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zTruth (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
Three British Muslims were sentenced today for plotting in 2006 to blow up seven trans-Atlantic planes heading for America with liquid explosives smuggled in pop bottles: "Three British terrorists who planned to blow up at least seven transatlantic flights from London, murdering more than 1,500 people, were jailed for life today. Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain were found guilty...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
Three men who plotted to blow up transatlantic flights with liquid bombs have received life sentences, with minimum terms of 32 to 40 years. Ringleader Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, will serve a minimum of 40 years in jail, the BBC reported. Plot "quartermaster" Assad Sarwar, 29, was jailed for at least 36 years, while Tanvir Hussain, 28, received at least 32 years' jail at Woolwich Crown Court...
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Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
Plot: Abdulla Ahmed Ali in a 'martyr' video. He lived in the same house as a foster child placed by Haringey Council [local authority] It emerged in the course of the trial that Abdulla Ahmed Ali and his fellow conspirators had discussed taking children on board the flights they were to bomb to allay suspicions of security staff. The London council condemned over the Baby P [child abused and beaten...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
From correspondents in the UK ENGLAND'S public prosecutor says he'll seek a retrial of three men accused of involvement in a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners, following a hung jury in their court case. The defendants are to face a third trial on the charge of conspiracy to murder, the Crown Prosecution Service said, believing it was in the public interest and there remained a realistic prospect...
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Cardiff Blogger (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Baby P council sent foster child to live with ringleader of airline bomb plot Abdulla Ahmed Ali lived with relatives who were approved as foster carers by Haringey Council and a child was placed with them by social workers. Extremist literature, including a book by Osama bin Laden mentor Abdullah Azzam, was found hidden inside a [...]
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Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
From Vlad Tepes: The past tends to be viewed through a defiantly rose-tinted lens. My memory of childhood and youth is one of security, happiness and a glorious ordinariness. I grew up in a town in the south of England called Walthamstow. It’s in the county of Essex but has long been an annex of East London. Working-class, earthy, bland, safe. I remember the local park where we played soccer...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
We Muslims had barely recovered from the news of the 14-year conviction of the Canadian terrorist Saad Khalid, when our Labour Day holiday was interrupted with the bulletin that three of our co-religionists had been found guilty in the U. K. of plotting to kill thousands of people by blowing up planes bound for Toronto, Montreal and other North American cities. A British court convicted Abdulla Ahmed...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
The past tends to be viewed through a defiantly rose-tinted lens. My memory of childhood and youth is one of security, happiness and a glorious ordinariness. I grew up in a town in the south of England called Walthamstow. It's in the county of Essex but has long been an annex of East London. Working-class, earthy, bland, safe. I remember the local park where we played soccer until it was too dark...
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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Times: A mosque frequented by the leader of the airline plot terrorist cell has been a recruiting ground for extremists for more than 20 years. The Queen’s Road mosque in Walthamstow, northeast London, where Abdulla Ahmed Ali met his associates, is controlled by the ultraorthodox Tablighi Jamaat. Intelligence services around the world believe that Tablighi’s fundamentalism makes some of...
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A Western Heart (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Khaleej Times - Three British Muslims were convicted Monday of plotting to murder thousands by downing at least seven trans-Atlantic airliners in simultaneous attacks designed by al-Qaida to be the deadliest terrorist strike since Sept. 11, 2001. Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Assad Sarwar, 29, and Tanvir Hussain, 28 were found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court in London of leading a plan to detonate bombs on...
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Dave's World (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Buried in its back pages, the Washington Post notes the conviction of a gigantic plot to blow up seven airliners in 2006. I'm sure the NYT might have put in on p. 20, below the fold. A jury at a London court found Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Assad Sarwar, 29, and Tanvir Hussain, 28, guilty of conspiracy to murder by detonating explosives on aircraft while they were in-flight.... British and U.S. security...
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Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
By Jenny Booth Times Online September 8, 2009 Dick Cheney, the former US Vice President, nearly destroyed Britain's efforts to bring the airline bomb plotters to justice, police and intelligence experts said today. By ordering the early arrest of Rashid Rauf, the bombers' link man in Pakistan, Washington forced British police to detain the suspects in the UK before all the evidence had been gathered,...
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the woodshed (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
From that filthy British commie-pinko sensationalist rag The Times: Dick Cheney, the former US Vice President, nearly destroyed Britain's efforts to bring the airline bomb plotters to justice, police and intelligence experts said today . By ordering the early arrest of Rashid Rauf, the bombers' link man in Pakistan, Washington forced British police to detain the suspects in the UK before all the evidence...
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TITVS ADVXAS THE CENTVRION OF TRVTH (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Three British Muslims have been convicted of planning a series of co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on transatlantic airliners, which could have killed up to 10,000 people. The al-Qaeda cell plotted to cause mass murder by detonating home-made liquid explosives on board at least seven passenger flights bound for the US and Canada. The plot had the potential to be three times as deadly as the 9/11 attacks...
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Protein Wisdom (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
… what’s that make these guys? LONDON — Three British Muslims were convicted Monday of plotting to murder thousands by downing at least seven airliners bound for the U.S. and Canada in what was intended as the largest terrorist attack since Sept. 11. A jury at a London court found Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Assad Sarwar, [...]
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