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Only a matter of time: Islamic State jihadis in UK ready to attack

Aug 11, 2015 3:55 pm By Robert Spencer

ABu-Musa-al-Britani-v2This shows yet again that appeasement doesn’t work. The British government has done all it could do to placate Islamic jihadists and supremacists. It has allowed them to preach freely all over the land, while hounding and jailing counter-jihadists on the flimsiest of pretexts, and banning foreign ones from entering the country. It has stigmatized and demonized resistance to jihad terror as “racism” and “bigotry.” It has allowed Muslim rape gangs to victimize thousands of British girls with absolute impunity, allowing those girls no justice or redress. And what does it get for all this? Islamic State bombers in the country, ready to attack. One might almost get the idea that appeasement was the wrong path to take.

“Exclusive: IS Bombers In UK Ready To Attack,” by Stuart Ramsay, Sky News, August 11, 2015:

Islamic State is now focused on urging British would-be recruits to carry out “lone wolf” attacks in the UK instead of travelling to fight in Syria, Sky News has learned.

Fictional characters created online by Sky with an undercover freelance journalist were sent terror guidebooks by senior jihadists in Syria – including advice on raising funds and making weapons.

And we were told IS already has a number of potential bombers in the UK – some of whom have been trained in Syria and are ready to attack.

By posing on Twitter and in chatrooms as two individuals committed to jihad – one male, one female – we have gained a disturbing new insight into the extremists’ tactics.

The chatter never stops. Sometimes within the millions of messages you come across something that shocks.

One jihadist told us that this Saturday’s VJ commemorations involving the Queen and the Royal Family were a target.

The online posts by our characters over the past four months attracted the attention of two major players in Islamic State’s so-called cyber caliphate.

One of them is Junaid Hussain, a 21-year-old hacker-turned-jihadist from Birmingham, who runs the IS information and recruitment arm from Syria.

He has been identified by the US Secret Service as a top-five target for elimination by drone strike.

His wife, Sally Jones, a former punk from Chatham, Kent, is also in Syria working alongside Hussain in Raqqa but dealing with female IS-supporting jihadists.

From the start it became clear that IS wants its recruits to attack the UK and not travel to their so-called caliphate.

We can reveal that this is an entirely new tactic by IS – originally they called for volunteers to join them in Syria.

Sending us detailed guidebooks, they urged our fictional characters to form gangs and to create a British Islamic State over a long period.

This strategy is a major departure.

Communicating on encrypted messaging sites, a second conversation started with another of our characters, an 18-year-old girl.

Jones quickly asked our character what she wanted to do in the UK – to cut a head off or blow up a bomb.

Assuring us she would guide us through the making of the bomb, she explained what we would need, directing us to get the material and to show her a receipt with a date.

She was checking to see if we were authentic.

Sensing our character’s worries, Jones took an unusual step to reassure us.
Video: Uncovering The Islamic State Threat

She revealed she had another potential bomber in Scotland and two others who had so far failed to attack.

It was Jones who sent us the details of the plot to attack the VJ commemorations.

With one or even three potential real bombers at large we informed the Metropolitan Police’s anti-terror branch.

This information was later reported by a Sunday newspaper.

The police deny involvement in that, while encouraging us to continue our investigation.

We wanted more information on potential attacks in the UK so I took the tried and tested jihadi route through Istanbul to the Turkish Arabic city of Urfa, which lies near the Syrian border.

Our IS contacts confirmed the group’s new policy for British and European jihadists is to stay in their countries….

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  1. ich says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    whatever happened to soccer hooligans and tough Brits !!!?

    • jayell says

      Aug 11, 2015 at 4:31 pm

      We’ve still got the football hooligans, but they now do disgusting things on the Paris metro. Not sure what happened to all the toughies. Possibly something to do with the threat of getting a visit from Mr. Plod + chums if you say ‘boo’ to the wrong kind of person.

      • jayell says

        Aug 11, 2015 at 4:42 pm

        Sorry, should have added, Mr. Plod & chums apparently won’t be quite so enthusiastic to visit you if your house has been burgled. No doubt because they’re more keen on visiting people who have said ‘boo’ at the wrong time. Or maybe because there are no longer enough Mr. Plods, since all the money’s had to go into stopping followers of the ‘Religion of Peace’ blowing us up.

        • Judi says

          Aug 11, 2015 at 5:48 pm

          jayell – you hit the nail on the head! The police in the UK are running around like headless chickens, trying to thwart one suspected terrorist plot after another.

