Friday, May 19, 2006

Perpetual Victims Syndrome




When police in London arrest muslims for openly inciting violence and murder, it gets put in the category called "Islamophobia" on The Muslim News website.

Anything to be portrayed as the victim.....


Watch the video of the muslim demonstration in front of the Danish embassy in London here

More videos here

If your wondering how islam got the 'religion of peace and tolerance' lable, its probably this verse which calls all non-muslims the 'worst of creatures'. quran 98:06 Or all this. Remember that the next time a politician tries to sugarcoat islam. This politically correct sugarcoating by politicians is selling out the free world each and every time.
The motives of islam to exploit this very politically correct nature is so blatantly obvious its time the world woke up.

Muslim students 'being taught to despise unbelievers as filth'


MUSLIM students training to be imams at a British college with strong Iranian links have complained that they are being taught fundamentalist doctrines which describe nonMuslims as "filth".
The Times has obtained extracts from medieval texts taught to the students in which unbelievers are likened to pigs and dogs. The texts are taught at the Hawza Ilmiyya of London, a religious school, which has a sister institution, the Islamic College for Advanced Studies (ICAS), which offers a degree validated by Middlesex University


"There are ten types of filth and impurities: urine, faeces, semen, carrion, blood of carrion, dogs, pigs, disbelievers".(Text being taught at The Hawza Ilmiyya Islamic school, Willesden, London – The Times)
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UK: University courses on Islam encouraging jihad and Sharia supremacism.

British officials are shocked (not "shocked! shocked!," but really shocked) to find out that young Muslims are learning "radical teaching" in their university courses on Islam.
Here are the fruits of the official willful ignorance of Islam and jihad. Blair (and Bush, and so many others) insist that jihad violence does not stem from Islam, and has nothing to do with Islam. British (and American) officials cannot conceive -- are not allowed to conceive -- of the possibility that an ordinary course on Islam might not have to be subverted or infiltrated in order to teach the necessity to wage jihad in order to impose the Islamic social order over the world. If that course is not a whitewash designed to please and/or bamboozle Westerners, it is actually likely that it will teach that in one form or another.
If British officials had been aware of all that, if they had allowed themselves to be aware of it, they might not be so surprised by this. They might even have nipped it in the bud.


"Universities face review of Islam course: Ministers fear terrorism is condoned," from the Yorkshire Post,
YOUNG Muslim students at some British universities are being exposed to radical teaching that explicitly condones terrorism, a senior Minister warned yesterday.
Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell ordered an urgent review of university Islamic courses after claiming there was evidence that "narrow and unhelpful" interpretations of Islam were available to "many" young people.
He admitted there was worry at the highest levels of Government about the effect such teaching could have in the wake of last year's suicide bombings in London.
Mr Rammell's intervention comes after a report by an academic at Brunel University published last year claimed extremist groups, including the British National Party, had been found active at 24 universities.
"...including the British National Party..." This is completely irrelevant to this story, unless the BNP is teaching jihad to university students. It seems to be in the story just to prove that the Yorkshire Post is not "Islamophobic," and is not siding with white racists.
The study has since come under sustained criticism but yesterday Mr Rammell demanded an improvement in the way Islam is taught at higher education level.
He said: "There are weaknesses in the way young Muslims are educated about what their faith really requires.
"There is a concern that the teachings which the great majority of Muslims would want to stress about living in peace, protecting the vulnerable, avoiding harm to others, are sometimes sidelined.
Where is the Great Majority of Peaceful, Law-Abiding Muslims™ we keep hearing so much about? Why is it evidently not only a Silent, but a Powerless Majority?
"There is reason to think that in some cases students are being exposed, more than any of us would like, to wrong-headed influences, under the name of religion.
"In particular, exposed to teachings that either explicitly condone terrorism, or foster a climate of opinion which is at least sympathetic to terrorists' motivation."
"I am worried about this, so are colleagues in Government, so above all are Muslims that I have spoken to."
Of course, Rammell. What do you expect them to say to you? But why could they not or did they not prevent the Tiny Minority of Extremists™ from taking control of these university courses?
Mr Rammell announced a review of Islamic education at universities by a leading scholar, Dr Ataullah Siddiqui, who will be asked to make sure courses are not restricted to narrow interpretations of Islam.

I hope well-informed people will be watching his work closely.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

