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Image on Paris jihadi’s phone reveals plot to target busy UK shopping center

Dec 19, 2015 11:50 pm By Robert Spencer

The Islamic State has explicit plans to bring about the mass murder of civilians in the West. The success of one or more of these plots is only a matter of time.

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“Bullring ‘bomb plot’: New image found on Paris jihadi’s phone points to plan by terror cell to target Birmingham shopping centre,” by Omar Wahid, The Mail On Sunday, December 19, 2015:

The evil mastermind behind the Paris terror attacks had a photograph of one of Britain’s busiest shopping centres on his mobile phone, The Mail on Sunday has been told.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who orchestrated the attacks in the French capital that killed 130 people, had a picture of Birmingham’s Bullring on his smartphone, police have warned community leaders in the city.

West Midlands Police investigators revealed that Abaaoud’s photograph was among others of ‘key and sensitive sites’ in the city, said well-placed sources.

The photos have led police to the ‘frightening conclusion’ that the terrorist ringleader was planning to bring carnage to England’s second city similar to the events he unleashed in Paris on November 13.

The Bullring is the most visited site in Birmingham, and receives almost 40 million shoppers a year.

The claim that the shopping centre – with its futuristic-looking Selfridges store – may have been a key target for the cell behind the Paris attacks comes as hundreds of thousands of shoppers this week flock to its 160 shops to do their last-minute Christmas shopping.

The Bullring has already been at the centre of internet fears that terrorists were about to attack it. Last weekend, West Midlands Police issued a public statement to dispel the rumour, but asked Birmingham’s one million residents to remain vigilant….

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  1. Paladin says

    Dec 20, 2015 at 1:09 am

    I’m sure the British continue to fear Donald trump and other right-wing islamophobes more than anything like this. They’ll feel that way right up until their ears hear the Muslim war cry of allahu Akbar and the cold metal of the Muslim scimitar cutting into their necks. After that they won’t feel much at all. But at their funerals, their friends will righteously expound on how they never gave in to hatred or looked at an immigrant with a suspicious eye.

    • Doc Martin says

      Dec 21, 2015 at 4:13 am

      You’re being a bit unfair when you lump all of us with the loony left and islamists who want Donald Trump banned from the UK.

      The vast majority of the people here are sick to death of islam, but the media and politicians are so biased you never hear that on your TV screens.

      And – assuming you’re an American – while Donald Trump may have said what most Americans believe, looking at the reaction from his fellow politicians which he has been getting, you would have to assume the US “…continue to fear Donald trump and other right-wing islamophobes more than anything like this…”

      • Jim says

        Dec 23, 2015 at 8:56 pm

        Hello Doc and Merry Christmas, here in northern Nevada all is fairly calm but that doesn’t mean we aren’t being targeted for an attack of some sort.
        As you know we have our own problems here in the U.S. We are honestly trying to resolve these issues it seems with little or no success.
        Besides the tragic attack on 911 weve had numerous small attacks from Mohammad’s faithful. They are becoming more frequent and violent with each passing day. I know most folks across the “pond” don’t understand our attachment to our firearms but hey, don’t knock it until you’ve tried it!
        Here in Nevada we can carry concealed with a permit thats relatively easy to acquire. With my 1911 .45 pistol and a Sig Sauer AR .308 in my Ford pickups rifle rack I feel pretty well equipped to handle most situations.
        We over here just don’t understand how our Brittish and European friends have let things get so far out of hand.
        This war is going to take a long time at best, so please do all you can to be prepared!
        All the best, Jim

  2. Aron says

    Dec 20, 2015 at 1:27 am

    WHAT WE READ BETWEEN THE LINES OF THIS PLOT

    Sometimes we grasp the horror of news such as these that’s coming about our Cities- that is if we stay alert and read between the lines of what is left unstated.

    In this report for instance we read-

    1. “Sources said that police believe Abaaoud may have taken the pictures of Birmingham himself, raising the question of how he managed to enter Britain despite being the subject of an international manhunt even before the Paris attacks.
    It is believed that Abaaoud, who comes from the Molenbeek district of Brussels, came to the UK around three months ago.

    Mr Mahmood said: ‘Its concerning that a terrorist like that was able to enter the country.’

    (excuse me…that sounds like Donald Trump? )

    2. Last week, we revealed Abaaoud was in contact with a cell of individuals of Moroccan origin based in the Bordesley Green and Alum Rock areas of the city.
    Our sources have since revealed to us that he was in contact with up to five men whom police suspect of being money launderers sending cash to jihadis abroad.
    ( ‘sources’? what are the cops doing?…watching of course)

    A source said: ‘These money launderers were sending money to places like Syria, but they weren’t the sort to launch an attack themselves.

    ( They aren’t ‘the sort ‘? How we tell the sort when that’s racial profiling?)

