park mosque by the Charity Commission,
the British charities watchdog.
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Privatizing the Cyberwar
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds
http://www.techcentralstation.com/081402B.html
It is no secret that Al Qaeda and other Islamic terror groups make extensive use
of the web. Some websites provide coded messages, in the same fashion that radio
stations used to broadcast coded messages for spies in enemy territory. Others
play a role in recruiting, in disseminating propaganda, and in soliciting donations.
Some may serve all of these functions.
No doubt various official U.S. government agencies are looking at these sites,
in order to gather intelligence and identify enemies. But they're not alone.
In fact, one of the interesting aspects of the cyber-war has been the extent to
which ordinary citizens have gotten involved.
Sometimes, the stings are quite elaborate. For example, the pseudonymous
"Johnathan Galt" appears to have set up a phony pro-terrorism site that
solicited support and donations from those sympathetic to Islamic terror.
After operating for several months (with, apparently, the assistance of Islamist
bin-Laden sympathizers who thought it was genuine), the site became this new and
improved anti-Islamic terror site sporting the legend "We've changed our mind:
Jehad is crap!" No doubt Mr. Galt also harvested a great deal of information,
including IP addresses, cookie-tracking information, and, of course, identity
information via the PayPal donations he accepted, that will be of use to the
authorities. (Here's Galt's guide to Islamic terror sites on the web, and here's
his report on the "Young Turks'" hijacking of Hizbollah's website.)
Similarly, Internet entrepreneur "Jon David," who runs a number of internet
porn sites as his day job, has made a hobby out of hijacking pro-terror websites.
Most recently he scored a coup by successfully taking over the Al Qaeda website.
Visitors were redirected to a mirror page operated by David, from which he
harvested 27,000 IP addresses per day along with various other information,
which he has shared with the FBI. (No big surprise in one discovery: ninety
percent of his visitors came from Saudi Arabia).
On a less James-Bondian but still important level, webloggers like Charles
Johnson have been asking their readers to look for pages containing support
for terrorism, after which they publicize the results and attempt to bring
pressure on the ISPs to shut the sites down. Blogger James Morrow found death
threats aimed at President Bush on the ClearGuidance site. ClearGuidance has
apparently responded by barring outsiders from its chat boards, which does not
build confidence. And other folks have jumped in with ideas for disinformation
and pranks that will spread confusion at very low cost.
At the very least, website monitoring helps keep people informed of what's going
on, and website-hacking means that terrorists and terrorist wannabes have to
constantly worry about whether their web operations have been compromised. Both
kinds of actions serve to make life much tougher for terrorists and their supporters.
It's hard to know how these actions compare to whatever is being done by government
agencies. It's possible that far more sophisticated operations are underway by
skilled and well-equipped government hackers. On the other hand, Jon David's
experience suggests otherwise. When David approached the FBI to tell them that
he had captured Al Qaeda's website, and that he was eager to cooperate, the
FBI's response was glacial:
It literally took me 5 days to reach anyone in the FBI that had an even elementary
grasp of the Internet. By that time, the hostiles realized the site I had up was
a decoy and then advised everyone away from it. I still gave the FBI all the log
information and link information to the hostile boards and whatnot, but it's far
from what could have potentially been done if they would have acted more quickly.
But they are a bureaucracy and as such they move incredibly slow.
Earlier this year, I wrote that although terrorists could get inside the decision
curve of slow, hidebound bureaucracies, they'd have a tougher time dealing with
American civilians:
But no sooner did the first plane strike the World Trade Center than the hijackers
had to confront someone with a swifter learning curve. As Brad Todd noted in a
terrific column written just a few days later, American civilians, using items
of civilian technology like cell phones and 24-hour news channels, changed tactics
and defeated the hijackers aboard United Airlines' Flight 93, overcoming years of
patient planning in less than two hours. No one has successfully hijacked a
civilian airliner since - and, as "shoebomber" Richard Reid illustrates, those
terrorists who threaten civilian airliners now tend to emerge rather the worse
for wear. Against bureaucracies, terrorists had the learning-curve advantage.
Against civilians, they did not.