LAPTOPS FOR TERROR SUSPECTS

A JAIL decision to give £1,000 laptops to 28 top terror suspects was last night branded "disgraceful" and a dangerous waste of money.
Belmarsh bosses said the computers were necessary to help the men prepare their legal defences.
But angry critics said the £28,000 would be better spent on upping security at the jail which, the Mirror can reveal, is about a third understaffed.
They also fear that the laptops could be used for criminal activity even though there will be no internet access.
The prisoners include those accused of the 21/7 attempted bombings in London, al-Qaeda suspects and members of the bullying Muslim Boys gang.
A source said: "It's a disgraceful waste of taxpayers' money. The prison is severely understaffed and £28,000 could have recruited an officer for 18 months.
"It's also dangerous. The prisoners could easily make CD-Roms, which could be handed to visitors, and orchestrate criminal activity from the inside.
"Inmates are incredibly resourceful. It wouldn't surprise me if they eventually managed to get the internet on their laptops.
"We're talking about men who've engineered their own mobile phone battery chargers."
The laptops will be handed to prisoners this week for private use in their cells.
Hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza, 47 - jailed for seven years last month for race hate and terror crimes - was given a laptop days after he arrived at the South London jail on remand.
Terror suspects are held in a special high-security unit at Belmarsh.
But an insider disclosed: "We're around a third of staff short and at full stretch everyday. We desperately need more.
"When resignations, training courses, holidays and sickness kick in we really feel the pinch.
"Some days, units are shut down because there are not enough officers to man them. It's a juggling act."
When the Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers visited last October, four men were held in one spur and nine in another. One man was in his own secure unit.
Five Category A inmates were the only prisoners in the country to be classed as an "exceptional risk".
A Prison Service spokesman said: "Belmarsh has received a delivery of laptops for prisoners. Internet access will be removed before they are made available.
"Under Prison Service Orders, prison inmates must have access to adequate facilities to prepare their legal cases.
"Much of the information provided by the Crown Prosecution Service relating to their cases is stored in electronic format.
"Prisoners must be able to read this evidence."
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JAIL 'DOESN'T UNDERSTAND' MUSLIMS

PRISON officers in Belmarsh do not understand the social and religious behaviour of Muslims, says a report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers.
Ms Owers is concerned that four remand prisoners on terror charges were allowed to meet only in pairs and were banned from communal Friday prayers.
She said: "It is vital that prisons understand the prisoners they hold and can assess the relationships between and within different groups of prisoners in order to be able to manage them safely.
"We did not believe this was the case for staff in relation to Muslim prisoners at Belmarsh." But a source at the jail said: "The governor does everything possible to accommodate the Muslims' needs. During Ramadan, staff stayed up all night cooking for men who had fasted during the day.
"We cater for their special diet needs and accommodate every religious festival in the Islamic calendar.
"But when prisoners asked for a Midnight Mass service at Christmas they were told we didn't have the staff."
Ms Owers said that overall Belmarsh was "making progress" but she made 127 recommendations for improvement.
Prison Service director general Phil Wheatley said: "What is important for Belmarsh is not to be diverted by issues specific to a small number of prisoners."
A Prison Service spokeswoman said: "Belmarsh takes the issue of faith very seriously. In a prison where 17 religious faiths are represented, great care is taken to ensure staff are aware of the cultural and religious issues affecting prisoners."

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Abu Hamza’s prison computer has been seized in a security swoop — to stop him surfing the net.
The hook-handed Muslim cleric and a string of al-Qaeda terror suspects had been loaned Toshiba laptops to help them prepare their defence.
Hamza, is appealing his seven-year sentence for preaching sermons of hate and incitement to murder. US authorities also want to extradite him for trial on terror charges.
The computers’ modems had been disconnected. But then jail bosses discovered they could be re-activated — and with a mobile could provide access to websites.
The lags could then have contacted terror groups. Guards at London’s top-security Belmarsh Prison have now impounded the computers, believed to be around 30.
A prison source said: "What’s happened is madness.
"Any access to the internet means they could have been orchestrating the next London bomb attacks. Everyone was assured that the modems had been removed. But now we’ve discovered they had just been disconnected. It’s a joke."
A Prison Service spokesman confirmed that the computers had been "recalled".

Silence to mark 7/7 anniversary

We will remember the loss of the bereaved families, the suffering of the injured and all those who aided them Tessa Jowell


A two-minute silence is to be held on 7 July to mark the first anniversary of the London bombings that killed 52 people, Tessa Jowell has announced.
The national silence, at noon, is to be followed by a memorial event in the capital's Regent's Park.

The culture secretary also announced plans for a permanent memorial to be built in Tavistock Square, where one of the four bombs exploded on a bus.
The memorial is to be designed in consultation with victims' families.
Ms Jowell said: "The terrorist attacks in London last July were a dark hour in our history.
"They left 52 grieving families and hundreds of people injured. The lives of many of those caught up in the atrocity will never be the same again."
She said the two-minute silence would bring the nation together in tribute to those who died.
"We will remember the loss of the bereaved families, the suffering of the injured and all those who selflessly aided them," she said.
"The silence, the permanent memorial and the commemoration will give us all a way to remember the dead and give a voice to what is still unutterable grief."
The open air commemorative event will take place in Regent's Park's Queen Mary's Gardens.
Names read out
Participants will include the bereaved relatives, some of the hundreds of people injured by the bombs and ordinary Londoners.
The centrepiece of the event will be the reading aloud of the names of the 52 people killed.
John Falding, who lost his partner Anat Rosenberg in the bombings, said: "It was a very full consultation with suggestions from the government and plenty of space for our own ideas.
"What they announced today reflects very strongly the points I made so I'm extremely pleased."
The ceremony in Queen's Gardens will be the first time Mr Falding returns to the spot where he and his wife spent the evening before she died, at an open-air concert.
'Not to dwell'
Craig Cassidy, a paramedic who was one of the first on the bomb scene at Aldgate on 7 July told BBC News the remembrance plans were appropriate and he would take part in a two minutes silence.
"For the people that want it to be remembered, it should be," he said, adding "But you've got to be careful not to dwell on it to much, or the people who did it will have had more of an effect that even they would have imagined.
The permanent memorial in Tavistock Square will be created in a specially-designed garden on the side of the square nearest the place where a double-decker bus exploded on 7 July.
More than 770 people were injured and 52 killed when four suicide bombers set off bombs on London's transport system in the morning rush hour on 7 July 2005

