Thursday, July 05, 2007

British Investigations Yields More Clues About Bombing Plots

This time, investigators discovered an online forum that discussed getting 45 doctors into the US who would then launch attacks against the US Navy (HT: Jammie Wearing Fool).
A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened to use car bombs and rocket grenades in terrorist attacks in the United States during discussions on an extremist internet chat site.

Police found details of the discussions on a site run by one of a three-strong "cyber-terrorist" gang.

They were discovered at the home of Younis Tsouli, 23, Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London heard.

One message read: "We are 45 doctors and we are determined to undertake jihad and take the battle inside America.

"The first target which will be penetrated by nine brothers is the naval base which gives shelter to the ship Kennedy." This is thought to have been a reference to the USS John F Kennedy, which is often at Mayport Naval Base in Jacksonville, Florida.

The message discussed targets at the base, adding: "These are clubs for naked women which are opposite the First and Third units."

It also referred to using six Chevrolet GT vehicles and three fishing boats and blowing up petrol tanks with rocket propelled grenades.
Once again, we're seeing al Qaeda and terrorists trying to infiltrate into Western countries using middle class folks to do their dirty work. Doctors and professionals are less likely to receive scrutiny by the authorities, at least until the British bombing plot. Doctors have played a major role in the development of Hamas and al Qaeda, and the latest bombings in London, carried out by doctors, may only be the tip of the latest efforts to use doctors to kill.

UPDATE:
Investigators are looking to a house in Scotland as where the three bombs were designed and assembled.
Police searched for evidence Thursday in a Scottish house that may have been used to produce the makeshift bombs that failed to explode in three attempted terror attacks on London and the Glasgow airport, officials and news reports said.

Community leaders in Scotland appealed for calm after Glasgow police said there had been dozens of racially motivated incidents since the attack on the city's airport Saturday.

At least two of the eight suspects caught so far rented a house a few miles from the airport where two men crashed a gas-laden Jeep Cherokee into barriers outside a terminal the day after two car bombs failed to explode in London, several British news outlets reported, citing unidentified sources.

The two men slept upstairs and used the downstairs as a bomb factory, the outlets said. Officials would not confirm or deny the reports.
It is also becoming apparent that Bilal Abdulla was the ringleader of this group. Glasgow Muslims are concerned that the Islamists have come to town. Well, the question will be what do they do about it. Will they stand up against the Islamists, or will they let the Islamists define what is said and done in the name of Allah and Islam? Simply arguing that the community doesn't have any radical youth wont cut it, especially as the latest bomb plot involved doctors and medical professionals.

More details have also emerged about three cyberterrorists charged in the UK.

Also, was there a suicide note left in the jeep used at Glasgow airport? CNN reports that there was, but that report has not been confirmed.

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