Fort Dix Terror plot, AK-47's were coming
from source in Baltimore Maryland, expose of
al-Muhajiroun terror network in the UK and in the
USA 5/08/07, from Queens N.Y.
from source in Baltimore Maryland, expose of
al-Muhajiroun terror network in the UK and in the
USA 5/08/07, from Queens N.Y.
members and up to no good.
__________________________________________________________________________________________ PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR BILL WARNER EXPOSES AL-MUHAJIROUN IN QUEENS NY, ALSO SEE 8/15/07 NYPD TERROR REPORT. BBC "Newsnight" re-released the film May of 07, it had been suppressed during Mohamed Junaid Babar's testimony against other al-Muhajiroun members at trial in London. UK publication, Investigations by private detective Bill Warner have been crucial in piecing together the links between the British membership of Al Muhajiroun with their counterparts in New York, and their combined links with terrorism. The NYPD keeps a Detective on full time in London working with Scotland Yard keep tabs on al-Muhajiroun . The book store references in the current NYPD report are a direct reference to al-Mauhajiroun just like in the 2006 NYPD report, just look to Leeds with the Iqra bookstore and the 7/7 bombers and in Bayridge with Shahawar Matin Siraj and the subway bomb plot in NYC. al-Muhajiroun violent DVD's for potential bombers. See June 2006 report on al-Muhajiroun Queens NY ________________________________ 3 links to Muslim food stamp fraud raids in NY and IL. A)........5/04/07 Muslim food stamp fraud in Binghamton NY, the Secret Service is handing over the investigation to federal agents for prosecution. Food stamp fraud is one of the vehicles used by Muslim operatives in the USA to fund terrorism in the Middle East see Jihad Watch background story from last year in Tampa below with Sami al-Arian's pal Hatem Fariz. Bill Warner Aug 18, 2006 Food stamp jihad in Chicago. Was the money he collected from this scam going to Palestinian Islamic Jihad? "Grocer pleads guilty in food- stamp fraud," from Boston Globe. CHICAGO -- A 33-year-old man facing charges in Florida of funding the Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to illegally exchanging cash for food stamps at his West Side grocery store. Hatem Fariz, of Spring Hill, Fla., admitted that from May 1999 to December 2000 he fraudulently redeemed more than $1.6 million from the Link program. Fariz would let customers swipe their food-stamp cards for specific amounts of money and then pay them back a lesser amount in cash. He would then collect the difference, US SECRET SERVICE INVESTIGATED CASE Fariz, who formerly led a Chicago mosque, moved to Florida, where he was convicted for funding Islamic Jihad. At trial last year (with Sami al-Arian), a jury acquitted him of several terror-related charges but convicted him of support and he got 37 months in prison at Coleman Correctional. B).....May 5th, 2007 Binghamton Market owners arrested Two men face charges in Broome County after investigators say they took part in food stamp fraud. Investigators raided several stores in Binghamton and Johnson City Friday. News 10 Now's Karen Lee tells how police believe the duo carried out the fraud. New York State Police & Secret Service arrest Ali Mohammed of Johnson City and DuDu Mia of Binghamton NY, undercover officers were used in the investigation that involved several law enforcement agencies. New York State police raided the Court Street Getty Mart, the Alaska Market and Grocery and Mia's Deli, all in Binghamton NY. The three markets Binghamton and one in Johnson City are raided after a 6 month investigation into food stamp fraud. The stores provided no food, but simply paid 50 cents on the dollar (same scam as in Florida) which is obviously illegal," says James Dadamio of Broome Security. As a result of the investigation, police arrested Ali Mohammed of Johnson City and DuDu Mia of Binghamton. Police believe the owners could have made up to 100 thousand dollars in illegal transactions over the past year. While they paid customers cash for half the food stamp value, they were reimbursed for the full amount. And because the U.S. Secret Service was involved in the investigation, federal charges are possible. http://www.wbng.com/video/7342741.html C).........Saturday May 5, 2007 NEWS Two Broome men accused of fraud with food stamps, Police: Scams allowed money trade-offs, BINGHAMTON NY. WAYNE HANSEN / Press & Sun-Bulletin Police stand guard outside Getty Mart, also doing business as Mia's Quickmart, at 208-210 Court St. in Binghamton as officials conduct food stamp raids at several businesses Friday. By John Hill Press & Sun-Bulletin Two Broome County business owners were charged Friday in connection with the misuse of thousands of dollars in food stamps, law enforcement officials said. Since November, the men allegedly bought about $5,000 in food stamps from undercover law enforcement officers at four stores -- three in Binghamton and one in Johnson City -- paying the officers in cash amounting to half the value of the stamps. Dudu Mia, 40, of South Woodhill Avenue, Binghamton, who is believed to be the owner of Getty Mart at 208-210 Court St., Alaska Market and Grocery at 254 Chenango St. and Mia's Deli at 58 Henry St., all in Binghamton, was charged with first- and second- degree criminal possession of public benefit cards, third-degree grand larceny and misuse of food stamps, all felonies. Officials believe Mia owns the three Binghamton stores but said they could not immediately be sure he is the owner of record. Police also executed a search warrant at Mia's home, where they seized business records, cash and benefit cards, according to Lt. John Durling of the state police Special Investigations Unit. Ali Mohammed of Johnson City, owner of Ali's Halal Meat and Grocery, 208 Grand Ave., Johnson City, was charged with first-degree criminal use of public benefit, fourth-degree grand larceny and misuse of food stamps, all felonies. The men also could face federal charges, according to Timothy Kirk of the U.S. Secret Serv In addition to criminal action against the business owners, the stores could potentially lose their lottery and liquor licenses, Broome County Security Director James Dadamio said. Broome County Security, New York State Police, the U.S. Secret Service and the Broome County D A's Office were involved in the investigation. _________________________________________________ Electronic Crimes Task Forces and Working Groups On October 26, 2001, President Bush signed into law H. R. 3162, the USA PATRIOT Act. The U.S. Secret Service was mandated by this Act to establish a nationwide network of Electronic Crimes Task Forces (ECTFs). The concept of the ECTF network is to bring together not only federal, state and local law enforcement, but also prosecutors, private industry and academia. The common purpose is the prevention, detection, mitigation and aggressive investigation of attacks on the nation's financial and critical infrastructures. The Secret Service's ECTF and Electronic Crimes Working Group initiatives prioritize investigative cases that involve electronic crimes. These initiatives provide necessary support and resources to field investigations that meet any one of the following criteria: Significant economic or community impact Participation of organized criminal groups involving multiple districts or transnational organizations Use of schemes involving new technology _________________________________________________ 2007 NYPD REPORT, AL- MUHAJIROUN IN QUEENS NY "The head of al-Muhajiroun, Omar Bakri Mohammed, had been receiving faxes from bin Laden in which the al- Qaeda leader urges Muslims to take action against the West: 'Bring down their airliners. Prevent the safe passage of their ships. Occupy their embassies. Force the closure of their banks." New York 2002; It was at Brooklyn College that Syed Hashmi, 23, discovered al-Muhajiroun, inviting a member to speak at his campus. At