    They are being watched by police, its almost certain. But if you ask me if this cell sent money to the Paris attackers to fund the attacks, its possible.’

    ( yeah..just ‘possible’. Possibly also just do some shopping)

    Dozens of jihadis have left Birmingham to join Islamic State (IS) in Syria, many of whom are from Bordesley Green and Alum Rock.
    A number of suspects have been arrested from the two areas, who were either planning to go to Syria, or were returning from IS strongholds in the war-torn country.

    (In other words- the Plot is happening at what they vehemently denied0- No Go Zones that Police chiefs this week admitted ‘cant enter or police’.

    Rabah Tahari, 44 – a jihadi of Algerian origin who used to lived near Bordesley Green – has been fighting in Syria with IS-linked groups since around 2012.
    Junaid Hussain, from the King’s Heath area of Birmingham, led IS’s ‘cyber-jihad’ against the West before he was killed in a US drone strike in Syria in August.

  3. Charli Main says

    Dec 20, 2015 at 3:25 am

    When Muslims inflict a major bloodbath in a British city your average Brit will still be wringing his hands over his pint of beer and crying ” its not the Muslims” ” I have Muslim friends–lovely people” ” Islam is the religion of peace, my Muslim work buddies told me so ” ” they are so peaceful and pray every day” ” these terrorists are not Muslims” blah—blah—blah.

    • BC says

      Dec 20, 2015 at 6:00 am

      You think the ‘average Brit’ whatever that may be, has a Muslim work buddy? You think that the ‘average Brit’ wrings his/her hands over his/her pint?
      You are delusional and stupid to boot and you have no idea what the ‘average Brit’ does.

      • Charli Main says

        Dec 20, 2015 at 6:21 am

        Make you point without resorting to abuse you ignorant, half witted bone head. Yes, I do know what the average Brit thinks because I am one of them and work with them and socialise with them every day. Perhaps you live on some shithole council estate and have no idea what the Great British Public in general think.

      • Dave says

        Dec 20, 2015 at 8:20 am

        Actually BC I’m British and that’s exactly what happens. In fact one idiot stated to me that our Muslims were different – they were British Muslims and they respect the country!!!

        • Cicero says

          Dec 20, 2015 at 12:09 pm

          Alas I am inclined to agree with this poster. Although we the great unwashed have an intuition about the growth of the terrorist threat in the midst of British society
          , the more educated Briton is inclined to maintain wilful blindness to the fact of the mindset and loyalty of the muslim British population( ie clinging to the illusion that somehow Muslim Britons are different to other muslims worldwide in that they are integrated and hold loyalty firstly to the British state)

          On the train I have overheard Britsh youngsters discussing the muslim problem in the UK. Some were raising pertinet questions eg the link between muslims and Islamic violence etc. Some were trotting out the usual mantra about avoiding racist stereotypes , and claiming that muslim Britons “are justlike us and hold Britsh values dear”.

          I saw this as an opportunity to hand them notes advising them to visit websites such ad Jihad Watch and Faith Freedom. Unfortunately I handed them the notes only to see them crumple the bits of paper and throw them away. When I asked them why they did this they said ” we do not believe Islam and Muslims are a threat. We do not believe in fighting violence with violence”

          I was abashed .

    • Shane says

      Dec 20, 2015 at 10:36 am

      Yes, and that is what Obama, Hillary, and most liberals will say if the USA is a victim of a mass casuality jihad attack. It is going to take hundreds of deaths before the left will agree that allowing large numbers of Muslim immigrants to any Western nation is suicidal. Trump is right – stop all Muslim immigration into the USA!

  4. ECAW says

    Dec 20, 2015 at 5:11 am

    I’m reminded of a sign allegedly seen in an undertaker’s window, “Eventually – why not now?”

    It’s only Mumbai/Nairobi/Paris/Bamako type atrocities which even stand a chance of waking the people up and forcing our traitorous leaders to stop lying to us. We might as well get on with it. Let’s just hope, as a matter of both justice and effectiveness, that those who have brought us to this sorry pass are represented for a change as well as the usual soldiers, grannies, package tour holiday makers and travellers on the tube.

    Better start memorising a few select verses now.

  5. Frank Courtney says

    Dec 20, 2015 at 5:36 am

    Charli – a great many of us are not YOUR “average Brit”.

    If such an mass murder event occurs in the UK the British Lion will at last wake up and devour Islam, the root of the terror.

    Every mosque, madrassa, “cultural centre” and Moslem bank, restaurant, corner store, kebab takeaway, taxi firm – Moslem run businesses of any sort, would be destroyed.

    • BC says

      Dec 20, 2015 at 6:02 am

      After the London bombings no such thing occurred.