'10 years' to deport all illegals

Asylum claim figure rises by 5%

An immigration minister has said it could take 10 years to deport all the illegal immigrants living in the UK.
Tony McNulty, speaking on BBC Two's Newsnight, said 310,000 to 570,000 was "roughly in the ball park" of how many illegal immigrants were in the country.
He said it would take a decade to remove them, on the basis that only so many could be deported each year.
Earlier Tony Blair had come under fire after saying there were no official figure estimates of illegal immigrants.
Mr McNulty said:"Assuming that we can find them, and assuming that people aren't going away of their own accord, it would take some time."
He said it would take "Ten years, if you are saying 25,000 per year."
"Remember too the illegal population as it is is multi-layered and segmented it's not just.. those climbing over fences," he added.
'Rattled'
His comments follow a debate over illegal immigrants, after Mr Blair admitted there were no official estimates.
The row was originally sparked by the news that 1,023 foreign prisoners were released without being considered for deportation.
On Wednesday Mr Blair said he believed the vast bulk of foreign prisoners should be deported whatever the dangers in their home nations.
Downing Street later said some prisoners could avoid deportation in "very few exceptional cases" such as a known threat to an individual.
'Rattled'
The Conservatives said Mr Blair was "rattled" while the Lib Dems argued the policy was probably unlawful.
The prime minister said the measure might not apply to foreigners who had been in the UK for a long time and only served a short jail term.
He said: "In the vast bulk of cases, as was explained, there will be an automatic presumption now to deport - and the vast bulk of those people will be deported," he said. "Those people, in my view, should be deported irrespective of any claim that they have that the country to which they are going back may not be safe.
"That is why it is important, if necessary, that we look at legislating to ensure that such an automatic presumption applies."
They should not be able to claim their home country was too unsafe generally, he said, pointing out people were now being deported to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sir Andrew Green, from Migrationwatch UK, said he was "surprised" by Mr Blair's words but said he thought the current balance was wrong.
"Too much weight is being given to the possibility of someone suffering when they get home and too little weight is given to risk to British society," he said.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Anger over British citizenship classes

A islamic COUNCILLOR has lashed out at Government plans to give Muslim students compulsory British citizenship classes in the wake of terror attacks.The Respect councillor for Sparkbrook Salma Yaqoob hit out at plans outlined today by Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell.Mr Rammell claimed a better understanding of British values is crucial following the July 7 terror attacks on London last year.He suggested citizenship classes for Muslim students were the way to do this. But Mrs Yaqoob claimed classes should be for all British youngsters, not just British Muslims.

Sunday, May 14, 2006

M15 INFILTRATED BY AL-QAEDA

TERRORISTS from al-Qaeda have infiltrated Britain's security services, the Sunday Mirror can reveal.
Bosses at M15 believe they unwittingly recruited the Muslim extremists after the July 7 suicide bombings in London last year which killed 52 people.
They were signed up as part of a drive to find more Muslims and Arabic speakers to work as spies to help prevent future attacks by Osama bin Laden fantatics.

Spymasters found some of the agents in Britain's universities and colleges and persuaded them to pass on information about suspected terrorists.
But a senior ministerial source has told the Sunday Mirror: "The truth is that it has now been discovered that some of those people have strong links with al-Qaeda.
"There was always a risk that with such a speedy and widespread recruitment some would turn out to be bad eggs
But the recruitment has meant we are now in a much better position to stop al-Qaeda attacks than we have ever been before. Several planned attacks have already been stopped thanks to the high quality of our intelligence." But the disclosure that suspected terrorists have infiltrated the security services will be a further embarrassment to Government Ministers.
They came under ferocious pressure last week after an official report claimed MI5 had failed to follow up vital leads before the July 7 bombings.
The report from the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) said greater coverage by M16 - Britain's overseas spies - in Pakistan and more manpower "might have alerted the agencies to the intentions of the July 7 group".
But MI5 director-general Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller is masterminding a campaign to hire hundreds more intelligence officers to the service.
She is looking for IT experts, technicians and language specialists to help monitor "traffic" via emails and phone calls between al-Qaeda terror cells across the world.
MI5 is also offering £27,000 a year for "mobile surveillance officers" to follow targets who are part of "national security investigations".
But the service warns that its strict vetting process means it takes up to eight months to consider applications.
The ISC report last week found that two of the July 7 bombers - Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer - were known to the security services.
But they were not seen as a high priority and M15's manpower was diverted to investigate other suspects.
The pair were among the four suicide bombers who detonated their homemade devices on three Tube trains and a bus in the worst terrorist attack in British history.

