*** Strange logic: the American govt. is bad so we can punish the civilian population that voted them in? By that example, the ENTIRE Awlaki tribe should be bombed to bits because you are trying to actively bomb the Americans to bits. Sound right? Back to the laws of the tribal days - just like in the time of Jaahiliyyah - and you claim to advance Islam? You are taking it into a proverbial stone age that it shunned, remember? MS ***
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100204/world/ml_yemen_al_qaida
SAN'A, Yemen - A radical American-Yemeni Islamic cleric suspected of ties to al-Qaida has said the Nigerian accused in the failed Christmas airliner attack was his student but that he didn't tell him to carry out the operation, Al-Jazeera television reported.
The U.S.-born cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, is believed by U.S. officials to be working with al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen, which has claimed responsibility for planning the attempt to bomb an American passenger jet. Al-Awlaki also is known to have had contacts with the U.S. Army major accused in the Nov. 5 shooting rampage at the Fort Hood military base.
Yemeni officials have said they believe al-Awlaki met in Yemen with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian accused in the Christmas bombing.
Al-Awlaki, who is believed to be hiding in the remote mountains of Yemen, spoke in an interview with a Yemeni journalist who reported it to the Al-Jazeera Web site.
It was not clear when the interview took place or whether it took place in person. The journalist, one of the few said to have direct contacts with al-Awlaki, previously interviewed the cleric after the Fort Hood shooting.
"Brother mujahed Umar Farouk - may God relieve him - is one of my students, yes," al-Awlaki said in the interview, which Al-Jazeera reported on its Web site Tuesday. "We had kept in contact, but I didn't issue a fatwa to Umar Farouk for this operation," al-Awlaki was quoted as saying.
Al-Awlaki said he supported the Christmas attack, but it would have been better if the target was a U.S. military target or plane.
"I support what Umar Farouk did after seeing my brothers in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan being killed," he was quoted as saying. "If it was a military plane or a U.S. military target it would have been better...(but) the American people have participated in all the crimes of their government."
"Some 300 Americans are nothing compared to thousands Muslims they have killed," he said.
Al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents and who once preached in mosques in California and northern Virginia, moved to his ancestral hometown in Yemen in 2004. He has become popular among Islamic militant sympathizers for his English-language Internet sermons, in which he explains to young Muslims the philosophy of violent jihad and martyrdom against the West and its allied Muslim and Arab governments.
Al-Awlaki exchanged up to 20 emails with the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood attack, U.S. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan months before it. Hasan initiated the contacts, seeking religious advice.
Yemeni officials have said they believe al-Awlaki met with Abdulmuttalab when the Nigerian was in Yemen late last year allegedly to study Arabic.
Yemeni security officials suspect he is involved in recruiting new members for al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen and in dealings between al-Qaida fighters and Yemeni tribes.
Yemen has attracted renewed and concerted international efforts to fight al-Qaida. Members of the group have increasingly found refuge in the many mountain ranges of Yemen, where the central government has little control and tribal loyalty is key.
U.S. and Yemen are increasingly co-operating to fight the terror network, with the U.S providing nearly $70 million in military aid, as well as intelligence support, this year.
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
JEWISH RELIGIOUS ITEM MISTAKEN AS BOMB
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100121/n_top_news/cnews_us_usa_security_airlines
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A US Airways passenger plane was diverted to Philadelphia on Thursday after a religious item worn by a Jewish passenger was mistaken as a bomb, Philadelphia police said.
A passenger was alarmed by the phylacteries, religious items which observant Jews strap around their arms and heads as part of morning prayers, on the flight from New York's La Guardia airport heading to Louisville.
"Someone on the plane construed it as some kind of device," said officer Christine O'Brien, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia police department.
No one was arrested or charged, O'Brien said.
The plane landed without incident and the passengers and crew were taken off the plane, a spokesman for US Airways said.
Phylacteries, called tefillin in Hebrew, are two small black boxes with black straps attached to them. Observant Jewish men are required to place one box on their head and tie the other one on their arm each weekday morning.
Thursday's incident was the latest of several false alarms on U.S. flights since the December 25 incident in which a Nigerian man attempted to detonate a bomb in his underpants from materials he smuggled onto the plane just as his flight was about to land in Detroit, authorities said.
The device did not explode and only burned the man, who was pounced on by fellow passengers.
Since then several flights have been diverted by security scares that have turned out to be harmless.
(Reporting by Jon Hurdle in Philadelphia, Kyle Peterson in Chicago and Daniel Trotta in New York; Writing by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Philip Barbara)
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A US Airways passenger plane was diverted to Philadelphia on Thursday after a religious item worn by a Jewish passenger was mistaken as a bomb, Philadelphia police said.
