Protected: de Volkskrant – 'Vrouw zal Hirsi Ali vermoorden'

Posted on February 5th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

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Protected: de Volkskrant – ‘Vrouw zal Hirsi Ali vermoorden’

Posted on February 5th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

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Telegraph | News | Alert over Islamic terrorists who tried to kill bin Laden

Posted on February 2nd, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism.

Telegraph | News | Alert over Islamic terrorists who tried to kill bin Laden
Alert over Islamic terrorists who tried to kill bin Laden
By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor
(Filed: 01/02/2005)

An Islamic terrorist organisation considered more extreme than Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda has taken root in Britain because of lax asylum procedures, security experts claim today.

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Telegraph | News | Alert over Islamic terrorists who tried to kill bin Laden

Posted on February 2nd, 2005 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

Telegraph | News | Alert over Islamic terrorists who tried to kill bin Laden
Alert over Islamic terrorists who tried to kill bin Laden
By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor
(Filed: 01/02/2005)

An Islamic terrorist organisation considered more extreme than Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda has taken root in Britain because of lax asylum procedures, security experts claim today.

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Jason W. logged /3

Posted on January 28th, 2005 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims, Youth culture (as a practice).

There is some news on Jason W. one of the peopel who were arrested in the Hague a few weeks after the murder on Van Gogh. In his MSN-chatlogs there is a kind of death list.
PM, Nato boss ‘included on terror suspect’s death list’

The logs seem quite serious on the other hand they also contain some typical braggin’ and boasting.

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Protected: Jason W. logged /2

Posted on January 28th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims, Youth culture (as a practice).

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Protected: Jason W. logged

Posted on January 27th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization, Some personal considerations, Young Muslims.

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Times Online – Britain Britain's online imam declares war as he calls young to jihad

Posted on January 19th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates, International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

Times Online – Britain
Britain’s online imam declares war as he calls young to jihad

Large article in Times on Omar Bakri Mohammed who is issuing a call to arms..

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Times Online – Britain Britain’s online imam declares war as he calls young to jihad

Posted on January 19th, 2005 by .
Categories: Internal Debates, International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

Times Online – Britain
Britain’s online imam declares war as he calls young to jihad

Large article in Times on Omar Bakri Mohammed who is issuing a call to arms..

(more…)

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World News Article | Reuters.co.uk

Posted on January 13th, 2005 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

World News Article | Reuters.co.uk
German police arrest 22 suspected Islamists
Wed Jan 12, 2005 02:37 PM GMT
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ULM, Germany (Reuters) – Police have arrested 22 people in a series of pre-dawn raids across Germany in pursuit of Islamic extremists suspected of helping militant groups and recruiting fighters for “holy war”.

The operation was one of the biggest of its kind in Germany, which has stepped up surveillance of suspected extremists among its Muslim population of more than three million since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

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World News Article | Reuters.co.uk

Posted on January 13th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism.

World News Article | Reuters.co.uk
German police arrest 22 suspected Islamists
Wed Jan 12, 2005 02:37 PM GMT
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ULM, Germany (Reuters) – Police have arrested 22 people in a series of pre-dawn raids across Germany in pursuit of Islamic extremists suspected of helping militant groups and recruiting fighters for “holy war”.

The operation was one of the biggest of its kind in Germany, which has stepped up surveillance of suspected extremists among its Muslim population of more than three million since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

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Expatica – New Year’s Eve ‘plot’ to kill Dutch MP Hirsi Ali

Posted on January 12th, 2005 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Young Muslims.

Expatica � Living in, moving to, or working in the Netherlands, plus Dutch news in English
New Year’s Eve ‘plot’ to kill Dutch MP Hirsi Ali

AMSTERDAM � Members of the suspected terror network Main City Group were planning to murder MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali at midnight on New Year’s Eve, it was reported on Wednesday.
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Expatica – New Year's Eve 'plot' to kill Dutch MP Hirsi Ali

Posted on January 12th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Young Muslims.

