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UK: Police raids find huge arms cache of jihad terror group, including sniper rifles

Sep 8, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Sniper rifles? But doesn’t the UK have strict gun control laws? We are constantly told in the US that such laws end gun violence. What happened here?

Also, it’s odd that the West Midlands Police could spare the resources from their relentless pursuit of foes of jihad terror to pull off these raids. But aren’t these raids “Islamophobic”?

“Police raids find huge arms cache linked to Islamic terror group,” by Mark Townsend, Observer, September 8, 2019 (thanks to Red):

A significant arms cache, including a sniper rifle, a silencer and tracer rounds linked to the banned terrorist group al-Muhajiroun have been found in Coventry, the Observer can reveal.

Officers from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit and MI5 are investigating the weapons haul, which also includes a shotgun and 200 rounds of ammunition, following raids at several addresses in the city.

A statement from West Midlands Police, which assists the regional counter-terrorism unit, said: “Firearms and ammunition were recovered during the raids and a police investigation is ongoing.” Four men have been arrested, one of whom has links to the al-Muhajiroun network, according to sources. The group, active in the UK since the mid-1980s, disappeared after the July 2005 attacks on London, but maintained a presence under various different names. It was eventually banned in 2009 under legislation outlawing “glorification” of terrorism.

Supporters of al-Muhajiroun, whose traditional centres of organisation are the East End of London and Luton, have carried out atrocities including the 2017 London Bridge attack, the July 2005 bombings and the murder of Lee Rigby in 2013, with a number fighting for Islamic State and al-Qaida abroad.

Recent reports suggest the group is regenerating, buoyed by the release of convicted terrorists from prison. The former head of national counter-terror policing, Neil Basu, said the security services were working to disrupt terrorist activity by al-Muhajiroun.

Of the four men arrested in Coventry on suspicion of firearms offences, a 51-year-old and a 37-year-old remain on bail. Counter-terrorism officers raided two addresses in the city on 3 July and two more on 15 July.

A source said one of the arrested men had links with the al-Muhajiroun network before leaving the group and had reappeared on the security services’ radar after acquiring firearms….

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  1. Queen Bourbon says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 2:10 pm

    I thought Right Wing extremists engaging in terror attacks were the biggest threat to us. At least that’s what the politicians and useless propaganda media keep telling us. We are lucky this stash was uncovered ,we won’t be lucky every time though.

    • jo blo says

      Sep 8, 2019 at 3:15 pm

      These guns are completely unrelated to islam, this is just a group of crazy people who happen to be mohamhead worshippers. The proof is the fact they are gun owners, a great evil which should be banned. /sarc

      • mortimer says

        Sep 8, 2019 at 4:51 pm

        A lot of Muslims are in gun clubs, rifle ranges and martial arts schools. Sometimes, training classes are advertised in the mosques, proving in one more way that Islam is not the religion of peace apologists claim.

        • Mustapha crap says

          Sep 8, 2019 at 5:11 pm

          Any Raghead trying to join a shooting club in the UK is extremely unlikely to be granted membership, and obtaaining a firearms licence is almost impossible without membership of a club or having land for shooting on. Even obtaining a shotgun licence requires land to shoot on or membership of a skeet shooting club etc.

        • screw u says

          Sep 8, 2019 at 9:04 pm

          Mortimer, point taken.However, to be balanced on your comment. I have seen notices for martial arts courses and shooting ranges in churches as well.
          And, Buddhist monks train in martial arts.
          Does this then mean that Buddhists and Christians are not part of a peaceful religion?

        • mortimer says

          Sep 8, 2019 at 9:06 pm

          Thanks to MC for the insider info. A sniper rifle is clearly different from a hunting rifle and has only one purpose: assassination.

          I believe that the UK police are in touch with Muslim terrorists every day and will be well-informed about the actual threat of Islamic terrorism. I hope the UK police on the front line will be able to share what they see and hear from the terrorists so that UK politicians can have a true picture of the threat.

          If the police found one cache of sniper rifles, there will be other caches of weapons hidden somewhere else, perhaps in a mosque or in a secret room, attic or cellar. It’s only a matter of time before the jihadists pull off another big operation in the UK … no thanks to UK’s gullible Pollyanna politicians and uninformed journalists.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 8, 2019 at 9:33 pm

          There was the case in Sweden of Muslims joining the Biathlon team and practicing shooting–but, notably, not skiing:

          “Sweden: State-funded rifle-shooting practice for Muslim refugees”

          https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/sweden-state-funded-rifle-shooting-practice-for-muslim-refugees

      • Alkimos says

        Sep 8, 2019 at 6:47 pm

        The guns were just intended for use on any animal that might happen to escape from their humane car park slaughtering facilities.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 8, 2019 at 9:37 pm

          Grimly humorous.

