Al Qaeda, Suicide Bombers
Failed terrorist attacks overseas linked to June's graduating suicide bomber class in Pakistan?
By Judi McLeod
Monday, July 2, 2007
Just three weeks after ABC's Brian Ross broke an exclusive story including video evidence that some 300 recruits had been sent off on suicide missions to the west following an enmasse"graduation ceremony", came the failed London and Glasgow bombings.
"The terror hunt comes three weeks after a so-called al Qaeda"graduation ceremony" in Pakistan is reported to have sent some 50 suicide bombers operating in teams to Britain and other Western countries," the UK Daily Mail reported yesterday.
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Dr. Mohammed Asha |
Ditto for a June 21 Canada Free Press (CFP) story in which celebrated Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir confirmed the Ross story as"absolutely true".
"It's absolutely true," said Mir who early last month sent his family abroad because of threats, when his children were followed to school.
Mir told Polish-based journalist David Dastych. "The bomber recruits are coming via Dubai to Kabul, via Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, posing under cover of tourists and traders."
Anti-terrorist detectives swooped on five members of the suspected terrorist gang across Britain after gathering crucial clues from phones found in the two London car bombs.
"The phones were meant to trigger a blast when they were called. The bombers twice called the car outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in Haymarket, and the one in Cockspur Street four times, but the bombs failed to detonate for technical reasons." (www.dailymail.co.uk, July 1, 2007).
"Two more men, aged 28 and 25, have been arrested over the terror attack on Glasgow airport.
"Police have been searching for two al Qaeda terrorists linked to the failed London and Glasgow bombings, but it's unclear whether the arrested men are those police were hunting.
"Two other members of the suspected terror gang, believed to be doctors, are being questioned today after being trapped by their mobile phones."
Traces on the mobile phones' calls led police to addresses in Liverpool, Staffordshire and Glasgow.
Police said the links between the London attacks and that in Glasgow, where two men tried to smash a blazing vehicle into the city's airport on Saturday afternoon, were"becoming ever clearer".
One of the Glasgow attackers is believed to be a doctor, possibly an Iraqi. One suffered 90 per cent burns and was too ill to be questioned.
The search has been able to put a face on the weekend horrors, the suspected ringleader of the plot, Saudi Arabian-born Neurologist, Mohammed Asha, 26, whose name is chillingly close to that of Mohammed Atta, suspected ringleader of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Mohammad Asha and his burka-clad wife, 27 were cornered by police as they drove on the M6 in Cheshire with their two-year-old son on Saturday.
Police are believed to have been alerted to Dr. Asha's car after his number plate flashed up on an automatic number plate recognition camera.
Dr. Asha had recently started a job at the North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent.
As according to the Daily Mail, he appears on the British Medical Register as Mohammed Jamil Abdelqader Asha and qualified in Jordan in 2004, so it was only a matter of time before his picture surfaced on the Internet.
In one of those classic textbook"the-mass murderer-looked-like-such-a-nice-guy" comments, local resident Daniel Robinson said:"It's fairly disturbing but at the same time I find it very hard to believe, having met the gentleman, that he's involved in any way in terrorism."
London Mayor Ken Livingstone called on Britons on Saturday not to demonize Muslims after the double car bomb plot was foiled in the capital, amid fears of an Islamist terrorist threat.
In the UK the national terror warning remains at critical, its highest level, amid fears of an imminent further attack.
Meanwhile, three weeks ago suicide bombers operating in pairs were reported to be headed to Canada, America and Europe.
Where are they now and when will they strike next?
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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