1. suspect in Iran confesses to contacts with MKO — you have terrorists able to function out of areas controlled by the US military
“I have had contacts with MKO via e-mail, although I took no action by the day of election (June 12),” he said during the first court hearing of those involved in the unrests on December 27. The detainee also admitted that he had attended the post-election frenzies on June 15-17, September 18, December 4 and December 27. He also said that the MKO has equipped him with communication tools to document and forge unrests and report them to the headquarters of the terrorist group.
“I took photos of those injured or killed in the unrests and after developing them I provided those attending the demonstrations with these posters and photographs and asked them to use these pictures when marching. “Then I captured these scenes on a video camera and sent them to the MKO” abroad, he said
The MKO has confirmed its role in Tehran’s recent unrests after it declared to the amnesty International that Iranian security forces arrested five members of the group after the frenzy on Ashoura day on December 27. The terrorist group also announced that the five arrestees had come from their camp in Iraq’s Diyala province near Baghdad where they have resided since the 1980s.
…The anti-Iran terror group has been blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many international entities and countries, including the US.
The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a recent letter in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988). …The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.
2. kasab completely discredited by this point, so now everything he claims can be disregarded — like all that stuff he said about the corrupt police
Continuing his flip-flop, Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab on Monday told a special court trying the 26/11 attacks case that all the four terrorists who stormed Taj hotel were Indians. Kasab, whose statement is being recorded by the court on evidences adduced by the prosecution, told Special Judge M.L. Tahaliyani that while one of the terrorists of the Taj hotel siege was a Kashmiri, another was from Gujarat. Kasab claimed the third terrorist at Taj was Abu Ismail from Mumbai. According to prosecution, Ismail was gunned down at Girgaum Chowpatty by the police in an encounter when he along with Kasab was trying to escape. He, however, did not elaborate on the identity of the fourth terrorist at the Taj. The Pakistani terrorist has been making conflicting statements in the court. [oh do tell us what you really think... - ed.]
3. al-shabaab linked to mayhem in Kenya
The Kenyan government now says members of Somalia’s militant Al-Shabaab group were involved in Friday afternoon’s protest, which left at least five people dead. Kenya’s Internal Security Minister, George Saitoti said there were people waving placards belonging to the group and they may have taken advantage of the situation to cause mayhem. He also said that an inquiry would be set up “to thoroughly investigate the violence and stern action taken against those involved.” He added, “We know that there are elements sympathetic to the Al-Shabaab and there may be some of them around here. We were watching very carefully since we knew that they wanted to create problems, but our own people were on the alert and did the best they could. Those elements had planned much bigger mayhem than what you saw yesterday,” Prof Saitoti pointed out.
…On Saturday, Prof Saitoti held a meeting with Muslim leaders where it was agreed unanimously that Al-Faisal should be deported as soon as possible from Kenya. “The man must leave this country as soon as possible. It is a matter of great insult that a foreigner would come to this country and be the source of terrible misunderstanding among Kenyans and lead to destruction of property and injury of people,” he stated. “Sheikh Al-Faisal entered the country on a tourist visa but attracted the attention of government officials when he started preaching messages of hatred.” He described the cleric as an undesirable element after being jailed in the United Kingdom for five years for preaching racial hatred and religious intolerance. “After serving a five year sentence up to 2007, he was subsequently deported to Jamaica. The preacher is on an international watch list of prohibited persons,” Prof Saitoti pointed out that Al-Faisal has even been banned from preaching in his own country of origin.
4. al-faisal trained terrorists to attack 2010 world cup?
A radical Jamaican cleric, Abdullah al-Faisal, who was recently deported from several African countries was operating a “suicide bomber camp” in Botswana, a publication has claimed.
Two young Botswana nationals are said to be under surveillance by law enforcement agencies after evidence emerged that they were at some point under the tutelage of al-Faisal. Abdullah al-Faisal was thrown out of Botswana “on suspicions that he was recruiting young Batswana to become suicide bombers”, the paper said.
According to The Sunday Standard the cleric had links with a Nigerian man who tried to bomb an American airline over the Christmas holidays. Abdullah al-Faisal, who is on an international list of suspected terrorists, was deported from Britain several years ago after preaching hatred against Jews, Hindus, and the West.
…During his stay in Bostwana, al-Faisal is believed to have conscripted young school drop outs “to become terrorists, targeting the FIFA World Cup scheduled to be held in neighboring South Africa by June this year” the paper claimed.
…Born in St James, Jamaica, in 1963 under the name of Trevor William Forrest and raised as a Christian by parents who were very active in the Salvation Army, al-Faisal’s career as a terrorist couldn’t be more surprising. He is believed to have left for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia at the age of 16, where he obtained a degree in Islamic studies, after eight years, before returning to the United Kingdom.
5. that ground has been plowed — innocent people attending or playing sports attacked by terrorists — in the mainstream rags, recently
a. Togo footballers were attacked “by mistake” — Guardian UK
The opening ceremony of Africa’s most famous football tournament went ahead yesterday. Among the VIPs attending was Jacob Zuma, the South African president, intent on expressing his support for Angola ? and African football ? as organisers of Africa’s first World Cup came out fighting against attempts to conflate the Angolan instability with preparations in South Africa. The organisers warned against negative stereotyping of the entire continent, raising the issue of “Afro-pessimism”. Through a spokesman Zuma dismissed speculation that the incident raised questions over security for the World Cup in South Africa five months from now.
b. bomb takes heavy toll at Pakistan sports event - NYT
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Taliban militants underscored their determination on Friday to prevent Pakistani citizens from forming armed militias to keep them at bay, as a suicide bomber rammed a truck loaded with hundreds of pounds of explosives into families and children crowded on a playground in the northwest….The strike was all the more devastating, as the bomber did not choose the most obvious target: a meeting under way of local leaders of the new militia. Instead, he drove his double-cabin pickup truck into the middle of a nearby playing field where teams were playing volleyball. The explosion collapsed homes surrounding the field.
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