This should come as no surprise. American civilians, perhaps more even than their
counterparts in Europe, Japan, and the rest of the industrialized world, are used
to making rapid changes based on new information. Accustomed to a steep learning
curve in business and in life, we should be able to out-adapt those who, after all,
are ultimately committed to returning the world to a simulacrum of the 12th century.
The good news is that the Bush Administration seems to be figuring this out.
Richard Clarke, the White House computer security adviser, has publicly encouraged
white-hat hacking, and has offered to put the Administration's weight behind any
legislative changes needed to protect good-guy hackers from prosecution or litigation.
That's a good start (especially in light of the software industry's general tendency
to punish those who point out flaws, for fear of bad publicity), but Clark is mostly
concerned with probing friendly systems for weaknesses. What we really need is a
program to harness the energies of good-guy hackers to go after the bad guys.
Terrorism is a decentralized, fast-moving threat, meaning that a decentralized,
fast-moving response makes sense. Bureaucracies aren't good at that, but Americans are.
Electronic privateering, anyone? It's an idea whose time may have come.
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Al Qaeda Recruitment Videos Placed on Web
By Jeremy Reynalds
Portions what are believed to be of secret Al Qaeda training tapes show a rare
glimpse of life inside the terrorist organization.
A source who contacted me on condition of anonymity was sent the tapes by the
controversial Islamic cleric Abu Hamza of the Finsbury Park Mosque.
Video on these tapes indicates links between Abu Hamza and his Finsbury Park
Mosque to al Qaeda as well as Kashmiri, Chechen and Palestinian terrorists and
the individuals behind World Trade Center One.
The tapes also feature discussion about the bombing of the American Embassy in
Africa and how al Qaeda was responsible. Abu Hamza suggests the reasons for the
assault. His knowledge is detailed enough that he appears to have obvious links
to the attackers.
In another of the videos there is a defense of Islam and a tirade against
Christians and Jews. The speaker says there is a "crusade" against Islam by the
Jews and that Israel wants to destroy Islam and dominate the world.
The speaker cites Osama bin Laden as an example of the persecution of Muslims,
saying that he was "framed and forced into isolation" and was used as a scapegoat
to arrest many Muslims. Abu Hamza is also held up as another example of
persecution by the authorities. The same speaker says that Abu Hamza's home was
raided one night and he was arrested.
There are many indications suggesting a strong connection between Abu Hamza,
al Qaeda and bin Laden. For example. Bin Laden's official website
(closed in Aug. 2001) was www.supportersofshariah.org. Abu Hamza's was
www.supportersofshariah.com. There are also hundreds of news stories linking
Abu Hamza to al Qaeda. For example. A Google search of "Hamza Al-Qaeda" resulted
in 6590 links, such as here, here and here.
But who is Abu Hamza, whose mosque has been described as one of the most
dangerous in Europe. "Time" Magazine Europe provided a fascinating portrayal
earlier this year. The article read in part:
"Fiery, eloquent, charming Abu Hamza Al-Masri, 43, is the imam of the North
London Central Mosque in Finsbury Park, the most controversial in Europe.
Shoe bomber Richard Reid, Zacarias Moussaoui (the so-called 20th hijacker),
Djamel Beghal and other radicals have been in his congregation. Born in Egypt,
Abu Hamza studied engineering there and in Britain. After working as a civil
engineer in the U.K., he went to Afghanistan in 1993. There he lost both hands
and an eye in an explosion. Since 1996, he has been imam of the Finsbury
Park mosque."
Despite a British High Court order banning him from teaching at his mosque,
Abu Hamza continues to do
so http://www.muslimeen.co.uk/sos/home.htm.
There is a fascinating story of courage, determination and commitment behind
the individual who obtained the tapes. "Albert" (not his real name) told me
some of that story.
After setting up a fake Islamic web site and gaining the trust of the extreme
Islamic fundamentalist community, Albert decided to go one step further.
He told me in an e-mail interview that he started to write to Abu Hamza,
telling him how much he admired his work. Then under the pseudonyms of Ali
Khal and Pervez Khan, Albert also called the mosque. It didn't take Albert
long to see that Abu Hamza and his associates appeared to have a general
hatred of all white non-Moslem people in general.
