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With the West excusing terrorism, who needs Islamists?
2025-01-03
[IsraelNationalNews] Europe and America gave many terrorists everything: educational and job opportunities, entertainment and sexual freedom, salaries and social assistance and religious freedom. The terrorists below have never seen a day of poverty in their lives.

With Westerners excusing terrorism, who needs Islamists?

July 14, 2016, Nice. During the fireworks festival, an Islamic terrorist kills 87 people, adults and children, under a truck that claimed to be carrying ice cream to the celebration of the French Revolution.

Four days later, the famous philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, disciple and friend of Jacques Derrida, publishes an article in Libération entitled "A truck launched". Despite having gone almost unnoticed, the article has lost none of its interest:

"A truck launched to run over children - among others - gives an unbearable image of nihilism. Nihilism itself names an end: that of our history and our civilization (...) It is not enough to declare war on it. We must attack ourselves, climb aboard and dismantle the mad trucks of our supposed progress, our fantasies of domination and our commercial obesity".

Clear? Terrorists and Westerners are the same, for our little masters of thought.

The terrorist who killed 15 people with a pickup truck in New Orleans on New Year’s Day (what better way to start the year than with another Islamic massacre?) was named Shamsud-Din Jabbar.

The Wall Street Journal has a pretty good portrait: a native Texan, an Army veteran (he also served in Afghanistan), a state university graduate, and a father of three, he had worked his way up the corporate ladder. Jabbar was an attentive neighbor who regularly asked a retiree if she needed anything and had given her a vacuum cleaner, washer, and dryer when he moved in. A model citizen. The New York Times reveals that he had converted to Islam.

This time, no taqiya, like there was in the case of the attacker who drove the car into the Christmas market in Magdeburg (by the way, the security of the German market was contracted to a company called "Mecca Security" !! some stories are so absurd that they can’t be invented).

But according to the official media, a "vehicle" killed 15 people in New Orleans.

Worse than the media is the legion of Western idiots who say that Islamic terrorism is a consequence of capitalism, colonialism, Israel, white and Jewish supremacy, in short, it is our fault, the West.

The Islamic terrorist who killed the British MP David Amess in the church is the son of a former advisor to the prime minister of Somalia.

Poverty and deprivation are not, as the fatuous John Kerry said, "the main cause of terrorism." Islam is.

Syed Rizwan Farook, a thirty-year-old Muslim of Pakistani origin, and his Saudi wife Tashfeen Malik, unloaded their semi-automatic rifles on the employees of a center for the disabled in California, killing 14 people during a Christmas party, the favorite season for massacres. Farook was an American citizen and worked as an inspector at the county health department. He earned seventy thousand dollars a year.

A graduate in engineering, his father a public works employee, his sister an elementary school teacher, Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez killed four marines in a recruitment center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Michael Adebowale, the terrorist who slaughtered British soldier Lee Regby in the heart of London, had a bright future ahead of him. At school, his teachers had chosen him as a "model student".

Take Aafia Siddiqui, one of Al Qaeda’s Amazons, she is a neurologist who graduated from MIT and was sentenced to 86 years in prison.

And don't forget the psychiatrist who, shouting "Allahu Akbar", massacred his comrades at Fort Hood. Thirteen dead. Dr. Nidal Hassan.

The son of a wealthy banker who studied at one of the most prestigious universities in the world, University College London (in terms of academic results, it is the fourth university in the world) and lived in the chic heart of the English capital - that was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the attacker of the Christmas flight Amsterdam-Detroit. He lived on the fifth floor of a building on Mansfield Street. Neoclassical columns, an Art Nouveau door with a large basket of wrought iron roses, a few blocks from Oxford Street, where an apartment costs around two million euro.

And there is Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, one of the terrorists who killed Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal journalist beheaded because he was Jewish. Sheikh is the son of a wealthy carpet merchant and had graduated from the London School of Economics.

Aqsa Mahmood, one of the most high-profile women in ISIS, lived in Pollokshields, one of the rich neighborhoods of Glasgow. Her father is the first Pakistani cricketer in Scotland. All their children went to private school.

Omar Khan Sharif, who blew himself up in a Tel Aviv cafe, attended one of the UK’s most elite schools, Foremarke Hall in Repton, founded in 1557 and whose alumni included writers such as Roald Dahl, Christopher Isherwood and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Ramsey.

Yet, from the intellectual left to Pope Francis, it is repeated that these Islamic fanatics are being recruited from among the world’s oppressed, from those who, in the words of Karl Marx, have "only their chains to lose." No, my friends, they are religious fanatics intent on overthrowing the Western society that spawned them.

