Islamism - 7

[Husky]

1/3 posts of sequential spam.



So much islamania has been going on, it's hard to organise everything one hears on the news.



1. This next piece is from Oct. Not unexpected, not unsuspected, but important.



The global jihad is On. Again. Islam slept for a while - tossing and turning violently. Now it's awake and consciously violent. Off on a jihad against Africa in another session of taking nations for islam.



www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/somalia/8078083/North-African-states-at-risk-of-being-overrun-by-al-Qaeda.html

North African states at risk of being overrun by al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda is poised to overrun five states in North Africa and the Middle East, creating terrorist safe havens from which the network can launch attack on the West, Europe and the US have been warned.



[Photo caption:] Large swathes of Somalia are already under the control of al-Shabaab, a Somali al-Qaeda affiliate Photo: REUTERS

By Praveen Swami, Diplomatic Editor 9:00PM BST 21 Oct 2010



Mauritania, Mali and Niger have seen a steady escalation of al-Qaeda activity targeting Western aid workers and experts. Somalia, to their east, has disintegrated in the face of Islamist assault. In Yemen, across the Red Sea from Somalia, security forces have been waging a losing battle against resurgent jihadist armies that have claimed the lives of dozens of troops.



Amadou Marou, the President of Niger's National Consultative Council has been in Europe with a grim message for governments. "Somalia got away from us", he said, "and northern Mali is in the process of getting away from us".



Mohamed Abdillahi Mohamed, Somalia's new Prime Minister, has also called on the US and Europe to "step up to the plate". Aid to Somalia, he said, "is not an option, it's a necessity. We are dealing with al-Shabaab, who are extremists and seeking to take their war throughout the world".



Al-Qaeda's regional affiliates have expanded dramatically throughout this belt of states, exploiting the administrative weaknesses and corruption of their governments.



Large swathes of Somalia are already under the control of al-Shabaab, a Somali al-Qaeda affiliate, which is known to have hundreds of US and UK citizens among its ranks. Western intelligence services say they have evidence that those recruits are preparing for attacks on the West.

(There you go: it's in everyone's best interests to bring down islam. Still, there are self-serving govts and ideologies that think they can keep islam as an attack hound. Never mind it's rogue and can't be tamed and works for itself.)



Last month, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, its north African branch, kidnapped seven people, including five French citizens, from a uranium mine in Niger. AQIM has demanded a ransom of £5 million and a rollback on France's burka ban for the lives of the hostages Mauritania has been engaged in pitched battles with AQIM, and the country's air force has been bombing jihadist targets in northern Mali the region where British tourist Edwin Dyer was executed by terrorists last year.



Mauritanian jihadists also murdered an American aid worker last year, and earlier attacked Israel's embassy to the country.



Yemen, which is home to another al-Qaeda affiliate called al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has served as hub for several plots targeting the West, often carried out by western citizens inspired by the charismatic Islamist televangelist Anwar al-Awlaki.



"There's obviously a lot that needs doing in countries like Somalia", says Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, an American counter-terrorism expert, "but it isn't obvious how to do what needs doing".



Local efforts to address the problem have had little success. Amisom, the African Union's 7,000-strong peacekeeping force in Somalia, has been unable to restore government control over even the capital, Mogadishu. Peacekeepers received no wages for six months last year. Poor security conditions have made aid work all but impossible.



Experts say aid should be focused not just on upgrading regional counter-terrorism forces, but also addressing the poverty and poor governance that have helped al-Qaeda gain ground in the region.



Britain is a key member of Friends of Yemen, an international consortium that has committed to pumping millions of pounds into the country. But although Yemen has committed to economic reforms and anti-corruption measures, there are still doubts about just how much the aid has achieved on the ground.

Africa is always being victimised by christoislamania.





2. And thus follows the predictable:



Nov 2010



A great many things in the following -



www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8107398/Yemen-al-Qaeda-Theresa-May-discloses-AQAP-arrest-in-Britain.html

Terrorism in the UK

Suspect linked to al-Qaeda plane bomb plotters arrested in Britain

A member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was arrested in Britain for allegedly plotting an attack in this country, the Home Secretary Theresa May has said.



