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Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 4:17:26 pm PST

Anti-Terror Raids Target Islamists Across Europe.

MILAN/BERLIN (Reuters) - Police hunting Islamic militants across Europe capped a dramatic series of anti-terror raids in three countries with the arrest of a suspected Algerian extremist in the German port of Hamburg on Friday.

Abderrazak Mahdjoub, 29, was held at the request of Italian authorities investigating an alleged network involved in recruiting Islamists to carry out suicide attacks in Iraq.

A copy of an arrest warrant, obtained by Reuters, showed that one of the recruits was suspected of complicity in an October rocket attack on a Baghdad hotel where U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was staying.

Separately, British police were questioning a suspected would-be suicide bomber arrested in southwest England on Thursday. The government has said the 24-year-old Muslim man may have links with al Qaeda.

The European police operations coincided with the charging of three Kenyans in connection with a previously undisclosed plot to blow up the U.S. embassy in Nairobi -- the same mission that was destroyed by suspected al Qaeda bombers in 1998.

While described as breakthroughs, the developments highlighted the fact that Islamic radicals and al Qaeda sympathizers, suspected of carrying out deadly suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia and Turkey this month, apparently remain active across a wide variety of other fronts.

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1 reaganite  Fri, Nov 28, 2003 2:22:00pm

The "no shit" mr. obvious statement of the year.

the developments highlighted the fact that Islamic radicals and al Qaeda sympathizers, suspected of carrying out deadly suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia and Turkey this month, apparently remain active across a wide variety of other fronts.

Hello? Can they really be that dense?

2 John B  Fri, Nov 28, 2003 2:23:26pm

Maybe (hopefully) Sharia watch will be postponed - except in France of course.

Now if only Canada would do something.

3 Engineer  Fri, Nov 28, 2003 2:24:10pm
A copy of an arrest warrant, obtained by Reuters, showed that one of the recruits was suspected of complicity in an October rocket attack on a Baghdad hotel where U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was staying.

WTF?

This is saying that the attack on the hotel was either planned outside Iraq or that one of the attackers then fled Iraq. In either case, looks like an al Qaeda cell outside Iraq is running attacks there. Very interesting.

4 Norwegian kafir  Fri, Nov 28, 2003 2:25:09pm

I guess I should feel happy about reading news like this. But usually, it only reminds me of how many of these Jihadis are out there. The handful they locked up now is just the tip of the iceberg.


[Link: www.faithfreedom.org...] What every European should read.

5 T.A Tiger  Fri, Nov 28, 2003 2:42:56pm

We'll my dearest Europe,
you could hide, but you cannot run. Eventually they'll hit you where you live. And all those years when you kissed Arab ass and let the Jihadis take out steam on poor little Israel, have paid off for you-none at all.
So what now? Sit back and wait for the suicide attacks because you cannot stop them all. Just enjoy Sharia law because thanks to your "liberal" immigration policies, there is nowhere to run to my friends. Nowhere.

Oh, yeah - and don't come to us for anti-terrorism training and within 3-5 years you can pretty much forget about tourism, and you don't actually make anything worth buying. You're fucked. And it couldn't have happened to nicer folks.

6 mohammed Al Mashat-Myself  Fri, Nov 28, 2003 2:53:26pm

..."A copy of an arrest warrant, obtained by Reuters, showed that one of the recruits was suspected of complicity in an October rocket attack on a Baghdad hotel where U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was staying."

I hope the message is being sent: You can run, but you can't hide. We will get you, no matter what rathole you hide in. Be it in the Middle East, Eurabia, West Froggistan, Argentina or Tierra Del Fuego.

We will hunt you down.

We will find you.

You will NEVER get away.

We have friends EVERYWHERE.

Read this and weep for the stinking death cult you worship.

Guantanamo waits.

7 ginger  Fri, Nov 28, 2003 3:13:34pm

Kudos to the euros for arresting small fish, but let's go back to the Sep 11th report on the "car rental" business in germany. Why is that not being examined?

It's right in front of your eyes who is doing the payroll for the movement of people into europe!

It's the undergroung railroad scam--except in a different universe. In the Sept 11th documents you see that german police can only find "odd" kinds of accounting errors, such as "Two used Mercedes cars for $50,000 or whatever" Later those same kind of cars cost $55,000 or $53,000 to enter germany. Why?