the time the memory of the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Centre was hardwired into New York's consciousness. As Mohammed Babar, who turned supergrass (informant) against the fertiliser bombers, admitted at the trial, the US arm of al-Muhajiroun (Queens NY) was a key component in its success. See July 2006 report The network; The five men jailed for life in London last week for a fertiliser bomb plot were all members of a violent Islamist group. With a worldwide influence and a radicalised following, is al-Muhajiroun waiting to strike again? Jamie Doward and Andrew Wander report . http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,,2073522,00.html Sunday May 6, 2007 The Observer Rewind to London, Sunday, 8 September, 1996. Al- Muhajiroun, an obscure Islamist organisation, has booked the London Arena in Docklands for a conference dedicated to 'the struggle for Khilafah', the creation of an Islamic state. Speakers are to include Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed (PHOTO), al-Muhajiroun's leader, who 10 years later will flee Britain to Lebanon after praising the 7 July London bombers. Video addresses will be beamed in and letters of support are to be read. There will be one from Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the Hamas leader held in an Israeli prison for authorising the execution of two Israeli soldiers. There is another from Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, jailed in the US for plotting to set off bombs in New Jersey and New York. There will also be an address on behalf of a man called Sheikh al-Jihad, better known as Osama Bin Laden, who a month earlier had publicly declared war on America. Bin Laden's address, according to the conference organisers, will refer to the heroes of the Taliban. It will talk about Muslim suffering, about injustice, about the need to take action. For al-Muhajiroun this is a coming of age moment, the day the group emerged from its hinterland and on to the world stage. At the time the conference, which the organisers cancelled at the last moment, raised hardly a blip on the radar of British intelligence. Now The Observer can reveal how al-Muhajiroun became the incubator of a global terror network that played a decisive role in radicalising the five 'fertiliser bomb' plotters jailed for life last week for planning a multiple bombing campaign at targets that included the Bluewater shopping centre in Essex, the Ministry of Sound nightclub in London and Britain's domestic gas network. The fertiliser bomb plotters were typical of those al- Muhajiroun found and indoctrinated. The parents of many of those the group attracted pleaded desperately with their sons to break away. But al-Muhajiroun's appeal was irresistible. Hundreds embraced Bakri's call to jihad and, with al-Muhajiroun's help were dispatched to terror training camps in Pakistan. The bomb trial heard how the five - Omar Khyam, Waheed Mahmood, Anthony Garcia, Jawad Akbar and Saladhuddin Amin, all Home Counties twentysomethings interested in sport and studying - were transformed from moderate Muslims into angry radicals keen to fight abroad. And at the heart of their conversion lay Bakri and his network of lieutenants whom he despatched to campuses, mosques and prayer centres to spread his message. 'While extremists are not always terrorists, terrorists are always extremists,' said Professor Anthony Glees, director of the Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies. 'The fertiliser bomb trial has given us the smoking-gun evidence that groups like al-Muhajiroun have had an important part in radicalising young British Muslims, and that this can create terrorists.' With hindsight the Islamic International Conference should have set off alarm bells. But the reaction from on high to the group's emergence was muted. Few politicians wanted to be seen to criticise ethnic and religious minorities when what passed for multiculturalism was an all-encompassing ideology. Instead the rantings of Bakri, his acolyte, Abu Hamza, the hook-handed cleric now serving seven years for inciting murder, and their growing number of followers, were dismissed simply as the headline-grabbing posturings of a lunatic fringe. The security service's assessment was that those brainwashed by al- Muhajiroun would simply end up dying in some corner of a foreign battlefield that was of no concern to Britain. As Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard's Counter- Terrorism Command, said last month: 'In the Nineties many people believed extremists from overseas regimes who were active in the UK were, if anything, pursuing agendas against foreign governments, and posed little or no threat to the UK.' This failure allowed a dangerous global network to flourish. A network that has come back to haunt Britain and shows no sign of being dismantled. Forward: New York 2002. Everyone who knew Syed Hashmi says he was a good kid. Born in Pakistan but brought up in New York's gritty borough of Queens, friends recall Hashmi as a caring, bright young man, whose devotion to Islam was passionate but not of the sort that marked him out from any other Muslims. But things changed when Hashmi switched colleges, leaving Stony Brook University in Long Island for the more mixed Brooklyn College, from where he graduated with a degree in political science in 2003. It was at Brooklyn that Hashmi, 23, discovered al- Muhajiroun, inviting a member to speak at his campus. At the time the memory of the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Centre was hardwired into New York's consciousness. People were edgy and security services more vigilant. One prominent Muslim radical who lived in Queens had been a particular concern. In November 2001 Mohammed Babar, a naturalised US citizen who had been born in Pakistan, attracted the interest of US intelligence when he openly declared in a TV interview that he was willing to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan. 'My loyalty will forever be with the Muslims,' he said, despite his mother having narrowly escaped from the World Trade Centre when the planes struck. See 2006 report on al-Muhajiroun in Queens. Shortly after 9/11, Babar, who had been recruited by al- Muhajiroun in 2000, disappeared off the US intelligence service's radar. He had fled to Pakistan where he stayed at al-Muhajiroun's office in Lahore before buying an apartment in the city's Eden Heights suburb in 2002. Over the next two years, the flat became a temporary home to a conveyor belt of radicalised British Muslims, many of whom, like Babar, had been born in Pakistan and wanted to fight. Angered by what they saw as the West's failure to protect Bosnian Muslims in the Nineties war in the former Yugoslavia, their sense of grievance was heightened by the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the turmoil in Chechnya and Kashmir. Many of those who stayed there ended up at the Malakand training camp hidden in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. It was there that Mohammed Siddique Khan, an al-Muhajiroun convert and the ringleader of the 7/7 plot that killed 52 people in London, learnt his murderous skills. Other Britons at the camp in the summer of 2003 included Omar Khyam, ringleader of the fertiliser bombers. He attended the camp with Saladhuddin Amin, later to play a key role in the plot. Along with scores of other militants the pair practised making explosives, detonating devices in the camp. Until now the details of how Babar met the fertiliser bomb plotters have been hazy. But documents filed by the US authorities who are extraditing him from the UK, say it was Hashmi, described as one of al-Muhajiroun's top recruiters, who brought the American, Babar, into the organisation where he later met the British fertiliser bomb plotters. Hashmi, who moved to Britain from Queens in 2003, allegedly allowed his London flat to be used to store supplies and money that Babar was shipping out to