    • Amitzah Mitzvah says

      Sep 8, 2019 at 5:35 pm

      Agreed concerning the comments of islam. For the life of me, I don’t understand hiw those morons could have been elected as senators and then into congress. What a stain into the history of where ever those people are found.

    • JAM says

      Sep 9, 2019 at 8:23 am

      They should be on tag, whilst on bail.

  2. Uriah Sheep says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 2:45 pm

    I do hope the police give those lovely, cuddly Muslims their guns and stuff back in the name of diversity and other shut like that.

  3. jayell says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 2:47 pm

    Fire arms seem to have found their way (illegally) into general ownership in the UK in recent years increasingly as the population has become more ‘diverse’, and I would have thought that sniper rifles would have been completely banned for the general public. I notice that this report does not include any response from the mainstream muslim community in the UK. Are we waiting for them to think up an excuse for this find whilst insisting that islam is the ‘religion of peace’? No doubt they’ll claim that the al-Muhajiroun group ‘aren’t real muslims’ – there I’ve beaten them to it! Next joke?

    • jarmanray says

      Sep 8, 2019 at 3:17 pm

      Spot on and I also bet that the reporter at the “Observer” who wrote the article had grit his teeth as he actually used the word “Islamic State and al-Qaida” but he could not bring himself to use the word Islamic terrorism.

    • Stuart Smith says

      Sep 8, 2019 at 3:43 pm

      Sniper rifles are allowed, everyone who shoots game with a rifle and a scope on it, is a sniper rifle, when dealing with firearms it is the police terminology that is in question here, they do not know what they are talking about. Depending on the calibre who made the gun etc, true sniper rifles cost a lot more than ordinary hunting rifles.

  4. Wellington says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 2:57 pm

    Prediction for the UK: This will be repeated ad nauseam; oh yeah, countless times.

    Invite the Beast into your country and you are guaranteed to get beastly behavior. It’s a given.

    Have Muslims in your midst, then expect jihad in all of its “full flower” (and I ain’t talkin’ about just some spiritual struggle here—nope, not at all).

    • jarmanray says

      Sep 8, 2019 at 3:26 pm

      I should be amazed that the main stream media has been all over this story but I am not. One can only imagine the outcry if someone in the name of Tommy Robinson managed to acquire these sort of weapons.
      One more (and thank God) example of a terrorist incident that will not be mentioned in the statistics concerning those or groups who committed terrorist violence due to the diligent work of the police and other law enforcement personnel but I still wonder why the goons are permitted to still infest the streets with their presence rather than being put behind bars where they belong.

  5. Lydia Church says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 4:16 pm

    I know, that is the hole in their argument.

    Criminals and true terrorists will always get access to guns and weapons because they go around the law.
    Law abiding vigilantees who can help defend and protect the innocent from these attacks by evil men, and go against them as outnumbered law enforcement would, oh, those they want to take the guns away from. This will only lead to more evil, not less violence. And these good citizens are the types that do follow the law and at times do give up their guns to confiscation.

    Once all the means of self defense are gone, they can come in for the kill.
    It’s really simple math, but many can’t do the calculations.
    So with every manufactured gun ‘crises,’ the hysterically emotional whiners lament the violence and call for gun control…. until global tyranny can take over.

  6. ntesdorf says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 7:37 pm

    What would the adherents of the ‘Religion of Peace’ want to do with this huge collection of armaments ????

  7. gravenimage says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 8:19 pm

    UK: Police raids find huge arms cache of jihad terror group, including sniper rifles
    ……………….

    More from the “religion of peace”…

  8. James Lincoln says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 9:20 pm

    Is certainly encouraging to know that not ALL police in the UK are corrupt and complicit with sharia law – and have made this raid of the jihad terror group.

    • Jim J says

      Sep 9, 2019 at 10:00 pm

      Is it possible that leadership in the Muslim community are cooperating with law enforcement to expose jihad terror threats? The reason being they believe they will win through demographics and successful terror plots will at this point be counterproductive.
      Jim

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 9, 2019 at 10:08 pm

        Muslims cooperation with law enforcement is quite rare.

        • Jim J says

          Sep 10, 2019 at 10:56 am

          Not if they think it is their best interests to do so. I doubt they would be advertising this.

      • Victoria says

        Sep 10, 2019 at 9:44 am

        As the Palestinians told the Jews after the Balfour settlement. “We will outbreed you and then we will vote you out. It’s happening in America. Many Muslim refugees smuggled into america by the Obama regime have now become voters and we have an example of this criminal enterprise by our former president. Omar and Talieb.