A passenger was alarmed by the phylacteries, religious items which observant Jews strap around their arms and heads as part of morning prayers, on the flight from New York's La Guardia airport heading to Louisville.
"Someone on the plane construed it as some kind of device," said officer Christine O'Brien, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia police department.
No one was arrested or charged, O'Brien said.
The plane landed without incident and the passengers and crew were taken off the plane, a spokesman for US Airways said.
Phylacteries, called tefillin in Hebrew, are two small black boxes with black straps attached to them. Observant Jewish men are required to place one box on their head and tie the other one on their arm each weekday morning.
Thursday's incident was the latest of several false alarms on U.S. flights since the December 25 incident in which a Nigerian man attempted to detonate a bomb in his underpants from materials he smuggled onto the plane just as his flight was about to land in Detroit, authorities said.
The device did not explode and only burned the man, who was pounced on by fellow passengers.
Since then several flights have been diverted by security scares that have turned out to be harmless.
(Reporting by Jon Hurdle in Philadelphia, Kyle Peterson in Chicago and Daniel Trotta in New York; Writing by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Philip Barbara)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
UNDERWEAR BOMBER AND NIGERIA: CONTEXTS
FROM: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-01-10-nigeria-bomber_N.htm
FUNTUA, Nigeria — Men in kaftans sit at tables, selling tomatoes and onions in front of small, crowded homes. On the street, young men on motorbikes zip past in broiling heat, searching for people willing to pay for a ride. Buses and trucks rumble through town without stopping.
A few doors away is a large home unlike any other in this rundown neighborhood. It is large with many rooms and painted a pleasant yellow. A concrete wall surrounds a compound with trees and an iron gate at the driveway.
The boyhood home of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab stands out far more than he ever did, people say. They cannot believe that the 23-year-old man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day with nearly 300 people aboard came from their part of the world.
"The young man's behavior happens to be one out of 10 million Nigerians who might dream of doing this," said Alhaji Sambo, district head of Funtua, who said he has been friends with the family for more than 40 years. "Something definitely went wrong somewhere."
Nigeria, an oil-rich nation on the west coast of Africa, has about 140 million people, making it the most populous country in Africa, according to the United Nations. It is largely poor. The average Nigerian makes $920 a year, according to the latest World Bank figures. Average life expectancy is 47 years.
Nigeria has been riven by violence between Muslims demanding Islamic law and Christians and others who oppose religious courts.
Katsina, the state where Funtua is located, adopted sharia several years ago. People here say it was elsewhere that Abdulmutallab turned.
"Everybody is simply looking at the character of the father and the boy's own demeanor, but it seems that other factors might have combined to push the young man the way he has gone," said Samuel Ebong, a trader in town.
Akilu Imman, a son of the imam of the Central Mosque in Funtua, said he knew Abdulmutallab as "a very nice person, very shy and respects his elders."
Yet Abdulmutallab's own father saw his son had changed, and he warned the U.S. Embassy in Abuja in November that something might happen.
Abdulmutallab's behavior was "completely out of character and a very recent development," Alhaji Umaru Mutallab said in a statement after his son's arrest.
Abdulmutallab, whose father was chairman of the First Bank of Nigeria, was the 11th of 13 children his father had with his two wives', according to Sambo.
Like many children of wealth in Africa, Abdulmutallab was sent abroad for his education. In 2005, he graduated from the British School of Lome in neighboring Togo. Families of many religions from all over Africa send their children there to prepare them for entry into universities such as Oxford, Harvard and the Sorbonne, according to a statement issued by the school.
Nigeria's This Day newspaper said he was given the nickname "Alfa" — a local term for an Islamic scholar — while in Togo, for his preaching to students.
In 2004, he made his first trip to Yemen, where he spent weeks learning to speak Arabic at the Sana'a Institute of Arabic Languages.
In 2005, he arrived in England to attend University College London, one of Britain's top schools. He studied engineering and lived in an affluent part of Westminster.
"Nothing about his conduct gave his tutors any cause for concern," said Malcolm Grant, provost and president of University College London, from which Abdulmutallab graduated in 2008. "He was well-mannered, quietly spoken, polite."
Abdulmutallab started to adopt a more formal religious dress code, including a white robe and skullcap, reported The Times of London.
Abdulmutallab graduated in 2008. Some said a man such as Abdulmutallab should have been living the good life.
"They represent children of the upper classes in Nigerian society, and the majority of them are from Muslim background," said Alaba Yusuf, an Abuja-based public relations consultant. "These boys love their fun."
Religious beliefs
Abdulmutallab's family belonged to Izala, a Muslim sect that advocates Islamic and Western education for men and women but also Islamic law, according to Paul Lubeck, professor of sociology at the University of California-Santa Cruz and author of a chapter titled "Mapping the Sharia Movement in Northern Nigeria" in the forthcoming book Sharia Politics.