Terror suspect numbers soar

MI5 source reveals a 'current, relentless and increasing' security threat since 7 July attacks as radical imam is set to be released from jail

The number of Islamic terror suspects in Britain being targeted by the security service MI5 has soared to 1,200, a 50 per cent rise since the London suicide bombings last July.
In a stark warning about the threat posed by Islamic radicals living in Britain, a senior intelligence source told The Observer that some of the public and politicians were failing to realise the risk facing the UK: 'In July 2005 we had 800 targets. I wish it was still at that level.'
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First victory

THE ludicrous ban on identifying the Afghan jet hijackers to protect their human rights is lifted.
The judge who let them stay in Britain saw sense on this issue yesterday. Meanwhile 35,000 Sun readers want the Human Rights Act axed.
We hope yesterday’s ruling is the first of many victories over this madness.
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Human rights law 'may be changed'

The UK government has said legislation may be brought in to stop the Human Rights Act endangering public safety.
The Lord Chancellor said the act would not be scrapped but could be amended in parliament to ensure its application was not "distracting" officials.
Lord Falconer told the BBC's Sunday AM cases like that of rapist Anthony Rice, who killed a woman while on parole, raised concerns over the law.
Human rights groups said the current concerns were not a fault of the act.
"Amending our human rights act because of gross public service failures is like handing a repeat burglar the key to your house," said Shami Chakrabarti, director of campaign group Liberty.
"Without the act, ordinary people in Britain would have precious little protection from maladministration."
'Political clarity'
The European Convention on Human Rights was incorporated into UK law in 1998 through the Human Rights Act.
The deployment of human rights is, often wrongly, leading to wrong conclusions to be made about issues of public safety Lord Falconer
Lord Falconer said the government did not intend to pull out of the convention - a condition of EU membership.
But he said it is considering a programme of education and training or "if necessary" new legislation to make sure it is not wrongly interpreted.
He said there was a "real concern" about the way the Human Rights Act was operating and there needed to be "political clarity" that it would have no effect on public safety issues.
"This is not about an attack on the judges, this is about making clear in particular areas - like example the release of prisoners who might be a danger to society - that public safety comes first," he said.
"We need to be absolutely clear that human rights does not in any way reduce people's public safety."
'Top priority'
The report into Anthony Rice's murder of Naomi Bryant in Winchester last year said officials had considered his human rights above their duties to the public.
It recommended the "top priority focus" in future should be on public protection.
Tories are not against human rights but we think the way the government has done it has led to disasters David Davis shadow home secretary
The act was also cited when the High Court ruled nine Afghan asylum seekers who hijacked a plane could stay in the UK.
The government was criticised by a judge for failing to implement a decision that the men could not be deported as their lives were under threat.
BBC political correspondent Terry Stiastny said some ministers were worried about the public's perception of the act and possible "over interpretation" by officials.
But she added that new legislation was still only a "distant possibility".
Conservative leader David Cameron has pledged to reform, replace or scrap the Human Rights Act if he is elected as he said it is undermining the UK's ability to deal with foreign criminals.
Shadow home secretary David Davis told Sunday AM concerns over the act had been raised by the Conservatives in 1998.
"Tories are not against human rights but we think the way the government has done it has led to disasters."
Liberal Democrat constitutional affairs spokesman Simon Hughes said: "The answer is to seek better collective protection, not rip up human rights obligations which have stood the test of time and are important guarantees for the rights of us all."

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Security services identify 700 potential al-Qa'ida terrorists at large in Britain


