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A Jihad-Is-Just-A-Spiritual-Struggle Update from Australia, via the Sydney Morning Herald, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
A former Qantas baggage handler who compiled a book outlining "short and wise" rules for fighting jihad on his computer in suburban Lakemba dedicated it to the "martyrs of Islam".Yesterday the bizarre and often violent text was handed over to Sydney Central Local Court, where its 35-year-old editor, Bilal Khazal, faced a charge of making documents likely to facilitate terrorist acts.
Dressed in a long navy dish-dasha dress shirt, white prayer cap, socks and sandals, the portly Khazal sat impassively as prosecutor Geoffrey Bellew told the court that almost a third of the offending book was directed to the topic of assassination, including a list of attributes needed to be part of an assassination team - "wit and a quick mind", "a terrorist psychology" and "high physical fitness".
The book concluded with praise for al-Qaeda's "impressive success of the conquest of New York" on September 11, 2001.
Defence lawyers for Khazal argued the Lebanese-born father of two had merely compiled the book from documents taken from the internet. But, according to the prosecutor, Khazal wrote the introduction to "Provisions on the Rules of Jihad", where he says he was asked to prepare it by "brothers working to support this religion".
Using a pseudonym, Abu Mohamed Attawheedy, Khazal apologises in the introduction for the poor job on the text, saying it was done in a few days, but "better haste than never".
The book was posted on a Jihadist website from September 2003 to May 2004.
The wide-ranging chapter on assassination, attributed to numerous scholars, debates not only setting up hit squads but explains how mujahideen fighters in Palestine and elsewhere can protect themselves against being hit by the CIA and Mossad.
Among the assassination techniques used by Western intelligence, the book says, are letter bombs, snipers, car bombs and "cake throwing", which it adds, "is well known in the West".
Jihadists are warned to be alert to couples pretending to be joking before attacking the target with cakes. "This could lead to his eyes, nose and mouth being plugged and [he] loses the ability to breathe. Few would suspect the fatal consequences."
But in another section it includes a checklist for jihadist assassins, from getting the budgeting and transport organised, to checking wiring and receivers before attempting to use time-bombs.
Less clear from the text is who are the targets of the jihadist assassins. While the political and military leaders from the West are suggested, along with infidels in Arab countries, including Jews, Christians and Arabs, at times the book insists that "a legal fatwa" must be obtained for assassinations.
Counsel for Khazal, Murugan Thangaraj, argued the book did not instruct people to commit terrorist acts and was only a book about terrorism.
"This document does not direct any specific act to any specific person and is really a general document," Mr Thangaraj said.
Yes, he no doubt was against it all.
Posted by Robert at June 9, 2005 12:24 PM
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"at times the book insists that "a legal fatwa" must be obtained for assassinations."
That's all right then. Due process of law. Procedural due process. Making sure to dot i's and cross t's. Fatwas formally arrived at -- no case too big or too small. No hotheads need apply. We are an ideology of Allah's laws, and not of men. What could be fairer?
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at June 9, 2005 3:13 PM
'Qantas baggage handler, writes manual on Jihad, arrives in court with kaftan and coffee-filter.
Is the Australian judge going to issue a fatwa for him to continue the Jihad?
http://www.terrorists-suck.org/fight/the_shoe_bomber.mp3
at June 9, 2005 3:47 PM
Re: "the book says, are letter bombs, snipers, car bombs and "cake throwing", which it adds, "is well known in the West"."
Of course, those secret Mossad and CIA cakes. Must be the solid ones my grandaughter bakes.
Posted by: johnb at June 9, 2005 3:49 PM
Khazal is probably hoping that he will get the same judge as the traitor Judge who sat on Ps Daniel Scot "hate" case.
Nothing that Saudi oil money can't buy - it would be interesting to see if the Islamic Legal Fund (thanks to our ally - Saudi Arabia) is paying his legal bills.
at June 9, 2005 6:49 PM
Mmmmmm. Cake.
Posted by: Salami, Salami, Bologna at June 9, 2005 7:21 PM
Counsel for Khazal, Murugan Thangaraj, argued the book did not instruct people to commit terrorist acts and was only a book about terrorism.