Abdul al-Hadi al-Iraqi, then head of al-Qaeda's operations in Afghanistan. The supplies included ponchos, torches and boots, useful for recruits fighting US troops in remote parts of Afghanistan. Hashmi was arrested on 8 June last year as he tried to board a plane from Heathrow to Pakistan carrying thousands of pounds in cash. If convicted in the US he faces up to 54 years in prison. His lawyers say he will deny all the charges and that much of the evidence against him is conflicting. A Canadian, Momin Khawaja, said to be a close associate of Babar and al-Muhajiroun, will soon stand trial in his own country for his alleged role in the fertiliser bomb plot. Both trials threaten to shine new light on the links between al-Muhajiroun's operations in North America and Britain - links the US authorities are playing down. Michael Chertoff, the Homeland Security Secretary, quickly blamed British Islamists, but it is increasingly clear al-Muhajiroun's influence in the US spawned a small army of jihadists who exported the movement's ideology around the world. As Babar, who turned supergrass against the fertiliser bombers, admitted at the trial, the US arm of al- Muhajiroun was a key component in its success. 'Most influence started in the early Nineties - Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed here in the UK,' Babar said. 'They [al- Muhajiroun] had representatives in New York. I was able to meet them on the internet. We spoke numerous times over the phone and there was a lot of literature available on the internet.' The influence of al-Muhajiroun is apparent in the number of terrorists it allegedly influenced. The shoe bomber, Richard Reid, was seen at several al-Muhajiroun meetings in Ilford, east London, in the months before his failed attempt to blow up American Airlines Flight 63 flying between Paris and Miami. One regular visitor to the group's north London office was Asif Hanif, 21, from Hounslow, west London. On 29 April, 2003, he walked into Mike's Bar, a crowded cafe in Tel Aviv, Israel, and detonated his explosive belt, killing three people and injuring 60 others. Haroon Rasheed Aswad, another prominent member of al-Muhajiroun, was arrested in 2005 accused of attempting to set up a terror training camp for British and American jihadists in Oregon. In 2005 Mobeen Muneef, 25, a Londoner, was picked up by US Marines on patrol in Ramadi, southern Iraq, after being caught allegedly passing weapons to insurgents. Muneef is believed to have attended al-Muhajiroun lectures in London. But then, if the US needed reminding of the threat al- Muhajiroun posed to its own, it needed only to read a leaked memo by an FBI agent named Kenneth Williams. Written on 10 July, 2001, the memo warns bin Laden was attempting to send recruits to civil aviation colleges in the US. The document notes that the head of al- Muhajiroun, Omar Bakri Mohammed, had been receiving faxes from bin Laden in which the al-Qaeda leader urges Muslims to take action against the West: 'Bring down their airliners. Prevent the safe passage of their ships. Occupy their embassies. Force the closure of their banks.' Pause: east London, the Nineties. Few people can fathom how young British men are capable of turning on their country and killing innocent people, even if it sometimes involves killing themselves in the process. The five fertilizer bomb plotters were not loners, hiding away to nurture a discernible grudge against society. Three were married and two had children. Ed Husain, a former member of Hizb-ut Tahrir, the radical group from which Omar Bakri Mohammed split to set up al-Muhajiroun, is one of the few who knows how the conversion process from moderate to radical works. It appears a culture of Islamism was entrenched at the school. 'Prayers were being led by people linked to the East London Mosque. When my father heard they were holding these sessions he asked me to stop praying at school. I refused.' By then Husain was hooked. Husain joined Hizb-ut Tahrir after meeting Bakri. 'People at the mosque could identify problems but couldn't offer solutions,' he says. 'Bakri offered a direct solution: the establishment of Muslim state with a foreign policy of jihad. There was a powerful message: this was the only way to be a Muslim.' The government continues to resist demands to proscribe Hizb-ut Tahrir, despite continued concerns about its influence expressed by both the Pakistan and US authorities. Press play: Present-day Britain. Somewhere in the UK hides a deeply disturbed 27-year-old would-be suicide bomber, a close friend of Asif Hanif, who killed himself and three others in Mike's Bar in Tel Aviv and an associate of several fertiliser bomb plotters, including Babar. The man, referred to as at the trial as 'Imran', has been on the run since last year.He had returned to the UK after a spell in a Pakistani jail, where he had been interrogated by MI6 over his links to suspected terrorists. When he was arrested in 2005, Pakistani intelligence found 'Imran' had the telephone numbers of several defendants in the fertilizer bomb plot trial, as well as high-ranking al-Qaeda figures. The jury heard the plotters had approached 'Imran' to become a suicide bomber but he had bailed out at the eleventh hour, believing they would not go through with their side. The origins of al-Muhajiroun; Formed in 1996, al- Muhajiroun established a network that stretched around the world using public meetings and lectures in radical mosques. From an office in north London, the organisation maintained a presence in the US and Pakistan, gaining a reputation for extremist rhetoric. Under the leadership of Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, the group recruited young men from mosques, gyms and universities. Many members travelled to Pakistan to train in 'jihad' camps before being dispatched to fight in Kashmir or Afghanistan or, as in the case of the 7/7 bombers and the fertiliser plotters, returning to the UK to plan domestic attacks. ________________________________________________ Where did the 6 Fort Dix bomb plotters get the Jihad DVD's and tapes, this is al- Muhajiroun propaganda, the same held true to the NYC Subway bomb plotter Matin Siraj and the 7/7 London bombers, al-Muahjiroun again and again fueld by Jihad tapes and DVD's available at Islamic bookstores such as; Al-Farooq Mosque Brooklyn, bookstore to the left. There is always an Islamic bookstore in the background of recent terror plots ! al-Muhajiroun is a diificult label to attach to these Jihad Jerks, because it is mostly internet and DVD's obtained from Islamic book stores online or next to a Mosque in urban areas like Islmaic Society of Bay Ridge where Matin Siraj the NYC subway bomb plotter worked and who was a al-Muhajiroun member from Queens and the Leeds book store where the London 7/7 bombers hung out; MATIN SIRAJ ADMITS NYC SUBWAY BOMB PLOT/NEWSDAY; Matin Siraj admits to NYC subway plot which was hatched at the Islamic Books and Tapes store right next to the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge. Matin Siraj lived on 34th Ave in Queens, two blocks from the Islamic Center of Queens and near to where the Islamic Thinkers Society (of which he is a member) meets. Islamic Thinkers Society is in reality al-Muhijorun. Vigilant ... British cops stand guard outside the Leeds UK Iqra bookstore, where 7/7 London bombers frequented. Breeding ground for hate By ALASTAIR TAYLOR and GUY PATRICK THREE of the London suicide bombers were brainwashed into hating the West at a Muslim bookshop near their homes, it was claimed last night. The bookshop where three London suicide bombers were fed a message of hate was set up to help Muslim lads steer clear of drugs and crime. Cops are now investigating whether the trio of bombers, who along with Muslim convert Germaine Lindsay killed 55 and injured hundreds more in four attacks, were recruited through the shop. But after 9/11, owner Mohammad Tafazil allegedly transformed it into a breeding ground