Faisal Shahzad, the terrorist behind the failed Times Square attack, had a $273,000 house and a father who is a high-ranking officer in the Pakistani army. And what about Abdelkarim Mejjati, the mastermind behind the Madrid massacres, who grew up in the exclusive Gauthier neighborhood of Casablanca to a very rich father and a mother who ran a chain of beauty salons?

Europe and America gave these terrorists everything: educational and job opportunities, entertainment and sexual freedom, salaries and social assistance and religious freedom. These terrorists have never seen a day of poverty in their lives.

The Paris terrorists rejected liberté, egalité and fraternité; the British jihadists rejected the sweet British multicultural lullabies; the Islamist who killed Theo van Gogh repudiated Dutch relativism and Palestinian Arab terrorists want to cleanse the earth of the Jewish presence.

But for those who think that the West deserves it in part and are now in the top echelons of politics, the media, and universities, it is much easier and more seductive to embrace the common belief that we are the guilty ones. Self-hatred, oikophobia, will end up killing us.

With Westerners like that, who needs Islamic terrorism?
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Britain
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary to be freed from jail despite remaining 'genuinely dangerous'
2018-09-16
Yes, this piece of shit will be in the news again, smiling at terror. Britain deserves what they encourage
[Telegraph] Anjem Choudary, the notorious Islamist hate preacher, will be released from jail next month despite a chilling warning from the justice minister that he remained "genuinely dangerous".

Choudary, 51, is due to be freed within weeks after serving half of a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence for encouraging Muslims to join Islamic State.

The Government admitted on Tuesday it was powerless to prevent Choudary from being released on licence. Rory Stewart, the prisons minister, said that the preacher was "a deeply pernicious, destabilising influence".

Mr Stewart, in an interview, added: "He is... somebody who is a genuinely dangerous person. We will be watching him very carefully."

Choudary was leader of the proscribed terrorist group al-Muhajiroun, whose followers included Khuram Butt, part of the London Bridge terror cell who murdered eight innocent bystanders in June last year.

Other disciples include Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby, murdered outside his barracks in south London in 2013.
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Britain
Timeline of major terror attacks in Britain
2017-06-05
In case you lost track...
[DAWN] Manchester Arena bombing
May, 2017: A suicide bomber blows himself outside a pop concert by teen idol Ariana Grande in Manchester in northwest England, killing 22 people and injuring 116.

Seven of the victims were under the age of 18.

The attack was carried out by 22-year-old Salman Abedi, a Manchester-born university drop-out of Libyan origin. The attack was claimed by the militant Islamic State (IS) group.

Westminster Bridge attack
March 22, 2017: Five people are killed and more than 50 wounded when a man rams his car into pedestrians on Westminster bridge in London before crashing into the barriers surrounding parliament and then stabbing a police officer to death.

The attacker, 52-year-old British Muslim convert Khalid Mahmood, is shot dead by police at the scene. Investigators describe the lone-wolf attack as “Islamist related terrorism”.

Lawmaker murdered
June 16, 2016: British Labour lawmaker Jo Cox is shot and stabbed to death by a pro-Nazi sympathiser just days before the historic vote to leave the EU.

Far-right white nationalist Thomas Mair is later sentenced to life in prison for her murder.

London underground stabbing
December 5, 2015: A paranoid schizophrenic stabs two people at London's Leytonstone Underground station, two days after Britain's first air strikes on IS in Syria.

The knifeman, Somali-born Muhaydin Mire, 30, is sentenced to life behind bars. The police say the incident is a “terrorist” attack.

British soldier slain
May 22, 2013: British soldier Lee Rigby, 25, is hacked to death by two Britons of Nigerian descent near an army barracks in London.

Witnesses say the attackers encouraged them to film the scene and yelled religious slogans before being injured and arrested by police.

In February 2014, Michael Adebolajo, 29, is sentenced to life in prison for the murder while Michael Adebowale, 22, receives a minimum of 45 years behind bars.

Northern Ireland shootings
March 2009: The month saw a sudden resurgence of political violence in Northern Ireland with two soldiers shot dead outside their barracks by republican militants as they went to collect a pizza delivery, the first such slaying since 1997.

Two days later a police officer is shot dead by a different paramilitary republican faction.

Glasgow airport attack
June 30, 2007: Two men in a burning vehicle ram into the main terminal of Glasgow Airport in Scotland.

An Indian driving the car suffers serious burns and later dies.

The passenger, Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla, 29, is jailed in December for at least 32 years for plotting to murder hundreds of people.

Suicide bombers hit London transport
July 7, 2005: Four British suicide bombers inspired by Al Qaeda attack London's Underground network and a bus during rush hour, killing 52 people, as well as themselves, and wounding 700.

It was the deadliest attack on British soil since a Pan Am airliner blew up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing a total of 270 people including 11 on the ground, in 1988.

