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It would seem that the Alquds Mosque at 150 Dyke Road, Brighton has a similar history to Finsbury Park mosque, in that the original imam (Dr Abduljalil Sajid) was ousted (by Abubaker Deghayes and his followers).
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The takeover of the [Al-Quds Brighton] mosque is similar to the coup executed at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London by Abu Hamza, the hook-handed cleric jailed last year for inciting murder, who drove out the trustees and imam using violence and slander so he could use the site to expound his extremist rhetoric.
Abubaker Deghayes and his followers had used threats and actual violence to take control of the mosque, backed up by court records. On four occasions between December 1996 and January 1997, Abubaker Deghayes had physically attacked Dr Sajid. (source)
The Times article of 18/6/06 also reported that Sussex police Special Branch had held a number of meetings with the ousted imam (Dr Abduljalil Sajid) regarding extremist elements at the site, but no overt action was taken. Dr Abduljalil Sajid (chairman of the Muslim Council for Religious and Racial Harmony) is also understood to have raised his concerns about the mosque with Tony Blair.
The Brighton Mosque is also the place where French Muslim convert David Courtailler had converted to Islam, after arriving in Brighton in 1997 while a recovering drug addict (source). The same times article of 18/6/06 states:
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David Courtailler, a convicted supporter of Al-Qaeda who is connected to a number of terrorists responsible for the Madrid bombings and 9/11, converted to Islam at the Brighton mosque days before travelling to Afghanistan.
Courtailler, who was sentenced to four years in prison in 2004 for aiding terrorists, was given £1,000 by Omar Deghayes [Abubaker Deghayes' brother - now in Guantanamo] to travel to a jihad training camp in Afghanistan, according to records of his Paris trial.
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Brighton mosque head harassed
An extension to an injunction brought by Imam Dr Abdaljalil Sajid, director of the Brighton Mosque to prevent four men harassing him was granted by Brighton County Court on 12 February.Maria Hancock, representing Dr Sajid, told the court her client was in genuine fear of his safety.She said:"Dr Sajid is being prevented from doing his administrative duties and leading prayers.He is a man who wants to go about his business without being threatened or assaulted."The underlying dispute was over the management of the mosque and Muslim centre. Defendants Abubakar Aldigies, Aasim Altkriti, Mohamad Elshibli and Abu Zaid were granted an identical injunction against Dr Sajid. The hearing was adjourned until 3 March(Brighton Evening Argus, 12.02.97). [BMMS February 1997 Vol. V, No. 2, p. 5/6]
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In pictures: Barot's terror plans
Dhiren Barot's book, the Army of Madinah in Kashmir
According to Barot's book about fighting in Kashmir, he "began his career as a Mujahid" fighting "in Indian-occupied Kashmir against the Hindu oppressors" - before returning to the UK.
Dhiren Barot apparently, using the pseudonym Esa Al Hindi, wrote a book, The Army of Madinah in Kashmir, in 1999. Dtails of the book cover are here (which state that he fought in Kashmir before returning to the UK to then write the book. He then (it goes on) went to Afghanistan for a year & became a trainer of the Mujahideen. He then retired & moved to Thailand (where he then married).
This Times article of November 2006 states that 'Counter-terrorism sources say they have been able to prove the book is Barot’s work at around a dozen evidential points'.
The Times article also states...'Partly a manual for would-be Kashmir fighters and latterly a rambling political essay, the book contains gruesome accounts of conflicts on the Indian-Pakistan border.
The book, published by an Islamic bookstore in Birmingham and still freely available, also has Barot discussing the merits of targeting Western nations and citing the IRA as a potential role model.'
The publisher was: Maktabah Al Ansar Publications 316 Ladypool Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham, B12 6JY, England.
An Islamic bookshop, two houses and several vehicles have been raided by police in the West Midlands.
A spokesman said one man had been arrested for firearms offences and was being held in custody.
A large quantity of cash, documentation and electronic equipment was seized on Tuesday by police for forensic examination, the spokesman added.
At least 10 police officers searched an Islamic bookshop in the Sparkbrook area of the city.
Police took several items from the Maktabah Al Ansaar Islamic Booksellers and Publishers, although officers refused to confirm if the premises were searched under anti-terrorism legislation.
Police are believed to have been accompanied by officers from MI5.
The police spokesman added: "This is an inquiry which is likely to take some time to complete."
Mr Begg also confirmed that his son had been arrested in the 2000 raid on the Al Ansar bookshop by MI5.