Expatica � Living in, moving to, or working in the Netherlands, plus Dutch news in English
New Year’s Eve ‘plot’ to kill Dutch MP Hirsi Ali

AMSTERDAM � Members of the suspected terror network Main City Group were planning to murder MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali at midnight on New Year’s Eve, it was reported on Wednesday.
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24/7: Walking With Jesus Daily – This Week’s Broadcast

Posted on January 7th, 2005 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization.

24/7: Walking With Jesus Daily – This Week’s Broadcast
Islam, show 2 of 3
12/19/2004 – Sunday

In the entry on the jewish-islamic congress (in Dutch, see below) Bernie Dehler made comment on the link between islam and terrorism. You can find by clicking on the link in this entry.

Bernie Dehler (Evangelical Christian) discusses the link, if any, between Islam and terrorism, with his friend, Muslim teacher Mohammad Rahman.
Verse(s): Matthew 22:36-38

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24/7: Walking With Jesus Daily – This Week's Broadcast

Posted on January 7th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization.

24/7: Walking With Jesus Daily – This Week’s Broadcast
Islam, show 2 of 3
12/19/2004 – Sunday

In the entry on the jewish-islamic congress (in Dutch, see below) Bernie Dehler made comment on the link between islam and terrorism. You can find by clicking on the link in this entry.

Bernie Dehler (Evangelical Christian) discusses the link, if any, between Islam and terrorism, with his friend, Muslim teacher Mohammad Rahman.
Verse(s): Matthew 22:36-38

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Foreign Affairs – Whither Political Islam? – Kepel and Roy together with Mahmood Mamdani

Posted on December 22nd, 2004 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization.

Foreign Affairs – Whither Political Islam? – Mahmood Mamdani

Summary: Thinking of modern jihad as simply a cultural extension of Islam is a common, and unfortunate, mistake. Two new books by Gilles Kepel and Olivier Roy offer better historical and sociological explanations, but they are only a start.

Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University and the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror.

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Aljazeera.Net – The risks of the al-Zarqawi myth

Posted on December 18th, 2004 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

Aljazeera.Net – The risks of the al-Zarqawi myth
Al-Zarqawi was everywhere, his bombers striking in Mosul, Baghdad, Samarra, Najaf, Baquba, Ramadi and Falluja. Islamist websites published accounts of al-Zarqawi’s actions, and the western media, together with western intelligence services, ran with these stories, giving them credibility. The al-Zarqawi legend, if one can call it that, was born.

The problem is, there is simply no substance to this legend, as US marines are now finding out. Rather than extremist foreign fighters battling to the death, the marines are mostly finding local men from Falluja who are fighting to defend their city from what they view as an illegitimate occupier. The motivations of these fighters may well be anti-American, but they are Iraqi, not foreign, in origin.

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Terroristen gedragen zich als sekteleden

Posted on November 26th, 2004 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

NRC Handelsblad – Scholieren: Terroristen gedragen zich als sekteleden

,,In alle commentaren waren er steeds twee verklaringen”, zegt hij. ,,De eerste was: dit is wraak op het rijke westen, op het christendom, op de kruistochten. En de tweede: het zijn psychopaten.”

Meertens, hoogleraar sociale psychologie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, denkt dat er een derde verklaring is die dichter bij de werkelijkheid komt.
Terroristen gedragen zich als sekteleden

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Terrorists raise cash online, expert says

Posted on November 22nd, 2004 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

SR.com: Terrorists raise cash online, expert says

Under cross-examination by defense attorney Chuck Peterson, Paz acknowledged that he has some of the same materials that were identified in court posted on his own Web site.

Those include �The Intifada and the New Tartars,� a searing anti-Israel lecture given by extremist Saudi Sheikh Safar Alhawali, for which Al-Hussayen helped arrange a three-hour live Internet broadcast. Paz said the lengthy anti-Jewish, anti-Israel and anti-American diatribe has since been published as a book.