The London attack took place just a day after the city was awarded the 2012 Olympics.
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Britain
POTUS Advisor Gorka Links Manchester bombing to 2013 Killing of British soldier
2017-05-23
BLUF: [Daily Caller] As Gorka observed, the Manchester bombing happened on the fourth anniversary of the public killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby on May 22, 2013. Rigby was walking down a street in southeast London when two radical Islamists, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, ran over him with a car before hacking him to death with knives and a cleaver. The killers, who also attempted to behead Rigby, told bystanders who shot video of the attack:

"The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers. And this British soldier is one ... By Allah, we swear by the almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone."
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-Land of the Free
Al-Shabaab Magazine: 'We'll Keep Marching Till We Reach the State of Maine'
2017-02-12
There are parts of Maine where that would be a really bad idea.
[PJMedia] A news issue of Al-Shabaab's magazine calls on jihadists to emulate the British converts who murdered a soldier on a Woolwich street in 2013, along with a poem warning that jihadists would be "marching" to Maine.
Do they have those floaty feet things to get across the Atlantic?
The issue of Gaidi Mtaani also features a lengthy story about late al-Qaeda recruiter and cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, whose lectures are cited by American terrorists to this day, playing paintball in San Diego in the 1990s.

The Somali terror group, allied with al-Qaeda, has previously urged Western jihadists to draw inspiration from the attack on 25-year-old Fusilier Lee Rigby, who was first struck by a car and then stabbed and hacked by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale. London-born Adebolajo, 28, who was raised Christian before converting to Islam, filmed a statement before police arrived at the murder scene, vowing "you people will never be safe." Both are serving life in prison.
Should have danced a jig on the end of a rope.
Al-Shabaab's magazine dubs Adebolajo 2013's "Muslim of the Year," declaring "good men are hard to find."
No wonder the feminazis love them
"In an age stained with defeatism and cowardice, a room full of Mujahid Adebolajo is exactly what today's world needs," the article, bylined Abu Maryam, states. "...If a pictures speaks a thousand words, then blood in British streets speak a million words. Knowing that the British Government only understands the language of violence, instead of writing his letter on paper, Adebolajo decided to write his letter on the streets of Southeast London using the blood of a British soldier."

Adebolajo was "practically teaching the British public and the world in general, the elementary principle of universalism" through the murder, the terror group argued, with eye-for-an-eye reasoning.

"World media and left wing conservatives can deceptively portray Mujahid as a psychopathic slayer if they please, but after watching the video and hearing his words, deep down inside everyone knew he was making perfect sense. Amidst the hustle and bustle of London streets, specifically targeting a British soldier once stationed in Afghanistan clearly expresses the political motives behind the killings and disproves the fallacy that the attack was a haphazard intent to randomly slay Britons," the article continues.

"It's quite ignorant and presumptuous of non-Muslims and Muslims alike to think that the driving force of Mujahid's actions were fueled by an inherent disdain for British culture or values," the terror group argues, noting that if Adebolajo just wanted to kill fellow Britons there were more people at the scene he could have attacked.

"Their message couldn't be any simpler, 'We swear by Allaah the All-Mighty we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone.' These same axioms expressed by Mujahid in England, were reiterated by Nidal Hasan, Mohamed Mirah, and the same concepts that will continue to be personified through bloodshed in Western streets, unless taken seriously." Hasan killed 13 at Fort Hood in 2009, while Mohammed Merah killed French soldiers and Jewish children during a 2012 shooting spree in Toulouse and Montauban.
Oh... we'll leave you alone and you will stop fighting... when you are dead. Pretty hard to fight someone then
Merah was born in Toulouse while Hasan was born in Virginia, keeping with the article's theme of urging attacks at home by jihadists native to Western countries.

A poem bylined by the same author of the article says to "tell the West we're a roaring flame/That can't be doused that can't be tamed/And until you cease your bombs and planes/We'll keep marching till we reach the State of Maine."

A lengthy article in the magazine describes the experiences of a Western jihadist -- one "of the generation of young Muslims who grew up in the west during the 90s who were at a high risk of losing their Muslim identity" -- getting to know al-Awlaki and later reconnecting with him in Yemen.

The author says he was living in San Diego while al-Awlaki attended San Diego State University and became imam of the Masjid Ar-Ribat al-Islami mosque near campus. He described going to the nickel arcade and paintball ranges east of San Diego with the cleric as al-Awlaki "was particularly fond of paintball activities."

At this time, New Mexico-born al-Awlaki had already gone through training in Afghanistan and returned home.