Continuing to gain the confidence of Abu Hamza, Albert then told him that he
wanted to recruit people in England to join the Kashmiri terrorists and the
al Qaeda but he could do a much more effective job if he could use some old
al Qaeda training videos.
He wrote:
"Abu Hamza said he would send some and after several more phone calls and
several e- mails in which I had to act as a supporter of evil and hate whites,
the postman came with a box of some 20 cassette tapes,newspapers from Afghanistan,
Kashmir, Palestine, Chechnia. I listened to every tape and made copies for
my Indian and Russian friends. I did contact the British police, but they
never bothered coming.
I think that they thought I was nuts or lying, or that I had been sent Elton
John's top 20 hits. But they were very wrong as good reports from Indian
intelligence came back."
The video tapes came soon after. Although Abu Hamza told Albert that most of
them had been removed from the mosque or hidden, he said he would nonetheless
sort out a selection and send some.
I wondered what Albert's motivation was in now making these tapes available
to a worldwide audience.
By e- mail he told me that he wants to expose the al Qaeda in the United
Kingdom and show that the British laws on refugees are too soft. "Now the whole
world can see that the United Kingdom is a major terrorist training base and
support center for the al Qaeda."
Albert added that the most important thing he wants accomplished by the release
of these videos is for the world to see that Abu Hamza is a "major player"
for al Qaeda. "He must be taken off the streets and be deported to Yemen where
he is wanted," he told me.
Portions of the videotapes are available for viewing and downloading at
http://johnathangaltfilms.com/
Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder and director of Joy
Junction, New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter. He has a master's
degree in communication from the University of New Mexico and is pursuing his
PhD in intercultural education at Biola University in Los Angeles. He is married
with five children and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work can be viewed
here and weekly at www.americasvoices.org. He may be contacted by e-mail at
reynalds@joyjunction.org
11.20.03
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British Undercover Investigator May Flee United Kingdom
By Jeremy Reynalds
A British undercover investigator who posed as the operator of a radical Islamic
web site may leave the United Kingdom due to what he says is the large number of
death threats he has received from al Qaeda sympathizers.
Glen Jenvey, 38, whose work was profiled recently in England's "Sunday Times"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-750685,00.html , but whose story
http://www.bushcountry.org/news/columnists/jreynalds/c_110902_jreynalds_
al-qaeda-recruitment-videos.htm was first told on BUSHCOUNTRY.org in November
2002, told this reporter that he feels unsafe in his native country and may ask
India or America for political refugee status.
According to the "Sunday Times," Jenvey was so convincing in his role as a radical
website operator that Hamza allegedly sent him a number of propagandist al Qaeda
recruitment videos. Jenvey forwarded the videos to a number of law enforcement
agencies that included the FBI.
The evidence against Hamza is being collected by US government prosecutors in
New York, where Hamza is part of a grand jury investigation into a plot to
provide weapons training to American mujaheddin on a cattle ranch in Bly, Oregon.
If the grand jury charges Hamza with conspiracy to provide material support to
terrorists, which carries a 25-year jail sentence, sources close to the case
told the "Sunday Times" they will press for Hamza's extradition to America.
The "Sunday Times" wrote that according to statements given to the anti-terrorist
branch in March, Jenvey set up an internet site in 2002 called islamic-news.co.uk.
Using the (fictitious) name Pervez Khan he published radical Islamic propaganda
and news articles on the site from Kashmiri extremist groups.
Once the site was established, Jenvey told the "Sunday Times" he sent the material
to Hamza's now defunct website — supportersofshariah.org. "He (Hamza) was so
pleased with this he decided to put a link to my site from his site. That was his
first big mistake," Jenvey told the "Sunday Times" last week.
As a result, Jenvey ended up monitoring everyone who logged on to Hamza's website
and passing the information he gathered onto the FBI.
However, Jenvey felt he could do even more. He told the "Sunday Times," "By now
I was getting close to Hamza. He trusted me ... We had been e-mailing each other
a lot and I had been passing the e-mails to the FBI. We also started to speak on
the phone. I started to suggest I could help him recruit people for his jihad.