�I downloaded it from the Internet, from Alhawali’s Web site,� he said.

But Paz said he posts extremist material, including graphic pictures he downloaded from an Islamist Web site, for use by researchers around the world � not to advocate their content.

�They do not appear here on Islamist Web sites,� Paz said.

�No, they appear on your Web site,� Peterson responded. �Yes,� Paz said.

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Duitse moslims demonstreren tegen terrorisme

Posted on November 21st, 2004 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

nu.nl/algemeen | Duitse moslims demonstreren tegen terrorisme

KEULEN/HAMBURG – Duizenden moslims zijn zondag in de Duitse stad Keulen de straat opgegaan om te demonstreren tegen terreur en geweld in naam van de islam. De Turks-Islamitische Unie en andere vertegenwoordigingen van de Turkse gemeenschap in de Bondsrepubliek hadden tot de betoging opgeroepen.

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The Events of September 11 and the Arab Media: The New Antisemitic Myth

Posted on November 19th, 2004 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

Special Report – No. 9

Since the release of MEMRI’s study – and regardless of the information accumulated about the identities of the perpetrators – officials, journalists, and religious leaders throughout the Arab and Muslim world have continued to claim that the perpetrators of the attacks (of 9/11) were not Arabs or Muslims. The claim that American and or Jewish/Israeli elements carried out the attacks has become an accepted, albeit false, and common myth in the Arab world, to the point that U.S. President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell have been accused of masterminding the attacks.

This updated report, which is based on research compiled over the past five months, reveals another trend that has emerged in the Arab media whereby Arab writers have begun to base their fictitious allegations on the widely discredited “research” of Western sources such as former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy. The apparent intent of the Arab writers is to add credibility to their false allegations by relying on Western sources whose claims they erroneously believe will be readily accepted by a Western audience.

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Nothing Islamic About Human Sacrifice

Posted on November 18th, 2004 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

Religion News Blog : Nothing Islamic About Human Sacrifice
Suicide bombings. Assassinations. The wholesale murder of prisoners. The mass slaughter of 9/11. Videotaped beheadings and the execution studios recently discovered in Fallujah. We describe it as ”Islamic terrorism.”

And we’re wrong.

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Achraf keek vooral televisie en belde veel – Binnenland – de Volkskrant

Posted on November 12th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization.

Achraf keek vooral televisie en belde veel – Binnenland – de Volkskrant

Annieke Kranenberg

AMSTERDAM – De Zwitserse autoriteiten hadden geen idee wie Mohammed Achraf was toen hij als illegaal werd vastgezet. In afwachting van zijn uitzetting had hij veel vrijheid.

De Zwitserse autoriteiten hadden niet in de gaten dat zij een belangrijke terrorisme-verdachte in handen hadden. Noch dat het hier ging om de leider van de ‘Martelaren voor Marokko’ die plannen hadden om het hooggerechtshof in Madrid op te blazen.

Dus zat Achraf zonder extra-beveiliging en beperkingen in de Kloten-gevangenis. Hij mocht televisie kijken, brieven schrijven en zoveel telefoontjes plegen als hij wilde. Achraf besteedde 65 Zwitserse franc (ruim 42 euro) aantelefoonkaarten, vertelt de gevangenisdirecteur tegen de Sonntags Zeitung.

Al die tijd heeft Achraf vanuit de gevangenis contact onderhouden met zijn netwerk in Europa, vrezen de Spaanse autoriteiten. Volgens een Spaanse opsporingsbron en een Zwitserse krant belde Achraf in september met Mohammed B., de latere vermoedelijke moordenaar van Theo van Gogh.

De inlichtingendienst AIVD en het landelijk parket van het Openbaar Ministerie geven hierop geen commentaar. De mobiele telefoon van de 26-jarige B. in Amsterdam-West werd door de AIVD destijds wel afgeluisterd (van 9 augustus tot 21 oktober), zo blijkt uit de Feitenreconstructie die door het kabinet naar de Tweede Kamer is gestuurd.