Izala, a Sunni sect, was founded in 1978 by an Islamic scholar influenced by Saudi Arabia's Wahhabis, the sect of Osama bin Laden. Lubeck said its followers reject violent jihad but its adherents were behind riots demanding Islamic law in northern Nigeria in 2000 during which 1,000 people died.
Many young men were radicalized in the years after the riots, said Tajudeen Suleiman, senior assistant editor at Nigeria's Tell magazine. "Farouk seems to fit into the profile of members of Boko Haram … who believe that Western education is anti-Islam," he said.
Boko Haram arose in 2003 and is also known as the Nigerian Taliban. Its members use violence to enforce a harsher form of Islamic law than Izala.
Wherever Abdulmutallab picked up his ideology, his father was "devastated" because "he did not believe his child would turn into something like this," Sambo said.
By the late fall of 2009, Abdulmutallab had been in Yemen for several months, according to Rashad al-Alimi, Yemen's deputy prime minister in charge of defense and security.
"There is no doubt that he met and had contacts with al-Qaeda elements in Shabwa," a mountainous region, before leaving Yemen on Dec. 4, al-Alimi said.
On Dec. 24, Abdulmutallab was briefly in Nigeria, where he spent less than a half-hour in a Lagos airport changing flights from Ghana to Amsterdam, then on to Detroit. He had on him explosives that failed to detonate, the FBI has said. Friday, he pleaded not guilty to six charges, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Sambo said his father was a "broken man."
"He told me he was wondering what has gone into his son's mind for him to do what he did," Sambo said.
Ebong said the family background — a busy father and so many children traveling the world — had something to do with the young man's drift.
"In such compounds, there is very little love," he said.
Contributing: Oren Dorell in McLean, Va. Kokutse reported from Nigeria; Potts from London and Hunt from Detroit for the Detroit Free Press
*** Young Muslims aspiring to do things like this (terrorism in general) should take into consideration how much Allah has spoken of respect and honour of parents - it is a commandment that goes back to the first Prophets of God. They are also the first people who are hurt deeply by your acts: your family. Is it really worth it? MS ***
FUNTUA, Nigeria — Men in kaftans sit at tables, selling tomatoes and onions in front of small, crowded homes. On the street, young men on motorbikes zip past in broiling heat, searching for people willing to pay for a ride. Buses and trucks rumble through town without stopping.
A few doors away is a large home unlike any other in this rundown neighborhood. It is large with many rooms and painted a pleasant yellow. A concrete wall surrounds a compound with trees and an iron gate at the driveway.
The boyhood home of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab stands out far more than he ever did, people say. They cannot believe that the 23-year-old man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day with nearly 300 people aboard came from their part of the world.
"The young man's behavior happens to be one out of 10 million Nigerians who might dream of doing this," said Alhaji Sambo, district head of Funtua, who said he has been friends with the family for more than 40 years. "Something definitely went wrong somewhere."
Nigeria, an oil-rich nation on the west coast of Africa, has about 140 million people, making it the most populous country in Africa, according to the United Nations. It is largely poor. The average Nigerian makes $920 a year, according to the latest World Bank figures. Average life expectancy is 47 years.
Nigeria has been riven by violence between Muslims demanding Islamic law and Christians and others who oppose religious courts.
Katsina, the state where Funtua is located, adopted sharia several years ago. People here say it was elsewhere that Abdulmutallab turned.
"Everybody is simply looking at the character of the father and the boy's own demeanor, but it seems that other factors might have combined to push the young man the way he has gone," said Samuel Ebong, a trader in town.
Akilu Imman, a son of the imam of the Central Mosque in Funtua, said he knew Abdulmutallab as "a very nice person, very shy and respects his elders."
Yet Abdulmutallab's own father saw his son had changed, and he warned the U.S. Embassy in Abuja in November that something might happen.
Abdulmutallab's behavior was "completely out of character and a very recent development," Alhaji Umaru Mutallab said in a statement after his son's arrest.
Abdulmutallab, whose father was chairman of the First Bank of Nigeria, was the 11th of 13 children his father had with his two wives', according to Sambo.
Like many children of wealth in Africa, Abdulmutallab was sent abroad for his education. In 2005, he graduated from the British School of Lome in neighboring Togo. Families of many religions from all over Africa send their children there to prepare them for entry into universities such as Oxford, Harvard and the Sorbonne, according to a statement issued by the school.
Nigeria's This Day newspaper said he was given the nickname "Alfa" — a local term for an Islamic scholar — while in Togo, for his preaching to students.
In 2004, he made his first trip to Yemen, where he spent weeks learning to speak Arabic at the Sana'a Institute of Arabic Languages.