for extremism — peddling anti-Western propaganda to impressionable youngsters. One regular visitor to the Iqra Learning Centre in Beeston, Leeds, was bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30. ( Mohammad Sidique Khan links to Mohammed Junaid Babar of Queens NY, Mohammed Junaid Babar links to Matin Siraj and al-Muhajiroun) Yesterday it was revealed that Khan had been monitored by MI5 at one stage — but had been dismissed as a non- threat. The shop — which doubled as a drop-in centre for local Muslim lads including Khan and fellow bombers Shehzad Tanweer, 22, and Hasib Hussain, 18 — also became a well-known spot for visiting Islamic extremists to spout their wicked lies. (al-Muhajiroun) Cops are now investigating whether the trio of bombers, who along with Muslim convert Germaine Lindsay killed 55 and injured hundreds more in four attacks, were recruited through the shop. _________________________________________________ FORT DIX PLOT SUSPECTS BIOS By The Associated Press May 8, 2007 -- NAME: Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer. AGE: 22; Born May 1953 in Jordan. HOME: Cherry Hill, N.J. OCCUPATION: Drives a cab in Philadelphia. IMMIGRATION STATUS: U.S. citizen. NAME: Dritan Duka. AGE: 28; Born in the former Yugoslavia. Ethnic Albanian. HOME: Cherry Hill, N.J. IMMIGRATION STATUS: In United States illegally. OCCUPATION: Operates Colonial Roofing and National Roofing, which list business address at the home of his brothers, Eljvir and Shain Duka. NAME: Shain Duka. AGE: 26; Born January 1981 in the former Yugoslavia. Ethnic Albanian. LIVES: Cherry Hill, N.J. IMMIGRATION STATUS: In United States illegally. OCCUPATION: Operates roofing businesses with his brothers. NAME: Eljvir Duka. ALIASES: Elvis Duka, Sulayman. AGE: 23; Born in the former Yugoslavia. Ethnic Albanian. LIVES: Cherry Hill, N.J. IMMIGRATION STATUS: In United States illegally. OCCUPATION: Operates roofing businesses with his brothers. NAME: Serdar Tatar, 23. AGE: 23; Born in Turkey. HOME: Philadelphia. IMMIGRATION STATUS: Legal U.S. resident. OCCUPATION: Works at a 7-Eleven store in Philadelphia. NAME: Agron Abdullahu. AGE: 24; Born September 1982 in the former Yugoslavia. Ethnic Albanian. LIVES: Buena Vista Township, N.J. IMMIGRATION STATUS: Legal U.S. resident. OCCUPATION: Works at a Shop-Rite supermarket. Source: FBI, U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey ________________________________________________ The Network (al-Muhajiroun) "we do not seek to coexist with other religions in America, we seek to dominate them". Hassan Butt Tells Bob Simon of 60 Minutes, Killing In The Name Of Islam Is A "Cancer" 3/25/2007 Asked if, at the time, he really believed that British Muslims would attack their own country, Butt says, "Yeah. Absolutely. These were people that I was meeting and these were people who decided to return back to Britain to become, you know, sleeper cells." "Sleeper cells that stayed asleep for a little while?" Simon asks. "Yeah," says Butt. Butt told Simon that he began associating with militants who had been involved in terrorist attacks in Pakistan in which people had lost their lives. So when he was tipped off that the Pakistani authorities were about to arrest him, he flew back to Britain where he was arrested, questioned for five days and released without charge. He became one of the network’s star fundraisers. Over the next couple of years, he says he raised $300,000. His biggest contributors? "Doctors. People who were businessmen. Professional people basically who wanted to donate substantial amounts of money," Butt tells Simon. Hassan Butt, Al-Muhajiroun member exposes all on 60 Minutes Sunday 3/25/2007. 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon met someone who knows. And for the first time he spoke about what it was like to be inside that network for ten years. His name is Hassan Butt. He’s only 26 years old, but some of the people he recruited were a lot younger than that. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/23/60minutes/main2602308.shtml Hassan Butt was a big time recruiter for Al-Muhajiroun, aka "The Network" in the 60 Minutes piece. Al- Muhajiroun is a group which advocates the control of society based on the rule of a Universal Caliphate, and ruled by Islamic law, the shiara. As a member said "we do not seek to coexist with other religions in America, we seek to dominate them". Shahawar Matin Siraj, 21, a native of Pakistan who lived in Jackson Heights in Queens was accused of plotting to blow up a subway station in NYC, he was a member of the Islamic Thinkers Society aka Al-Muhajiroun. Mohammed Junaid Babar was arrested for being a sleeper agent with Al-Qaeda, has links with the Al- Muhajiroun network in Queens. He has admitted his intention to attack America. HASSAN BUTT http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6992&issue=0 The guy who was with Mohammed Junaid Babar in Pakistan during the Nov. 2001 Boston Globe article was Hassan Butt, who claimed he was a recrutier for Al- Muhajiroun (AM) He (Babar) described what he said was his education at a New York college(St Johns Univ) and his work as an Islamic organizer in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (Islamic Society of Bay Ridge) and Jamaica, Queens. Particularly when out of Butt's earshot, he spoke articulately about Islam, about Muslim issues around the world, and about his own political transformation. 'I'm not a New Yorker,'' he said. ''I'm a Muslim. _________________________________________________ MAZEN MOKHTAR MUSLIM YOUTH SPEAKER. Man investigated for terror connections arrested today on tax charges. Posted by The Star-Ledger April 24, 2007 8:34PM Categories: Court news A North Brunswick man under investigation for operating Web sites that allegedly aided the Taliban and other terrorists was arrested today after a federal grand jury indicted him on tax fraud charges. Mazen Mokhtar, a spiritual leader in New Jersey's Muslim community (Iman), filed fraudulent personal tax returns and failed to file business tax returns for his computer consulting company, Mindcraft, Inc, according to the five-count indictment. Mokhtar, a 38-year-old Egyptian-born American citizen, was taken into custody by FBI and IRS agents who searched his North Brunswick home. Federal agents in New York and Connecticut assisted in the investigation, according to authorities. Mokhtar's name previously surfaced in a broader investigation into a suspected terrorist network based in Britain (aL-MUHAJIROUN). Three years ago, federal investigators in Connecticut said a Web site administered by a New Jersey resident was used in a conspiracy to solicit funds and recruit fighters for the Taliban and the Chechen mujahadeen. At the time, Mokhtar acknowledged that he was the suspect in question, but denied the charges. U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie's office, which is prosecuting Mokhtar on the tax charges, declined to comment on any ties between those allegations and the Connecticut investigation. Tom Carson, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Connecticut, declined to comment on Mokhtar, but said yesterday that the terrorism investigation continues. Mokhtar, bearded, bespectacled and wearing blue jeans, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Esther Salas in Newark this afternoon. He was handcuffed and shackled at his ankles. He smiled at his wife, who sat in the back of the courtroom. Under questioning, the defendant told the judge he did not have weapons in his home, but didn't speak otherwise. He was released on a $100,000 secured bond. Abed Awad, the defendant's attorney, declined to comment. FOLLOWING IS PART OF THE TEXT ON MOKHTAR'S WEBSITE; ***URGENT APPEAL FOR CASH DONATIONS*** 1. Financially; An appeal for cash donations is especially urgent at this time (Winter 2000/2001) since a joint U.S. /Russian chemical strike on Afghanistan is imminent. In our analysis, it is a bigger priority for Muslim