"At the beginning of the first match, I remember seeing the Sheikh move forward and then he crouched down and started crawling on the ground slowly moving forward. After some time I was shot and moved to the sidelines to watch how the match would finish. I looked over to where I had last seen the Sheikh and couldn’t see any sign of him. I kept surveying the surrounding areas looking for any sign of movement when all of a sudden there was a firefight a good fifty feet in front of the area where I had been scanning and I was surprised to see the sheikh as he was taking cover," the author described of a paintball outing.
How cute. The US Sniper just killed you about 50 times while you were scanning.
"I remember thinking, 'How was it possible for him to move all that distance with- out being detected?' It was amazing as he is a tall brother. The brothers commented and all agreed that the Sheikh was very skilled in close quarter military tactics. I would not find out until many years later that the Sheikh had been to Afghanistan in the early 90s."
I still would bet on a platoon of rangers against his forces. Would be a short but entertaining fight
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Can Identifying Mental Illness Stop Terror Attacks?
2014-12-16
[IsraelTimes] A radical Moslem killed a soldier outside Canada?s Parliament. A right-wing bully boy opened fire on buildings in Texas? capital and tried to burn down the Mexican Consulate. An al-Qaeda-inspired assailant hacked an off-duty soldier to death in London.

Police said all three were snuffies and motivated by ideology. Authorities and family members said they may have been mentally ill. A growing body of research suggests they might well have been both.

New studies have challenged several decades of thinking that psychological problems are only a minor factor in the making of terrorists. The research has instead found a significant link between mental problems and ?lone-wolf? terrorism.

Now academics and law-enforcement officials are working to turn that research into tools to prevent deadly attacks.

?It?s never an either-or in terms of ideology versus mental illness,? said Ramon Spaaij, a sociologist at Australia?s Victoria University who conducted a major study, funded by the US Justice Department, of lone-wolf bully boys. ?It?s a dangerous cocktail.?

The study preceded the end of a 16-hour siege involving a gunman who took hostages in a cafe in Sydney. The gunman, Iranian-born Man Haron Monis, was already facing charges including sexual assault and accessory to murder in separate cases, and his former lawyer said the standoff was ?not a concerted terrorism event? but the work of ?a damaged-goods individual.?

With groups like Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
spreading violence in Syria and Iraq ? and bloodthirsty rhetoric on the Internet ? authorities around the world have issued increasingly insistent warnings about the threat posed by lone-wolf attackers.

They can be difficult to stop with a counterterrorism strategy geared toward intercepting communications and disrupting plots.

Solo terrorism ?doesn?t take an awful lot of organizing. It doesn?t take too many people to conspire together. There?s no great complexity to it,? London Police Chief Bernard Hogan-Howe told the BBC recently. ?So what that means is that we have a very short time to interdict, to actually intervene and make sure that these people don?t get away with it.?

Police forces and intelligence agencies are examining whether insights from research by Spaaij and others could help.

Spaaij said a number of law enforcement and intelligence agencies have shown interest in his work. In Britannia, a police counterterrorism unit is using a major study of lone-wolf snuffies to develop risk-assessment analysis.

A British security official who spoke on condition of anonymity, because he is not authorized to talk on the record, said many attackers display warning signs, but that recognizing them is easier in retrospect. He said British intelligence officials are studying the link between mental illness and lone-actor terrorism.

Most people with mental health problems are neither snuffies nor violent, and mental illness alone can?t explain lone-wolf attackers. Some experts dispute whether there is a link at all.

After Michael Zehaf-Bibeau?s deadly attack on a soldier October 22 in Ottawa, Jocelyn Belanger, a psychology professor at the University of Quebec at Montreal, told the Canadian Senate?s national security committee that ?to believe that radicalized individuals are crazy or not playing with a full deck will be our first mistake in developing effective counterterrorism strategies.?

But the new research suggests that solo snuffies are much more likely to have mental health problems than either members of the general public or participants in group terrorism.

Spaaij and Mark Hamm of Indiana State University studied 98 lone-wolf attackers in the US. They found that 40 percent had identifiable mental health problems, compared with 1.5 percent in the general population.

Their conclusion? Mental illness is not the only factor that drives individuals to commit terrorist acts, but it is one of the factors.

Spaaij said mental illness can play a part ?in shaping particular belief systems and in constructing the enemy, externalizing blame for one?s own failure or grievances onto this all-threatening enemy.?

A second study by Paul Gill and Emily Corner of University College London looked at 119 lone-wolf attackers and a similar number of members of violent bully boy groups in the US and Europe. Almost one-third of the lone wolves ? nearly 32 percent ? had been diagnosed with a mental illness, while only 3.4 percent of terrorist group members were mentally ill.

?Group-based snuffies are psychologically quite normal,? the researchers said. They said one reason may be that terrorist recruiters are likely to reject candidates who appear erratic or mentally ill.

