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Religion of Peace roundup

Posted 10 Aug 2006 in intolerance, Islam, jihadists, Religion of Peace update, terrorism

Well well well, Islamic jihadists continue to plot new ways to murder non-Muslims. Shockeroo!

Roundup Item #1: British Police Thwart Aircraft Bomb Plot

LONDON (AP) – British authorities thwarted a terrorist plot to blow up several aircraft mid-flight between the United States and Britain using explosives smuggled in hand luggage, officials said Thursday.

Britain’s Home Secretary John Reid said the alleged plot was “significant” and that terrorists aimed to “bring down a number of aircraft through mid-flight explosions, causing a considerable loss of life.”

Police arrested a number of people overnight in London after a major covert counterterrorism operation that had lasted several months, but did not immediately say how many.

Funny, they also didn’t say that the guys they nabbed were twenty-one young Muslim men of Pakistani descent.

In fact, several news agencies seem to be afraid to use the word “Muslim,” instead choosing the descriptor “young, British-born Asian men.” Why the whitewash?

Roundup Item #2: Pair with passenger info, phones linked to terror

MARIETTA, Ohio – Investigators in southeast Ohio said they were working to unravel how two Michigan men charged with supporting terrorism came to have airplane passenger lists and airport security information.

Osama Sabhi Abulhassan, 20, and Ali Houssaiky, 20, both of the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, were being held at the Washington County jail on $200,000 bond each, which could be raised at a Thursday afternoon court hearing. Each was charged Wednesday with money laundering in support of terrorism.

Deputies stopped the two on a traffic violation Tuesday and found the flight documents along with $11,000 cash and 12 phones in their car, Sheriff Larry Mincks said.

It wasn’t clear what significance the airline information might have. Assistant County Prosecutor Susan Vessels declined to comment on whether the manifests were for upcoming flights or those that already had flown. She also would not give the origin or destination of the flight or flights.

FBI spokesman Mike Brooks in Cincinnati said federal agents were in contact with Washington County authorities. He said at this point he knew of no connection between the case and the alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound planes that British authorities say they have thwarted.

Abulhassan and Houssaiky admitted buying about 600 phones in recent months at stores in southeast Ohio, said sheriff’s Maj. John Winstanley. They sold the phones to someone in Dearborn, Winstanley said.

(Why are those kind of phones significant? Remember, these disposable cellphones are the ones preferred by terrorists.)

The phones — which do not require purchasers to sign a contract or have a credit card — have many legitimate uses, and are popular with people who have bad credit or for use as emergency phones tucked away in glove compartments or tackle boxes. But since they can be difficult or impossible to track, law enforcement officials say the phones are widely used by criminal gangs and terrorists.

“There’s very little audit trail assigned to this phone. One can walk in, purchase it in cash, you don’t have to put down a credit card, buy any amount of minutes to it, and you don’t, frankly, know who bought this,” said Jack Cloonan, a former FBI official who is now an ABC News consultant.

Law enforcement officials say the phones were used to detonate the bombs terrorists used in the Madrid train attacks in March 2004.

Roundup Item #3: 11 Egyptian “students” missing
Well, it’s actually eight now that they’ve found three of them. Coincidence? Related to the terrorist plots? Who knows? It’s certainly within the realm of possibility. It certainly fits with al Qaeda’s modus operandi. And the timing is certainly suspect.

Hats off to British and U.S. intelligence for using the necessary surveillance to bust this murderous plot.

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UPDATE: Three more of the “students” were arrested yesterday, one was even trying to board a flight from O’Hare airport!

Police arrested Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Abou El Ela, 22, at O’Hare International Airport after he tried to check in for a Chicago-to-Montana flight using an invalid ticket marked for a New York departure, Chicago police said.

El Ela raised his voice and became unruly after an employee at a Delta ticket counter refused to let him exchange the ticket for a valid one, said Timothy J. Bolger, the Chicago police officer at the scene.

Yeah, imagine the gall of the infidel Delta employee for refusing a jihadist his invalid ticket exchange! Never fear, I’m sure someone at the ACLU will make sure his feelings weren’t hurt.

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