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Southeast Asia

Singapore hands down first conviction for terror financing

2019-10-19

[DAWN] A Singaporean man became the first of the country's citizens to be tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
for financing terrorism after he was convicted of sending money to a radical Moslem preacher.

There have been a steady stream of arrests in Singapore related to support for extremism, and the affluent city-state's leaders have warned it is a prime target for an attack.

Ahmed Hussein Abdul Kadir Sheik Uduman was tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
for two and a half years for donating Sg$1,146 ($840) to Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal,

... Abdullah Ibrahim al-Faisal, whose mother named him Trevor William Forrest, is also in our archives as Abdullah el-Faisal. After converting to Islam and training in Saudi Arabia, our miscreant preached murder and mayhem across England to a laundry list of bad guys for eleven years, until the Brits jailed him for it in 2003. They deported him to Jamaica four years later. After he spent 2009 touring Africa, Kenya deported him back to Jamaica. In between and since, he apparently has been active online guiding eager young minds toward the jihadi life...

a Moslem preacher living in Jamaica, according to court documents seen by AFP Friday.

Hussein reached out to Faisal after watching videos on his website and YouTube channels in which he preached support for the turban Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) group.

In the old days it was Al Qaeda, with much the same effect.

Faisal was tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
for nine years in Britannia in 2003 after calling for the murders of non-Moslems and was deported to his native Jamaica after serving four years of his sentence.

Hussein, who was handed a prison term on Thursday, was arrested in July 2018 under Singapore's Internal Security Act, which allows for detention without trial for up to two years.

He had been radicalised and "wanted to undertake armed violence in Syria in support of the IS group in Iraq and Syria," court documents said.

The prosecution recommended jail time to send "a strong message to other like-minded individuals that supporting terrorist propaganda through financial means will attract uncompromising punishment", they said.

In September, authorities detained three Indonesian maids without trial over allegations they donated funds to support the IS group. And in July, two Singaporeans accused of intending to join the Death Eaters were arrested.

The IS group lost the last scrap of its self-declared "caliphate" this year but remains influential. There are fears that imported muscle returning from the Middle East could rejuvenate terror networks elsewhere, including in Southeast Asia.

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Britain

Tube driver with al Qaeda links cleared of jihad charge

2010-11-09

A London Underground driver on the Bakerloo line was cleared of plotting terrorist attacks despite writing a goodbye note to his wife and admitting he knew an al Qaeda operative.

Amir Ali, 28, was accused of buying survival gear and had booked flights to Pakistan in order to commit "violent jihad" in Afghanistan. The married father of two wrote a letter to his wife and children declaring "Allah came first."

Ali admitted knowing Anthony Garcia, who was jailed over a plot to blow up the Bluewater shopping mall and other targets with massive fertiliser bombs. He was also said to be associated with Garcia's brothers, Lamine Adam and Ibrahim Adam, who are fugitives.

During the Bluewater trial it emerged that Lamine Adam, a former Tube driver, had been asked by terrorists in Pakistan to launch a suicide attack on the Tube.

Ali was today found not guilty of preparation for acts of terrorism between April 2006 and March last year. He claims that he was framed by the British security services after refusing to become a mole for the MI5.

When asked during the trial whether Muslims were obliged to carry out jihad Ali replied: "I think it's the obligation of a Muslim to follow the Koran."

Just 10 years ago Ali had been an aspiring amateur boxer who twice won the light welterweight division of the London ABA Championships. But Ali left the sport when officials demanded he shave.

The court heard he had studied at the University of North London. At the University's Islamic Society after 9/11, regularly attending talks with Lamine Adam.

Police found Ali's goodbye letter to Miriam and his young children in his rucksack. He told his wife not to be "upset or depressed" as he would always remember her and the children. He also asked for his "wife's forgiveness and that he would see her soon in this life or the thereafter."

Police also found terrorist related items at his home including recordings of imprisoned cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal.

During the trial he distanced himself from al-Faisal, saying he was a victim of Islamophobia and compared his plight to that of the Irish living in the UK during the the IRA bombings and Nelson Mandela.

