An update on this story. "Al-Qaeda’s 'British propagandists'," by Sean O'Neill for The Times:
Violent al-Qaeda propaganda, including footage of the beheading of hostages, was distributed around the globe by computer by young men sitting in their bedrooms in Britain, a court heard yesterday.
Three men appeared before Woolwich Crown Court accused of inciting terrorism abroad. They were said to have a “close affiliation” with al-Qaeda in Iraq, the group founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Younis Tsouli, 23, Waseem Mughal, 24, and Tariq al-Daour, 21, allegedly played important roles in al-Qaeda’s “media war” and had massive quantities of films, audio recordings, books and documents promoting the extremist ideology of Osama bin Laden and global jihad.
Among the footage found in police raids on their homes in London and Kent were films of the beheading of the British engineer Kenneth Bigley as well as the executions of American, Korean, Japanese, Egyptian, Iraqi, Turkish and Bulgarian hostages.
Other films found on the men’s computers or on discs in their rooms included footage of suicide attacks in Iraq, the video wills of “martyrs” and stylised productions eulogising the 9/11 hijackers.
“Possession of this material is strong evidence of the depth of their adherence to the cause,” Mark Ellison, for the prosecution, told the court.
“Collecting it, providing links for others to obtain it, applauding it, defending it — as we say these defendants did — as well as making it available to a wide audience on websites is strong evidence of the approval of it and of the ideology it seeks to justify.”
Mr Tsouli had a Powerpoint presentation entitled “carbom-bzip” and another file containing video clips of the World Bank building and the US Capitol in Washington DC and the George Washington National Masonic Memorial.
A CD was found in the home of Mr Mughal containing a file giving instructions on how to make a suicide-bomb vest.
Mr al-Daour had a CD file entitled “special course in manufacturing explosives”, a document with instructions for firing a rocket-propelled grenade and a data file, “The Mujahidin Explosives Handbook”.
Mr Ellison said that the defendants, who were arrested in October 2005, were “intelligent young men” who appeared to lead normal lives. Although one needs to ask the question here of what is normal? If these boys think that jihadist brainwashing and snuffing their lives out in a moment of violent nihilism is normal then I fear for their societys chances of ever being part of the UK as a whole.
“Behind the apparent normality of their daily lives and for at least a year before they were arrested, the truth is that each of these young men firmly believed in, supported and set about inciting others to follow an extreme ideology of violent holy war,” he said.
Mr Ellison said: “The effective recruitment of new adherents to the cause and the inciting of them to join in the fighting and killing and become mujahidin, if not also martyrs, is the very lifeblood of achieving the religious dominance that has its root in this ideology.
“The central importance of powerfully expressed and constructed media in that process, and having the means of distributing and pushing the message to those prepared to listen and likely to be persuaded to join in themselves, is at the very heart of advancing this ideology.
All three deny possession of documents or records likely to be of use to a person preparing an act of terrorism, and incitement to commit an act of terrorism outside Britain. Mr Tsouli and Mr Mughal deny a charge of conspiracy to murder which, the jury heard, was connected to a plot involving individuals in Bosnia. The trial continues.
The accused
Younis Tsouli, from Shepherds Bush, West London, was born in Morocco but was granted indefinite leave to remain in Britain two months before his arrest. He studied Information Technology and computer technology at Westminster College of Computing in 2001-03 and, according to his CV, was fluent in French and Arabic
Waseem Mughal lived with his family in Chatham, Kent, and is a biochemistry graduate from the University of Leicester. While a student, he ran the website of the university’s Islamic Society
Tariq al-Daour was born in the United Arab Emirates of Palestinian parents and became a British citizen in May 2004. Shortly before his arrest he had applied to study for a law degree.
I wonder if these are the peacefull moslems that sufferer from Stockholm Syndrome Yvonne Ridley supports? Stockholm Syndrome sufferer Yvonne Ridley.
Other related news of arrests in the UK: Six men have been arrested in a series of co-ordinated anti-terror raids.
Among them is radical Muslim preacher Abu Izzadeen(known to one and all as Trevor Brooks), who was seen heckling Home Secretary John Reid last September. Who can forget the sight of an enraged Mr Brooks being held back by a tiny pc! From what I can gather all the accused are followers of serial goat abuser Bakri who fled the UK, afraid he was going to be spending some time in prison with his bum chum Abu Hamza who was banged up. More details on this dubious mob of moslem islamoloons here: http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/187555.php
(Trevor offers to kiss and make up with John Reid this Valentines day...)A previous bit on our lovely Mr Brooks:the repressed homosexual
Sky News Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said the six were arrested on suspicion of inciting others to commit acts of terrorism overseas.
They are also being held in connection with terrorist fund-raising.
Brunt stressed Trevor/Izzadeen's arrest was not related to the incident with Mr Reid. He is already facing an unrelated charge, having been accused of encouraging terrorism during a speech in Birmingham last year.
Brunt stressed Trevor/Izzadeen's arrest was not related to the incident with Mr Reid. He is already facing an unrelated charge, having been accused of encouraging terrorism during a speech in Birmingham last year.The Metropolitan Police operation - launched at 5am - saw five suspects picked up in the London area and one in Luton. They are being held at high security Paddington Green police station.
Scotland Yard said a number of searches were on-going in connection with the investigation.
A spokesman said: "The arrests form part of a long-term pro-active and complex investigation into alleged incitement and radicalisation for the purposes of terrorism, as well as alleged provision of financial support for international terrorism."
Some random abuse on my part here of Trevor: who is a worthless piece of sub human shit, worthless dole-scum
One can be sure that their assorted bottom feeding lawyers are already planning counter claims, mind you should they be considering legal action against the police I bet they won't be phoning Mark Langford
**Could not happen to a nicer bloke, after all Abu/Trevor has allegedly raked in £50,000 in handouts even though he admits turning down work because he refuses to help the UK economy. So he won't mind in the slightest then if I refer to his lazy moslem ass as worthless dole-scum.
According to the link below Abu/Trevor, the lazy moslem doles-scum gets £800 a month in jobseekers' allowance, housing benefit and state cash for his three kids. Has he ever thought about contraception or does he expect the Kaffir to pay for his kids?Dole scum lives it up large **Thanks to Clarity & Resolve for the pics of dole scum Trevor Brooks, except for the John Wayne one, no idea where I got that one from.
Dole scum gets lambasted by The Sun
from the Daily Mail on him: More fun and games with dole scum Trevor Brooks
Dole scum Trevor Brooks even gets a mention in an MP's speech: Waking up to the islamist threat of worthless dole scum like Trevor Brooks
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The Islamaloons video is here:http://hotair.com/archives/top-picks/2006/07/10/video-british-islamist-parasite-defends-london-bombings/
Background on the Islamaloons:http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/183864.php
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4 people have spoken:
It's good to see these terrorscum
arrested.
I hope they are convicted, and sentenced to rot behind bars for the rest of their lives.
Good post, Sir.
We can but hope they get long sentences.
Oh man come on , they are young lads watching News footage on the TV and feel helpless as people are killed in Afghanistand and Iraq , let them hoorah on the net , good god if you opened any young lads chat logs on their PC , you would find the same saber rousing as these people.
You keep locking people up in places like bellmarsh then your going to have a serious problem , this needs a balanced approach , elders need to do more to adress the problems. The leaders in the muslim community have nothing in common with the young muslims today as many grew up in villages in India .
Raising money for jihad is a crime, so they stand accused and it up to 12 good men( and women of course) to decide their guily.
Mind you our mr brooks is a firey chap and I am sure he will be seeing the inside of a cell at some point.
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