Inmiddels wordt Achraf streng bewaakt en heeft Spanje om zijn uitlevering gevraagd. De afgelopen weken zijn tientallen radicale islamisten gearresteerd, van wie de meesten secondanten van Achraf zouden zijn. De Spaanse onderzoeksrechter Baltasar Garzon – die het onderzoek naar de verbanden met 11/9 leidt – heeft de activiteiten van het netwerk beschreven in een uitgebreide aanklacht.

Een zelfmoordcommando moest met een vrachtwagen met 500 kilo explosieven het hooggerechtshof opblazen – waar Garzon en de rechter die de aanslagen van 11 maart onderzoekt, kantoor houden -. ‘Als Spanje drie of vier van zijn belangrijkste rechters verliest, is dat erger dan het verlies van de premier. Bovendien gaan bij zo’n aanslag de archieven over de mujahedin verloren’, heeft Achraf tegen een Marokkaan gezegd, die getuige is in de strafrechtelijke onderzoek.

Een tweede groep zou daarna aanslagen uitvoeren op het voetbalstadion van Real Madrid en het Atochastation dat ook op 11 maart doelwit was. De onderzoeksrechters zouden ook aanwijzingen hebben dat de Martelaren voor Marokko banden hadden met het commando van de aanslagen van 11 maart.

Achraf rekruteerde zijn ‘strijders’ tussen juni 2000 en juni 2002 in de Topas gevangenis in Salamanca. Daar zou Achraf – die een straf moest uitzitten wegens creditcardfraude – jonge mannen hebben bekeerd tot de heilige oorlog.

Achraf onderhield contacten met de Verenigde Staten, Australië en België. Leden van zijn netwerk hadden volgens Spaanse bronnen contact met de zogenoemde Hofstadgroep in Nederland. Samir A., oud-buurjongen en geestverwant van Mohammed B., wordt expliciet genoemd.

Vanuit Zürich stuurde Achraf volgens de instanties geld naar twee ‘strijders’ in Nederland: Abdol Ghaffar Hashemi, alias ‘Mehdi’, en Mourad Yala. Mehdi, in 1973 geboren in Afghanistan, was in het bezit van een Nederlands paspoort toen hij medio oktober in Spanje werd gearresteerd.

De Algerijn Yala was in april 2003 in Geleen opgepakt op basis van informatie van de AIVD; hij zou zich bezighouden met het vervalsen van paspoorten voor terroristische doeleinden. Hij werd niet veroordeeld, maar heeft een jaar in ‘uitzetdetentie’ gezeten. Dit voorjaar vertrok hij naar Spanje. Mehdi en Yala zouden bezig zijn geweest met het ombouwen van computers tot bommen.

In Zwitserland werd deze maand nog gesteggeld over de vraag wie er schuld aan heeft dat Achraf ongestoord zijn gang kon gaan vanuit zijn cel in Zürich. In de Kloten-gevangenis was hij in ieder geval niet bezig met het rekruteren van jihad-strijders. Volgens de directeur keek hij vooral televisie. En hij belde veel.

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AIVD probes Dutch link to Spanish terror suspects

Posted on October 21st, 2004 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

Expatica: AIVD probes Dutch link to Spanish terror suspects

AMSTERDAM � The Dutch intelligence service AIVD said Wednesday it is investigating a Dutch link to eight people arrested earlier this week for allegedly plotting a bomb attack on the High Court in Madrid.

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Four accused of plotting terror attacks in Holland

Posted on September 14th, 2004 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

Four accused of plotting terror attacks in Holland

“AMSTERDAM � Dutch authorities arrested four suspects in July on suspicion they were planning terror attacks in the Netherlands, it was reported Monday.

The suspects are reportedly a Surinamese Dutch national, a Somali, a Saudi Arabian and a man on unknown nationality, the lawyer of the Dutch suspect said.

The four suspects were arrested on 30 July in Rotterdam and are the same suspects that Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner referred to on Sunday in announcing the arrests. “

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