Taliban behind attack at Iranian Consulate.

Proving once and for all that allegations by British and US officials regarding Iran's role in Afghanistan are baseless!

The Taliban were behind the recent terrorist attack on Iran’s Consulate in Kandahar, said an informed source in Foreign Ministry. He noted that it was the second terrorist attack on Iran’s diplomatic mission in Afghanistan after the bombing of a car belonging to Iran’s Consulate, Fars reported.

The source described such hostile measures by Taliban against Iran as evidence that allegations by British and US officials regarding Iran’s role in Afghanistan are baseless.

Here's the real funny:

The British and the US media, including Jane’s Terrorism and Security Monitor (a subsidiary of Jane’s Defence), have expressed doubt about the allegations of US military officials on Iran’s interference in Afghanistan. The deny seeing any evidence of Iranians’ assistance to Afghan opposition groups.

Spain and Morocco to step up terror surveillance.

I'm so glad that pulling out of Iraq thing worked for them. )Do you think the Dems are paying any attention to this? Nope, me either.)

Spain and Morocco will step up surveillance of the surge in summer tourists travelling across the Strait of Gibraltar because of concern about potential terrorism attacks by al-Qaeda.

According to the Spanish daily newspaper, 'El Pais', the Spanish and Moroccan authorities are deploying thousands of police to check documents and vehicles, and patrol various 'hotspots' along the tourist route that connects the two countries.

Codenamed 'Operation Strait Passage', the joint exercise is designed to stop terrorist organisations from exploiting the congestion caused by the huge influx of people and vehicles entering Spain and the rest of Europe during the next two months.

Spain's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Miguel Angel Moratinos, and a representative of Morocco's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Taieb Fassi Fihri, met in Madrid on Tuesday to discuss the joint operation. "There is no concrete information about possible attacks in Spain or Morocco," said Moratinos. "But the situation that exists in the world today means we must enforce the greatest scrutiny."

However...

Every year from June to September the Strait of Gibraltar is a 'bridge' for more than a million people and ferries are filled with hundreds and thousands of vehicles. Many Moroccans and Africans who live in France and Spain return home for their summer vacation. According to Spanish data, this year's traffic is expected to increase by 6 per cent - with 730,000 vehicles crossing the strait and more than 1.5 million people.

In recent days, Rabat has raised the security alert amid fears that al-Qaeda will try and send terrorists to Europe.

According to 'El Pais', police will be reinforced in the Moroccan port cities where vehicles disembark - Malaga, Alicante Algeciras, Ceuta e Melilla and Tarifa.

Last month the newspaper released details of a confidential police report which said Spain was at a 'high' risk of a terrorist attack and intelligence services were concerned about growing extremism among 'second generation' immigrants

UK: Lock 'em up and throw away the key...

Now here's a War on Terror idea that I can really get behind... Gitmo on the Thames. After all, Germany is now talking about doing the same thing.

Police in Unlimited Detention Plea.

Police chiefs are demanding the power to lock up terror suspects indefinitely, it has emerged. Reopening the debate over detention without trial, the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) called for some suspects to be held for "as long as it takes".

al-Guardian's take. Complete with outraged lefty response.

The lefties are going to bellyache about this for a while so they might as well lock up this guy in the interim. Fixer for 7/21 plot free in London.

A SUSPECTED Al-Qaeda operative who is believed by MI5 to have played a key role in the events leading up to the July 21 failed bombings is at liberty and living in east London. Mohammed al-Ghabra, a 27-year-old Syrian who has been given British citizenship, is said by security sources to have arranged for the leader of the failed 21/7 London suicide attacks to travel to Pakistan for terrorist training.

Olympic Mega Mosque linked to recent UK bomb plots

Way to go, Always on watch. This is a great find. Olympics mega-mosque linked to London and Glasgow car bomb plots: Arrested suspects radicalised by mosque promoters Tablighi Jamaat

“Government must ban construction of mega-mosque” says Cllr Alan Craig

Newham councillor Alan Craig today called on the government to formally ban the construction of a massive mosque on a site less than a mile from the main 2012 Olympic stadium at Stratford, east London.

