Bin Laden accuses Arab leaders, urges jihad
Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:53pm IST 

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden accused conservative Arab leaders of plotting with the West against Muslims and urged his followers to prepare for jihad (holy war), in a recording posted on Islamist websites.

"The hearts of our rulers are like those of the enemies. Whether in Najd (Saudi Arabia) or in Egypt, they never soften, Pharaohs who have returned to humiliate Arabs," he said, reciting a poem honouring Gaza resistance to Israel's offensive.

He also called for the creation of a body of devout clerics to draw up a list warning Muslims about "enemies, hypocrites, their media such as newspapers ... radio stations and satellite channels, of which the most dangerous are the latter two."

The list, he said, should include the British Broadcasting Corporation, U.S.-funded Arabic-language television al-Hurra in Iraq, and the Saudi-funded Al Arabiya channel in Dubai.

Bin Laden described Israel's offensive in Gaza and its attacks on the Palestinian territory as a "holocaust" and said militants wanting to help Gazans should support Iraqis fighting U.S.-led forces and Baghdad's government.

"It is clear that some Arab leaders have plotted with the Zionist-crusader coalition against our (Muslim) people, these (Arab countries) the United States calls the moderate states," bin Laden said.

"We must seriously work and prepare for jihad to enforce the right and abolish the wrong," bin Laden said in the 33-minute audio recording dated March 2009, that was posted on Saturday.


JORDAN

He made a similar call for jihad on January 14.

"The valuable and rare opportunity for those who sincerely want to free (Jerusalem) is to support the mujahideen in Iraq with everything they need to free the country," he said, adding that Jordan would be the next country to be liberated, giving militants access to the West Bank.

The recording entitled "Practical steps to liberate Palestine", in which the speaker's voice sounded like earlier bin Laden messages, was produced by al Qaeda media arm As-Sahab. It was accompanied by an English translation of its text.

"Gaza's holocaust after the long siege is a historic event and tragedy that underlines the need for a separation between Muslims and hypocrites," bin Laden said.

More than 60 messages have been broadcast by bin Laden, his second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri and their allies since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
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Moroccans doin' the Moroccan thing in Amsterdam, no doubt in eager response to the Great Examplary Leader,  Osama Bin Liner's  call to inner spiritual struggle.

Seven people have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of planning a terror attack on an Ikea furniture store and a number of shops near the Ajax stadium in the capital Amsterdam.
The arrests follow a telephone warning to Amsterdam police late on Wednesday evening, police chief Bernard Welten said on Thursday evening.
The caller from Brussels said three people were planning an attack using explosive devices in or near a major department store in the southeast of Amsterdam. The aim was to cause as many casualties as possible, the caller said.
Madrid bombings
Public prosecutor Herman Bolhaar told the press that one of the names mentioned by the caller was a relative of a person involved in the train bombings in Madrid, five years ago. The six men and one woman who were arrested are between 19 and 64 years of age; all of them are Dutch citizens of Moroccan origin. All of them are charged with preparing an act of terrorism. After these arrests, police say the threat has been eliminated, but the prosecutor added that more people may be arrested.

FIRST CANADIAN SENTENCED UNDER NEW CANADIAN TERRORISM LAW!!!! CAN YOU GUESS HIS FIRST NAME?


Come on, have a go. Yitzak? Christopher? Scott? Soren? Hans? Sergei? Viet? No. Your initial guess was correct. Mohammed.  Yawn. Too easy.

Nothing to do with, you know, Mohammedanism, but. Nah. Just another bad apple. The rest of his name is not in the Koran so it has noffin' to do wiv it.

From The Vancouver Sun
OTTAWA — The first Canadian charged under the new Criminal Code provisions of the Anti-terrorism Act was sentenced Thursday to an additional 10 1/2 years in prison for his role in helping a group of Islamic extremists plot to bomb London nightclubs and other targets in 2004.
In an Ottawa courtroom, Ontario Superior Court Justice Douglas Rutherford sentenced Mohammed Momin Khawaja, 29, to another decade and a half behind bars, spread over convictions on seven charges — on top of the five years he has already spent in jail awaiting trial and sentencing. Five of the convictions were charges of participating in, contributing, financing, and facilitating terror, while two other convictions pertained to Khawaja's developing and possessing an explosive device — the so-called Hi-Fi Digimonster.
"He said he wanted to come home. I was hoping we could bring him home," his mother Azra, who visited Khawaja behind bars earlier this week, told Canwest News Service on Thursday.
She and her husband, Mahboob, had hoped their son would be sentenced to time served for spending four years before conviction.
Khawaja told his parents he wanted them to pick up some honey, good meat, and the final episode of the Star Wars saga — just some of things he hasn't had in jail, where he's been a model inmate known for staying out of trouble. He spent his days working out to MuchMusic videos and praying on his mats. (There's a painted arrow on the floor of his cell pointing to Mecca.)
"There's a lot of new movies he hasn't seen," she said. "We still pray and hope he gets out," said his mother, who hopes her son will appeal the conviction.
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Rutherford also chastised Khawaja's parents, who submitted written statements before sentencing that painted "a normal family situation," the judge said.
"There was no mention of the array of military-style rifles, the crates of ammunition, the other weapons, the projectile-pocked human target on the basement wall (of the family's Ottawa home). . . . It is impossible to think that the other members of the family were oblivious to Momin's preoccupation with, and proclivity to participate in, violent jihad."Though he never testified, Khawaja's defence was that he wanted to aid, and someday join, Muslim insurgents fighting Canadian and other NATO troops in Afghanistan, but was unwittingly duped into designing and building electronic triggers — nicknamed the Hi-Fi Digimonster — to detonate bombs the British group secretly planned to explode in and around London.
As this is the first sentencing under the post-9/11 anti-terror laws, Rutherford had no previous Canadian cases to use as sentencing benchmarks.
The London plot ringleader, Omar Khyam, and four others, were sentenced to indeterminate life sentences for conspiring to cause explosions likely to endanger life. None will be considered for parole before they have served at least 17 1/2 years, and some "may never be released," the British trial judge said.



Ther's an awful lot of Muslims being 'unwittingly duped' - but oddly, only when they are caught. Very strange.