Mental illness could make lone-wolf attacks easier to foresee: Gill said 60 percent of the attackers he studied leaked details of their plans, sometimes telling friends or family.

He and Corner are working with a British counterterrorism unit as police try to develop ways of distinguishing genuine threats from hot-headed talk. The unit declined to discuss the project, but recent cases suggest that determining who really is a threat is fraught with difficulty.

More than a year before he hacked a soldier to death in London in 2013, Michael Adebowale?s online extremism drew the attention of Britannia?s intelligence services.

Domestic intelligence agency MI5 told a parliamentary inquiry into the murder that it uses a range of factors to assess the threat from potential lone wolves, including an inability to cope with stress and anxiety, social isolation and mental health problems.

MI5 agents suggested that Adebowale ? who is now serving a life sentence in a psychiatric hospital ? be assessed by the agency?s Behavioral Science Unit, a team of psychologists and social scientists, but the assessment was never done. The politicians? report called that a missed opportunity, and recommended that ?MI5 should ensure that the unit?s advice is integrated more thoroughly into investigations.?

Signals also were misread in the case of Nicky Reilly, a 22-year-old convert to Islam who walked into a restaurant in the English town of Exeter in 2008 with a homemade bomb. The device went off in the restroom, injuring Reilly and no one else.

At his trial, jurors were told that Reilly had learning difficulties and had had many years of contact with mental health services. In 2003, he talked to a psychiatrist about making a bomb. The information was passed on to the police, who judged that Reilly wasn?t a serious threat.

American authorities, in contrast, have been accused of being too aggressive in pursuit of lone attackers. The FBI has foiled several alleged attacks through sting operations in which agents posed as terror supporters, supplying advice and equipment. Critics say the strategy can amount to entrapment of mentally vulnerable people who wouldn?t have the wherewithal to act alone.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do...
the fundamental question of whether there is a link between mental health problems and terrorism remains controversial.

The most lethal lone-wolf attacker in recent years was anti-Moslem bully boy Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and gun rampage in Norway in 2011. Breivik was unrepentant. One psychiatric report found him to be insane, while a second concluded that he was sane ? and judges agreed, sending him to prison indefinitely.

The killer was happy with the outcome. For Breivik, it was recognition that his views were legitimate and not those of a madman.
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Africa Subsaharan
Bombs Rock Kenya As More Brits Flee: 13 Killed Hours After Foreign Office Terror Alert
2014-05-18
[DailyMail]
Photos, videos, and a cute little map at the link.
o At least 13 people are feared to have died in twin kabooms in Nairobi
o Reports suggest around 70 people were maimed in the blasts
o UK and US authorities recently imposed warnings on travel to Kenya
o Kenya's National Disaster Operations Centre (NDOC) confirmed on Twitter that the first kaboom came from a 14-seater matatu (minibus), and the second came from within Gikomba Market
o Reports suggest that one suspect has been incarcerated
Please don't kill me!
Hundreds of British tourists were evacuated from Kenya last night as the capital Nairobi was rocked by bombings.

Holidaymakers had their trips cut short after the Foreign Office warned against travelling to beach resorts along the coast.

Travel firms chartered planes to bring people home early from Nairobi, the Indian Ocean resort of Mombasa and other parts of the country.

Yesterday, as anxious travellers arrived at Kenyan airports to check in for their flights to Britannia, two bombs went off in Nairobi, leaving at least 13 dead and 70 injured.

The kabooms follow a recent spate of terror attacks by the Islamist Al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
group, including an kaboom at a bus station that killed three and the discovery of a bomb at a hotel. These prompted the Foreign Office to alter its travel advice for Kenya, warning against all but essential travel to areas within 37 miles of the Kenya-Somali border and Nairobi.

It added: 'There has been a spate of small-scale grenade, bomb and armed attacks in Nairobi, Mombasa, and North Eastern Province.'

The US, La Belle France and Australia have also issued alerts.

Most travel insurance policies are invalid in areas the Foreign Office rules are unsafe, so tour operators have cancelled Kenyan holidays.

However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
some tourists claimed the tour companies had overreacted to the Islamist terror threats, which are understood to include plans to bomb beach hotels and kidnap Western tourists.

More than 500 British tourists are expected to have been evacuated from the region by tomorrow night, with those expecting to visit Kenya in the next six months facing the cancellation of their holidays.

The unusual move follows intelligence warnings to the British Government of a high threat of attack in Mombasa and Nairobi by Al-Shabaab, which is based in Somalia and is linked to Al Qaeda and the Nigerian group Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
The group includes British fighters such as Samantha Lewthwaite, the so-called White Widow' of 7/7 jacket wallah Jermaine Lindsay.