organisations to help the Taliban at this time than to help any other Muslim cause in the World, whether Chechnya, Kashmir or Palestine. The fall of an Islamic Afghanistan due to financial difficulties will be a calamity that will make all other Muslim calamities look like nothing in comparison. Money is required to re-build damaged roads, re-build hospitals and schools, renovate factories, pay salaries to workers and many, many other things. There are many things the Taliban is unable to do due to the lack of funds. As a reasonable estimate, at least $10million a month are required in donations from outside the country to be of any meaningful use. Whilst it is not necessary for one organisation or one Muslim community to provide all of this money, smaller amounts from all Muslim communities, organisations and businesses around the World can make this figure in no time at all. Assuming there are 10 million wealthy Muslims in the World, they would only have to donate $1 a month to the Taliban to reach this figure. At present, it is relatively simple for either Muslim organisations, or wealthy individuals, to assist the Taliban financially. The procedure is given below: (a) Muslim communities, organisations, mosques and centres should collect money for the people of Afghanistan through appeals, collections and fundraising events. It is advisable to hold the appeals in the name of the people of Afghanistan rather than the Taliban, since the enemies of Islam will try to prevent fundraising for the Taliban in the future. (b) All the money collected should be converted into US$ in cash and deposited with two or three wealthy, trustworthy and respected members of the community or organisation. (c) At the end of each month, depending on the amount of the money, two or three of the same trustworthy members or elders of the community should travel to Karachi, Pakistan with the money in US$ in cash. If a large amount of money is involved, it is probably advisable to send one or two trustworthy, young, strong, fit Muslims with the delegation for protection of the money and the delegation. The delegation should carry an official letter on a letterhead with names. ________________________________________________ More al-Muhajiroun arrests again Wednesday 5/09/07, this time in the UK ! The 7 July London bombers Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer were Al Muhajiroun members, BBC News story 4/30/2007, http://news.bbc.co. uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/6607647.stm Mohammed Sidique Khan was al-Muhajiroun, he and the other 7/7 London bombers hung out at the IQRA Bookstore in Leeds UK a bastion for al-Muhajiroun tapes, DVD's, books and radical preachers, his wife Hasina Patel and 3 others were arrested this morning 5/09/2007, the four, aged between 22 and 34, are suspected of commissioning, preparing or instigating acts of terrorism, see Fox News story and BBC News story below. Bill Warner www.wbipi.com Police Arrest 4 in Connection to 2005 London Bombings Wednesday, May 09, 2007 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270862,00.html LONDON — British police arrested four people Wednesday in connection with the homicide bombings that killed 52 bus and subway passengers in London in 2005. Two men and a woman were arrested in West Yorkshire, Metropolitan Police said, and West Midlands Police said a 22-year-old man was arrested in Birmingham. All were arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism and were being taken to London for interrogation, police said. Searches were under way at two flats in Birmingham, and at five addresses in West Yorkshire — two houses in Dewsbury, two houses in the Beeston neighborhood of Leeds and one house in Batley, police said. Mohammed Sidique Khan, identified as one of the four London bombers, was a resident of Dewsbury and had grown up in Beeston. Police hold 7 July bomber's widow Last Updated: Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 11:37 GMT 12:37 UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6637917.stm Mohammad Sidique Khan bombed a Tube train at Edgware Road. The wife of 7 July bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan is among four people arrested in connection with the 2005 attacks, which killed 52 people. Officers arrested Hasina Patel, 29, and two men in West Yorkshire and one man in Selly Oak, Birmingham. Seven addresses are being searched. The four, aged between 22 and 34, are suspected of commissioning, preparing or instigating acts of terrorism. They will be questioned at London's Paddington Green police station later. A search is being carried out of a property in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, believed to be in Leonard Road. The man arrested in Selly Oak was 22-year-old Imran Motala. Police are guarding a student hall of residence in the area, but a University of Birmingham spokeswoman said the man arrested was not a student there. A police lorry removed a silver Peugeot 307 from the Victoria Hall block of flats on Grange Road. A car was also removed from the Handsworth address. In West Yorkshire five addresses are being searched - two houses in Penton Road and Dale Street, Dewsbury; two in Tempest Road, Beeston, Leeds; and one in Hayburn Gardens, Batley. Among those arrested was Khalid Khaliq, 34, from Tempest Road in Beeston - the street where 7 July Aldgate Tube bomber Shehzad Tanweer lived. Tanweer was one of four suicide bombers to mount the co-ordinated attacks in the capital nearly two years ago, which also injured more than 750 people. Ringleader Khan, 30, killed six people when he bombed a train near Edgware Road station. Bomber Shehzad Tanweer also lived in Tempest Road in Beeston The arrests on Wednesday morning followed an intelligence-led operation involving Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command and units in West Yorkshire. ______________________________________________ The NYPD Intell Program, 5/16/07, aL-MUHAJIROUN Remarks May 16, 2007 by Police Commissioner Kelly in response to questions regarding release of RNC-related documents: "I think a close examination of the documents is going to show that the New York City Police Department did an outstanding job in protecting the City during the Republican National Convention. People wanted to come here and shut down the City, to replicate what happened in Seattle, Montreal and Genoa. We simply didn't let that happen, and I think it'll just underscore the outstanding work of the men and women of the Department. In terms of gathering information, the vast majority of information that was gathered was open- source information. It was gathered from the Internet; these groups that were coming here were advertising what they were going to do -- bragging about what they were going to do. It wasn't particularly difficult to get the vast majority of this information." - Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly The on-going and continuous threat to the City is underscored by a long series of events that make clear that New York City, its citizens and visitors warrant an NYPD intelligence capability that helps protect against this persistent threat. The following events give credence to the need for a vibrant intelligence program that uniquely addresses the counter terrorism security equities of New York City. Each of them inextricably link New York City and terrorism in the post- September 11 period. UPDATE 8/15/07 NYPD TERROR REPORT The Media Anthrax Case: October 2001 ---In the space of a week, employees and visitors of the New York Post, NBC, CBS and ABC News in New York City were victim to anthrax attacks. A woman at another Manhattan location died of inhalation anthrax through cross contamination of the mail. The Iyman Faris case: late 2002/early 2003 ---Al Qaeda operative Iyman Faris, on orders from Khalid Sheik Mohammed (mastermind behind September 11, 2001), twice examined the Brooklyn Bridge to evaluate the feasibility of destroying