Al-Qaeda has Taken Over Iraq!

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Originally posted by Oerdin
You most certainly are. You just can't be your normal irritating self using lies and half truthes to disguise and agenda. In short your perfectly free but you just have to pretend you are a normal person. I'm sure you can manage it.

HEY!
I wanted that crap stopped! ENOUGH with the personal crap.

What part of my warning about stopping your little flame war do you NOT understand!

[Drake Tungsten]

Video on Daqduq's capture...

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Frikkin Dig Dug always blowin stuff up.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

AQ in Iraq is nothing at all like AQ. They don't share the same ideology or tactics.

Al Qaeda In Iraq Behind U.K. Bomb Plot?
Sources Tell CBS News Suspects Recruited By Leader Of Terror Group's Iraq Branch

LONDON, July 3, 2007

(CBS/AP) British intelligence services increasingly believe that the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow bear the fingerprints of al Qaeda in Iraq, CBS News has learned.

Intelligence sources tell CBS News that the people behind the attempts were directly recruited by Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the present leader of the terror group's Iraq franchise.

Police investigating the plot had arrested eight people Tuesday, including at least six suspects trained as doctors, including a man of Indian nationality arrested in Australia.

Sources close to the investigation told CBS News that another two or three arrests were likely to be seen in Britain, but that two of the people already in custody were likely to be released without charge.

Later Tuesday, two men were arrested in northwestern England under the Terrorism Act, but a police statement said it was "too early to confirm whether or not these arrests are linked to recent events in London and Glasgow."

Sky News, citing law enforcement sources, reported that the suspects — two men — were arrested in Blackburn, England after they were seen trying to collect a number of gas canisters from an industrial site.

Sources tell CBS News that al-Muhajir recruited people for the plot between 2004 and 2005, while they were living in the Middle East, upon orders from then-al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Al-Muhajir was told to recruit young men who could easily move into Western countries, assimilate and lay low until the time came to attack. Britain has a fast-track visa program for medical students which makes it easier for them to enter the country.

The belief that this small cell of militants was recruited purposely by a major terror organization for their specific qualifications differentiates the group from the cell of "homegrown" attackers who were behind the bloody July 7, 2005 attack that left 52 people dead on London's transport network.

Terrorism expert Paul Kurtz told CBS' Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith Tuesday, "there is concern they used a trusted profession, recently arrived to the U.K., that's a new mode of operation."

There have been a number of security scares since the failed car bombings, the latest coming Tuesday afternoon with authorities evacuating Terminal 4 at London's Heathrow Airport for five hours.

"A suspect bag was identified shortly before midday in Terminal 4," said a statement released by the British Airports Authority.

"As an extra precaution, it was decided to perform secondary searches on all departing passengers at the aircraft gate," which necessitated the evacuation of the terminal, the statement added. Authorities "stood down" the security situation five hours later and reopened the terminal, according to a later statement from the BAA.

(Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
Tuesday morning London police briefly blocked traffic around Hammersmith Station, in west London (seen at left), due to a suspicious package. The situation was quickly resolved by a controlled explosion.

No explosives were found and morning rush hour traffic was soon allowed back through the area.

The eighth arrest confirmed as part of the bomb plot investigation was made Monday in Brisbane, Australia. The 27-year-old man is also a doctor who had been working in Liverpool, England until a few months ago, according to CBS News sources.

Britain's Sky News identified the man as Mohammed Haneef, and reported that was arrested at Brisbane's airport as he attempted to board a flight with a one-way ticket. Sky said officials had refused to confirm reports that Haneef was bound for India, via Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Police were executing a number of search warrants across Queensland state, Australia including one at the hospital where the suspect worked recently, Australian authorities said. More arrests were expected.

Speaking in Canberra Tuesday, Australian Prime Minister John Howard confirmed the doctor arrested is an Indian national, and he also revealed that a second doctor was being interviewed in relation to information given to counterterror authorities by the first suspect.

Officials say both doctors worked at the Gold Coast Hospital in southeast Queensland and were both recruited from Liverpool.

The Indian doctor was arrested at the state capital Brisbane airport as he was about to leave the country Monday night. The second doctor was being interviewed by police Tuesday but has not been arrested.

Meanwhile, a bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion Tuesday morning on a suspicious car parked outside the Forth Street Mosque in Glasgow, reported CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer.

"There's absolutely no specific information to indicate that this vehicle is a threat, however we have been working very closely over the past few days with the bomb squad," Superintendent Stewart Daniels, of Strathclyde Police, told the British Broadcasting Corp.

Police said there was no indication that the mosque had any connection to the bombing attempt in Glasgow, or to two cars packed with gasoline and gas canisters discovered in London on Friday.

Investigators have searched 19 locations in Britain as part of the "fast-moving investigation" and arrested eight people, including a total of six trained as medical doctors, CBS News can confirm.

Authorities identified Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi doctor who worked at the Glasgow hospital, as the other man arrested at the airport.

According to the British General Medical Council's register, a man named Bilal Talal Abdul Samad Abdulla was registered in 2004 and trained in Baghdad. Staff at the Glasgow hospital said Abdulla was a diabetes specialist.

Britain's The Independent and The Muslim News newspapers reported that a man arrested in Liverpool late Saturday was a 26-year-old doctor from Bangalore, India, who worked at Halton Hospital in Cheshire, northern England. Police would not immediately comment on the reports.

The Muslim News also said the Indian doctor had used the car, cell phone and Internet account of a fellow physician who had moved from England to Australia around a year ago. It said police had asked friends of the Indian for details about the man who went to Australia.

Yet another medical trail leads to Jordan, where Mohammad Asha — arrested Saturday in northern England — received his initial medical training.

Mohammed Asha seems a very unlikely terrorist, reports CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar. And although he has not yet been charged, there are suggestions that he is central to the plot to blow up two massive car bombs in the heart of London last Friday, and that he may be closely linked to the two men who attacked Glasgow airport on Saturday. (Read more)

The attempted attacks in London and Glasgow came as Britain was already on heightened alert, with the second anniversary of the July 7 bombings on the horizon.

In the latest attacks, two car bombs failed to explode in central London on Friday and two men rammed a Jeep Cherokee loaded with gas cylinders into the entrance of Glasgow International Airport and then set it on fire Saturday.

The British government security official said investigators were working on one theory that the same people may have driven the explosives-laden cars into London and the blazing SUV in Glasgow.

The unidentified driver of the Jeep was being treated for serious burns at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Glasgow, where he was under arrest. Bomb experts carried out a second controlled explosion on a car at the hospital Monday, after a similar blast Sunday. Police said the car was linked to the investigation, but no explosives had been found.

Damn those Brits for playing puppet to teh BUSh admin lies of all things bad= AQ.

[Drake Tungsten]

This thread sure has gotten quiet since che laid down the truth and left us picking up the pieces of our propaganda.