Reports that Tablighi Jamaat - the fundamentalist Islamic sect who propose to build the mosque as their international headquarters - are directly responsible for radicalising two of the London and Glasgow car bomb suspects has added to suspicions that the sect are not the peaceable group they claim to be.

“The dangerous truth about Tablighi Jamaat is coming out. We must watch the gap between what they say and what they do,” said Cllr Craig, leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance group on Newham Council, who lives with his young family a mile from the mosque site.” It will be a horrendous security nightmare if they are allowed to build this large mosque so close to the Olympics.”

The family says that these guys changed after hooking up with this bunch. Read it all at Always on Watch.

If you guessed Iraq. Or Pakistan - you guessed wrong!

Guess where this is:

In all 32 people and three militants were killed, and 94 were wounded. There were 23 IEDs detonated and three defused. A bomb in ******* killed four and wounded 26. Five soldiers on teacher protection detail were wounded when a bomb hidden in the ceiling panel of the teacher’s room was detonated. Seven soldiers on teacher patrols were killed by a bomb or shot by insurgents after being thrown from their vehicle. In other roadside IED incidents, a total of ten bombs wounded six soldiers, nine police and six rangers. Several bombs had no casualties. In one instance, a second IED was placed to target first responders. In another incident an IED was placed en route to the scene where a family of four was shot dead; four police were wounded. Most of the victims were killed by gunshot, including, four headmen, 14 civilians, and a female ranger. Other security forces came under fire, wounding, two border patrol police, three police and several soldiers, and one village defense volunteer. In one instance, suspected militants opened fire on a teashop killing a woman, wounding a police and a civilian; and in another case militants opened fire on a “pickup truck school bus” wounding two, including a student. In one of the more planned ambushes, a 10-man police convoy for teachers was ambushed, wounding one, and a roadside IED placed for the group of soldiers coming as reinforcements, detonated wounding one. In other violence, there were grenade attacks on a mosque and a teashop, wounding six civilians. One civilian was hacked to death and his corpse burnt; another civilian was shot, before his body was burnt. Two schools and a sub-district office were arsoned and train tracks were sabotaged: between 55-65 bolts were removed.


No, it's not Baquba or Baghdad, Fallujah or Tikrit. It's a week in Southern Thailand.

Okay, here's another one. Guess where this is?

On 4 July, 11 suspected militants were arrested during a raid at the ********** Islamic School, in ******** district. Some 600-700 students tried to block the security forces from entering the compound. Some 108 items, including gun and bomb-making materials were seized. Several days later, authorities shut down the school.

No, it's not another radical madrassa in Pakistan ala the Red Mosque. It's Islam Burapha Islamic School, in Narathiwat’s Muang district, only five kilometers away from the Taksin Royal Palace.

About King Taksin (and if I were the short, bearded one in the Members Only jacket I just might want to read this).

The fate of King Taksin is often left undiscussed by online histories. The few online documents that look at the causes of King Taksin's downfall attribute his problems to mental health. Evidently King Taksin began to believe that he was a second incarnation of Buddha. He stopped governing the country and removed himself to a monastry. The ensuing chaos as government broke down led to riots. The execution took place on April 6, 1782. King Taksin was 48 years old and had been king for 15 years.

How do they execute a Thai King?

"(King Taksin) was deposed by his ministers, who then executed him in the custom reserved for royalty -- by shackling his hands and feet with gold restraints, sewing him into a velvet sack so that no royal blood touched the ground, then beating him to death with a sandalwood club.

Sheik Google.

Just one more reason for me to hate Google: Modern Militant recruits himself.

According to an analysis from the Australian Federal Police counter-terrorism division, presented to a terrorism course in Sydney this week: "These extremists are previously unknown to authorities, exhibit no prior extremist tendencies publicly, do not associate with known extremists and are assimilated into the greater community. From all appearances and actions they are moderate members of society."

Their indoctrination and expertise comes from "Sheik Google" and the world wide web. "To a large extent, the internet has replaced actual training camps as a source of instruction and inspiration for militant Muslims," says the AFP analysis.