In 2005, he arrived in England to attend University College London, one of Britain's top schools. He studied engineering and lived in an affluent part of Westminster.
"Nothing about his conduct gave his tutors any cause for concern," said Malcolm Grant, provost and president of University College London, from which Abdulmutallab graduated in 2008. "He was well-mannered, quietly spoken, polite."
Abdulmutallab started to adopt a more formal religious dress code, including a white robe and skullcap, reported The Times of London.
Abdulmutallab graduated in 2008. Some said a man such as Abdulmutallab should have been living the good life.
"They represent children of the upper classes in Nigerian society, and the majority of them are from Muslim background," said Alaba Yusuf, an Abuja-based public relations consultant. "These boys love their fun."
Religious beliefs
Abdulmutallab's family belonged to Izala, a Muslim sect that advocates Islamic and Western education for men and women but also Islamic law, according to Paul Lubeck, professor of sociology at the University of California-Santa Cruz and author of a chapter titled "Mapping the Sharia Movement in Northern Nigeria" in the forthcoming book Sharia Politics.
Izala, a Sunni sect, was founded in 1978 by an Islamic scholar influenced by Saudi Arabia's Wahhabis, the sect of Osama bin Laden. Lubeck said its followers reject violent jihad but its adherents were behind riots demanding Islamic law in northern Nigeria in 2000 during which 1,000 people died.
Many young men were radicalized in the years after the riots, said Tajudeen Suleiman, senior assistant editor at Nigeria's Tell magazine. "Farouk seems to fit into the profile of members of Boko Haram … who believe that Western education is anti-Islam," he said.
Boko Haram arose in 2003 and is also known as the Nigerian Taliban. Its members use violence to enforce a harsher form of Islamic law than Izala.
Wherever Abdulmutallab picked up his ideology, his father was "devastated" because "he did not believe his child would turn into something like this," Sambo said.
By the late fall of 2009, Abdulmutallab had been in Yemen for several months, according to Rashad al-Alimi, Yemen's deputy prime minister in charge of defense and security.
"There is no doubt that he met and had contacts with al-Qaeda elements in Shabwa," a mountainous region, before leaving Yemen on Dec. 4, al-Alimi said.
On Dec. 24, Abdulmutallab was briefly in Nigeria, where he spent less than a half-hour in a Lagos airport changing flights from Ghana to Amsterdam, then on to Detroit. He had on him explosives that failed to detonate, the FBI has said. Friday, he pleaded not guilty to six charges, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Sambo said his father was a "broken man."
"He told me he was wondering what has gone into his son's mind for him to do what he did," Sambo said.
Ebong said the family background — a busy father and so many children traveling the world — had something to do with the young man's drift.
"In such compounds, there is very little love," he said.
Contributing: Oren Dorell in McLean, Va. Kokutse reported from Nigeria; Potts from London and Hunt from Detroit for the Detroit Free Press
*** Young Muslims aspiring to do things like this (terrorism in general) should take into consideration how much Allah has spoken of respect and honour of parents - it is a commandment that goes back to the first Prophets of God. They are also the first people who are hurt deeply by your acts: your family. Is it really worth it? MS ***
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
NO COMMENTS ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR PANTS!
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100105/world/eu_germany_bomb_hoax_1
BERLIN - A German man was temporarily detained at Stuttgart airport on Tuesday after he repeatedly told security personnel that he had explosives in his underwear, police said.
The 42-year-old man apparently was joking about the failed attempt by a Nigerian man to blow up a jetliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day by igniting explosives concealed in his underwear.
Police said a full body search of the German man did not turn up any explosives. However, Tuifly airline refused to let the man, his wife and daughter board the plane to Egypt, where they planned a vacation.
The police said in a statement that the family would not be refunded for the cost of their cancelled trip and could "expect a fine of up to C1,000 ($1,444) ... and possible costs for the police operation."
The names of the man, his wife and daughter were withheld in accordance with German privacy laws.
*** Dumbass. MS ***
BERLIN - A German man was temporarily detained at Stuttgart airport on Tuesday after he repeatedly told security personnel that he had explosives in his underwear, police said.
The 42-year-old man apparently was joking about the failed attempt by a Nigerian man to blow up a jetliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day by igniting explosives concealed in his underwear.
Police said a full body search of the German man did not turn up any explosives. However, Tuifly airline refused to let the man, his wife and daughter board the plane to Egypt, where they planned a vacation.
The police said in a statement that the family would not be refunded for the cost of their cancelled trip and could "expect a fine of up to C1,000 ($1,444) ... and possible costs for the police operation."
The names of the man, his wife and daughter were withheld in accordance with German privacy laws.
*** Dumbass. MS ***
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