Islamistischer Terrorismus

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@Rusbeh zu ersten Frage: ja
zur zweiten: siehe Madridthread -habs fast wortwoertlich uebernommen und nur paar Woerter ersetzt...


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Blair's speech in Lisbon

Here is the full text of the speech Tony Blair delivered after talks with Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barraso.
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At my meeting with Mr Zapatero, the prime minister elect of Spain this morning, both of us agreed that unity and solidarity in the face of terrorism was the only possible response.
In any event, for al-Qaeda to pretend that the war in Iraq is the reason for their campaign of violence is a cruel deceit.
There was no occupation of Iraq when Embassies were attacked in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam killing over 300 people in 1998 or when the USS Cole was hit and sailors killed by a suicide bomb back in the year 2000.
Morocco and Saudi Arabia took no part in the war but have seen scores of innocent people blown to pieces.
Turkey did not take part in the war in Iraq but many more Turks than foreigners were killed in the suicide attacks in November. Indonesia suffered Bali before the Iraq war even began.
German and French citizens died in bombs in Tunisia and Pakistan.
September 11th was not in retaliation for an attack by the US on al-Qaeda. But an entirely unprovoked attack by al-Qaeda on the US.
Of course they demand we withdraw from Iraq. But their demands do not stop there.
They also demand we withdraw from Afghanistan.
They demand we withdraw from all places in the Middle East, even when there with the consent of the country.
They demand the elimination of Israel.
They even have demanded the reintroduction of a caliphate on the Iberian Peninsula.
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Al-Qa'ida double agent duped MI5
From The Times
March 26, 2004
LONDON: One of al-Qa'ida's most dangerous figures has been revealed as a double agent who fooled MI5, raising intense criticism from European governments who had repeatedly called for his arrest.

Britain ignored warnings from friendly governments about Abu Qatada's links with terrorist groups and refused to arrest him.
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Al-Jazeera Airs Purported Al-Zawahiri Tape

Thursday, March 25, 2004

CAIRO, Egypt — A tape purportedly recorded by Ayman al-Zawahiri (search), the No. 2 figure in the Al Qaeda (search) terror group, called Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (search) a "traitor" Thursday and urged people to overthrow his government.
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Gratisregistrierung
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Indonesian Militants 'Keep Regenerating'
Jemaah Islamiah Defies International Efforts to Quash It
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, March 25, 2004; Page A17


JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The sun was bright, the sky a flawless blue -- a perfect day for a graduation. In a mountain clearing in the southern Philippines four years ago, 17 young Indonesians snapped to attention in their camouflage fatigues, two instructors recalled. They marched in formation. They assembled a low-explosive bomb and detonated it. They crawled on the ground with AK-47s.
"Allahu Akbar!" the audience cheered: "God is greatest."
The men were the first graduates of the military academy established by Jemaah Islamiah, a Southeast Asian militant network allied with al Qaeda.
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Egyptian court convicts 26 men for trying to revive outlawed Islamic group


Updated at 13:22 on March 25, 2004, EST.


CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Shouts of "God is great!" rang out in a court Thursday after judges sentenced 26 men, including three Britons, to prison terms of one to five years for trying to revive an outlawed Islamic group.
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The rights group Amnesty International condemned the convictions and accused the authorities of failing to investigate the defendants' allegations of torture.
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Thaksin party lawmaker faces treason charges
Muslim member of the Thai Rak Thai party has been implicated by one of five people arrested over January attack in Thai south

BANGKOK - A prominent member of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's ruling party faced treason charges yesterday over a deadly January attack on an army base in the Muslim south after a court ordered his arrest.
Najmuddin Umar, a Muslim member of Mr Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai party, was implicated by one of five people arrested last month over the highly planned raid in Narathiwat province which left four soldiers dead.
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GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
Saudi royals still
funding al-Qaida
Millions of dollars going to terrorist network, related groups
Prominent members of the Saudi royal family continue to supply millions of dollars to al-Qaida and related groups, U.S. officials said, according to Geostrategy-Direct, the global intelligence service

The money is funneled through so-called charities, such as the Al Haramayn Islamic Foundation, they said.
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Homemade bombs strike Zanzibar over weekend
Dud grenade lands on British diplomat's dinner table
Monday, March 22, 2004 Posted: 2144 GMT (0544 HKT)

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (Reuters) -- A spate of weekend bombings on Zanzibar, which hosted visiting German President Johannes Rau on Monday, hit the homes of local political and religious leaders and a restaurant being used by Western diplomats, police said.

There were no casualties from the homemade bomb blasts at the house of Zubeir Ali Maulid, a cabinet minister in the Tanzanian semi-autonomous island's government, and the home of Zanzibar's Mufti and top Islamic leader, Harith bin Khelef, said police spokesman George Kizuguto.
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The weekend blasts followed bomb attacks last week on a church, a school bus and a number of electric transformers.

Kizuguto said five Muslim leaders held over last week's attacks would be charged in court on Monday.
"We are still investigating those involved in the weekend activities," he said.

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FBI's Mueller Warns of Terrorist Plots
Fri Mar 26,11:19 AM ET Add Top Stories - AP to My Yahoo!


By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The deadly train bombings in Spain and the impact they had on Spanish elections are increasing concern that terrorists might target the U.S. presidential nominating conventions and the Olympics to make an even bolder statement, FBI (news - web sites) Director Robert Mueller says.
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Dutch politician in line for EU "Mr Terrorism" post

24 March 2004

Former Dutch deputy interior minister Gijs de Vries is in line to be appointed the European Union's new anti-terrorism coordinator at an EU summit this week, officials said Wednesday.
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Al-Qaida man planned Italy bomb

John Hooper in Rome
Friday March 26, 2004
The Guardian

An al-Qaida operative told the Italian police that his unit had been poised to carry out mass murder at the main Milan railway terminus, possibly before the September 11 attacks, the newspaper Corriere della Sera reported yesterday.
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Pakistan offensive 'un-Islamic'
Opposition parties in Pakistan have condemned an ongoing military operation against suspected al-Qaeda sympathisers in South Waziristan.
In a heated debate in parliament on Thursday, they denounced the killing of Muslims as an "un-Islamic act."
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Uzbek Al-Qaeda chief hurt but not captured in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD : A senior Al-Qaeda leader was injured and on the run in Pakistan, a military spokesman said as a bloody 12-day offensive to capture foreign Islamic militants and their local supporters appeared to be drawing to a close.

"Tahir Yuldashev is one of the top Al-Qaeda leaders and is also head of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan," Major General Shaukat Sultan told AFP. "He has been injured along with his local faciliators in the ongoing military operation near Wana and is hiding somewhere."
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