By Tom Whitehead and Caroline Gammell 12:14PM GMT 03 Nov 2010



The suspect was an "associate" of the terrorist group, which was linked to last week's cargo plane bomb plot in which ink printer cartridges were loaded with enough dangerous explosive to blow up aircraft.



In her first speech on security, Mrs May warned such threats will continue against the country and that the police and security services were working to disrupt al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) operatives in this country.



Mrs May also warned that the threat of AQAP and its capability in Yemen was increasing.



Mrs May said: "An AQAP associate was arrested here earlier this year.



"He is alleged to have been planning a terrorist attack in this country. Threats such as these are likely to continue."



Her disclosure about the arrest earlier this year came a day after the conviction of a female student who tried to murder former Labour minister Stephen Timms because she was inspired by a radical AQAP cleric.

(Oh, like in The Netherlands.)



British-born Roshonara Choudhry had watched a series of sermons on the internet which were preached by Anwar al-Awlaki, who is wanted in connection with the cargo plane bomb plot.



Ministers have called on the White House to put pressure on US websites - such as Youtube - to remove propaganda videos from figures such as al-Awlaki.

(Gets my vote. Hopefully Zakir Hussein will be included?)



During her speech, the Home Secretary also warned that Somalia will become a terror hotbed if "left to its own devices" plotting attacks on the UK.



"We know that people from this country have already gone to Somalia to fight," she said.



"It seems highly likely, given experience elsewhere, that if left to their own devices we would eventually see British extremists, trained and hardened on the streets of Mogadishu, returning to the UK and seeking to commit mass murder on the streets of London."



Mrs May added: "Most threats to the UK continue to come from the federally-administered tribal areas of Pakistan.

(The More Faithful hence troo-er muslims.)



"When we have a Pakistani diaspora of over one million people, and there are hundreds of thousands of journeys between our countries every year, what goes on in Pakistan matters on the streets of Britain."

(Read "islamania" for "pakistani". It has nothing to do with geography.)



She said: "Where necessary we will enhance our protective security measures; we will invest in conflict prevention and stopping terrorist plots overseas; we will refocus the strategy for preventing radicalisation in the UK; and we will strike a better balance between our liberties and our security.

(Strategy for preventing radicalisation in the UK: stop allowing islam in. Like that German lawsuit said about the babble: ban the koran.)



"There is much good work under way to tackle the terrorist threat.



"But where there needs to be change I will not be afraid to make it."



She added: "I want an approach which is more targeted against extremist individuals, but that impacts much less on the good people of our communities.



"I want an approach which allows people to enjoy their liberty in safety and security.



"And I want an approach that is effective in dealing with an evolving threat. That is what we will deliver."



Delivering her first major speech on the subject, the Home Secretary said the success of domestic counter-terrorism work depended on international collaboration and co-operation.



Mrs May said Britain could not "entirely eliminate" the threat of an attack, but could reduce the risk.



She said the Labour administration did not "get the balance right" on often invasive measures such as control orders, pre-charge detention and other counter-terrorism powers.



But Mrs May added: "I don't believe the previous government got the balance right, but let me be clear: I will do absolutely nothing which will put at risk Britain's national security."



The Home Secretary said programmes to deter people from engaging with terrorism, called the Prevent strategy, were here to stay, but a new approach to dealing with Britain's Muslim communities was needed.



She said: "We want to increase the participation of everyone in our society. And participating in society also means standing up against the extremists who would seek to divide us."

(Good luck with that. I "predict" re-treading that worn-out avenue won't be rewarding. Sounds like a remedy in the line of "If we all hold hands together and sing 'Silent Night...Sleep in Heavenly Peace', everything will work out".)



Assistant commissioner John Yates, of the Metropolitan Police, said: "These attempts clearly show the threat is very real and very much upon us. We may never totally eliminate the threat."



The senior officer, who is responsible for counter-terrorism operations, said police and the security services often felt that a 100 per cent success rate was expected of them.



He said: "In recognising this, we can perhaps therefore only aim to reduce the risk and it is in this collective effort we must reconcile how and what we do with what the public expects of us in terms of their civil liberties.



"We must not do the terrorists' jobs for them, either by unduly increasing the fear of terror itself or by responding to the threat in a way that encroaches unnecessarily on freedoms."