It's the abolitionist "switch." In the early 1880's mail was frequently intercepted by the confederates--therefore people moving slaves had to use innocuous words to describe the fact that "slaves" had arrived in their "station."

One lady, (and these were usually Christian women doing the moving of people in houses) would write

"I am coming to town to visit. Would you honor us with your delicious Easter cookies? If so, how much sugar should we bring to help you bake for the church?"

Another "station" or woman would write back, "I would be delighted to bake cookies for the church social, but would you need 20 or 30 pounds of sugar to meet such a need..." Each slave would be 10 pounds of sugar, therefore if the person writing about "cookies" needed to move 3 slaves--that would elicit a response where the person receiving the "cookies" would need "30 pounds of sugar" for the church social.

The blips in the car rentals of those involved in Sept 11th are the same kind of errors. REpeatedly in the germany files german businesses showed a modest (and overlooked as meaningless) rise in the price of a car or cargo ship load by a mere 3 to $5,000. (aka: Used cars cost $20,000 for two cars for months and then suddenly in June the same makes of cars cost $23,000)

Those numerical glitches are "people" in some way or some other kind of thing being transported through legitimate businesses. The passport people in europe in charge of getting fake passports for the "cargo" and their "cargo" once in europe have little or no contact with the people moving the goods--they simply give passports to people once in europe.

By last count 6 bio-chemical companies, 4 rental car agencies, and 16 ship cargo companies had access to the Sept 11th hijackers. Arresting the 2nd generation fool giving out passports at the end of the chain is stupid. STUPID.

All of the abolitionists took their marching orders from CLERICS who crisscrossed the country giving speeches one minute and back-door tales of when slaves were coming to be moved when the speeches were over and the faithful met after church.

If you don't get the clerics and the business men and banks giving them their access to the terror recruits--you're pissing in the wind.

To this day, no one knows how the abolitionists moved so many slaves for so long and most of the churches and politicians involved never got caught. It's very simple: Not one historian has examined the "innocent' letters christian women wrote to each other during that time as well as the fact that men believed that women were inferior beings who only thought of baking and going to church. If a male confederate saw a discussion of "cookies" on an intercepted letter, his eyes glazed over and he went to another letter to read.

It was the perfect cover.

The same setup is used in germany.

1. Use your relatives as the bank and send relatives to hand-deliver money to other relatives.

2. If you do move people or weapons and that leaves a paper trail--leave the paper trail out in the open and keep numbers small enough to be overlooked. Europeans and Americans are wealthy, they will look only at large numbers.

And finally,

3. Wait for the "sermon" in the church to tell you when to move. Certain biblical stories have more resonance in some sects that others.

When will you in germany wise up that fundamentalists use their own system for just about everything? It's pathetic to watch largely innocent muslim men in europe be arrested when the clerics are busy using hand courriers to pull the strings. It's embarrassing that europe has so little knowledge of religion that it would allow europe to become one big terror cell--out in the open like this.

Ps: All of the abolitionists who were the best at moving people were natives. The people being arrested now are too new to europe to be as important as these reports say they are.

Something isn't right about these arrests. They don't fit with how Al Qaeda moved before or since Sept 11th. There are too many "non-relatives" being arrested.

8 pbird  Fri, Nov 28, 2003 4:11:52pm

Well, now, Ginger certainly brings up some disquieting ideas and I suspect she (?) is correct. Hm, what now?

9 J.D.  Fri, Nov 28, 2003 4:54:33pm

Opinion in the Telegraph:

...A terrorist network which views the bomber as a glorious martyr has declared war on this country. There is no cause for the complacency which, more than 60 years ago, prevailed before the Luftwaffe struck.

Britain under siege

10 EE  Fri, Nov 28, 2003 7:06:19pm

Three cheers for Germany for making the arrest. Now I hope that justice will be done.

11 Ms. Andi  Fri, Nov 28, 2003 7:17:09pm

#7 Ginger

Excellent post. There is alot there to ponder.

12 Baldy  Sat, Nov 29, 2003 4:17:51am

I thought I read about 100 homes being searched in Britain a few days ago, and explosives found in one.


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