it. Deterred in part the NYPD’s high visibility policing, Faris reported that the “weather is too hot,” meaning security was too tight to carry out the attack. He is serving 20 years in prison for conspiring against targets including the Brooklyn Bridge The Subway Cyanide Plot: February 2003 ---An arrest of a jihadist in Saudi Arabia revealed computer records of a plot to attack the New York City subway system using hydrogen cyanide in dispersal canisters. Surveillance of the subway stations had previously been undertaken. Iranian Agent Reconnaissance: 2003-2004 ---On three occasions security personnel from Iran’s Mission conducted surveillance of New York City landmarks and infrastructure including bridges and the subway system leading into Manhattan. The U.S. Government and the NYPD are concerned that they were building “off the shelf” reconnaissance of New York targets in advance of any future attacks against New York by terrorists supported by Iran, such as Hezbollah. This would replicate Iranian action prior to the 1994 bombing of the Jewish center in Buenos Aires where 85 persons were killed. The Mohammed Babar Case: April 2004 ---An Al Qaeda operative was arrested by NYPD detectives and FBI agents in Queens, New York for his role in a plot to bomb pubs, restaurants, and train stations in London. He had been a member of a radical organization which still exists in the New York City area (Al-Muhajiroun). The Citigroup/Stock Exchange Case: July 2004 ---A laptop commuter of an Al Qaeda operative is recovered containing detailed reconnaissance plans ---a prerequisite for attack--- of the New York Stock Exchange and Citigroup headquarters in mid-town Manhattan. Dhiren Barot, aka Aba Esi al-Hindi was convicted Nov. 7, 2006 in London and sentenced to life in prison for his role in plotting the destruction of London hotels, in addition to New York financial institutions. The Herald Square Case: August 2004 ---Shahawar Matin Siraj (Al-Muhajiroun) and James Elshafay were arrested for plotting to bomb the 34th Street and Sixth Avenue Subway station, located just a block away from Madison Square Garden, where the 2004 Republican National Convention was to be held. The Uzair Paracha Case: November 2005 ---Uzair Paracha, a Pakistani-born resident of New York City, was convicted of providing material support to Al Qaeda. Paracha’s father, who knew Bin Laden, was part owner in a Manhattan garment district business. It is believed that Paracha’s ultimate goal was to use that business’s shipping containers (Newark NJ) to smuggle weapons or explosives into New York City. The Tariq Shah Case: May 2006 ---Tariq Shah, a Bronx resident and martial arts expert, was indicted for providing material support to Al Qaeda. Shah had conspired to provide martial arts and hand-to-hand combat with weapons training to Al Qaeda. The Syed Hashmi Case: June 2006 ---Syed Hashmi, a Queens resident active in the New York City chapter of a radical Islamic group known as al-Mujairoun, was arrested in London where he was engaged in providing material support for Al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan. Path/Ground Zero Case: July 2006 ---Lebanon authorities arrested a principal in a plot to attack the PATH subway linking New Jersey to Lower Manhattan and to blow up the retaining wall at Ground Zero at the former World Trade Center site in an effort to flood lower Manhattan. With this operational environment in mind, the NYPD leadership has taken steps to assure that New York City’ s post-September 11, 2001 counter terrorism and security interests were pursued thoughtfully and aggressively. Most important, it has been a well informed program thanks in large measure to its intelligence investigative, information gathering and analysis efforts. The NYPD does a terrific job in keeping NYC safe, the undercurrent of an impending terrorist attack, attributed to members of al-Muhajiroun underscores the need for increased surveillance and tactics to deter those who intend to inflict mass causalities in the Manhattan area. ___________________________________________________________ JAMAAT AL-FUQRA YORK CO SOUTH CAROLINA PORTION OF E-MAIL FROM PAUL WILLIAMS 5/31/2007 BELOW, THEN SEE INFO AND PHOTOS OF THE YORK CO SC CLAN BELOW, WITH REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER. THERE ARE SO MANY MUSLIM GROUPS/CAMPS IN THE USA WITH THE SOLE PURPOSE OF KILLING AMERICANS AND THEN IDIOTS LIKE TAYLOR MARSH PRINT THE FOLLOWING; No Threat "Ninjas take four... or is it five? Journalism today: Hitting JFK airport is "symbolism" that would be as devastating as hitting "the man" again, if carried out successfully. That's straight from MSNBC. Are they kidding? The headline above says it all, but on the cable networks blather". "It's hard to take journalism and reporting seriously when every single person on cable runs to situations like this crying the sky almost fell, but didn't because the guys involved were idiots and couldn't pull it off" "No doubt someone will use it against John Edwards. Calling the "global war on terror" a "bumper sticker" slogan has made him quite the target lately. So this latest chicken little non-threat will send Fox "News" into a frenzy". http://www.taylormarsh.com:80/ BILL WARNER WWW.WBIPI.COM By Paul L. Williams, Ph.D. (author of The Day of Islam) with the able assistance of Shawn Michaels,Jamal Babourand and Dr. Hugh Cort The fifty-acre compound is easy to find since the main road leading to it has been named Sheikh Gilani Lane in honor of the guru and founder of a terrorist organization with close ties to Osama bin Laden. Gilani soon came to the realization that it would be financially advantageous to train new recruits for the holy war on American soil rather than to pay the freight of sending them to Pakistan, and the sites of his other training camps throughout the world. And so, Islamberg in Hancock, New York came into being. Soon other hamaats were established in such places as Hyattsville, Maryland; Falls Church, Virginia; Macon, Georgia; York, South Carolina; Dover, Tennessee; Buena Vista, Colorado; Talihina, Oklahoma; Tulane Country, California; Commerce, California; and Onalaska, Washington Sheikh Gilani aka Jilani, the head of Jamaat al-Fuqra in Lahore PK and numerous locations around the USA. Their web site, Jamaat al-Fuqra on-line in English http://www.iqou-moa.org IT APPEARS ONE OF THE MUSLIM SCOUTS OF AMERICA IS A REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER AT THE CAMP, HE COMMITTED HIS CRIMES IN MICHIGAN AND ENDED UP AT THE MUSLIMS OF THE AMERICAS 734 ISLAMVILLE WAY IN YORK CO SOUTH CAROLINA. International Quranic Open University and Muslims of the Americas Inc Honored Guests: Sheriff Bryant York County, SC Mayor Eddie Lee York, SC Special Agent Dick Watkins, FBI Columbia, SC (FBI) SAC Leslie Wieser, Columbia, SC (FBI) Special Agent Glen Williams Columbia SC (FBI) The above photo is from the 'boy scout graduation" at the York County South Carolina Camp of Jamaat al-Fuqra. Unless you were looking for it you'd probably never know it exists. It's called Holy Islamville. A Muslim village in the upstate started by a man suspected in attacks against the United States and once on the terror watch list. FOX Carolina's Jamie Guirola investigates Holy Islamville and reports. It's just a short drive to get there, but if you look online this intelligence report from a group of private citizens suggests what goes on over there is anything but holy. The roads that lead to it are rural. The homes nearby are spread apart. And even though only Muslims can live in Holy Islamville there's a welcome sign out front of its location; tucked in York County, about an hour and a half from Greenville. Whether you enter or just keep driving by is your choice. We chose to go in. Mayor Kamal Shakir/Holy Islamville: "We have families. Our families have grown and since then other have families have moved in. Sheikh Gilani and some of his followers were once on the F.B.I.'s