Al-Shabaab was behind the attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall in September, when 67 people were killed after its fighters took it over.

Some 5,000 Britons are on holiday in Kenya, with an estimated 500 in the Mombasa area subject to the warning.

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CONCERNS HIGH IN KENYA OVER AL-QAEDA-LINKED GROUP AL-SHABAB

Islamic bully boy group Al-Shabaab, which means 'The Youth' in Arabic, was formed in 2006 as a radical offshoot of the Islamic justice system.
It is thought to have between 9,000 and 15,000 members and in 2012, it joined the bully boy Islamist organization al-Qaeda as a cell.
The group wants to overthrow the UN-backed government in Somalia, and is suspected of links to a string of attacks in neighbouring Kenya.
It has been pushed out of most of the main towns it once controlled, but it remains a potent threat.
As of 2013, pressure from African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Mission In Somalia (AMISOM) and Æthiopian forces has largely degraded Al-Shabaab's control and conflict among big shots has exacerbated fractures within the group.
Following the death of British Army soldier Drummer Lee Rigby in May 2013, it emerged one of his murderers had travelled to Kenya to train with Al-Shabaab.
Michael Adebolajo, 29, was arrested in Kenya in 2010 with five others. At the time, the head of Kenya's anti-terrorism unit said he believed Adebolajo was planning to train with Al-Shabaab, yet he was released to British authorities in Kenya and deported.
Adebolajo and accomplice Michael Adebowale, 22, were convicted in December last year of murdering Fusilier Lee Rigby outside his barracks in Woolwich.
The British Moslem converts ran him over in a car, almost decapitated him and then dragged him into the middle of the road while ordering onlookers to film them.
Adebolajo was given a whole-life term and Adebowale was incarcerated
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for a minimum of 45 years.
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Britain
Quiet London Schoolboys Turned into 'Soldiers of Islam'
2014-02-27
[An Nahar] The murderers who hacked British soldier Lee Rigby to death were both Londoners from devout Christian Nigerian families who became self-styled "soldiers of Islam" intent on martyrdom.

Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale butchered Rigby in order to generate maximum media coverage, be killed by armed police and "gain a place in paradise", judge Nigel Sweeney said Wednesday as he sent them to prison.

Adebolajo, 29, who was locked away
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
for life, had been an ordinary, articulate London youth who ended up being monitored by the British security services for his growing radicalism.

His 22-year-old accomplice, imprisoned for a minimum 45 years, was bullied at school, suffered mental health problems and drifted into gang life before converting.

Minutes after attempting to behead Rigby in broad daylight on May 22 last year, Adebolajo told horrified onlookers he was "forced by the Koran" to "fight them as they fight us. An eye for a eye and a tooth for a tooth".

Mobile phone footage taken by an eyewitness of Adebolajo ranting, his hands soaked in Rigby's blood, stunned Britannia.

A married father of six, Adebolajo was known to British security services.

He was incarcerated
You have the right to remain silent...
in Kenya in 2010, close to the border with Somalia -- home to the Shabaab Islamist krazed killers.

He told a Kenyan court he had wanted to go and live in Somalia under sharia, or Islamic law.

Childhood friends remembered Adebolajo as a classroom joker with the same interests as any other British teenager -- football, chasing girls, playing video games and listening to rap music.

Detectives have tried to piece together how he turned from a church-going boy into a Mohammedan radical.

He converted to Islam in 2003 while studying politics at Greenwich University in southeast London and adopted the name Mujahid.

Adebolajo appeared at several public events with members of Al-Muhajiroun, a group founded by banned Islamist preacher Omar Bakri and proscribed under anti-terror laws.

Anjem Choudary, the group's former leader in Britannia, told Agence La Belle France Presse: "He used to attend some of our activities over the years. Very peaceful chap actually, not violent at all, very pleasant."

Adebolajo was "a normal guy", Choudary said, adding: "He used to propagate Islam, (he was) concerned about foreign policy.

"He attended some of the activities, demonstrations, processions, talks.

"We lost any kind of contact with him about three years ago."

In 2006 Adebolajo joined a protest outside the Old Bailey -- the same London court where he himself was convicted -- in support of a Mohammedan accused of calling for the killing of British soldiers.

In a scuffle, he was convicted of assaulting a police officer and received a 51-day jail term.

He and 22-year-old Adebowale owned speeches and books about religious war and martyrdom.

After returning from Kenya in 2010, Adebolajo was approached several times by MI5, Britannia's domestic security agency and, according to his family, reportedly turned down their offer to become a spy and grew frustrated at being "pestered" by them.

Adebolajo's sixth child was born just four days before the brutal attack on Rigby.

