|  Al-Qaeda Plans Western 'Hiroshima'
News.com.au/Daily Telegraph
Al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq are planning the first "large-scale" terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report. Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was planning an attack on "a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki" in an attempt to "shake the Roman throne", a reference to the West, according to The Times newspaper in the UK. Another plot could be timed to coincide with Tony Blair stepping down as prime minister, an event described by al-Qaeda planners as a "change in the head of the company". The report, produced earlier this month and seen by The Sunday Times, appears to provide evidence that al-Qaeda is active in Iran and has ambitions far beyond the improvised attacks it has been waging against British and American soldiers in Iraq. There is no evidence of a formal relationship between al-Qaeda, a Sunni group, and the Shi’ite regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but experts suggest that Iran’s leaders may be turning a blind eye to the terrorist organization's activities," reports The Times. The intelligence report also makes it clear that senior al-Qaeda figures in the region have been in recent contact with operatives in Britain. It follows revelations last year that up to 150 Britons had traveled to Iraq to fight as part of al-Qaeda’s "foreign legion". A number are thought to have returned to the UK, after receiving terrorist training, to form sleeper cells. Fifty-One Killed in Somalia Fighting
News.com.au/AFP
At least 51 people were killed overnight as clashes between Ethiopian forces and Islamist insurgents raged in the Somali capital Mogadishu, bringing the toll to more than 200 after five days of fighting. Scores of rotting corpses lay abandoned in the streets as the rival forces exchanged artillery and machinegun fire, demolishing buildings in northern and southern Mogadishu. Hundreds of terrified civilians were streaming out of the city, adding to tens of thousands who have been forced from their homes in recent weeks amid some of the worst violence in the battle-scarred port city for 15 years. The latest deaths brought the death toll from the past five days to 219, Sudan Ali Ahmed, head of the Elman Peace and Human Rights Organization that tracks casualty figures, said. Sixty-two injured civilians were taken to hospital...Witnesses said the toll could be much higher as wounded and dead people lay in areas too dangerous to reach, while hospitals were being overwhelmed with casualties...Residents said both sides were firing without regard for the consequences to civilians. Hezbollah: We Get Our Orders from Teheran
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
For the first time, a linkage officially confirming active Iranian support of [Hezbollah]these operations has been made public. The Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist organization has declared that all terrorist attacks, suicide bombings and other operations against Israel must first be authorized by the Teheran regime before they can be carried out. This, in effect, places the responsibility for these attacks squarely on Iran. For many years, Hezbollah was careful not to implicate Iran in its terror operations. However, in a 15 April interview with the Iranian Arabic language TV station ‘al Qawthar’, Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Kassem, told the interviewer that suicide bombings, terrorist attacks and even artillery barrages against Israeli civilians all receive prior approval from the Ayatollah’s in Teheran. "The religious doctrine which dictates Hezbollah's actions in general and those relating to the Jihad in particular, is based on the rulings of the spiritual leader in Teheran. The spiritual leader has the power to permit our actions, and the spiritual leader can forbid them. In order to know what is permitted and forbidden regarding the Jihad, we ask for and receive overall permission and only then do we carry out the operation." Virginia Tech Grad Testifies Against Terrorist al-Timimi
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
He never made it to Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban, but Yong Ki Kwon -- a Northern Virginia engineer who fled the United States nine days after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks -- said it wasn't for lack of effort. Kwon, 29, is a South Korea-born graduate of Virginia Tech who is serving an 11-year prison sentence as a result of his guilty plea last year on federal conspiracy and weapons charges. He has emerged as the prosecution's star witness in the case against Ali Al-Timimi, an American Islamic scholar charged with recruiting soldiers for the Taliban just five days after Sept. 11. Al-Timimi, 41, who maintains his innocence, sat quietly with his attorneys as the case against him unfolded last week during Kwon's testimony in an Alexandria, Va. courtroom. Al-Timimi was indicted last year on 10 counts, including charges of soliciting others to levy war and inducing others to join the Taliban. If convicted on all counts, he could face life in prison. Kwon, one of nine men convicted last year in the so-called "paintball jihad" network, told a chilling tale of the birth of an American jihad. The holy war was conceived in the suburbs of Washington, DC, in the dawn of the 21st century and was born at a meeting in his Fairfax, Va. apartment Sept. 16, 2001, when Kwon said he and several companions decided to heed the call of spiritual adviser Al-Timimi and to be trained to join the Taliban. Four days later, Kwon was on a flight to Karachi, Pakistan. Congressman Invite Hezbollah to Capitol Hill
New Media Journal
A press release issued by the Washington bureau of a pro-democracy Lebanese group called The World Council of the Cedar Revolution reports that a congressionally sponsored democracy workshop will be attended by two members of the Lebanese Parliament from the Michel Aoun's Bloc, a group who has declared its alliance with the terrorist group Hezbollah. Ibrahim Kenaan and Ghassan Moukheiber are members of the Lebanese Parliament belonging to the Michel Aoun's Bloc, a group that has officially signed a memorandum of understanding with and lists Hezbollah as their closest Ally. Hezbollah is on the State Departments list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The World Council of the Cedar Revolution goes on to say that Nabih Berri, the current speaker of the democratic government of Lebanon was integral in Kenaan and Moukheiber's selection. Berri, the group says, is the main opponent to Democracy in Lebanon. They cite his closing the Parliament and unwillingness to convene any general sessions of the governmental body for their declaration. Nabih Berri's Amal Movement, the group claims, has also been implicated in the 1985 TWA high jacking in which US Navy diver Robert Stethem was murdered. The World Council of the Cedar Revolution declared itself as a partner of the US and coalition countries in the Global War on Terror. The groups US director, John Hajjar, said in the press release, "We must recognize that a war of ideas is taking place and we must act to stop this spread of disinformation warfare that can influence the decision makers of today and tomorrow." |
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