        • jayell says

          Aug 12, 2015 at 6:25 pm

          “……their (police) superiors are nothing more than overpaid social workers…..”

          Shouldn’t that be social ENGINEERS a lot of the time these days?

    • mortimer says

      Aug 11, 2015 at 5:03 pm

      The Public Order Act (UK) has damaged free speech in UK. People can be arrested if any complaint is made. It is virtually a law of ‘hurt feelings’.

      There’s free expression in UK only if the government approves.

    • Baucent says

      Aug 11, 2015 at 10:32 pm

      Ever heard of the EDL?

      • Rob says

        Aug 11, 2015 at 11:19 pm

        ..something about erectile dysfunction?

    • God Almighty says

      Aug 12, 2015 at 4:20 am

      Bring back the skinheads, but en-masse!

      • particolor says

        Aug 12, 2015 at 5:13 am

        Bovva Boots needed !

  2. Stephanie says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 4:02 pm

    … IS Bombers In UK Ready To Attack” Q61:4-9 for world domination 8:39, 9:33

    —Supreme legislator, Q5:48 “… For each We have appointed a DIVINE (Shari’ah)law”

    http://192.96.206.71/islamic-stoning-to-death-rajam.html

  3. jihad3tracker says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 4:09 pm

    This is the perfect link to send to your federal, state, and local elected officials —– because it almost certainly mirrors what is happening below the radar with jihadis networking in America.

    • underbed cat says

      Aug 12, 2015 at 3:47 am

      The message that we (the jihadist) are “ready”, is not surprising but none the less frightening. I am sure it is a world wide message, the UK will have to deal with this insurgency now ready to get violent, it is a tried and true method used for centuries and no one saw it coming. That the previous bombings and attacks on western powers never raised an heart beat. Normally national leaders try to understand the cause of violent attacks, but the Muslim Brotherhood political party has a method of deception to deal with any unfavorable association or descriptions. Tolerance was demanded, oppression, they used the very ideology of Sharia Law, Islam to become the victims they became, but placed the responsibility of the oppression elsewhere so that the guilt would weaken the target.

      Calmly, slowly, choosing the proper words, winning elections holding offices, establishing their credible “professional status, by deception and misinformation. All peacefulness and restrained hate they moved masses into countries world wide waiting for the day to say “we are ready”. Knowing we knew nothing….and they could throw money when the violent events and declarations were made to silence.

  4. jayell says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 4:20 pm

    “Only a matter of time: Islamic State jihadis in UK ready to attack” – but muslims already HAVE attacked (e.g., 7/7, Lee Rigby, etc, etc). Although I hate to commend the apparently spineless authorities over here, I think they’ve been quite clever at times and have had their fingers on the pulse. They say that they’ve foiled up to 200 plots of varying sizes over tha last 10+ years, and I do know that they they did stopped an islamic idiot blowing up a tube train under the Thames, and another one blowing up a car bomb outside a London night club. I think that the odious Anjem Choudhary was allowed his freedom for ‘reasons’. And they did try to install CCTV in a muslim area in the midlands quite a long time ago, clearly because they knew about things going on (but apparently had to take it down because the muslims started their normal whingeing). So, hopefully, they’re on the ball.

    What does annoy me intensely is the cost of all the security work in order to maintain a semblance of the kind of civility that we had in the UK before the muslims arrived. No one has said (or even asked?) how much this all has costed in a time of austerity. But we have heard from one of our senior police officers that we can no longer expect a visit from the ‘boys in blue’ if we are burgled – unless maybe our house has an ‘even’ number. So they’re reducing their commitment to the taxpayers by up to 50%? No-one has asked what might have caused this disproportionate reduction in service to the general public. I wonder why?

    • underbed cat says

      Aug 12, 2015 at 11:14 am

      Jayell says: I agree it seems the authorities are” clever” in disguising their knowledge of pending attacks, and you say the Choudhary may have been allowed his freedom for “reasons”. The freedom to wander and have open “mic” to dispense his Islamic ideology….but didn’t that just gather his flock. Or gather his flock to surveil. I still think the organized political group was even more “clever”, and used immigration in large numbers as refugees to distort intentions. Just as many experts have written extensively, books explaining the ideology, the political process of deception and use of lying with conviction to accomplish the world wide caliphate. An important part of the process was a high birth rate and being a cohesive group. Just what they are allowing now in the U. S. . Hopefully the governments who want calm will become just as crafty and stop this migration and ban all forms of practicing sharia and a ticket back to their homeland for non compliance.