Everything they need can be found on the hundreds of extremist websites: how to make bombs, avoid surveillance, achieve physical fitness and justify violence on religious grounds
.
The internet is now "the greatest enabler of teaching, nurturing and sustenance of extremist jihadi ideology".

This was evidenced by recent terrorism raids in Australia, which recovered hundreds of "terabytes" of material - enough to fill several rooms up to the ceiling - downloaded from the internet.

It's sad but true. I hate google and yet, I use it shamelessly and boldly. Even worse - here I am on blogger! (although I've been thinking of moving onto another platform-warning techtard alert.)

Why do I hate Google? 9 times out of 10 I am unable to access Little Green Footballs when I click on an LGF link. Same with Power Line. But let a Jihadi scumbag try and hook up with say - plans for a nuclear bomb and bang! (literally) - they've got it. And I know it's because Google wants it that way.

Why do I use it shamelessly? Unfortunately, it's the only game in town.

I think there will come a time when the Crusaders (that means you and me, white man) will have to come up with an alternative. Until then, I say, Google be damned. Let's take the fight to the enemy using every tool at our disposal.)

And then there's wICKipedia. Sometimes you'll find me playing in that fever swamp.

UK bombings: Follow the money...Mohammed Haneef

Current jihadi money man
Former Walmart greeter

Did they find the bagman?

AUSTRALIAN authorities are investigating whether Gold Coast doctor Mohamed Haneef is part of a national sleeper cell of foreign doctors established here to fund overseas terrorist activities including the botched bomb attacks in the United Kingdom.

Federal and Queensland police are currently tracking overseas and local transactions from the bank accounts of Indian-born Dr Haneef who was the eighth suspect arrested over the attacks in London and Glasgow late last month, law enforcement sources said.

Each overseas transaction is believed to be below $10,000 which would avoid any scrutiny from AUSTRAC – a Federal Government regulator of transactions of $10,000 or more.

If the funds can be directly linked to terrorist activity, UK authorities could extradite Dr Haneef, 27, who remains in custody at the Brisbane police watchhouse.

Yesterday, as a bomb squad opened his locker at the Gold Coast Hospital, it turned out not to be his and it turned out to be clean. This is most interesting:

The Sunday Mail can also reveal that police are examining signature stamps found in computer software on Dr Haneef's laptop which was seized during raids at his Gold Coast unit last Tuesday. Police suspect the stamps, believed to be of Indian origin, may be from an overseas university.

Law enforcement sources said the discovery of the stamps has sparked concerns that they could be used to falsify documents. It is understood an AFP officer will travel to India to trace the origin of the stamps.

God bless the Aussies. It sounds like they are all over this guy like a cheap suit.

Dr Haneef's every association and movement since his arrival in Australia last year will come under scrutiny as police seek to determine whether a terror cell had taken hold here. With no scenario ruled out, flight schools will be contacted to see if Dr Haneef was taking flying lessons and Gold Coast internet cafes will be checked.

Up to 50 specialist investigators from Queensland police's State Crime Operations Command and forensic units are working on the investigation with the Australian Federal Police.

The FBI yesterday confirmed a report Dr Haneef had sought to work at a US hospital last year prior to coming to Australia.

Haneef and Jordanian neurologist Mohammed Jamil Asha (the islam-o-nutjob arrested with his wife in Manchester), tried to work the Philadelphia angle to get into the US.

We keep getting better and better at rounding them up, now we need to get better at keeping them from even getting started. A.) Don't let them in. B.) Stop accommodating the ones that are here. Any other suggestions?

Glasgow: Bomber so burnt his mobile melted into his body.

That's hot!

Kafeel Ahmed - 1986

or so says The Times of India.

They also keep throwing the word "allegedly" around when they describe the actions of this evil idiot. Like we didn't all see him doing it! Sometimes they really carry this presumed innocent business too far especially when it comes to acts of terror. It if walks like a duck, etc.

Kafeel Ahmed, the Indian engineer who allegedly drove a blazing jeep into the Glasgow airport, had left a suicide note at his house, a media report said on Sunday amid claims that he had links with a senior Al-Qaeda operative.

