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February 16, 2009 British Jihad News

(UK) 'No Day This Year without a Terror Trial'
-- UK Home Secretary asked: "British government members stopped using the terms 'war on terror' or 'Islamic terrorists.' You tend to speak of 'anti-Islamic activists.' Why?"
-- Replies: "we are talking about criminal acts that have nothing to do with the principles of Islam"
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,607801,00.html

(UK) Report: "UK to shift anti-terror strategy"
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1976234&Language=en
-- BBC: "A senior Whitehall source said that Muslim leaders who urge separation will be isolated and publicly rejected"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7889631.stm
-- "Extremist Muslim preachers targeted in new counter-terrorism strategy"
---- Abdurraheem Green, who views "Islam is not compatible with democracy," calls for wife-beating sought by UK police for "advice"
---- "the Metropolitan Police has sought Abdurraheem Green's advice recently... the preacher insists that in spite of his conservative views about life in Britain he is 'part of the solution' to extremism because young people listen to him"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4639626/Extremist-Muslim-preachers-targeted-in-new-counter-terrorism-strategy.html

(UK) Guardian: "Anti-terror code 'would alienate most Muslims'"
-- Guardian says new anti-terror code would alienate those calling for caliphate, Sharia, support Jihad, etc.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/17/counterterrorism-strategy-muslims

(UK) Spy chief: We risk a police state
-- "Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, has warned that the fear of terrorism is being exploited by the Government to erode civil liberties and risks creating a police state"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4643415/Spy-chief-We-risk-a-police-state.html
--- Comment: remember this is the same MI5 that views more Islam as the solution to Jihadist terrorism
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html#T04
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/20/uksecurity.terrorism1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3561662/How-to-target-the-extremists.html

(Somalia/UK) UK: 60 British youth fighting Jihad in Somalia
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/02/uk-60-british-youth-fighting-jihad-in.html
-- UK: Jihadis to Somalia
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/02/uk-jihadis-to-somalia.html

(Somalia/UK) British Muslim student killed 20 in suicide bomb attack in Somalia
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1146290/Revealed-British-Muslim-student-killed-20-suicide-bomb-attack-Somalia.html?ITO=1490
--- Growing number of British men joining Islamic radicals in Somalia
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4638987/Growing-number-of-British-men-joining-Islamic-radicals-in-Somalia.html
--- Suicide bomber from Ealing is first in a new wave of Islamic terror
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23643466-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&

(Somalia/UK) Somalia's terror recruits return to UK
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/somalias+terror+recruits+return+to+uk/2954747
-- Somalia-trained terrorists back in Britain
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/02/16/Somalia-trained_terrorists_back_in_Britain/UPI-83721234804431/
-- Somali radicals 'importing terror to UK' say intelligence analysts
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5741300.ece

(Somalia/UK) Somalia, the 'new Pakistan'?
-- "A young man blows himself up in Somalia, killing several people, but he is from Ealing in west London. He is just one of scores of Muslims believed to have travelled from the UK to join Islamist militants in one of the world's worst failed states."
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/somalia+the+new+pakistan/2956057
--- Comment: unfortunately when UK's Channel 4 refers to "failed states," it doesn't acknowledge UK's responsibility



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