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Britain reaps what it sowed with impunity

 

Kanchan Gupta/ New Delhi

 

 

As you read this, there are at least 100 Osama bin Laden trained

terrorists walking Britain's streets. The number is probably closer

to 200, since the cunning of Al Qaeda makes it difficult to generate

an exact number... they would all commit devastating terror attacks

against us if they could, even those born and brought up here."

When Sir John Stevens, former chief of London's Metropolitan Police,

penned this dire prediction in an article headlined 'Forget human

rights, kick out the fanatics' earlier this year, it was sniggered

at. Britain, with its track record of failing to act against a host

of Islamists of various shades, could not become the victim.

 

 

 

Jamie Campbell, writing in the New Statesman, went so far as to

declare that British Islamists, the British Government and the

British Intelligence agreed on one point: "The presence of vocal and

active Islamist terrorist sympathisers in the UK actually makes

British people safer, while the full brunt of British-based

terrorist plotting is suffered by people in other countries."

 

 

 

Security analysts and anti-terrorism operatives around the world are

unanimous in their view that, for years, the UK has allowed its soil

to become a safe haven for Islamists. The post-9/11 crackdown by MI5

and the Special Branch may have removed visible signs of their

existence, but little else was achieved.

 

 

 

Terror Thursday, when trains in London's Underground were bombed and

a Number 30 bus blown to smithereens, leaving a trail of death,

prove the fallacy of allowing Butts, Bakris and Hamzas to go scot-

free in the name of democratic rights.

 

 

 

Londonistan is no longer merely the mindscape of immigrant Islamists

in Britain. It is a reality that has announced its arrival with a

series of big, loud, bangs. The Secret Group of Al Qaeda's Jihad in

Europe, a shadowy organisation, has claimed responsibility.

 

 

 

Jamie Glazov, security expert who tracks jihadi terrorism,

says, "Before Thursday, no one knew of the existence of 'The Secret

Organisation of al-Qaeda in Europe,' and as of now, it is unclear

whether it is a formal part of Al Qaeda or has merely appropriated

the name."

 

 

 

It is possible, wonders Mr Glazov, that this "secret organisation"

got its "foot soldiers from Ansar al-Islam feeder cells throughout

Europe". According to him, "Ansar al-Islam, an Al Qaeda affiliate

which maintained a training base in northern Iraq during Saddam

Hussein's reign, has an estimated 100-times the number of fighters

needed to carry out the London strike."

 

 

 

Britain finds itself "the victim of terror in part because of its

lax homeland security, open borders, and liberal social welfare

policies". He points to alarm signals that were ignored by British

Government and British agencies:

 

 

 

* Evidence that emerged in post-Taliban Afghanistan that al-Qaeda

had trained 1,200 British immigrant Muslims in carrying out terror

attacks.

 

 

 

* Even after 9/11, jihadis have had few controls imposed on them.

Groups like Al-Muhajiroun (Arabic for Immigrants), which celebrated

the twin tower bombing as "A Towering Day in History," has called

for the assassination of world leaders, and its leader Omar Bakri

Mohammed flaunts his ties with Laden, have been operating publicly.

 

 

 

* For months British authorities turned a blind eye to the jihadi

propaganda put out from Finsbury Park Mosque where the congregation

was led by Abu Hamza al-Masri, wanted in Egypt for plotting terror

strikes.

 

 

 

* "Shoe bomber" Richard Reid and Al Qaeda trainee Feroz Abassi, who

plotted to blow up the US Embassy in France had received moral and

material support from the congregation of Finsbury Park Mosque.

 

 

 

* Imam Masri, who would openly urge his congregation to "terrorise

policy-makers" during his Friday sermons was picked up, stripped of

his status but never punished.

 

 

 

* Abu Hamza Al-Masri is an Egyptian-born cleric who has one eye and

hooks for hands which he says were lost fighting Soviet troops in

Afghanistan in the 1980s.

 

 

 

Daniel Pipes, internationally acknowledged analyst of jihadi

terrorism, in a comment after 7/7, points out how "the 24-year-old

head of Al-Muhajiroun's Luton branch, Sayful Islam, announced that

he 'supports Osama 100 per cent' in the quest to achieve 'the

worldwide domination of Islam'." It did not evoke any official

retribution.

 

 

 

Sayful Islam went to the extent of endorsing terrorism in

Britain. "When a bomb attack happens here, I won't be against it,

even if it kills my own children..." In January this year, Omar

Bakri Mohammed went a step further: "The whole of Britain has become

Dar ul-Harb... the kafir has no sanctity for their own life or

property."

 

 

 

Upset over tough anti-terrorism legislation, Omar Bakri Mohammed had

threatened: "The response from the Muslims will be horrendous if the

British Government continues in the way it treats Muslims." In an

interview to The Times, Omar Bakri Mohammed admitted that for

him "the life of an unbeliever has no value."

 

 

 

Omar Bakri Mohammed, however, is nowhere near as tough as some of

the other jihadis who have prospered from Britain's benign policy of

tolerance.

 

 

 

After the November 1997 Luxor massacre in which 62 tourists were

slaughtered, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt had confronted the

British Government with evidence about seven of the 14 Gama'at al-

Islamiya men wanted for plotting the crime were being provided with

shelter in London. When Britain refused to hand them over, an

infuriated President Mubarak had retorted: "You are protecting

killers".

 

 

 

Algeria and France, too, have lodged similar complaints with the

British Government. Rachid Ramida, an Islamist aligned with Algerian

Armed Islamic Group who is believed to have masterminded the bombing

of the Paris Metro in 1995, remains unrestrained in London which has

been generous in granting political asylum or according exceptional

leave to remain to jihadis fleeing other countries.

 

 

 

No, this is not about European rivalries. Even the UK's steadfast

trans-Atlantic ally, the US, has doubts about British policy in

combating jihadi terrorism. The official American counter-terrorism

website has the following post on wanted men which tells the story

of Britain's callous disregard rather eloquently:

 

 

 

SAAD RASHED MOHAMMAD AL-FAQIH

 

 

 

Sa'ad Rashed Mohammad Al-Faqih has been associated with Al Qaeda

since the mid-1990's. In late 2004, he was named a Specially

Designated Global Terrorist by the US as he provided logistical

support for the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa. Since September 11,

2001, Al-Faqih has been leading the cause of global jihad through

his Internet websites from the UK.

 

 

 

MOHAMMED AL-MASSARI

 

 

 

UK-based Mohammed Al-Massari's Islamic terrorist group, the

Tajdeed / Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights

Organisation celebrates attacks.

 

 

 

As reported in last week's HQ INTEL-ALERT, al Massari has been

soliciting funding for terrorist attacks in the UK, the US and other

western countries.

 

 

 

Signals ignored by British Government:

 

 

 

* Evidence that al-Qaeda had trained 1,200 British Muslims in

Afghanistan.

 

nGroups like Al-Muhajiroun which celebrated the twin tower bombing

as "A Towering Day in History," and its leader Omar Bakri who

flaunts ties with Laden operate from UK openly

 

 

 

* Authorities turned a blind eye to jihadi propaganda from Finsbury

Park Mosque Shoe bomber Richard Reid and Al Qaeda trainee Feroz

Abassi, who plotted to blow up the US Embassy in France, received

support from this mosque.

 

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