Old Kafeel was "allegedly" radicalized by Hizb ut-Tahrir back in 2004 while he was doing research at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He's chummy with Al Qaeda bombmaker Abbas Boutrab and they may have belonged to the same AQ cell in "the quiet base" of Ireland. Oh and he also had jihadi materials in his possession.

More juicy bits at the link, including this:

...The disclosure will raise fresh questions over the extent of information held by Mi5, the British Intelligence Service, on suspects involved in the attempted car bomb attacks.

... Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command SO15 is understood to have uncovered evidence that in the months leading up to the attacks one or more of the suspects communicated by telephone or e-mail with terrorist leaders in Iraq.

....Details of the Al-Qaeda role in the three failed car bombings are expected to emerge over the next few days.

...The development suggests that intelligence received by Mi5, British Intelligence Service, earlier this year about a possible Al-Qaeda attack to mark Blair's departure was accurate. A report in April by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) warned that a senior Iraqi Al-Qaeda commander had outlined details of a big attack in Britain. The report said the commander "stressed the need to take care to ensure the attack was successful and on a large scale". It was aimed "ideally" to take place before Blair stepped down. It said JTAC which is based at Mi5's London headquarters, was "aware that AQ-I (Al Qaeda in Iraq)... networks are active in the UK".

Morocco out of Iraq now!

Moroccan security forces put on maximum alert.
RABAT (AFP) - Morocco's security forces were on maximum alert on Saturday after "established terror threats" by what experts said was the regional branch of Al-Qaeda.

Interior Minister Chakib Benmoussa informed the country's security experts on Friday of a "current threat" against the north-west African country.

"Reliable information relayed in recent days to the interior ministry described the preparation of acts of terrorism in Morocco," a Moroccan security source told AFP on condition of anonymity. "Morocco is cooperating fully with foreign police services," the source said, adding that in the face of the threat, Morocco "is putting itself in a situation of extreme vigilance."


Funny. FBI Director Robert Mueller was in Rabat just last Friday. What a coinkydink.

UK Dhimmis spring into action! Can't bend over fast enough.

From the Scotsman: Muslims are welcomed as the 'latest of Jock Tamson's bairns.'

KENNY MacAskill, the Cabinet secretary for justice, embraced Scotland's muslim community as "the latest of Jock Tamson's bairns" yesterday in an attempt to heal any divisions caused by the terrorist attack in Glasgow. (this in itself is ludicrous on its face.)

Mr MacAskill praised the muslim community during a visit to the Edinburgh Central Mosque, insisting that Scotland had a long history of welcoming people from different countries and religions.

He said he wanted "to pay respect to the muslim community in Scotland, to recognise they are a vital factor in 21st century Scotland, they are just the latest of Jock Tamson's bairns."

The Justice Secretary also condemned acts of retaliation and vandalism against the muslim community after the Glasgow airport attack. Mr MacAskill said: "Any incident is an incident too many.

"Police, prosecution and government will not countenance anybody seeking to vent their racist spleen on individuals."

Oh, cry me a river you big bunch of Muslim babies.

So what's been happening in the racist spleen dept that required a "special meeting"????

A MOSQUE was targeted in a revenge attack for the Glasgow strike, it was feared yesterday. An estate agents next to the Islamic centre in Bathgate, West Lothian, was attacked on Sunday night when what appeared to be a petrol bomb was thrown through a window...

Shami Khan, a community activist and an Edinburgh city councillor until the May elections, said last night: "People will be victimised and there will be a backlash after the Glasgow attack."...

Jalal Chaudry, a spokesman for the Edinburgh Muslim community, said anti-Muslim graffiti had been spotted in Edinburgh. He had been to an emergency meeting of Muslim leaders, also attended by Alex Salmond and the justice minister, Kenny McAskill, in Glasgow on Sunday.

The wICKipedia entry for Jock Tamson's bairns here.

It's not the jihad but it reminded me of Al Qaeda in Iraq

Dinner guest finds host's wife, son in freezer.
A Belgian man appeared in court on Friday after a woman at his dinner party found the bodies of his wife and stepson in the freezer as she put away the leftovers, prosecutors said.