He became very excited by this. He would burble prayers down the phone in an almost
demented fashion. I thought he must be a bit mad. He said he would send me some
material to help me win supporters and prepare them for jihad. He said he had
some special tapes but that they were somewhere secret and he did not keep them
in the mosque. He said they would be sent to me."
Less than a month later a package arrived at Jenvey's home containing 20 audio tapes.
A second package arrived a week later with six two-hour video tapes. Jenvey told the
"Sunday Times" he was shocked by what he saw. One tape began by showing a training
camp in Bosnia and scenes of urban combat training. Jihad anthems played in the
background and a voice in English commanded: "Make ready to continue to terrorize
the enemy of Allah."
The tape then later cut to Hamza speaking to a private audience in London about
"so-called" suicide bombers. "It is to inflict suffering, it is in the time, in
the methodology of suicide, it is there and at its peak," says Hamza.
In another tape, the "Sunday Times" wrote, three British volunteers were interviewed
in Bosnia about their experiences. All three urged Muslims at home to undergo jihad
training and criticized those individuals who just sent money or gave moral support.
Another tape, also allegedly provided by Hamza, was an Arabic documentary, made
before 9/11, about the building of the World Trade Center in New York and the
Petronas Towers in Malaysia.
Jenvey told the "Sunday Times" that after receiving the tapes he continued to
monitor Hamza's website. In April 2003 he saw a film showing Russian soldiers
being blown up by Chechnyan terrorists. The film was available through a link
from Hamza's website. It showed training with live ammunition at a camp in
Afghanistan and appeared to be a training exercise for potential assassins.
Many of the target images were obscured, but former President Bill Clinton,
was clearly visible.
Hamza's website was shut down by its internet service provider soon after Jenvey
reported his observations to the appropriate authorities.
The "Sunday Times" reported that one of the tapes given to Jenvey has already made
an impact. It showed Hamza at a meeting sharing a platform with the US terrorist
suspect James Ujaama.
According to the "Sunday Times," although Ujaama designed Hamza's internet site
under the name Abu Samaya, he denied knowing Hamza when first arrested by the FBI.
However, when the tape was produced his defense crumbled. He is now the key witness
against Hamza in the grand jury investigation.
Jenvey told this reporter that he has "has been asked to keep several undisclosed
dates free to attend court in America but he has yet to receive any thanks from
any branch of the American government for help in this case."
Reflecting on his role in the entire situation and the recent article in the
"Sunday Times," Jenvey said that Hamza may end up looking at more than just being
charged with running terrorist training camps as the videos show possible links
to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Jenvey said, "Al Qaeda being an "Islamic fanatic terrorists group, needs a (radical)
Islamic cleric like Hamza to give orders to attack."
Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder and director of Joy Junction,
New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter. He has a master's degree in communication
from the University of New Mexico and is pursuing his PhD in intercultural education
at Biola University in Los Angeles. He is married with five children and lives in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work can be viewed here and weekly at www.americasvoices.org.
He may be contacted by e-mail at reynalds@joyjunction.org
10.27.03
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MI5 foils gas attack on London Tube
November 18 2002
By Peter Fray
Europe Correspondent
London
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/17/1037490052715.html
Britain's security forces have foiled an alleged plot by three suspected North
African terrorists to release cyanide into London's underground rail network.
The trio, believed to be from Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, have been charged
under new anti-terrorism laws after the MI5, part of Britain's security services,
infiltrated the group.
Police have confirmed the alleged terrorists appeared in a London Magistrates court
last Tuesday. They were arrested in a series of raids on homes in north London. T
hey are due back in court today. It is believed MI5 infiltrated the group six months ago.
News of the arrests comes just days after British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned
of increased terrorist activity against Britain. It also follows the release of a
taped warning by Osama bin Laden of a pending attack against Britain, Australia and
four other Western allies of the United States.
The three men have been linked to a group that is part of the al Qaeda network.
MI5 reportedly believed the gang was about to import the ingredients for a cyanide
gas attack. London's Tube was believed the most likely target.
Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist branch made the arrests on November 9. Six men were
originally arrested but only three charged.
The other three were released. The three charged were Rabah Chekat-Bais, 21, Rabah
Kadris, in his mid-30s, and Karim Kadouri, 33 - all unemployed and of no fixed address.
The FBI this week warned of the threat of a "spectacular" al Qaeda attack. Mr Blair,
in his annual speech to the Lord Mayor's banquet last Monday, warned that barely a
day went by without a new terrorist threat.
"These dangers can strike at any time," he said. "Today's breed of terrorist knows
no bounds - of geography, of inhumanity or of scale. They are looking for ever-more
dramatic and devastating outrages to inflict on the people they claim to be their enemy."
According to a report, Mr Blair rejected MI5 suggestions to delay arresting the group
to probe its links to al Qaeda.
On Monday last week, Britain's Home Office released, and later withdrew, a warning
that terrorists might use "a so- called dirty bomb or poisonous gas" against
targets in Britain.
Two Algerians last month were sentenced to life in prison for bombing the Paris
Metro in 1995. They killed eight and wounded 200. Britain's security services are
investigating whether the three arrested are linked to Algeria's Armed Islamic Group
(GIA), the organisation behind the Paris Metro bomb. GIA is linked to al Qaeda.
The "tentacles" of al Qaeda and other terrorist groups extended far wider than
Western governments had suspected, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said yesterday.
He urged Australians to prepare for a long war against terrorism, saying it would
take "enormous vigilance" to smash the international terror networks.
"As we've said since September the 11th in particular, Australians really need to
be vigilant. They need to be cautious. And we just can't take for granted that
there wouldn't be a security attack, some sort of terrorist attack in Australia,
and we have to be tough on our own security," he said on Channel Seven's Sunday
Sunrise program.
Mr Downer was commenting on the plot to release cyanide gas in London's Tube system.
He said it was possible the London Tube plot was the spectacular attack the FBI
last week warned al Qaeda operatives were planning on American or Western interests.
Mr Downer also repeated government denials that the government had been warned
about the Bali bombings before the attacks.
"We had no prior warnings of the Bali bombings... The Americans had no prior warning
of it, the British had no prior warning of it," he said.
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Alarm over terror suspects with deadly toxin
Jason Bennetto & Kim Sengupta,
The Independent, 8 Jan 2003
http://www.obv.org.uk/reports/2003/rpt20030108d.html
A gang of suspected al-Qa'ida terrorists has been arrested and a deadly poison
discovered in a London flat, the first time since the 11 September atrocities
that chemical weapons have been found in Britain.
Police arrested six Algerian men, aged from their late teens to thirties, and a
woman, at addresses in north and east London. They found traces of ricin, a highly
toxic compound, in a makeshift laboratory at a flat in Wood Green, where one of
the men was arrested.
Anti-terrorist officers are still searching for a number of Algerians believed
to be on the run with a small quantity of the dangerous chemical. A droplet of
home-made ricin the size of a pinhead is enough to kill. The poison, which is
made from castor beans, can be fatal if injected, swallowed or sprayed into a
victim's face at close range. There is no antidote.
Plans by al-Qa'ida to produce ricin were reportedly discovered in the cellar of
a house in Kabul after the fall of the Taliban. The instructions for preparing
the poison warned that "seven seeds will kill a child". The documents described
the agonies of the victim before death. Yesterday, a nationwide alert was issued
and doctors and hospitals were warned to be on the lookout for anyone suffering
the symptoms of ricin poisoning.
The detained woman was released but the six men, held under anti-terrorism laws,
were still being questioned last night. Further arrests are expected.
The ricin was the first chemical or biological substance found in Europe or the
United States and linked to al-Qa'ida supporters since the attacks on Washington
and New York. The Government and anti-terrorist officers have issued regular
warnings of possible plots to attack Britain.
The discovery of the crude laboratory was made after a month-long operation that
began when MI5 obtained intelligence on a group of suspected al-Qa'ida supporters
operating in London. In the early hours of Sunday, officers from the Metropolitan
Police's anti-terrorist branch made a series of raids.