"He was a partner of the shop, or something, and had all sorts of books. He was accused of making a rifle in a shop. They [MI5] went to his shop and the house," said Azmat Begg. "'They suspected him because they all had beards. It was circumstantial - there was so much suspicion of him and then they started doing things to him."
He added, however, that the investigations into his son came to nothing, saying: "They couldn't do anything. They didn't find anything. He was arrested. They thought that he was doing something funny.
"They knew he had a computer and thought what he was doing was stored in the computer so they took it away. He was laughing. They tried to get him to reveal the code on his computer. They took him to court and the judge said he could not compel him to reveal it."
Moazzam Begg travelled to Afghanistan in April 2001 to work as a teacher. He was snatched by the US and Pakistani authorities after a money order allegedly bearing the name Moazzam Begg was found at an al-Qa'eda base.
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In Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed's paper 'Inside the Crevice (originally redacted in his 2006 book 'The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry [2006] - unredacted sections published August 2007), he suggests that one of those associated with the Dhiren Barot gang was Mohammad Sidique Khan
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When Bakri boasted in April 2004 of several terrorist attacks being planned in London by al-Qaeda in Europe, it seems he was referring partly to the Bluewater and nightclub plot shut down by Operation Crevice. But he must have been referring to others, as the latter plot had already been intercepted by police in the March arrests. Indeed, by August 2004, another 13 young Britons of Pakistani origin were identified as terrorist suspects in Luton. Eight were arrested in an attempt to foil a terrorist plot discovered on the laptop computer of Naeem Noor Khan, a captured al-Qaeda leader in Lahore, Pakistan. Once again, five unidentified individuals evaded arrest: among them was Mohammad Sidique Khan. This was the notorious multi-targeted plot led by convicted al-Qaeda terrorist Dhiren Barot, aimed at financial buildings in New York and Washington, but including other sub-plots such as the gas limo project, a dirty bomb project, among others.
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An older article from SpyBlog. I have added a comment on the Spyblog site re Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed's paper 'Inside the Crevice'.
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Dhiren Barot - life sentence for impractical "movie plot" terrorist plans ?
The conviction of Dhiren Barot, leading to a life sentence with a tariff of 40 years before being eligible for parole, is remarkable. He appears to have been an active terrorist plotter, but just how much of a real threat are his alleged , detailed, professional plots ?
From the media reports, none of these alleged plots, appear to as well researched or as detailed, as those in the books and films by authors such as Tom Clancy - should he and his researchers and co-authors also be serving 40 years or more in prison ?
Given that many of the readers of Spy Blog (or of Tom Clancy novels) have at least as much knowledge of potential targets and techniques as Dhiren Barot appears to have had, we are worried about this "thought crime" conviction with no actual evidence of means and capability to put into action any of the "movie plots", which he appears to have been researching. Just because he pleaded guilty, presumably for the purposes of self martyrdom, this is only evidence of evil intent, not of an actual, realistic, threat.
We are sceptical about the practicality of any of the various "movie plots" which the British media and authorities and legal system seem to have taken for granted would inevitably cause "thousands of casualties".
As with all recent terrorism cases, there has been a flurry of "background" information (not actual evidence used in Court) released to the media , after the trial is over, mostly from anonymous and therefore untrustworthy "security sources".
It is noticeable that the supposedly "cooperative" Al Queda "computer and communications" expert, Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, whose arrest seems to have triggered that of Dhiren Barot, was not called as a witness from Pakistan, where he may well have been coerced or tortured.
The TV news media showed their weakness for moving images, any scrap of video, no matter how incidental or irrelevant, which they will repeat over and over again, drawing the wrong conclusions from it.
In this case it was a few seconds of an utterly amateur video taken in the deserted streets around the New York Stock Exchange, zooming in ineptly on a CCTV pan tilt zoom camera dome. The footage was obviously taken on foot, from the pavement, with nobody else about, rather than,, say from a vehicle. If this was meant to be "professional terrorist" target reconnaissance, then we have little to fear.
There was also a shot of the World Trade Center towers taken with the camera on its side, and the audio sound of someone saying "boom". There was also a shot of what look like a couple of unpressurised stainless steel liquid nitrogen flasks / gas containers on the pavement.
The impression given by the media was that Barot was somehow planning to blow up and topple the Twin Towers, but it could also have been a reference to the previous 1993 failed attempt, which did cause lots of damage and casualties, but which had no realistic chance of toppling the buildings .
There are no allegations that Dhiren Barot was involved in, or had prior knowledge of, the September 11th 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon etc.