The woman went to the police after discovering the 46-year-old woman and her 11-year-old son and officers arrested the man in the town of Verviers, near Liege in east Belgium, on Wednesday.

Al Qaeda going low tech? And high nuke?

From the Anti-Mullah

US intelligence sources have indicated that US counter-terror analysts were looking at what they felt were “changes” in targeting and methodological doctrine by al-Qaida-linked jihadist terrorist groups. In particular, the translations of the information on the website which provided the basis for the assessment were believed to highlight a new “low-tech terrorism” against targets in the West.

Confirmation of a single nuke? That's what they're saying...

Read it all.

Goldman Sachs - the next target?

You know Dinah used to have a life on Wall Street so you can imagine how her Islam-o-radar went off upon reading this post by Watcher over at Eye on the World.

It became a two alarm Islam-o-alert in the comments section over at MNM where herroyalwhyness brought up those dastardly Muslims, the Islamic Thinkers Society (hah - as if). Those dirtbags in NYC that went to town on a US flag - stomping all up on it and then setting it alight. Grrr. Don't watch it if you don't want your blood pressure to go up. Mine does just thinking about it.




A version of Goldman's response from Mayor Mike's cash cow, Bloomberg News. (And yes, once upon a time I worked with Mike Bloomberg.) Disgruntled employees and customers are being checked first, extremist groups of unmentioned religions, I guess that will be whenever they get around to it...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the world's biggest securities firm, said law-enforcement authorities don't consider letters making threats against the company to be credible.

About 20 letters were sent to different newspapers on or around June 27, said Thomas Boyle, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Inspectors in New York. The letters say that ``hundreds will die'' and ``we have people inside Goldman Sachs,'' he said.

``We are working closely with the law-enforcement authorities, who tell us they don't believe the threat to be very credible,'' Michael DuVally, a Goldman spokesman in New York, said in an e-mailed statement.

``We take any threat to the safety of our people very seriously.''

A team of postal inspectors is working with Goldman Sachs, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Joint Terrorism Task Force to try to identify who sent the letters, Boyle said.

Authorities don't know whether they are terror-related or come from someone with a direct connection to the firm.

Text of entire company response here.


Goldman - Downtown NYC

Oddly enough, Goldman did not receive the letters. Where the letters were sent:

The letters were sent to newspapers in areas including Seattle; Boise, Idaho; Corpus Christi, Texas; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Bayonne and Newark, N.J.; and cities in Vermont, Ohio and North Dakota. The Star-Ledger of Newark is the largest newspaper to have received one of the letters; theirs was postmarked June 27.

The newspapers notified law enforcement agencies after receiving the letters and in some cases alerted Goldman Sachs directly, law enforcement officials said. Officials said they have no reason to suspect the newspapers that received the threatening letters have been targeted.

Goldman Sachs did not receive any of the threatening letters, Boyle said.

The copy of the letter is from CNN.

The difference between us and them...

From the off-duty officer that hosed off the Muslim petrol bomber:

Bravo, Officer Ferguson...well done.

"...Ahmed, 27, who doused himself in petrol and set himself alight in the attack, was saved by an off-duty British police officer who hosed him down.

'It never entered my consciousness to walk away from the guy - I would have been failing in my duty to preserve life - and it doesn't matter whose life that is at the end of the day,' the officer, Stewart Ferguson, has said.

Also from the article...Australian hospitals searched, laptops seized. Looks like there are doctors in the house.

Investigators in Australia, where Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, 27, is being held, Friday searched hospitals in connection with the botched attacks.

They said laptops and telephones were seized in Perth and Sydney as counter-terrorism police investigated a possible network of Muslim militants.

But Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty stressed that only one person was in custody and that no charges had been brought.

And in India...
Indian police Friday questioned the families of three Indian suspects as the authorities in Bangalore said they had launched a full investigation into the terrorist plot.

You've got to read it all...

How Scotland beats terrorism
by Mandleigh Wells.