      • bob says

        Aug 12, 2015 at 11:26 am

        I totally agree with you Jayell, do we have this problem with Indian, Chinese, Philippine,Polish or whatever other countries migrants we’ve embraced? Islam is a cancer that need to be surgically removed before it kills this country. Islam cannot live with any other belief in the world. Muslims are brainwashed from when they are children and apostacy is not allowed. This problem will not go away without any action. regain our Christian values before it’s too late1

      • jayell says

        Aug 12, 2015 at 7:00 pm

        “An important part of the process was a high birth rate and being a cohesive group….Hopefully the governments who want calm will …..ban all forms of practicing sharia and a ticket back to their homeland for non compliance….”

        Yes, these islamic people seem to know about ‘cohesion’, but one has to laugh when the PC ‘powers that be’ use that ‘c’-word (cohesion) in relation to the wider social context; like, for example, when people complain, criticise or demonstrate against the frequent muslim excesses misdemeanours or outrages, and they are criticised for prejudicing ‘community cohesion’! WHAT ‘community cohesion’ are they talking about? It hardly seem to be very evident! And I certainly like the idea of “a ticket back to their homeland for non compliance”, since they clearly don’t like the way we do things over here. However, there is a small problem here in that, as far as the UK is concerned, for a lot of them officially this IS their ‘homeland’ – many of them were actually born here! The former chairman of the British National Party, Nick Griffin, foresaw all this when he predicted 10-15 years ago that the trouble would come from muslims who had been ‘home-grown’. Everyone huffed and puffed and made the usual disapproving or threatening noises but, lo and behold…..! So, for us in the UK, we are going to have an increasing problem and (no dobut) ‘terminal’ problem for as long as these people can legally claim to be ‘British’. That’s just logic – only an idiot would claim that we haven’t got a problem and only a person lacking perception or honesty would not correctly identify where the problem is coming from. Now, there is only one remedy for this……

  5. David says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 4:26 pm

    They kill any of the Royals and the public will go nuts, Blood will run in the streets here.

    • jayell says

      Aug 11, 2015 at 4:35 pm

      Er, I think we’ve already had the blood on the streets, and under the streets (on the London Underground). But us Brits go nuts? Come now, sir, that’s not playing the game!!

  6. Papa Whiskey says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 5:02 pm

    At least some of the British media seem ready to engage the threat instead of truckling to it. It’s hard to imagine any journalists in America carrying out an undercover op like this one.

  7. Jacksonl03 says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 5:06 pm

    ” . . . we have heard from one of our senior police officers that we can no longer expect a visit from the ‘boys in blue’ if we are burgled . . . ”

    So . . . The IS Jihad is already working albeit low key in England. And anywhere else these threats are taken seriously, as they should be.

  8. Angemon says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 5:08 pm

    From the start it became clear that IS wants its recruits to attack the UK and not travel to their so-called caliphate.

    We can reveal that this is an entirely new tactic by IS – originally they called for volunteers to join them in Syria.

    There are several valid reasons for that.

  9. Arthur of the Britons says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    Come on Brits if you haven’t signed the petition do so now:

    https://www.change.org/p/rt-hon-david-cameron-mp-right-hon-theresa-may-right-hon-michael-gove-mp-set-up-a-royal-commission-into-the-values-of-islam

    The petition to reinstate Jeremy Clarkson was massive in hours – where are all those people when there’s something really important?

  10. Jack Diamond says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 5:42 pm

    Now that their cover is blown, fictional characters will have a harder time joining ISIS. Forget about it, Rocky & Bullwinkle. Mr. & Mrs. Terror are just trying to get lucky. With the number of non-fictional Muslims eager to get on the Caliphate’s prime-time murder kill bandwagon you have to suppose they will, (again) unless this “freelance journalist” did something even more useful like provide the location for Junaid Hussain, so he might have a bomb with his next sandwich. (They didn’t even want the fictional 18 year old girl to come to the Caliphate???).

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Aug 11, 2015 at 8:24 pm

      Jack, my thoughts exactly about the revelation of tactics to infiltrate the jihad network via the internet. I suspect that real intelligence initiatives employ such tactics in most Western countries. Jihadist authentication procedures may become a little more stringent because, each day, more and more is revealed by stories such as this and by remnants of information deduced from reports of FBI resources posing as online and face-to-face contacts for ISIS.