Adebowale, whose father, a Nigerian High Commission official, split from his probation officer mother when he was a young boy, was haunted by a 2008 knife attack in which drug-crazed assailants maimed him and killed his best friend.
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Britain
Lee Rigby murderers get life sentences amid chaos
2014-02-27
Drummer Lee Rigby's Islamist killers erupted into violence in an Old Bailey courtroom as they were sentenced for murder yesterday. Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale had to be manhandled out of court by security guards after being told by the judge that their crime was a "betrayal of Islam".

Adebolajo screamed at the judge as he was manhandled down the dock stairs but, in scenes lasting several minutes, his co-defendant was held to the floor and cuffed before being carried downstairs head first. Angered by the judges' comments about Islam, Adebowale stood up and shouted, "That's a lie. It's not a betrayal of Islam. You don't know what Islam is."

The struggle broke out as the murderer yelled: "I swear by Allah that America and Britain will never have any safety. Allahu akbar."

After the defendants had been removed the judge resumed his sentencing to give Adebolajo a "whole-life" tariff, meaning he will spend the rest of his life in jail. Adebowale was given life with a minimum term of 45 years.

Adebolajo, who wanted to be called Mujaahid Abu Hamza, was dressed in a black Islamic robe and refused to stand up in court. Lawyers for Adebowale, who was dressed in a black skull cap and black hooded top, referred to him by the name Ishmael Abdullah.

During their trial at the Old Bailey, Adebowale offered no evidence in his defense, but Adebolajo gave a rambling testimony during which he told the jury he loved al-Qaeda.
Even the folks at the Independent see these guys as stone-cold murderers...
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Britain
Man who tried to behead UK soldier says he loves Al-Qaeda
2013-12-10
[Al Ahram] A man accused of the gruesome murder of a British soldier told his trial on Monday that he loves Al-Qaeda and considers the Islamic forces of Evil to be his "brothers".

Michael Adebolajo, 28, sat surrounded by security guards as he began giving evidence in his trial at London's Old Bailey court.

He and Michael Adebowale, 22, are accused of murdering 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby in broad daylight as he walked back to his London barracks in May.

The court has heard that the pair ran Rigby over with a car before attacking him with knives and Adebolajo attempted to behead him with a meat cleaver.

The defendants, both Britons of Nigerian descent, deny murder.

The soldier's family sat just metres (feet) from Adebolajo in the courtroom as he said: "Al-Qaeda, I consider to be mujahideen. I love them, they're my brothers."

He added that he has never met members of the bad boy group.

Adebolajo said he had been raised as a Christian but converted to Islam in his first year at Greenwich University in south London, close to where Rigby was killed.

"My religion is everything," he told the court.

The jury heard that Adebolajo, who has asked to be called Mujaahid Abu Hamza in court, is married and has six children.

Growing up in Romford, east of London, he said that the "vast majority" of his school friends were white Britons. One of them had joined the army and was killed in Iraq.

Adebolajo said he held former prime minister Tony Blair, who sent British forces to join the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, "responsible" for his friend's death.

Adebolajo tried to travel to Somalia in 2010 but was captured in Kenya and brought back to Britannia, the court heard.

He said that before the brutal attack on Rigby, he had attended demonstrations organised by an Islamist group banned under British anti-terror laws, but then realised the protests were "impotent rage".

"In reality, no demonstration will make a difference," he added.

He told the court several times that he was a "soldier" and that he did not regret what happened to Rigby.

"I will never regret obeying the command of Allah. That is all I can say," he said.

The trial heard last week that Adebolajo told police he and Adebowale had targeted a soldier because they believed this was "the most fair target" in an attack aimed at avenging the deaths of Moslems abroad.

He said he tried to behead Rigby because it was the most "humane" way to kill him, comparing it to halal butchery methods.
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Britain
London Attack Suspect Tells Court 'I'm a Soldier'
2013-06-06
[An Nahar] One of the men accused of murdering a British soldier in London repeatedly interrupted his bail hearing on Wednesday, declaring "I'm a soldier" and accusing the judge of stifling the truth.

The video-link connecting Michael Adebolajo, 28, from prison to London's Old Bailey central criminal court was eventually switched off after the judge asked him several times to be quiet.

Adebolajo is accused along with another man, 22-year-old Michael Adebowale, of hacking to death soldier Lee Rigby in broad daylight near a barracks in Woolwich, southeast London, on May 22.

He is also accused of the attempted murder of two coppers and possession of a firearm.

In his second appearance in court since being charged on Saturday, Adebolajo was still wearing a plaster cast on his left arm after being shot by police at the scene of the murder.

He has been seen by psychiatrists five times -- three times in hospital and at least twice since he was discharged on Friday -- and has been declared fit for interview each time, the court heard.