At the flat in Wood Green, which is above a chemist's, they discovered laboratory
equipment. Police and security sources do not believe the suspect who made the
poison had a specific target and there was not enough of the substance to cause
widespread fatalities or injuries. The suspects are not thought to have any links
with Iraq and there is no clear evidence of a specific plot.
Tony Blair, addressing British diplomats at a conference in London, said the
operation highlighted the "present and real" danger posed by terrorists.
Ricin was most notoriously used to kill the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in
1978. Markov had a dart containing the poison stabbed into his leg from an
umbrella as he walked across Waterloo Bridge. The poison is particularly
effective in assassinations because the symptoms do not start showing for
several hours. At first the victim can suffer flu-like symptoms, leading 24
hours later to vomiting, possible seizures and, after several days, death.
Experts said large quantities would be needed to injure a group of people and
spraying it into the air or putting it into the water supply was unlikely to cause
serious illness.
To make ricin, chemicals are added to castor beans to extract the oil. The
poison can be obtained from the remains. A police source said: "It could be
done with fairly low- technology equipment." He added: "The indications are that
it's a relatively low-profile, low-key production."
Last night several properties in the immediate vicinity of the flat in Wood Green
were sealed off. Police wearing protective suits are expected to continue searching today.
The Department of Health has drawn up plans to deal with an outbreak of poisoning.
Dr Pat Troop, the deputy chief medical officer, said: "If any new developments have
implications for public safety we will ensure the public is informed."
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Bio-war suits found in London mosque
Hala Jaber and David Leppard
January 26, 2003
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,1-555510,00.html
DETECTIVES investigating a plot by Islamic terrorists to carry out a chemical
weapons attack in Britain have found chemical warfare protection suits at a mosque
in north London.
The NBC (nuclear, biological and chemical) suits were discovered during a raid by
150 police officers on the Finsbury Park mosque last Monday. Informed sources said
the discovery confirmed growing fears by police and MI5 that a chemical attack is
being planned by supporters of Osama Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda movement in Britain.
Police announced after the raid they had seized a small arsenal of weapons
including a stun gun, an imitation firearm and a CS gas canister.
But discovery of the NBC suits has been kept a closely guarded secret known only
to a handful of senior officers. Ministers are acutely aware that any suggestion
that the mosque may have been involved with chemical weapons could inflame racial
tensions. Seven men — six north Africans and one eastern European — were arrested
during the raid. Last night two were still being held under the terrorism act.
It is not known how many suits were found at the mosque or their purpose. However,
police say there has so far been no evidence found of chemicals or anything that
would pose an immediate threat to the public.
The suits are being analysed to see if there are any traces of ricin or other
chemicals on them. Scientists at the defence science and technology laboratories
at Porton Down are thought to have been consulted.
Police emphasised that the operation was not against the mosque itself or those
who regularly attend it to pray.
Reda Husseine, an Algerian journalist once paid by French and British security
services to infiltrate the mosque, said he had heard conversations by militants
there about the possible use of chemical weapons. He said: “In 1999 and 2000,
there were discussions about chemical, biological and even a possible attack with
a ‘dirty bomb’ (a crudely constructed device containing uranium). I told British
authorities about that. They dismissed it as rubbish.”
The mosque has been used by Abu Hamza, a radical Muslim cleric, to preach holy war
against the West. Its visitors have included two would-be suicide bombers. One was
Richard Reid, the “shoe bomber”, who tried to blow up a plane using plastic
explosives in his shoe in December 2001. A second was Zacarias Moussaoui, the
man the FBI claims was to be the 20th hijacker on September 11.
Scotland Yard has said the search of the mosque last week was linked to a raid
earlier this month on a flat in Wood Green, north London, where ricin is believed
to have been made. Four north Africans have been charged with being concerned in
the development or production of chemical weapons.
Police mounted the operations after receiving information on New Year’s Day of a
threatened chemical attack in Britain. Officers fear there may be chemical “factories”
operating elsewhere in Britain.
Last month a chemical warfare suit was seized after French police arrested four
suspects in a Paris suburb. Sources say that raid has helped investigators in
Britain begin to unravel a new terrorist network.