    • Charli Main says

      Dec 20, 2015 at 6:31 am

      Nice, INTELLIGENT response to my post. By average Brit, I mean the great mass of the British public, who far from responding to Muslim atrocities spend their time making excuses for the behaviour of Muslims or just bitching about them.
      If you are not an” average Brit” Frank, you are in a minority.

  6. Andrew H. says

    Dec 20, 2015 at 6:26 am

    What is needed are non-government vigilante cells operating like the Muslim cells, taking them out wherever they become visible without trial or publicity. Radical mullahs will simply disappear, self appointed leaders and Muslim activists will vanish. They will learn of real terror because their own tactics will be turned against them. Secret whistle blowers will be rewarded. Muslims who have wormed their way into the governments of Democracies will go the way of Jimmy Hoffa. Muslim apostates will be given protection. The lives of the enemies within our society will become so horrible that those who escape the vigilante groups will flee the free world to stew in their Muslim stink holes never to dare again to bother us.

    • Judi says

      Dec 20, 2015 at 7:03 am

      Dream on Andrew! Great idea but unfortunately, it ‘ain’t gonna happen, not with the millions of left-wing, human rights, pro muslim idiots in the country.

    • david says

      Dec 21, 2015 at 10:28 am

      Only problem with that is that the government will just use the anti-terror structures against you and devote its efforts to crushing you.

      It is a good idea…fight fire with fire. For each British death 5 randomly elected mosque leaders suffer fatal hit and run road accidents…

      But as I say they government will turn on you to protect its new voting base….the muslim population.

  7. arish sahani says

    Dec 20, 2015 at 6:46 am

    Islamic saudi govt war plan is so full proof to destroy the west that our foolish leaders following Church teachings will lead them to death any time. Islamic game is convert your locals fools to islam to destroy own nations.
    Laws needed to curb but our leader s are filling the vacant houses with these killers .

  8. Matthieu Baudin says

    Dec 20, 2015 at 7:26 am

    It’s the roll of the dice really that will determine who they hit next.

  9. Tim says

    Dec 20, 2015 at 7:36 am

    That would be great! Birmingham has a huge Muslim population so they would pop their own!

  10. red rose says

    Dec 20, 2015 at 9:24 am

    The simple minded people who continue to let these animals in their country think if only we continue to be kind, they won’t try to kill us. Too bad they are not picking up the Koren to understand this is what is expected of the animals, so it doesn’t matter how kind you are because Muslims are ordered to kill all infidels and turn the world into 1 religion – Islam.

  11. Sara Wilmott says

    Dec 20, 2015 at 10:27 am

    I am pretty sure, that British leaders are only puppets, and have to do as they are dictated to by the Fourth Reich, THE UNITED NATIONS. Remember how, during WWI and II, the Arabs all sided with Hitler? It would be the Fourth Reich as led by Germany and supported by The US, which would bomb Serbia to hell in the 1990s led by Germany, under the auspices of NATO! NATO is now a pact of aggression. It is also the FOURTH REICH which has been sabotaging the Jewish State of Israel since the end of WWII. This all is taking place because of Mesopotamia’s oil, an advantage the Arabs have used against the West, to hold Her hostage until every Jewish man, woman and child in Israel is driven into the sea. because they believe The Koran and Mohammad must upstage the Bible and Jesus Christ. There are peace-loving Moslems who do not interpret the Koran literally, but they are too afraid to speak out.

  12. Jay Boo says

    Dec 20, 2015 at 1:45 pm

    Islam is still not a religion.
    Muslims must kill others to hide this fact.

    The cult of Islam was institutionalize to promote a slave trade.
    Muhammad’s 72 virgin tease was the salacious lie of a satanic verse quoting thief.

  13. DP111 says

    Dec 21, 2015 at 8:17 am

    Jihadi attacks take our eye off the real existential threat to the West. Once the Muslim population approaches a near majority in any country, that country will adopt Sharia as the constitution.It will be nice and legal.

    As Muslims have a much higher birthrate then any other demographic in the West, it is inevitable that Muslims will be a majority in the future. The time line for such a cataclysmic event for Europe is around 40 years, and probably sooner because of the actions of Merkel. For the US, it is a bit more distant, but the end result is going to be the same.

    Our idiot politicians have allowed the Islamic invasion army (all Muslim immigrants are that). a foothold in the West. Unless that foothold is uprooted, I’m afraid the West is finished as a civilisation.

    • dave says

      Dec 21, 2015 at 10:41 am

      The South African military industrial complex had a fantastic idea that they actually used on a very limited basis. Genetically engineered biological weapons. They had many a nasty virus/agent that was spliced with sickle cell anemia…it would only effect blacks.

      We could splice a flue with arab/paki dna seeking proteins walk around Birmingham and watch them drop. DNA c an be bought from research firms all over the internet along with basic splicing machines.

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