  11. Martin Vink says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 7:14 pm

    While we are distracted by the odd Muslim who could not wait to kill a Christian or a baby, a much larger and more organized attack is looming. Let us hope we have the numbers and the weapons to survive. What if the Muslims have worked this out? Why not believe them?

  12. Cecilia Ellis says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 11:37 pm

    This one is especially for the British, although all JW readers, for the most part, will appreciate the following article. Every once-in-a-while, a piece of good news comes along that brightens your day. This is a must read!

    http://controversialtimes.com/news/special-forces-sniper-saves-fatherson-from-isis-beheader-with-1000-meter-shot/

    It was a good day, indeed, for the British SAS and everyone else in the civilized world! Well done, chaps, well done!

  13. particolor says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 12:39 am

    In The Bill years back they had a Detective with Guts ! Burnside !! He would have Stuck the Animals Heads in the Toilet and Pulled the Chain ! 🙁 🙂 🙂

  14. Steven says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 5:08 am

    appeasement was practiced by former burgomaster of Amsterdam by drinking cups of tea with the mohammedan citizens. Ofcourse this did not work such a strange input – output model in his head. Ofcourse he was a socialist of the career type being afraid for his career.

  15. Jack Holan says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 7:25 am

    IS 21st Cerntury tactics Scotlandyard 20th Century tactics IS building their Army from within has many huge advantages. $$$$. No border/Passportcontrol dangers Army current with host environment to mention just a few. FBI Director Comley admitting in OPEN COMMITEE SESSION that the bureau can’t keep up with the cyber cryptology of Is I’m gave them a boost and why can’t we if their people and ours are educated in the same system? In any event.both the UK and US better start recognizing the ideology. Since they think I it’s the Religion of Peace and shares the San values as the Judeo-Christian Ethos why don’t they read the Quran & Hadith then comment.
    Also there too much flapping of the lips about what we are doing what we are going todo and options we are taking off the table or time frames. SHUT UP

  16. Bob says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 10:52 am

    No one’s really getting the point here.The only reason and I repeat, the only reason ISIS, Muslim Brotherhood, Choudrey or whoever else what’s to attack us or kill us is because we are sitting ducks since secularism took over this country, Europe and the US. When a country loses it’s values (ours were Christian), then an enemy (ie Islam)wants their way of life. If a bully is not put in his/her place early doors they will reek havoc until taken off the streets. Islam has a hidden agenda, it is called immigration. Islam was spread by the sword between the 7th and 21st century. You had no choice; convert to Islam,pay the Jizya (tax) or die. In some cases you could give them everything you have and leave your country with the clothes you were wearing. Watch “Why we are afraid.” by Dr. Bill Warner, on you tube. it’s years old but relevant today.the cost of all this monitoring etc is crippling the country. if you add the cost of welfare benefits,prison costs,housing etc you can see it’s a time bomb waiting to explode.Educate yourself before it’s too late, understand your enemy, buy and English printed Koran and read it. Islam destroys what it doesn’t like.The minute we lost our Christian roots, we went on a slippery slope to oblivion. Look at whats happening in France, Norway, Sweden, Germany. They all have Muslim “no go zones”. Coming to your town/city soon.

  17. Truth Seeker says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 12:36 pm

    There is a Saying: One cannot Keep the Cake and Eat too. In the same way Britain cannot Keep Red Carpet Reception to Migrant Conspiracy Jihadis and have Terrorism Free Country. It is for Britishers to choose One Of Them.

  18. rcourtemanche says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 1:04 pm

    Watch and learn US and Canadian politicians, although that would be in line with Obama’s, Mulcair’s and Trudeau’s agenda.

  19. Frank Rimkus says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 9:38 pm

    We can only hope that an attack comes, because that is the only way that action will be taken.
    Remember Neville Chamberlain and his trying to placate Adolf Hitler. I hope that the UK has
    another Winston Churchill who will clean out the scum.

  20. gravenimage says

    Aug 13, 2015 at 2:06 am

    The fruits of appeasement…

  21. Mikep1738 says

    Aug 13, 2015 at 8:32 am

    Impossible! Hasn’t the leadership of our country repeatedly assured us that the ideology of Submission (Islam in Arabic) is peaceful and tolerant? Surely the activists of the ISLAMIC State know this. Someone should tell these orthodox fundamentalist Muslims and their Islamic scholars what our non-muslim leaders said. That will set them straight. Inshallah.

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