Ok to kill civilians - and their all after WMD - plus bits on the islamonazis

First off put a new link in for the Michael Yon site, this is THE best source of whats really happening in Iraq. Well worth a read.

TERROR BRANCH police have arrested 10 men after raiding three homes today.

The suspects will be quizzed over claims of carrying out, preparing or instigating international terrorism in Britain. Cops are still scouring the houses following today's 4am swoop in London and the midlands.

Scotland Yard said the investigation is NOT linked to the London tube bombings in July.

Three arrests were in Croydon, south London, four in Wolverhampton and three in Derby.

Police from the Metropolitan, West Midlands and Derbyshire forces got warrants for the raids, which were carried out alongside the security service.

The suspects were taken to police stations to be interviewed by detectives from the Anti-Terrorist Branch. ** Dont worry its only a matter of time before either our gay make up wearing PM's wife, the bottom feeding lawyer Mrs C. Blair comes to the rescue to defend their "human rights", or some lefty judge that should have put out to pasture 30 years ago gives them a firm telling off and lets them go.

Sums up the UK media 100%
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DUBAI - Al Qaeda frontman in Iraq Abu Musab Al Zarqawi has said Islam permits the killing of “infidel” civilians, according to an audiotape broadcast on the Internet early Saturday.

“In Islam, making the difference is not based on civilians and military, but on the basis of Muslims and infidels,” said the voice attributed to the fugitive leader who has a 25-million-dollar price on his head.

“The Muslim’s blood cannot be spilled whatever his work or place, while spilling the blood of the infidel, whatever his work or place, is authorized if he is not trustworthy,” said the tape, whose veracity could not be determined.

Task Force Baghdad Soldiers strike back at terrorists
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Task Force Baghdad Soldiers struck back at terrorist forces after a series of small-arms and roadside bomb attacks Oct. 7 southwest of Baghdad.

Ground forces from 48th Brigade Combat Team and helicopters from Task Force Baghdad successfully repelled the attacks with no injuries or damage to U.S. Soldiers.

After Soldiers took small-arms and rocket-propelled-grenade fire, four improvised explosive devices detonated near their location. The Soldiers established security at the site and searched several houses in the area for anti-Iraqi forces and detained one terror suspect.

About an hour later, Soldiers in the area found an IED consisting of a 155 mm round with detonation cord. The patrol secured the area and called in an explosive ordnance disposal team to destroy the bomb.

The same patrol later found a cache of RPGs, which was also destroyed by the EOD team.

U.S. forces raid terrorist safe house in Rashid
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Task Force Baghdad Soldiers detained four terror suspects during a series of raids in southern Baghdad Oct. 7.

Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment captured two suspected terrorists and recovered contraband during a raid of a terrorist safe house in west al-Rashid.

Items found during the cordon and search included an electronic timer and initiation device, rolls of wire, one pair of binoculars, one AK-47 assault rifle, two 9 mm pistols and 10 cell phones.

Earlier that evening, Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 184th Infantry Regiment captured two suspected terrorists in Al-Dora. The men were suspected of assassinating Iraqis in the area.

Foreign fighter facilitator killed

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces killed a known al Qaeda in Iraq member near Fallujah before he could activate a suicide bomb strapped to his body Oct. 8.

Abu Sarmad had facilitated transportation and housing for foreign fighters and suicide bombers who had been smuggled into Iraq through Syria.

Additionally, he received support and guidance from Saudi Arabian extremist financiers and was believed to be a major link for supporting terrorist activity between al Qaeda in Iraq in Baghdad and the Western Euphrates River Valley.

Abu Sarmad was wearing a suicide bomb vest and appeared to be prepared to kill himself and others in the event of his capture. Coalition assault forces shot Abu Sarmad before he could activate the explosives strapped around his torso.

Eight additional individuals were detained during the operation.

WMD - From the Guardian.
The determination of countries across the Middle East and Asia to develop nuclear arsenals and other weapons of mass destruction is laid bare by a secret British intelligence document which has been seen by the Guardian.

More than 360 private companies, university departments and government organisations in eight countries, including the Pakistan high commission in London, are identified as having procured goods or technology for use in weapons programmes.

The length of the list, compiled by MI5, suggests that the arms trade supermarket is bigger than has so far been publicly realised. MI5 warns against exports to organisations in Iran, Pakistan, India, Israel, Syria and Egypt and to beware of front companies in the United Arab Emirates, which appears to be a hub for the trade.

The disclosure of the list comes as the Nobel peace prize was yesterday awarded to Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN watchdog responsible for combating proliferation. The Nobel committee said they had made the award because of the apparent deadlock in disarmament and the danger that nuclear weapons could spread "both to states and to terrorist groups".

The MI5 document, entitled Companies and Organisations of Proliferation Concern, has been compiled in an attempt to prevent British companies inadvertently exporting sensitive goods or expertise to organisations covertly involved in WMD programmes. Despite the large number of bodies identified, the document says the list is not exhaustive.

It states: "It is not suggested that the companies and organisations on the list have committed an offence under UK legislation. However, in addition to conducting non-proliferation related business, they have procured goods and/or technology for weapons of mass destruction programmes."

The 17-page document identifies 95 Pakistani organisations and government bodies, including the Pakistan high commission in London, as having assisted in the country's nuclear programme. The list was compiled two years ago, shortly after the security service mounted a surveillance operation at the high commission which is the only diplomatic institution on the list. Abdul Basit, the deputy high commissioner, said: "It is absolute rubbish for Pakistan to be included. We take exception to these links."

Some 114 Iranian organisations, including chemical and pharmaceutical companies and university medical schools, are identified as having acquired nuclear, chemical, biological or missile technology. The document also attempts to shed some light on the nuclear ambitions of Egypt and Syria: a private chemical company in Egypt is identified as having procured technology for use in a nuclear weapons programme, while the Syrian atomic energy commission faces a similar charge. Eleven Israeli organisations appear on the list, along with 73 Indian bodies, which are said to have been involved in WMD programmes.

The document also highlights concerns that companies in Malta and Cyprus could have been used as fronts for WMD programmes. The United Arab Emirates is named as "the most important" of the countries where front companies may have been used, and 24 private firms there are identified as having acquired WMD technology for Iran, Pakistan and India.

A spokesman for the UAE government said it had always worked "very closely" with the British authorities to counter the proliferation of WMD.

DHAKA - Islamic militants in Bangladesh have threatened to kill a judge and members of his family and blow up a court if the government goes ahead with plans to try suspected activists of outlawed Islamic extremist groups, media reports said on Saturday.

District Judge Mafizul Islam in the northern town of Pabna received a handwritten death threat from the banned Jamiatul Mujahedin group, the daily Bangladesh Observer said quoting local sources.

The militant Islamic group has scores of activists in custody awaiting trial.

The government has blamed members of Jamiatul Mujahedin and another suspected militant organisation Jagrata Moslem Janata for a series of bomb blasts which rocked the capital Dhaka and other regional cities on August 17.

** Ah yes that old Islamic tolerance comes to the fore again and again:

• Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. —Quran 9:73
• Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them. Know that God is with the righteous. —Quran 9:73

And here we see the "believers" making war on the "infidel"

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