At least 700 people suspected of being involved in al-Qa'ida terrorist plots have been identified by MI5 and the police, The Independent understands.
There has been a threefold increase in the number of terror suspects identified by the security service, MI5, since the 11 September attacks in the United States in 2001, security sources have disclosed.
Details of the rise comes as the Government faces a charge of "whitewash" tomorrow over the scrutiny of the intelligence into the 7 July 2005 London bombings, in which 52 passengers were killed as well as four terrorists. The Tories believe the publication of two major reports, due out tomorrow, will fail to answer the question of why the suicide bombers managed to evade detection.
A report by the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee will find no evidence that MI5 or MI6 could have prevented the attacks by a team of British terrorists. The report will raise several questions over the effectiveness of Britain's anti-terrorist operations. It will suggest that intelligence-sharing between Britain and Pakistan is poor, and question why the level of security alert was lowered just before the bombings.
Despite being cleared of blame, the security agencies are certain to come under renewed criticism with the confirmation that they had two of the bombers under surveillance in the months before the attack, and the ring leader, Mohammad Siddique Khan, visited a terrorist training camp in Pakistan.
MI5 argue that they had to prioritise their investigations and could only target the key players in the bomb plot they were investigating, which did not include Khan.
The scale of the problem facing Britain's counter-terrorism agencies is highlighted by new figures of suspected terrorists currently under investigation in the UK.
Since the 2001 attacks in the United States, the number of identified al-Qa'ida supporters living in Britain who are considered a threat to national security has risen by 300 per cent, according to security sources. Although a total number has not been confirmed, sources have indicated that it is in the "high hundreds" and "far more" than the most recently quoted figure of 400. A Whitehall source last night put the total at "at least 700" and the police have quoted a figure of 200 in 2001. A security source said: "We are talking about radicals or plotters who would be of interest because of their potential threat to national security.
"There has been a 300 per cent increase since 9/11 in those types of individuals that we are looking at and are concerned about."
A Whitehall source added: "The service [MI5] is currently at a very high level of operational intensity in investigating plotting leading to mass casualty attacks in the UK.
"The current picture is very much like an extremist soup with a number of overlapping networks with a common cause. But these networks aren't attached to each other.
"The picture is changing all the time. Many of the plotters are homegrown and currently living in the UK."
Whitehall sources also disclosed that Islamist extremist groups in Pakistan have stepped up efforts to recruit young British Muslims visiting the country.
The Home Secretary, John Reid, will tomorrow make a statement to the Commons setting out a "narrative" which highlights the need to tackle Muslim fundamentalism in Britain.
The Home Office narrative suggests that the four suicide bombers were "self-taught", picking up tips on bomb-making through the internet. It also says there is nothing to suggest a "fifth bomber" was involved.
In a second, separate report, the intelligence committee of MPs will say that there was no evidence of a formal link between the British bombers and al-Qa'ida.
It will criticise MI5 for lowering the alert against terrorism a month before the 7 July attacks, but will conclude that there was no evidence that a bombing campaign was about to be mounted.
The intelligence-sharing between Britain and Pakistan will be criticised. Despite having a large base in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, MI6 were unaware of visits to the country - and contacts with Islamist groups - by two of the suicide bombers, Khan and Shahzad Tanweer.
The MPs will also protest over the resources allocated to the security services in recent years. The new Home Secretary is expected to argue that such shortfalls are being urgently addressed. MI5, MI6, and the Metropolitan Police's anti-terrorist branch are all currently undergoing big recruitment drives in order to help plug the intelligence gaps.
Government sources say they are braced for criticism after the publication of the two reports. One source said: "Of course there are unanswered questions - there are still things we do not know."
At least 700 people suspected of being involved in al-Qa'ida terrorist plots have been identified by MI5 and the police, The Independent understands.
There has been a threefold increase in the number of terror suspects identified by the security service, MI5, since the 11 September attacks in the United States in 2001, security sources have disclosed.
Details of the rise comes as the Government faces a charge of "whitewash" tomorrow over the scrutiny of the intelligence into the 7 July 2005 London bombings, in which 52 passengers were killed as well as four terrorists. The Tories believe the publication of two major reports, due out tomorrow, will fail to answer the question of why the suicide bombers managed to evade detection.
A report by the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee will find no evidence that MI5 or MI6 could have prevented the attacks by a team of British terrorists. The report will raise several questions over the effectiveness of Britain's anti-terrorist operations. It will suggest that intelligence-sharing between Britain and Pakistan is poor, and question why the level of security alert was lowered just before the bombings.
Despite being cleared of blame, the security agencies are certain to come under renewed criticism with the confirmation that they had two of the bombers under surveillance in the months before the attack, and the ring leader, Mohammad Siddique Khan, visited a terrorist training camp in Pakistan.
MI5 argue that they had to prioritise their investigations and could only target the key players in the bomb plot they were investigating, which did not include Khan.
The scale of the problem facing Britain's counter-terrorism agencies is highlighted by new figures of suspected terrorists currently under investigation in the UK.
Since the 2001 attacks in the United States, the number of identified al-Qa'ida supporters living in Britain who are considered a threat to national security has risen by 300 per cent, according to security sources. Although a total number has not been confirmed, sources have indicated that it is in the "high hundreds" and "far more" than the most recently quoted figure of 400. A Whitehall source last night put the total at "at least 700" and the police have quoted a figure of 200 in 2001. A security source said: "We are talking about radicals or plotters who would be of interest because of their potential threat to national security.
"There has been a 300 per cent increase since 9/11 in those types of individuals that we are looking at and are concerned about."
A Whitehall source added: "The service [MI5] is currently at a very high level of operational intensity in investigating plotting leading to mass casualty attacks in the UK.
"The current picture is very much like an extremist soup with a number of overlapping networks with a common cause. But these networks aren't attached to each other.
"The picture is changing all the time. Many of the plotters are homegrown and currently living in the UK."
Whitehall sources also disclosed that Islamist extremist groups in Pakistan have stepped up efforts to recruit young British Muslims visiting the country.
The Home Secretary, John Reid, will tomorrow make a statement to the Commons setting out a "narrative" which highlights the need to tackle Muslim fundamentalism in Britain.
The Home Office narrative suggests that the four suicide bombers were "self-taught", picking up tips on bomb-making through the internet. It also says there is nothing to suggest a "fifth bomber" was involved.
In a second, separate report, the intelligence committee of MPs will say that there was no evidence of a formal link between the British bombers and al-Qa'ida.
It will criticise MI5 for lowering the alert against terrorism a month before the 7 July attacks, but will conclude that there was no evidence that a bombing campaign was about to be mounted.
The intelligence-sharing between Britain and Pakistan will be criticised. Despite having a large base in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, MI6 were unaware of visits to the country - and contacts with Islamist groups - by two of the suicide bombers, Khan and Shahzad Tanweer.
The MPs will also protest over the resources allocated to the security services in recent years. The new Home Secretary is expected to argue that such shortfalls are being urgently addressed. MI5, MI6, and the Metropolitan Police's anti-terrorist branch are all currently undergoing big recruitment drives in order to help plug the intelligence gaps.
Government sources say they are braced for criticism after the publication of the two reports. One source said: "Of course there are unanswered questions - there are still things we do not know."