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Terror Networks & Islam

Scots muslim convert 'Tartan Talibanâ linked to bombers

2005-08-14

We knew this sort of thing was coming. Those in the West who reject the value of western culture aren't free thinkers - they're ripe for conversion to some fundamentalism. What's alarming is that he already was radicalized -- and teaching radical Islamacism -- as early as 2000.

A MUSLIM convert who was arrested on suspicion of being an Al-Qaeda terrorist is thought to have presided over Islamic study circles at a bookshop in Leeds where the 7/7 bombers were radicalised.

The Sunday Times has been told that Scots-born James McLintock, the so-called Tartan Taliban, preached at the Iqra bookshop in 2000, shortly before moving to Pakistan with his family.

His seminars are thought to have been attended by Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, the suspected ringleader of the July 7 suicide attacks on London, and Shehzad Tanweer, 22, the Aldgate bomber. Both had close links to the bookshop. Hasib Mir Hussain, 18, the bus bomber, was also regularly seen at the store, which sold violent anti-western videos and DVDs.

The Scot, who changed his name to Mohammed Yacoub, was arrested by the Pakistani authorities at a checkpoint near the Afghan border in December 2001.

Although he claimed to be working for a charity in the region, he was taken to a military prison and questioned by the CIA and anti-terrorism officers from Scotland Yard. Dundee-born Yacoub was released a month later.

Yacoub, 41, was arrested again while visiting Manchester in 2003. He was questioned by police investigating possible Al-Qaeda cells operating in the UK, but was released without charge. He has consistently denied having terrorist links or knowledge of terrorist activity.

Yacoub lived in Bradford during the mid-1990s. By 2000 he was working in nearby Leeds at a second Islamic bookshop called Rays of Truth with a fellow Muslim convert, Martin Abdullah McDaid.

McDaid, a former special forces soldier, was also closely linked to the Iqra bookshop and knew the three Leeds-based bombers. When The Sunday Times approached him about Yacoub last week, McDaid said: âWhether he was at the Iqra bookstore or not is none of your business â you should fear Allah.â

A former friend of Khanâs said: âYacoub was definitely giving study circles. I remember walking past the Iqra shop one day. I asked who was giving the talk and a brother said it was Yacoub. Other brothers I know were also aware that Yacoub was giving study circles.â

It has also emerged that an extremist Muslim cleric, now in prison, preached at mosques in the district of Leeds where three of the four bombers lived.

Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal was jailed in 2003 for inciting followers in study circles, which he conducted across the country, to murder Jews, Christians and Hindus. He also encouraged teenage boys to train and die in the name of Allah.

Afzal Choudhary, a race equality worker in Leeds, said: âSheikh Faisal came at least twice to Beeston. I should know, because I was one of the people opposed to his coming.â

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Europe

UK: Radical Preacher Incites Muslims To Rob Banks

2005-04-14

via JihadWatch
A Jamaican-born militant Islamic preacher has been giving 'jihad' or holy war a new meaning, by reportedly urging impoverished Muslims to take matters into their own hands and wage war on infidel institutions such as banks - by robbing them. "Are you poor? Don't cry about it, but wage jihad, also by holding up banks," London-based Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal, a well-known supporter of al-Qaeda, urged the faithful in a sermon. A report on the sermon was published by website globalterroralert.com

"Let's speak about jihad and how to obtain the spoils. Many Muslims complain about not having the financial means to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca," said al-Faysal. "Many are also sad because the women they want to marry rejects them because they are not wealthy enough," he added. "Do you, like many, cry because you are poor? If so, wage jihad! Look at all the money stashed away in Swiss banks. There's bank in Brunei where King Fahd has deposited 30 million dollars. If you are suffering from poverty, wage jihad and see the money pour into your hands."

Al-Faysal, who studied Sharia law in Saudi Arabia, has preached a number of sermons considered to have incited Muslim hatred towards Jews and Christians.The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has asked Britain to expel him on the grounds that his presence in Britain is a threat to public order.

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