So not like the koran, which actually does insist that murderous jihad be carried out against all non-muslims.
Posted by: DP111 at June 9, 2005 7:28 PM
The "portly Khazal" writes of maintaining "high physical fitness"?
I guess this is equivalent to Mohammad (pb&j) using the word "Compassionate" about Allah in the Koran.
Knowing Australia's court system through their recent work (prosecuting a Christian minister for reading the Quran outloud as spreading 'hatespeech'-SEE:)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1088959/posts
Khazal will likely be released on a technicality by Tuesday. And never again charged.
In the Mombasa, Kenya, Al-Qaeda Hotel Bombing trial, the judge let the defendants off. One was immediately re-arrested. SEE:
http://wtop.com./index.php?nid=387&sid=517163
Like the 'justice' dispensed in American southern racist trials in the 1950's and early 1960's, the judge in Kenya performed as expected. Letting the killers go rather than annoy the locals who might sympathize with their act of terrorism. (And maybe kill the judge for a 'wrong' verdict?)
Slightly OT-
At Gitmo, we now learn depths of the the colossal foolishness of allowing "illegal combatant" prisoners to get anywhere within reach of delusional American lawyers -glibly trying to 'defend' the Constitution by supporting those who are trying to destroy it.
Suicide Pact, anyone?
Just shoot the s.o.b.'s in the field when you catch them. As spies, saboteurs and terrorists.
Its legal.
And avoids the expense of providing them with Korans later.
(And the global mess that this brilliant bit of 'multicultural tolerance' brought down on us.)
at June 9, 2005 8:11 PM
Sorry, I don't get the "cake throwing" bit. Is that a cute nickname for some military weaponry or does he mean actual cake?
Yes, Qantas baggage handlers are sure getting a bad name. If they're not plotting jihad, they're smuggling drugs, probably in unlocked baggage of unsuspecting passengers. That whole system needs a good clean-up. As does that Lakemba area. What a cesspool that is. Not a multicultural paradise at all.
Posted by: feralee at June 9, 2005 8:51 PM
Kharzal has been a longtime 'person of interest' to ASIO. Maybe they'll get him this time around. Who's the judge, it doesnt say.
I hope ASIO is on the ball regarding the Muslim Wonderland at Lakemba. They should have bugs in the radical mosques and infiltrators in place.
I hope thats the case.
Posted by: DianaC at June 9, 2005 9:23 PM
"Sorry, I don't get the "cake throwing" bit. Is that a cute nickname for some military weaponry or does he mean actual cake"
I Googled "cake throwing" and all I got was actual cake throwing. Who knows? But I'm with Salami, Salami, Bologna , "mmm cake"
at June 9, 2005 10:32 PM
Yeah, that's what I thought, Carolyn. Just plain cake throwing. But I just can't see how anyone could suffocate to death because a cake is thrown in your face. It just sounds so bizarre and paranoid.
I'm glad, though, that they're sweeping up these creeps, and putting them before a court. I just hope, however, that he's convicted.
They've got another one too: Faheem Khalid Lodhi accused of planning a terrorist attack against several key infrastructure and defence sites in Sydney. He's the guy they reckon was the local contact for that French terrorist, Willie Brigitte.
at June 10, 2005 2:38 AM
i agree with bigsleep. take no prisoners;its the best way.
Posted by: dms at June 10, 2005 3:18 AM
I am not the world's best cook. Some rock buns baked for a church fete were sold (by my best friend's husband - and he still lives) as " Basalt buns, get your basalt buns here, made with genuine granite.."
They would deliver a knock out blow, but you need a custard pie for true suffocation.
at June 10, 2005 5:33 AM
Conquest of New York. In your dreams, bucko. I live in the suburbs of New York, and I don't see any conquest. I don't see any mullahs patroling the streets making sure everyone is praying five times a day at mosque. The churches and synagoges are still standing. It looks to me that it's the Muslims who are running scared. Some conquest. 9/11 was a cheap shot sucker punch, not a conquest. Get a new dictionary.
Posted by: Balrog at June 10, 2005 11:10 AM
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