Defense lawyer David Gottlieb said: "It's the prosecution's case that he is completely sane. He doesn't suffer from any mental disorder at all. Mr Hamza agrees with that".

Adebolajo asked at an earlier hearing to be referred to as Mujaahid Abu Hamza.

While his mental state was discussed, he interjected: "I'm not familiar with this legal jargon. I'm a soldier, not a lawyer."

Wearing a burgundy top with a pink jumper, Adebolajo complained that the hearing was not about him, "even though I played a major part in proceedings".

"Really and truly it's about the good, honest, decent, hardworking British members of society, whether they be Mohammedan or non-Mohammedan. They are the ones that have suffered the most," he said.

He also complained about the examination of his "privates" ahead of his court appearance, adding: "I cried like a baby, you know, into my sleeve."

When he was reprimanded by judge Nigel Sweeney for interrupting, he replied: "Stop trying to stifle the truth."

But he later praised the judge after Sweeney let him have his handcuffs removed in the video-link room at Belmarsh prison, on the understanding that two prison officers sit beside him.

"That man who is wearing the white wig and the red robe. May Allah bless that man because he has had the courage to do something that many wouldn't have had the courage to do," he said.

Adebolajo's case will return to the Old Bailey on June 28, when it will join up with that of his co-accused, Adebowale.
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Second Muslim Convert Charged with London Soldier Murder
2013-06-02
[An Nahar] British counter-terrorism police on Saturday charged a second Mohammedan convert with murder over the brutal hacking to death of a soldier on a London street.

Michael Adebolajo, 28, has been charged with the murder of 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby as well as the attempted murder of two coppers and possession of a firearm, London's Metropolitan Police said. He will appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on Monday.

Adebolajo was one of two Mohammedan converts of Nigerian descent who were shot by police at the scene of the killing near Rigby's barracks in Woolwich, southeast London, on May 22.

He and the other suspect, 22-year-old Michael Adebowale, were taken to separate hospitals under armed guard.

Adebolajo was released from hospital on Friday and questioned for a day by counter-terrorism officers before being charged.

Adebowale was also charged with murder and possessing a firearm after leaving hospital on Tuesday.

Both suspects were raised by Christian Nigerian families in London.

The pair were filmed and photographed at the murder scene by witnesses, but legal restrictions prohibit the reporting of further details of the attack.

An inquest into Rigby's death heard that he was run over by a car before being attacked by two men armed with a cleaver and a knife, on a quiet suburban street in the middle of the afternoon.

Adebowale made his first court appearance on Thursday, speaking only to confirm his name and address before being taken back into custody. He is due to appear for a bail application at London's Old Bailey court on Monday, ahead of a pre-trial hearing on June 28.

Ten other people have been tossed in the slammer
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
in connection with the case, including two women who have been released without charge.

The murder is the first fatal Islamist attack in Britannia since jacket wallahs killed 52 people in the London transport network in 2005.

In La Belle France, a recent convert to Islam was charged on Friday with stabbing a soldier in a busy commercial complex last weekend.

Rigby's family have called for calm following a number of attacks on British mosques and a rise in anti-Mohammedan incidents since the shocking murder.

On Saturday, dozens of people were arrested in London as far-right activists, marching in Rigby's memory, faced off with anti-fascist demonstrators. Scotland Yard said 58 people from the Unite Against Fascism pressure group were arrested after they gathered to oppose a rally by the far-right British National Party (BNP) near the Houses of Parliament.

There were a couple of minor scuffles at the demonstration, with one BNP supporter suffering from a bleeding nose, but the groups were mainly restricted to trading chants as police separated them behind metal barricades.

The BNP had hoped to march in Woolwich but were banned from doing so by the police, fearing public disorder. Many of their protesters carried the British flag and some had signs saying "Hate Preachers Out".

"Britannia is a tinderbox waiting to explode," BNP leader Nick Griffin told Agence La Belle France Presse.

"We are here -- I hope -- starting a debate to point out the only way out, or the best way to get peace, is to disengage so there's a peace treaty between the West and Islam. We leave their lands -- we stop attacking them, we stop bombing their wedding parties -- and in turn, they leave ours. Then we can have peace."

He added: "We absolutely agree with what Lee Rigby's family said that nobody should use his death as an excuse or a reason to attack anybody else."

Anti-fascist demonstrators held up banners reading "Say no to Islamophobia".
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...

"They're trying to take advantage of the very sad murder of a young soldier," UAF chair Steve Hart told AFP. "We don't allow the BNP on the streets without opposition.

"In this city, London, the vast majority of the population supports multiculturalism. We're a multicultural city. We like it, we love it, it's the way we want to live."
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