Hijack Afghans win right to stay

Nine Afghan asylum seekers who hijacked a plane to Britain have won their High Court bid to stay in the country until it is safe for them to return home.
The ruling follows the Afghan hostage drama at Stansted Airport in 2000 which led to a four day stand-off.
A total of 78 people from the plane went on to make formal applications for asylum in the UK.
Home Office minister Gerry Sutcliffe called the ruling "bizarre", and said ministers were considering an appeal.
"It is common sense that, to deter hijacking and international terrorism, individuals should not be rewarded with leave to remain in the UK," said a Home Office spokesman.

"That is why the Home Office introduced a policy that, depending on the circumstances of the case, enabled the secretary of state not to grant leave of any sort to people who are excluded from international protection and instead keep them on temporary admission."
The question of what should happen to the nine and their families had caused a serious clash between the government and the judiciary over human rights law.
The High Court judge expressed his anger over the way ministers failed to follow correct legal procedures and "deliberately delayed" implementing an adjudication appeal panel's decision from two years ago.
The decision in June 2004 meant that, under human rights law, the nine could not be sent back to Afghanistan where their lives would be at risk.
The judge also made an unprecedented order that the Home Office should pay legal costs on an indemnity basis - the highest level possible - to show his "disquiet and concern".

Discouraging hijacking

Successive home secretaries had failed to grant the Afghans discretionary leave to enter the UK.
The nine were only permitted temporary admission, due to fears that to allow them to live and work freely in Britain would amount to "a charter for future hijackers".
However, Mr Justice Sullivan, sitting in London, said: "It is difficult to conceive of a clearer case of 'conspicuous unfairness amounting to an abuse of power'."
The judge went on: "Lest there be any misunderstanding, the issue in this case is not whether the executive should take action to discourage hijacking, but whether the executive should be required to take such action within the law as laid down by Parliament and the courts."
He ordered Home Secretary John Reid to grant the nine "discretionary leave" to remain in the UK, subject to review every six months.
Lawyers for the family said the decision means, subject to any appeal, that the nine and their families will now be able to take up employment and "get onwith their lives".
Following the ruling, the Home Office said: "The hijackers are not deemed to present a threat to the UK's national security at present and it remains our intention to remove them as soon as it is possible to ensure that they can be returned in safety to Afghanistan."

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The goverment said.

The Government immediately vowed to appeal against the "human rights" ruling by a High Court judge.
And Prime Minister Tony Blair personally waded into the controversy with a virtually unprecedented attack on a senior member of the judiciary.
He branded the decision "an abuse of common sense" in a saga that has already cost taxpayers £10million.
Mr Blair said: "We can’t have a situation in which people who hijack a plane . . . we are not able to deport back to their country.
"It is not an abuse of justice for us to order their deportation.
"It is an abuse of common sense, frankly, to be in a position where we can’t do this."
His fury was a direct swipe at a judge who accused three Home Secretaries of abuse of power in trying to deport the Afghans.
And Home Office Minister Tony McNulty said: "It is common sense that, to deter hijacking and international terrorism, individuals should not be rewarded with leave to remain in he UK."
Tory leader David Cameron also blasted the ruling. He said: "I think it is frankly wrong when we are doing so much to make Afghanistan a safer country that decisions like these are made."
The nine were fleeing the Taliban, who were ousted in 2001.
Their cases will be regularly reviewed as the situation changes in Afghanistan.
If they are still here after five years, they can be given indefinite leave to remain. The families will be able to apply for British citizenship five years after that.
The judge ruled it was the hijackers’ "human right" to remain despite the Home Office vowing to boot them back to Kabul.
Mr Justice Sullivan, sitting in London, said previous Home Secretaries Jack Straw, David Blunkett and Charles Clarke "deliberately" ignored the rulings of an immigration appeal panel as they devised ways to deport the Afghans.
The judge added the issue was NOT whether Ministers should discourage hijackings — but to uphold the law. He said: "It is difficult to conceive of a clearer case of conspicuous unfairness amounting to an abuse of power."
Immediately after the hijack, then Home Secretary Mr Straw pledged his "utter determination" to deport the the Afghans fast.
They were all jailed for five years in January 2002 for hijack, possessing firearms and explosives and false imprisonment in one of the most costly cases in English legal history.
But they were freed 15 months later when the Appeal Court ruled their convictions were unsafe because of a judge’s error in his summing up.
Since then, the gang have been living rent-free, claiming benefits and driving flash cars at taxpayers’ expense. Two years ago The Sun tracked them down to four £250,000 houses in West London.
They spent their days visiting visiting relatives, chatting on mobiles, watching videos or playing on computers.
Mr Justice Sullivan also PUNISHED the Home Office yesterday by ordering it to pay costs at the highest level.
Other politicians of all sides were stunned at the ruling. Former Home Secretary David Blunkett also hit back at the attack on him. He said: "It is the obligation of any Home Secretary to act in the interests of the British public.
"Any judge who fails to understand the signals which are sent in difficult circumstances such as this has missed the point.
"We have international obligations to discourage hijacking at all costs. This means considering any measures to remove them from the country. That is what all three Home Secretaries sought to do." Home Office minister Gerry Sutcliffe called it "bizarre."
His colleague Mr McNulty — responsible for immigration — said: "It remains our intention to remove them as soon as possible to ensure that they can be returned in safety to Afghanistan."
Essex Conservative MP Sir Alan Haselhurst, said: "I don’t think we should be party to anything which makes it seem hijacking an aircraft is a way to freedom."
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: "We are surprised by this decision. Thousands of allied troops remain in Afghanistan maintaining the peace."
Sir Andrew Green, of immigration think-tank Migrationwatch, said: "This is not an abuse of ministerial power — it is an absence of common sense in the legal system. The judge was interpreting the European Convention but with a ridiculous result."
Yesterday’s decision by Mr Justice Sullivan means the hijackers and their families can stay in Britain as refugees — and could eventually get British passports.