      • James Lincoln says

        Sep 10, 2019 at 10:54 am

        Jim J,

        That would be the logical thing to do, but Muslims are not big fans of objective, evidence-based logic.

        They rarely cooperate with law enforcement to expose potential jihad terror attacks.

        You are correct regarding demographics…

        At least in Western Europe, the future is not encouraging. The native population fertility rate is way below the replacement rate of 2.1. Rather than trying to increase that, with financial incentives, etc., they look to immigration. And they’re not taking the best and the brightest, they’re taking uneducated, low IQ, Muslim migrants – with an Islamic ideology that hates democracy.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 10, 2019 at 4:01 pm

          Muslims are a *drain* over all on the host society.

  9. Rajaram says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 10:28 pm

    Why to invite hooligans in the name of multi culturalism and huminitarian gesture? Either this is wilful indifference of the concerned or stoic ignorance of the mainstream think tank. Islam has two inalienable fundamentals: The world is divided in two parts: Dar-Ul-Islam (that part ruled by Muslims, and hence Heaven) and Dar-Ul-Harab(that part ruled by Non-Muslims, and hence Hell). It is the funamental duty of humans living in Heaven to convert those living in Hell(!) by whatever means- deceipt, cunning, massacre(jihad)etc. etc.

  10. Mark Thompson says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 10:38 pm

    I see no reference to what makes up the cache of weapons. Just mention of a rifle and one shotgun and a couple hundred rounds of shot shells. That would be eight boxes, likely dove loads. Geez

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 10, 2019 at 4:06 pm

      I don’t want Jihad terror groups to be armed.

  11. Ray Fowler says

    Sep 9, 2019 at 4:54 am

    i am surprised that the english police is not now completely staffed by muslims. these gentle souls have been allowed to flood britain for many years. take over virtually every part of the lcommunity, one cannot complain of course because to do so is “islamophobic” and as we have all been slowly educated to the fact these dear souls come from the religion of peace. obviously there is none so dumb and absolutely thick as the british they allow these raghead killers to flood this country. hitler had the wrong idea, he was hell bent on ivading england. all he had to do was do it in the name of islam. and they would have allowed the germans free entry and capitulate.

    • Badger says

      Sep 9, 2019 at 10:40 am

      Hitler did have a couple of Waffen SS divisions manned by muslims and officered by Germans, his personal friend, the mufti of Jerusalem put them together. But that was after Barbarossa so by then the invasion of England slipped down his to-do list.

      They were useless at fighting but murdered an awful lot of Jews.

  12. Edward Maginnis says

    Sep 9, 2019 at 8:53 am

    Some of the comments on here are truely unbelievable, especially the Islamic supporting ones, facts are this, since the E.U. And Labour Party in the uk invited Islam into the uk and E.U. Germany, France, Italy, Sweden etc have all had arms found in either mosques or other Muslim controlled buildings….did you all know that in the uk %81.00 of Muslims claim benefits…also the uk has given Muslims in Pakistan, Bangladesh etc debit cards where they can withdraw their benefits even though they don’t live in the uk! Islam is not in the E.U. U.K. Or U.S.A. Or Canada to intergrate they are here to overthrow and install sharia law….but the people are all liberals now, soon the penny will drop, soon the gay n lesbians will be attacked it already has in the uk…in Sweden the swedes are moving out in their thousands! And now those in charge are going to have to tell Muslims there is no more money so they must go to work….good luck with that! Oh some swedes have tried to move to Norway, Norway in their wisdom turned them back! Why? They don’t want these swedes voting for more Muslims in their country! The solution to these problems is simple…ban Islam and tell all Muslims to either convert to Christianity or leave! Because as sure as night follows day that’s what the relegion of war has for you in the not so distant future…..may God help my grand children!…..

  13. Badger says

    Sep 9, 2019 at 10:35 am

    Two men on bail? That’s going nowhere. They’ll walk. As for the other two, I’d say it’s 50-50 they are convicted. I have lost all faith and trust in the police and the courts.

  14. Angemon says

    Sep 9, 2019 at 1:22 pm

    Sniper rifles? But doesn’t the UK have strict gun control laws? We are constantly told in the US that such laws end gun violence. What happened here?

    Right? Almost as if criminals don’t care about following the law or something…

  15. Cicero says

    Sep 11, 2019 at 3:14 pm

    I refer my fellow readers to the following -: https://youtu.be/40F5qrm2FlE

    Watch this ASAP , since it can be removed at any time

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