From the New Duranty Times: LONDON – Less than a month before the London bombings, Britain’s top intelligence and law enforcement officials concluded that “at present there is not a group with both the current intent and the capability to attack the U.K.,” according to a confidential terror threat assessment report. The previously undisclosed report […]
Mamoun Tamimi: “Blair Will Fall Just Like Aznar”
Palestinian National Council Member Mamoun Tamimi on the London Bombings from MEMRI: The following are excerpts from an Al-Jazeera television interview on the London bombings, with Palestinian National Council member Mamoun Al-Tamimi…The interview aired on July 12, 2005 on Al-Jazeera TV. Host: We heard the British Home Secretary say that what happened in London has […]
Nelson: Time to rethink our multicultural society
We may well think about reviving the melting pot ideal ourselves as Fraser Nelson writing in the Scotsman suggests for the British. TONY BLAIR faces two enemies in his new war against British terrorism: the seed of jihad, and the fertile ground on which it is sown. The last mission of his premiership will be […]
Akhtar: The backlash has begun, and I fear for the innocent
Rajnaara C Akhtar, a British Muslim activist and the acting chair of the Assembly for the Protection of Hijab, writes in the Independent, with thanks to Nobody’s Business. When the reports of the bombings initially emerged on 7/7, sadness was followed by anger, a sinking heart and a silent prayer: “Please don’t let it be […]
Tancredo: If They Nuke Us, Bomb Mecca
We at Jihad Watch think that there are many other ways to put pressure on jihadists short of this and that these other tactics should be tried first. We hope and pray that Muslims repudiate and renounce jihad ideology before it comes to this. From Fox News: DENVER “” A Colorado congressman told a radio […]
Teacher is identified as ‘Mr K’ who inspired other suicide-bombers
More on Mohammed Sidique Khan from the Independent: The Edgware Road bomber had international terrorist connections, helped fund terrorism and may have been an operative in Israel, yet evaded MI5’s attention last year because he was considered to be too low-level a criminal. Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, had links with an al-Qai’da operative, visited Pakistani […]
Dutch Jihadis in Iraq?
An update on this story. The Army Times reports about the soldier hit by a sniper in Iraq who then captured and medically treated the wounded sniper who had just tried to kill him. The sniper has a video rolling and now it seems the jihadi sniper is speaking Dutch with an Moroccan accent. Thanks […]
Iraq ‘made Britain vulnerable’
From News 24: London – British Prime Minister Tony Blair came under fresh pressure on Monday for supporting the war in Iraq after a respected think-tank linked the invasion to Britain’s worst terrorist attack, in which at least 55 people died. The comments – rejected by the government – came as interior minister Charles Clarke […]
‘EU may be ready to help Iran build N-reactors’
From IranMania: LONDON – European nations negotiating with Iran over its controversial nuclear programme may be ready to help build nuclear reactors and supply them with fuel, Iranian negotiator Hossein Moussavian said. He told the official IRNA agency that a proposal promised by Britain, France and Germany by August and aimed at resolving the crisis […]
Blasts greet tough Thai law in south
From AP via The Standard: Small bombs injured five people Sunday in continuing violence in Thailand’s Muslim-dominated south, as a much-criticized new decree came into effect giving Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra authoritarian powers to fight the ongoing insurgency. About 900 people have died in drive-by shootings and bombings in the southernmost provinces of Yala, Narathiwat […]