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Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Islamic cleric fights deportation



A radical Islamic cleric who has been accused of being a leading figure in al-Qaeda is starting a legal attempt to prevent his deportation from the UK.
Abu Qatada, who is currently in prison, will try to persuade the Special Immigration Appeals Commission that he should not be sent to Jordan.
It is the first test of a government agreement with another country meant to guarantee a deportee's safety.
However Abu Qatada's lawyers will argue that it does not guarantee his safety.
The SIAC has already described Abu Qatada as "a truly dangerous individual" at the centre of terrorist activities associated with al-Qaeda in the UK.
Terror convictions
Abu Qatada came to the UK with his family as a refugee in the mid-90s. He was originally detained under anti-terrorist measures in 2002.
After the Law Lords ruled that detention unlawful, he was released and put on a control order.
He was then re-arrested, with a view to deportation to Jordan, where he has been convicted of terrorist offences.
The UK has signed an agreement with Jordan that anyone sent back there will not be tortured or killed.

Islamic cleric 'risk to security'

A radical Islamic cleric who has been accused of being a leading figure in al-Qaeda was a risk to UK security, a deportation hearing has been told.
Abu Qatada is trying to persuade the Special Immigration Appeals Commission that he should not be sent to Jordan.

It is the first test of a government agreement with another country meant to guarantee a deportee's safety.
His lawyer said the case relied on US evidence obtained using "torture" which should be ruled inadmissible.
A man held in Afghanistan was "repeatedly subjected to torture and ill-treatment by the US authorities with a view to forcing him to provide details against the appellant," Edward Fitzgerald QC told the London hearing.
Abu Qatada, who did not attend the hearing, has previously denied he was connected to al-Qaeda.
'Support base'
Ian Burnett QC, for the home secretary said 44-year-old Abu Qatada was a "danger to national security".

The Security Service assesses that the appellant constructed a support base within the United Kingdom for terrorism-related activities Ian Burnett QC Government counsel
"Since at least 1995, the appellant has given encouragement to the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorism overseas by providing spiritual and religious advice," Mr Burnett claimed.
"The Security Service assesses that the appellant constructed a support base within the United Kingdom for terrorism-related activities abroad and in the UK." The UK has signed an agreement with Jordan so that anyone sent back will not be tortured or killed.
Abu Qatada's lawyer is expected to argue that the guarantee is inadequate.
Mr Burnett said the so-called memorandums of understanding were not "strictly speaking, a document which is legally binding in international law".
But he said "personal, political and diplomatic commitment" has been made in the negotiations to secure the agreement with Jordan.
There were not "substantial grounds" for believing Abu Qatada would be at "real risk of proscribed ill-treatment" on return.
Terrorism conviction
Abu Qatada came to the UK with his family as a refugee in the mid-1990s. He was originally detained under anti-terrorist measures in 2002.
After the Law Lords ruled that detention unlawful, he was released and put under a control order.
He was then re-arrested, with a view to deportation to Jordan, where he has been convicted of terrorist offences.
In December, Abu Qatada made a video appeal to the kidnappers of British peace activist Norman Kember in Iraq.
The recording, made inside Full Sutton jail, near York, where he was being held pending the deportation decision, was broadcast in the Middle East.
Mr Kember and two other hostages were eventually freed in a planned operation by multi-national forces in March.
Al-Qaeda 'links'
Mr Burnett said the government believed Abu Qatada had "associated, or sought to associate, with known Islamic extremists" after he was released from prison on the control order in March 2005.
He alleged: "The appellant has links with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, now assessed to be part of the al-Qaeda network, through Ayman Al-Zawahiri its sometime leader - who then became, in effect, Osama Bin Laden's number two."
Profile: Abu Qatada
He also claimed Abu Qatada was a "close associate" of Algerian Islamic extremist Abu Doha and the "spiritual leader" to the Al-Tawhid movement, headed by Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, "who has gone on to international fame as a result of his murderous activities in Iraq".