Terror Watch List. Sheikh Gilani also suspected, but later cleared, in the infamous kidnapping of Wall Street reporter Danny Pearl. Rashid: "That's a total lie, that's a lie. Not only is that the man I know but that's a total lie. That doesn't even match his character". http://www. foxcarolina.com/Global/story.asp?S=4560518 ____________________________________________ PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR BILL WARNER TRAVELS TO QUEENS NY TO LINK AL-MUHAJIROUN IN THE UK TO THE MASJID AL-FATIMA. MASJID AL-FATIMA IS THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF QUEENS NY. Islamist's Extradition from UK - a background The Human Rights Act 1998 introduced the terms of the 1950 European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) into British law. This has been used by Islamists as a tool to prevent deportations and extraditions. by Adrian Morgan Monday, June 04, 2007 Syed Fahad Hashmi was finally extradited to the US on Friday, May 25, 2007. He had been arrested at London's Heathrow Airport on June 6, 2006, suspected of assisting an Al Qaeda terrorist plot, and assisting jihadists in Afghanistan and Iraq. A resident of Flushing, Queens, he was a follower of the Islamic Thinkers Society. After 9/11, he had invited a member of Al-Muhajiroun to talk at the campus of Brooklyn College, where he had been a student. His arrest last year happened as he was boarding a flight to Pakistan. Hashmi was also a senior figure in Al Muhajiroun's US network. Investigations by private detective Bill Warner have been crucial in piecing together the links between the British membership of Al Muhajiroun with their counterparts in New York, and their combined links with terrorism. The recent Operation Crevice terrorism trial, which concluded in London on April 30 had heard testimony from a former Al Muhajiroun member turned supergrass Mohamed Junaid Babar. In 2005, Bill Warner took BBC journalist Richard Watson to the Masjid al-Fatima on 37th Avenue, Woodside, which had been taken over by radicals from Hizb ut-Tahrir in the mid 1990s. Watson videotaped Bill Warner's interview with imam Aqeel Khan, who spoke of the problems of radicals at the mosque. Mr Warner's sleuthing managed to show that Junaid Babar, who was an Al Muhajiroun member from Queens, had attended the Woodside mosque, and here in 1999 had first met Sajil Shahid. Shahid had founded the Al Muhajiroun office in Lahore in Pakistan, which became a center for ferrying British jihadists (including the five men convicted of the Operation Crevice plot, and also Mohammed Sidique Khan, leader of London's 7/7 bombers) from Lahore to the regions bordering with Afghanistan, where they met Taliban and Al Qaeda controllers. Mr Warner's investigations also showed that a meeting took place at the Masjid al-Fatima mosque from June 2 to 4, 2000, with lectures given by Sajil Shahid. This three day convention was also attended by an individual called "Brother Fahad", who is Syed "Fahad" Hashmi. 27-year old Hashmi was presented in United States Magistrate's Court on Tuesday May 29, and on the following day he was indicted at Manhattan Federal Court before United States District Judge Loretta Preska. He was indicted on three charges, with the main count involving conspiracy to contribute funds, goods or services to the terrorist group. If he is found guilty at his future trial, he could serve 50 years in jail. Mark Mershon, assistant director-in-charge of the FBI's New York office, said: "Syed Hashmi aided the enemy by providing military gear to al-Qaida." Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said: "This arrest reinforces the fact that a terrorist may have roots in Queens and still betray us." Perhaps a year ago, the notion of an Al Muhajiroun member being connected to Al Qaeda would have seemed far-fetched. The revelations of the Operation Crevice trial, where five Al Muhajiroun members were given life sentences for conspiring to blow up venues in London, and were known to have met Al Qaeda leaders in Malakand, Pakistan, now makes such a notion all too credible. The Operation Crevice leaders were also known associates of Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, who were instructed by Al Qaeda to lead a four-man suicide bombing on London's transport system. That attack on July 7, 2005 killed 52 innocent travelers. This extradition from Britain to the US is the first ever to have taken place on terrorism charges. Why is this so? Britain signed an extradition treaty with the US in March 2003, which would have made extraditions to the US easier. No new treaty was signed to make extradition to Britain more straightforward. Is this the reason why Britain has stalled on extraditing terrorism suspects? There are at least three individuals who have been requested to be extradited to the US. Hook-handed preacher of hate Abu Hamza was subjected to a US extradition order in May 2004, connected with his alleged attempts to set up a terror training camp at Dog Cry Ranch, Oregon in 1999. Currently, Hamza is in Belmarsh jail, after being given a seven-year jail term for soliciting murder on February 7, 2006. He has fought the extradition request by trying to have his UK conviction overturned, a strategy which was rejected outright by the House of Lords on January 31. The Lords' decision should make his extradition more likely. Another person who was given a US extradition request in May 2004 in connection with the Bly, Oregon, training camp plans was Haroon Rashid Aswat, who also knew the Operation Crevice cell members. On January 5, 2006, Bow Street Magistrates Court ruled that his extradition to the US could go ahead. One factor used by Aswat was his claim that he would be tried as an "enemy combatant". The US has given assurances tat he will be tried by a federal court. However, Haroon Rashid Aswat's battle to challenge the extradition lasted longer than the Bow Street court, which had been in existence for 271 years and oversaw the trials of Oscar Wilde and Dr Crippen. The US accuses him, as well as planning to set up a terror training camp, of being a member of Al Qaeda, and has used websites to incite murder, and to raise money for Islamic insurgents in Afghanistan and Chechnya. On July 13, 2006 Aswat appeared via a videolink at Bow Street. His counsel, Edward Fitzgibbon QC argued that Aswat's human rights would be abused in the US. At the same time, Fitzgibbon was also supporting the case of another man wanted in the US - Babar Ahmad from Tooting in south London. On July 19, Bow Street Magistrates Court closed, but the arguments against extradition have continued. Babar Ahmad, now aged 32, has been indicted on charges of supporting terrorism, conspiring to kill Americans, and maintaining a website used to fund terrorists. He has been in custody in the UK since he was arrested on August 2004. On May 17 2005, judge Timothy Workman had declared that Babar Ahmad could be extradited to the US. On November 16, 2005 Charles Clarke, who then had been the Home Secretary, had approved the extradition of Ahmad. He ran several websites, which were used to recruit terrorists. The most important of these was Azzam.com, which recruited people for al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Chechen Islamist separatist organizations. The website also supplied gas masks, night-vision goggles and camouflage clothing. On July 18, 2006, 26-year old Syed Talha Ahsan was arrested at his home in Tooting, after he was indicted by a federal court in Connecticut. A federal indictment had been made against Babar Ahmad from Connecticut in October 2004, on virtually identical charges. It appears that Syed Talha Ahsan is connected with Babar Ahmad's internet recruitment drives. Ahsan is also charged with setting up terrorists in temporary housing in Britain, and shortly before 9/11, 2001, he owned a classified US Navy document which revealed troop movements. Ahsan and Ahmad are alleged by prosecutors to have run their pro-jihadist