How British Muslim Adam Khatib became a bomb plotter, Islam,Terrorism and Jihad, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam,Terrorism and Jihad

How British Muslim Adam Khatib became a bomb plotter

By Steve Swann

Khatib became interested in radical Islam at school

A British Muslim has been convicted of conspiring to murder civilians in a "deadly terrorist attack".

Adam Khatib, a factory worker from Walthamstow, east London, was part of a terror cell taking orders from Pakistan.

The cell was led by Abdullah Ahmed Ali who is already serving a life sentence for plotting to blow up transatlantic passenger airliners in what prosecutors described as an act of terrorism "on an almost unprecedented scale".

Khatib, who was a teenager when he was arrested, was a "loyal partner and servant" to Ali, travelling with him to Pakistan where it is believed the men received instructions from militants linked to al-Qaeda.

Prosecutor Peter Wright QC said: "Khatib may not have been informed of the ultimate target, namely passenger aircraft... all that was required of him was an agreement to play his part in bringing about the murder of others."

But it is understood investigators believed Khatib was planning to be one of the team who would take a bomb onto a plane.

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Drain Pakistan's tribal swamps, Radical Islamism and Jihad, NewAgeIslam.com

Radical Islamism and Jihad

Drain Pakistan's tribal swamps

By Imtiaz Gul

6 Sept 2009

Baitullah Mehsud, icon of Pakistani terrorism, is gone. His spokesman Maulvi Omar sits in jail after a tribal lashkar or army delivered him to the military on August 18. The fate of two of Mehsud’s potential successors - Hakimullah Mehsud and Maulvi Fazlullah of the Swat region is still shrouded in mystery. Two of Baitullah’s second-tier commanders were arrested from near Islamabad and Rawalpindi around August 16. And the avowed enemy of the Pakistani security establishment - the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) that Mehsud cobbled together in December 2007 - apparently stands in disarray. Hakimullah appears to have won the vicious contest for succession and the militants, too, have accepted him as the new emir. But Hakimullah’s silence suggests the TTP is still struggling to recover from the shock elimination of its supreme leader, Baitullah Mehsud. It is also not certain if Hakimullah himself is alive, or his lookalike brother is presented as the new chief to prevent further fissures within the TTP.

So what does this mean? A terminal blow to the militant forces entrenched in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) region? Does it mean Pakistan can reclaim these regions from men who adore Osama bin Laden and abhor the US and its allies? Will the Pakistani government be able to cleanse the area of militants and follow through on promises of effecting good governance and instilling a sense of political participation among FATA’s four million inhabitants? FATA’s people currently chafe under the draconian 1901 Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR), which advocates collective punishment and has been described by some activists as human rights abuse by the state.

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McCain vs. Muslim Radicals, Islam and the West, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam and the West

McCain vs. Muslim Radicals

By Robert Spencer

FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, July 23, 2008

What’s more, there is considerable reason to suspect that some of the Muslim leaders who have been most indignant over Day’s words are involved in this “grand jihad.” Investigative journalist Kenneth Timmermanwrote in 2004 of Khaled Saffuri’s considerable influence in Washington, and then noted that “some of the very people Saffuri introduced to Bush and Rove are in federal prison on terrorism-related charges. Others have been expelled from the country. Still other former colleagues and donors have become subjects of a massive federal probe into U.S. funding of terrorist organizations that is code-named Operation Greenquest….Saffuri’s ties to radical Islamists and apologists for terror are neither superficial nor coincidental.” And CAIR, of course, was in 2007 named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case, and has had several of its officials arrested and convicted on terrorism-related charges.

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U.S.: hold Bangladesh polls on time, Islam and the West, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam and the West

U.S.: hold Bangladesh polls on time

By Haroon Habib

Ms. Hasina, who was released on parole last month after 11 months of detention to seek medical treatment in the U.S., said Bangladeshis had begun to doubt if elections would be held as scheduled. She opposed the caretaker government’s plan to hold local government polls in October ahead of the national elections, stating: “If these elections are conducted first, the people’s doubt will further deepen.” The caretaker government is duty-bound to hold free, fair and transparent elections and transfer power to an elected government, she added.

She told U.S. officials that her party supported the anti-corruption drive launched by the government and would continue with it if elected. However, she said her party would not carry out political arrests in the name of the anti-corruption drive.

Begum Khaleda Zia’s party, the BNP, has accused the caretaker government of ‘double standards’. The government recently released Ms. Zia’s son, Arafat Rahman Koko, and allowed him to go abroad for medical treatment. Ms. Zia’s release from prison is being delayed due to her demand that her elder son, Tariq Rahman, who has been arrested on corruption charges, should also be freed along with her.

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