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More on this story. "Al-Qaida appears to claim Glasgow attack," from the Associated Press, October 24:
The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq has said his group is focused on attacks outside the country in a new audiotape in which he seemed to claim responsibility for the June 2007 attack on Glasgow International Airport.Abu Ayyub al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, did not specifically mention the Scottish airport in the nearly 45-minute interview posted on the Internet on Thursday.
But he said his group carried out its "last operation in Britain, a good part of which was launched on the airport and the rest was not carried out due to a mistake made by one of the brothers."
Two men were arrested and charged with conspiring to murder after a burning Jeep loaded with gas cylinders was driven into Glasgow airport in June 2007. A day earlier, police discovered two cars packed with explosives in central London.
British authorities indicated at the time that they thought the plotters may have had links with al-Qaida.
Masri said that a few days before the airport attack, one of the plotters "got in touch and informed [al-Qaida in Iraq] that the operation is about to happen."
Many terrorism analysts have expressed concern that well-trained fighters from al-Qaida in Iraq and other Islamic extremists groups in the country could seek to export violence to places like Western Europe and Afghanistan as Iraq becomes more stable....
Posted by Raymond at October 26, 2008 11:26 AM
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Two men were arrested and charged with conspiring to murder after a burning Jeep loaded with gas cylinders was driven into Glasgow airport in June 2007. A day earlier, police discovered two cars packed with explosives in central London.
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But it's the US that poses the greatest threat to world peace?
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at October 26, 2008 11:40 AM
PMK wrote:
"But it's the US that poses the greatest threat to world peace?"
Of course they are PMK, they happen to be the only country that is daring to stop the Islamisation of the World, therefore stopping the peace that will eventually be once Islamisation is complete.
I used to think that the UK was a staunch supporter of democracy, liberty and above all freedom and all it entails, but sadly, it no longer is and cannot be counted on in the fight against Islamisation, the Government and Establishments that is, as I'm sure the majority don't want Islamisation one bit.
at October 26, 2008 11:52 AM
well, i know the intelligence service is working, but what next? nothing. except the formation of the British Mutawwa (religous police)...
Posted by: theygottago at October 26, 2008 12:14 PM
Will the British Courts allow this as testimony against the accused?
"A mistake made by one of the brothers" ???
I thought they all made a mistake. The first one being Muslim.
Posted by: flowerknife_us at October 26, 2008 1:27 PM
Personally I don't give a dam who is behind the plot. What I want too see is them in front of something, preferable a firing squad.
at October 26, 2008 1:46 PM
I'm sure the majority don't want Islamisation one bit.
Richard the Lionheart,
Then the ball is in their court.
Posted by: PMK at October 26, 2008 2:32 PM
Och, they're a muckle nuisance.
Posted by: tanstaafl at October 26, 2008 4:04 PM
The answer when some one with common sense connects the dots, its islam stupid! with all this pc garbage, and with gov't officials not allowed to say "islamists, jihad, etc," the giant elephant in the room has "Islam, koran" lablelled on it!
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at October 26, 2008 5:54 PM
Al Qaeda in Scotland? Now there's a small world for you. What, does Fat Bastard eat too much haram? Then issue a Fat-wa!
I don't imagine haggis is haram, unless there's a pork version (piggish?). Then there's Glenlivet, very un-Islamic, but probably a serious enticement to sin and apostasy.
Or is it just that "Iraq has become more stable", so now Al Qaeda is looking farther? I though Iraqi stability was supposed to change all that. No?
at October 26, 2008 6:48 PM
mmmmmmmm...Glenlivet...
Posted by: pulsar182 at October 26, 2008 8:04 PM
I'm wi' Zena. It's Islam.
AQ is just a hair on its ugly ass.
Posted by: undaunted at October 26, 2008 9:02 PM
Being of Scottish descent and with a lifelong desire to visit my ancestral home, I say "Get rid of the lily-livered foreigners!"
Posted by: angryamerican at October 27, 2008 7:56 PM
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