websites from 1998 to 2002. Connecticut district attorney Kevin O'Connor said of Ahsan's case: "These charges are the result of several years of investigative work by ICE and FBI agents in New Haven, NCIS agents, and several additional law enforcement partners here in the United States and overseas." The Human Rights Act 1998, introduced by Tony Blair, introduced the terms of the 1950 European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) into British law. This has been used by Islamists as a tool to prevent deportations and extraditions. Additionally there are issues of incompetence and unwillingness to assist other nations which have been the hallmark of Britain's dealing with extradition requests connected with terrorism. The worst case of delaying of an extradition process concerned French/Algerian terrorist Rachid Ramda, who was held in British custody for ten years before finally being extradited to France. Ramda was extradited on December 1, 2005. In 1993, he was sentenced to death in absentia by an Algerian court for a terror attack at Algiers airport, in which 9 people died and 123 were injured. Ramda was wanted in France for his involvement in a series of attacks upon the Paris Metro (subway). On March 29, 2006 he was found guilty of financing three Metro bombings and was given a jail sentence of ten years. In April 2007 it was announced that Ramda will stand trial for being directly involved in the worst of the Metro bombings, which took place at the St Michel Metro station on July 25, 1995. 8 people died and 87 were injured. The explosive device was contained within a glass vessel packed with nails. Victims suffered horrendous lacerations. Britain's Home Office has in one case been so negligent that an Italian terrorism trial had to be called off. Libyan-born Farj Hassan Faraj was wanted in Milan, Italy. He was accused of plotting bomb attacks, and had been in custody in Britain since May 2002. Italy has a statute of limitations, meaning that a trial must take place three years after charges are made. Britain's incompetent Home Office allowed Faraj to remain in custody beyond this deadline. As a result, in October 2005, the MiIan trial collapsed. Adrian Morgan is a British based writer and artist who has written for Western Resistance since its inception. He has previously contributed to various publications, including the Guardian and New Scientist and is a former Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Society. ____________________________________________________ MOA Cop Killer Ramadan Abdullah on trial, MOA Parade in Binghamton NY "I PULLED THE TRIGGER WHILE I WAS IN PRAYER" Ramadan Abdur-Rauf Abdullah, a member of Jamaat ul-Fuqra aka Muslims of the Americas, is on trial this week in California for the 2001 murder of a sheriff’s deputy. A local news report gives an account of testimony heard by jurors, including a tape of Abdullah’s questioning by detectives after the murder. Al-Fuqra Exposed is a website dedicated to monitoring and reporting on the activities of Jamaat ul-Fuqra and the Muslims of the Americas trial of Ramadan Abdullah: Finally facing justice for his crime, Ramadan Abdur-Rauf Abdullah, now 26, went on trial this week in Fresno County, California for killing Deputy Sheriff Erik Telen in 2001. He is pleading insanity in his defense. Abdullah is originally from Binghamton, NY and was a member of the Muslims of the Americas (MOA). Spread throughout the country, the MOA, made up of primarily African-Americans, are a cult-like offshoot sect of Sufi Muslims who follow Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani of Pakistan. The organization serves as a religious front for a radical militant group known as Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a secretive network also headed by Gilani. For all practical purposes, the groups are one and the same, though members’ knowledge of and/or involvement in illicit activity varies. A former member of JuF talked to Al-Fuqra Exposed about Abdullah, specifically addressing the question of the defendant’s sanity:No matter what, he still had enough of JF teachings in him so at some point he was sane. As a younger teenager he used to teach the younger boys…the basic training all members have. I do know he had excellent rifle training because I would hear his name in reference to that matter. In fact, the prosecutor said in court of Abdullah’s accuracy, “This was a very well-aimed and well-timed shot that was fatal to Deputy Erik Telen hitting him directly in the head.” Telen died instantly. The prosecutor is reminding us of something that state and national law enforcement agencies know all too well: Jamaat ul-Fuqra stockpiles firearms, and trains its members in their use, in dozens of isolated rural compounds scattered across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The group has a well-documented history of violence, fraud, and other criminality. Go over to Al-Fuqra Exposed for more detailed coverage of the trial of Ramadan Abdullah, including extensive quotes from the former member of JuF. The same group, the Muslims of America, has organized a parade this Saturday in downtown Binghamton, New York, to celebrate Mohammed’s birthday. They're coming over from their nearby national headquarters to engage in some multicultural festivities. When you read the press reports about the upcoming parade, there’s no investigative effort by the media to report on MOA’ s background. If it were a fundamentalist Christian group organizing the event, dozens of reporters and photographers would be wearing out shoe leather to dig up as much damaging material as possible. But MOA gets a pass: the copy goes straight from the Islamberg press release into the papers without any further examination: “Muslims of the Americas was formed in the 1980s when several families migrated from ghetto properties in New York City to Hancock to make a new start on their own property in a clean, rural environment…” Muslims of America also spent the 1980s firebombing Hindu temples, murdering rivals, stockpiling automatic weapons, and committing welfare fraud. But there’s no need to dredge up all that old stuff — it’s ancient history. Time to put it all behind us and — to coin a phrase — move on. Saturday’s parade — which will involve the closure of several streets and the assistance of police — had to be approved by Binghamton’s mayor, Matt Ryan. If you look at the website for the mayor’s office, you’ll see that the Executive Assistant to the Mayor is named Tarik Abdelazim. And who’s responsible is issuing permits for public events in the city of Binghamton? Here’s what it says at City Hall’s FAQ page:How do I go about arranging a public event at City Hall or in the Community? Contact Tarik Abdelazim, Executive Assistant to the Mayor Matt Ryan, at (607) 772-7001. So Tarik Abdelazim, also known as “the deputy mayor”, is the go-to guy if you want to organize a parade in Binghamton for friends of a cop killer. Up until at least 2005 he was an active journalist and community organizer. He kept a blog and ran a website called Modoc Press, part of “the global archipelago of dissent”. He was an editor for the New York University interdisciplinary journal Anamesa and participated in something known as the narcosphere. His politics seem to have been — to put it mildly — progressive. In fact, for a time he held the position of “Binghamton’s Progressive Advocate”. He appeared in the Radicalendar and many Indymedia newsletters and event listings. He helped organize antiwar marches back in 2002 and 2003, and took part in a local initiative to impeach President Bush. He was especially active on behalf of the St. Patrick’s Four: On Monday, March 17, St. Patrick’s Day [2003], four of us from the Ithaca Catholic Worker Community — Peter De Mott, who served in both the Marines and the Army including a year in Vietnam as a Marine, Clare and Teresa Grady and Daniel Burns — went to the Army-Marine Recruiting Cent |