A typical NBC suit consists of hooded overalls, protective boots and inner and
outer gloves. A cloth outer suit impregnated with carbon and a respirator are
designed to protect users from chemical, biological or nuclear fallout.
Scotland Yard said it was “not prepared to discuss” the investigation.
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Mom aids in hunting terrorists over Web
By Neil Doyle
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030808-104401-1189r.htm
Referred to by her spy masters only as "Mrs. Galt," she is by day an American
housewife and mother. But after her two children go to bed, she plunges into a
secret world of Internet chat rooms and Web sites populated by some of the most
dangerous people on earth.
Burrowing into the byzantine network of unpublicized Web sites used by al Qaeda
and other terror groups for their routine communications, she sweet-talks her
interlocutors into revealing their plans, often with fatal consequences for the terrorists.
They have no idea that their supportive new "sister" is a terrorist hunter reporting
every word they say to a variety of intelligence agencies.
She is so trusted by her unsuspecting targets that they often send her pictures
of themselves displaying heavy machine guns and other weapons. She has even been
sent pictures of men proudly displaying severed human heads.
Her most recent venture — penetrating al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Pakistan —
is said to have resulted in the death and detention of several terrorists. Others
are still at large, making it necessary to keep her real name and hometown secret.
The results of her latest exploits, including transcripts of her chats with suspects,
have been placed on a Web site for all to see at www.pakistan-army-isi.com. Despite
the name, the site has no connection to the Pakistani army or ISI, the country's
intelligence service.
"I would have loved to have seen [the terrorists´] faces when they saw the messages
on the Web," Mrs. Galt, 42, said in an interview conducted by e-mail.
"All I can do is hope that some of the terrorists I talked to get picked up. After
all, they are not terrorists until a court says they are."
Mrs. Galt is an example of a new breed of cyber-spy — ordinary citizens who want
to "do their bit" by putting their computer skills to use fighting terrorism.
She reports to London-based private intelligence consultant Glen Jenvey, who makes
his research available to government services, including the FBI and the military
intelligence agencies of Russia and India.
"She has brought us first-rate military counterintelligence, and the people at the
top respect her very much," said her British handler, one of a loosely organized
group of counterintelligence researchers who specialize in using the Internet to
infiltrate militant Islamic groups.
Armed with a crib sheet summarizing Islamic sayings and customs, Mrs. Galt plays
the part of a "sister" wanting to support the men waging jihad. She ingratiates
herself and offers to lend her expertise with computers to further the aims of the groups.
Jihad fighters on the front lines in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kashmir, who often
have not seen a woman for several months, seize on the chance to talk to a woman.
Mrs. Galt says she flirts with the men to play on their hopes and deflect any suspicions.
Over a period of weeks and even months, she slowly teases out details of coming operations,
locations of bases and movements of personnel.
Mrs. Galt said she has gone as far as setting up Web sites for some notorious groups,
including the al Qaeda-affiliated Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan.
During one recent online chat, a contact was mourning the death of a friend. "Sister,
I cried very much in my prayers because my very close friend, who was also with me
in training, got killed," the man wrote.
Mrs. Galt said she lent a sympathetic ear and provided soothing words, all the time
knowing that information she had provided might have led to the man's death.
She said she felt no trace of guilt.
Other intelligence coups by Mrs. Galt include a revelation that terrorist groups in
Pakistan have been conducting experiments with chemical weapons.
Members of one group were asked in an "urgent appeal" to track down the formula for
making chlorine gas.
They were also exploring the feasibility of manufacturing biological weapons by
extracting live viruses from vaccines and cultivating them.
Other information she has provided include details of a string of bank accounts
used by militant groups, which have shed valuable light on how these groups are funded.
Not everything she hears is reliable or can be confirmed. She has also been told by her
Web correspondents that Osama bin Laden is being sheltered by Islamist rebels in Chechnya.
Mrs. Galt said she has received death threats since she went public, but is undeterred.
She is about to adopt a new guise and go back online after a short break.
"In about a week or so, I'll have another ID and start all over again, hitting the
Web looking for jihad supporters," she said. "It's a never-ending battle."
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