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Saturday, May 06, 2006

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Police launch appeal over cartoon protest


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Three men filmed by police taking part in Muhammad cartoon protests. Photograph: Metropolitan police

Scotland Yard was today forced to issue a public appeal for help in tracking down protesters it filmed during a demonstration against satirical cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.

The Metropolitan police said they were still trying to trace three men who took part in the demonstration outside the Danish embassy on February 3.

During the protest, placards were paraded demanding the "massacre" of "those who insult Islam".

In the days following the demonstration, the police faced fierce criticism for not arresting demonstrators on the spot. They instead took video footage of the demonstration and said "arrests, if necessary, would be made at the appropriate time".

A Met spokesman said the men were "wanted in connection with serious public order offences which we believe may have been committed during the protest".



He defended the decision not make arrests at the time, saying officers policing the demonstration "had to weigh up" the effect their actions would have on the overall public order situation.

We have already identified and charged a number of individuals in relation to the demonstration," he said.

At the time, police had said they did not want to inflame the situation.

A special squad, under the code name Operation Laverda, was set up by the Met's post-event investigation unit to review 60 hours of CCTV and footage and investigate 500 complaints from the public.

During the rally, some protesters held placards with slogans such as "Behead those who insult Islam" and "Europe will pay, the Fantastic 4 are on their way" - an apparent reference to the July 7 bombers who killed 52 people on London's transport network.

The only arrests made were those of two freedom of speech campaigners protesting in favour of the right to publish images of Muhammad.

The police's tactics sparked cross-party calls by MPs to pursue those responsible on the grounds that the threats were an incitement to murder.

Peter Hain, the Northern Ireland secretary, said the police should "bear down ... very heavily" on protesters acting in an "intolerable" way.

The shadow attorney general, Dominic Grieve, told GMTV it was "not a happy state of affairs" when demonstrators acting in such a way "don't end up under arrest before the demonstration is ended".

Six people have since been arrested in connection with the police investigation.

The London demonstration was one of a number of sometimes violent protests against the publication of images of the prophet - which is against Islamic tradition - in a number of European newspapers

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Bakri aide arrested


ISLAMIC firebrand Anjem Choudary was arrested yesterday trying to leave Britain before he could be charged with organising the London cartoon demos.He was held with fellow suspect Abdul Muhid at Stansted. They were about to board a flight to Ireland.Choudary, right-hand man of exiled hate preacher Omar Bakri, was due to answer bail today on allegations of inciting racial hatred.The dad-of-three was originally arrested at his home in Ilford, East London, in March.He is expected to be charged with offences related to demos sparked when a Danish magazine published a cartoon of Mohammed.A security source said: "The most likely scenario is they were planning to stay in Ireland before joining Bakri in Beirut."

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Two in court after cartoon demo


The former UK head of radical Islamic group al-Muhajiroun has been charged over the Muslim cartoon protests in London in February,

Anjem Choudary, 39, of Ilford, Essex, was bailed after being charged with organising the protest without notifying the police.
Abdul Muhid, 23, of East London, was charged with two counts of soliciting to murder. He was remanded in custody.
Demonstrations were held outside the Danish Embassy on 3 February.
Many Muslims were angry about cartoons in which the Prophet Mohammed was satirised.
Mr Choudary has been bailed to appear before Bow Street Magistrates Court on 11 May while Mr Muhid will appear before the Old Bailey on 23 June.
Both men were arrested at Stansted Airport on Thursday for an alleged breach of bail and taken into custody at a London police station.
They were originally arrested in March, in the wake of the protests which swept across the world.

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Friday, May 05, 2006

Sister 'killed over love affair'

A woman was murdered by her brother for falling in love with the wrong man, an Old Bailey jury has been told.
It is alleged Samaira Nazir, 25, was stabbed 18 times and had her throat cut after asking her family if she could marry a man from Afghanistan.
Azhar Nazir, 30, and a 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, deny murdering her at the family home in Southall, west London, in April 2005.
Her parents allegedly wanted her to marry in the Pakistani family circle.
Asylum seeker Salman Mohammed befriended Miss Nazir's brother shortly after arriving in the UK on the back of a lorry in 2000.
The court heard he and Miss Nazir kept their relationship secret.
Sally Howes, prosecuting, said the situation reached "crisis point" when Miss Nazir suggested that she would like to marry Mr Mohammed. Her brother reacted angrily, the court heard.
She said: "Following a heated argument about her relationship with Salman, she was attacked and killed.
"It would appear she lost her life for loving the wrong man."
The court was told that neighbours reported hearing screams and saw Miss Nazir's arm come out of the front door before she was pulled back into the house by her hair.
A 999 call was made from the family home and a man told the operator he had killed Miss Nazir.
When police arrived both defendants had blood on them while Miss Nazir's body was in the hallway, the court heard.
Miss Howes said Mr Nazir's defence was he did not take part in the stabbing.
She also said the 17-year-old accepted carrying out the stabbing but claims diminished responsibility.
The trial continues.