A fanatic muslim *******
Wiz doin what he'd planned
And intae Glesca's departure hall
A Cherokee he'd rammed.
A big Glaswegian polis
Came forward tae assist
He thocht "a wumman driver"
Or at least someone half-pissed
But to his shock nae drunken
JockEmerged to grasp his hand
But a flamin Arab loony
Frae Al Qaeda's band

(h/t to The Corner and of course, Robbie Burns.)

Taxi driver helps fill in the blanks in Scottish blast

Tax-i!

As the evening wore on, it transpired that a local taxi firm, Paisley Cab Company, had been unwittingly transporting the alleged bombers in the days leading up the attack.

One member of staff said: "The police interviewed us and put some names to us. They wanted to know if they had used our services in the last five or six weeks. I was able to confirm they had."

One suspect is understood to have made a total of 19 journeys with the company, between 21 May and 28 June.

The majority were taken to and from the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley and an address in nearby Houston, with one journey to Glasgow airport on 13 June.

Want to contact Paisley Cab and thank them for their help in the War on Terror? Click here.

Father of Taliban denied British Visa

Jesus. I should hope so.

The British High Commission in Islamabad has denied visa to the hardline Muslim senator and chief of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Maulana Samiul-Haq.

Dubbed "the father of the Taliban" because many Taliban, including Mullah Omar, were schooled in a madrassa he ran, Haq had applied for the visa to attend the multi-party conference scheduled to be held in London this month. A press release issued in Peshawar on Sunday said the High Commission had given Maulana Haq a charge sheet and even barred him from filing an appeal against the decision. The party has requisitioned a meeting of the Standing Committee of the house to discuss the issue.

(So pretty, isn't he? He also advocates the killing of Salman Rushdie and is one of the dirty nutbags calling for the knighting of OBL.)

Salman Rushdie linkage to UK bombings? Gee, ya think?

The real reason the Muzzies hate Salman? They're jealous of his lovely wife, Padma

It has become quite clear that the media would rather play up the Iraq-War-terror-tactic-moving-to-our-shores angle than focus on the Salman Rushdie angle.



Despite things like this:



Police say there was no prior indication of a possible terrorist threat - yet it has emerged that a message appeared on a popular jihadist website on Thursday night seemingly predicting an attack.


Hours before police dismantled the first car bomb, a posting on the Al Hesbah chat forum pointed to an imminent Al Qaeda bombing in London.


The message, posted under the name Abu Osama al-Hazeen, gave the invasion of Iraq and the recent knighthood for Salman Rushdie as justification for a fresh terrorist attack on Britain.



Al-Hazeen wrote: "Is Britain longing for Al Qaeda's bombings? We, and the whole world has seen what Britain has done ... their intention to honour Salman Rushdie who insulted and slandered Islam. This 'honouring' came at a crucial time, a time when the whole nation is reeling from the Crusaders attacks on all Muslim lands.



"The British capital has witnessed blessed operations that shook it to its foundations. This was because the British had attacked the lands of Muslims and Al Qaeda is still threatening to strike against Britain to throw it out of the lands of Islam. But now, there's yet another reason for Al Qaeda to carry out such threats; the honouring of the apostate Salman Rushdie by the Crusaders ... Rushdie who insulted Islam ... and this reason has led Muslims to become even more sympathetic with the Mujahideen.


"The question now is: Has London longed for the bombings of Al Qaeda? We say to Britain, the Emir of Al Qaeda, Sheikh Osama, has once threatened you, and he carried out his threats.
"Today I say: Rejoice ... By Allah London shall be bombed."


Another poster on the forum responded: "Amen - we pray to Allah that the development of such operations would be under way." "Amen - O Allah make us witness this soon."


Al-Hazeen replied: "Victory is very close - but you are just rushing it!"

I'd like my Muslim terrorist extra crispy

Veil wearing Martian arrested in UK bomb plot

Veil wearing Martian

They'll say she's a Martian before they'll cop to the fact that it's a Muslim terror plot through and through.

You know it's true.

(P.S. I heard that both the M6 suspects were forced to strip, their clothes were confiscated and they had to put on paper suits. Still looking for a link. Has anybody else heard this?)