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Al-Qaida's Jihad in
Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network
"About [Al-Qaida's]
operations in Europe, Evan F. Kohlmann has written an illuminating
book... Kohlmann is at his best in exhaustively reporting the
details of such terrorist episodes. He has compiled prodigious
research about the perpetrators and their support networks.
Moreover, he never loses sight of the strategy behind the individual
attacks... [a] genuine historical analysis."
- Political Science Quarterly (PSQ)
"This book is a
pathbreaking piece of research… Kohlmann addresses the issue in
unprecedented detail, exploiting a wide variety of available sources
to piece together a largely neglected segment of contemporary
Bosnian history… [which] provide critical insights into terrorist
preferences, motives, and interests… The book… is descriptive and
empirically rich."
- Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
"Written by a genuine
expert in the subject... this is a lucid and informed account of the
involvement of the mujahedin in Bosnia, one that lays the myths to
rest... This excellent book is essential reading for anyone wishing
to understand the truth about an episode of the Bosnian war that is
so frequently misrepresented by those with a political motive for
doing so."
- Dr. Marko Hoare,
History Faculty, University of Cambridge
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Globalterroralert.com Archive
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8/5/04 |
Captured Pakistani Al-Qaida Operative Leads to Arrests
in the U.K.
Analysis of computers and documents
seized during the capture of Pakistani Al-Qaida
operative Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan has led to increased
terror alerts both in the U.S. and the U.K., where
British authorities have detained a dozen individuals
suspected of plotting an imminent act of terrorism,
perhaps directed at London's Heathrow International
Airport. According to the British Daily Telegraph, Khan
was in contact with a ringleader known as "Abu Eisa
al-Hindi"--reputed to be "the head of Al-Qaida
operations in Britain." It is likely that the pseudonym
"Abu Eisa al-Hindi" refers to the same extremist leader
who wrote the infamous jihad text, The Army of Madinah
in Kashmir. According to that book, "Esa al-Hindi" was
born in the U.K. as a Hindu, but later converted to
Islam and fought alongside Muslim militants in Kashmir.
After working as a combat trainer at a mujahideen terror
camp in Afghanistan, al-Hindi moved to southern Thailand
in 1998 and married a local woman there. |
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10/12/04 |
Al-Qaida Supporters in London Call for Death to Jews
Al-Qaida supporters in London, led by the
notorious Shaykh Omar Bakri Mohammed (Al-Muhajiroun) and
Yasser al-Sirri (the Islamic Observation Centre), held a
protest rally outside the Saudi embassy in London on
October 8. Only a day after the terrorist attacks on
Israeli tourists in Taba, Egypt, the militants shouted:
"Taba, Taba, O' Jews! The Army of Mohammed is Coming!" |
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4/14/05 |
The Evidence Behind the London Ricin Plot
Despite damning evidence and the violent murder of a
British constable, four of five men accused of plotting
to spread ricin and other poisons throughout downtown
London have been acquitted by a court in the United
Kingdom. When British counterterrorism forces raided the
headquarters of the alleged terror cell in January 2003,
they found a makeshift chemical weapons factory, replete
with castor oil beans (the raw material for ricin), lab
equipment, and recipes for ricin, cyanide, botulinum,
and the preparation of explosives. |
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7/24/05 |
U.K. Cleric: Make the Earth "Warm with Blood"
Not far from the south London neighborhood where British
police have been frantically searching for additional
would-be suicide bombers, lies the unassuming town of
Brixton. Coincidentally or not, Brixton is also the
former home of Shaykh Abdullah al-Faisal, a
Jamaican-born Islamic convert and religious leader now
serving a lengthy prison sentence for inciting young
Muslims to kill Jews and Hindus.
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Where do British Suicide Bombers Come From? Part II
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Click to hear audio clip of Shaykh Abdullah al-Faisal #1
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Click to hear audio clip of Shaykh Abdullah al-Faisal #2 |
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7/28/05 |
Calls for American Blood at May Rally in London
Last May, at the height of the Newsweek-Quran
desecration fiasco, a group of Al-Qaida supporters and
clerics held an anti-American rally in central London.
The organizers included Shaykh Omar Bakri Mohammed
(founder of the fanatical British Al-Muhajiroun
movement) and Yasser al-Sirri (a leader of the Egyptian
Islamic Jihad in exile). During the rally, dozens of
demonstrators chanted responsively, "USA, you will pay!
With your blood, with your blood! ...Bomb, bomb USA!
Scud, scud USA! Nuke, nuke USA! The mujahideen are on
their way! Jihad! Jihad! Jihad!" Omar Bakri can be seen
dressed in a white gown, greeting the other speakers at
the front of the crowd and wearing a photo of the
Egyptian Shaykh Omar Abdel Rahman--currently imprisoned
in the United States for his involvement in a series of
terrorist plots targeting New York landmarks. |
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8/29/05 |
"Junior Osama Bin Laden" Resurfaces in Bosnia
An Algerian terrorist commander once thought to head a
transnational sleeper cell network that included
would-be Al-Qaida Millenium bomber Ahmed Ressam has
resurfaced in Bosnia-Herzegovina, vehemently denying
allegations recently presented to the Bosnian Supreme
Court in Sarajevo that his foreign mujahideen unit
committed war crimes during the Bosnian civil conflict
of the 1990s. Algerian militant commander Abu el-Maali--the
former chief of the foreign mujahideen unit in
Bosnia--granted an exclusive interview to a mujahideen-affiliated
magazine in Bosnia in order to respond to charges
leveled during the recent trial of Iraqi-born Abduladhim
Maktouf--convicted in early July of aiding in the 1993
kidnapping of three Croat civilians subsequently held
prisoner in a mujahideen-run torture camp. |
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9/15/05 |
Purported Threat by "Al-Qaida in Northern Europe"
In a new communiqué verified as authentic by the same
online authority responsible for distributing credible
material from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a group calling
itself "Al-Qaida's Committee in Northern Europe" has
issued a threat to carry out additional suicide bombing
attacks similar those that took place on July 7 in
downtown London. According to an electronic statement
issued on September 11, members of the purported Al-Qaida
unit announced their intention to "sacrifice our souls
and dead bodies for this religion, in order to raise the
flag of the mujahideen, and to preserve the souls of the
Muslims in the same way that our brothers in Britain
have done previously." No specific European nation or
target was mentioned in the communiqué. |
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2/24/06 |
Video of Anti-Denmark Protest in London
The January 2006 republication of cartoons from Denmark
lampooning the Prophet Mohammed has caused a growing
wave of bitter anger and violence to spread throughout
the Muslim world--and likewise among well-organized
groups of extremists living in Western nations. On
February 3, a U.K.-based militant faction formerly known
as "Al-Muhajiroun" ("The Emigrants") helped organize a
raucous demonstration outside the Danish, Norwegian, and
French embassies in central London. Video excerpts from
the demonstration are now available for download c/o the
NEFA Foundation website. |
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