The most important feature of this video clip is not the titbit that it was apparently found spliced into a Bruce Willis "Die Hard" video to help conceal it (why was it not encrypted, if this really was such a professional terrorist ?).
The aspect which is studiously not being reported or commented on by the UK media, is that this video "evidence" of a plot, was shot in April 2001, and obtained 3 years later in 2004 in Pakistan.
This "new and unusually specific information" was the basis of the decision by the Tom Ridge, in charge of the US Department of Homeland Security to increase the Terrorist Alert status to "Orange" , around the financial districts of New York, New Jersey and Washington, just after Democratic Party Convention had raised the standing of Senator Kelly in the opinion polls, during the 2004 Presidential Election, and before the Republican Party Convention.
Magically the the terrorist alert status and increased, yet counter-productive, security measures (they created long queues of CitiBank employees which stretched out into the street, thereby increasing their vulnerability to a car bomb or drive by shooting or sniper attack) around these buildings, were relaxed on November 10th 2004, i.e. after the Presidential Election held on 2nd November 2004.
In other words this 3 year old video footage was cynically hyped up for political opinion poll advantage, to pretend that the USA was under a current, imminent, threat to these financial sector buildings even though the alleged terrorist masterminds were in custody in the UK and in Pakistan.
Someone in the UK appears to have released an edited version of what was claimed to be Dhiren Barot's "business case" to his unnamed Al Quaeda superiors of his most advanced idea - the "gas limos" plot to the Press Association
Was this written in English or another language ?
Gas cylinders in a stretched limo (which have a large carrying capacity, but are able to get into an underground car park with height restrictions which would prevent a van or lorry from doing so), with explosives attached, supposedly to create a large gas explosion ?
No terrorist bomb makers, not even sophisticated ones like the IRA, with years of experience and practice of using ammonium nitrate, petrol tankers, gas cylinders etc. have ever managed to transform commercial gas cylinders into the equivalent of military Fuel Air Explosives or Thermobaric weapons, which might have a chance of collapsing a large office building. Getting an fuel aerosol or gas cloud mixed with the right proportion of oxidiser, is not as simple as attaching some explosives to a gas cylinder.
Neither is it as simple as having electronically controlled release valves to produce a gas cloud, with a delayed detonation circuit, as was demonstrated by the recent failed "suitcase bomb" attacks on German railway stations this July 2006.
Why should anyone believe that Dhiren Barot could manage this first time, from a standing start, with no practice ? We note that the "budget" in his "business plan" does not seem to include anything for actual weapons development and testing.
We are extremely sceptical of the other alleged "business cases" for supposed terrorist plots.
Are these in fact deliberate disinformation to let the hysterical media cause panic and terror, by fingering many possible targets, which are impractical to actually attack ?
Or are they just brainstorming ideas, which have been discarded after a bit of detailed investigation as to their practicality and feasibility ?
It is all very well to claim that a Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD) i.e. a "dirty bomb", could be useful to a terrorist in order to cause panic and fear and economic damage, but creating and deploying one is another matter altogether.
Dhiren Barot's apparently favoured source of radioactive material i.e. Americium241 Oxide from domestic smoke detectors is is utterly impractical, given the thousands of such smoke detectors he would have had to purchase or steal, without arousing suspicion. It is all very well for his alleged notes to state the obvious e.g. that a highly radioactive gamma source like Cobalt 60 would make a very effective RDD "dirty bomb", but there is no evidence that he had any realistic prospect of getting access to this, or to the "hot cell" which would be needed to protect anyone trying to construct such a device, without, as he apparently notes, killing even suicide terrorists before they have completed their mission.
If you were a senior Al Quaeda, leader, who did actually have access to some, say, Cobalt 60 radioactive isotopes, would you hand them over to an Indian born convert to Islam, with British citienship, or would your natural caution and racism make you suspect that he could be an Indian or British or other intelligence agent trying to track down any nuclear weapons or radiioactive "dirty bomb" plans and materials you may have ?
The other "movie plot" idea which the UK media seem to have latched on to is the idea of somehow, magically, creating a large enough explosion to breach the London Underground tunnels which go under the River Thames.
This plays on the understandable fears of many people of being trapped in a Tube train with rising flood waters under the Thames (most people do not think of the risk of flooding or tunnel collapse in other parts of the London Underground, e.g. from burst water mains). However, the amount of explosive required, without any drilling to position explosive charges in the tunnel roof, to breach several metres of reinforced concrete, steel casing and bedrock, would be huge, and would require the hijacking of an entire train, and probably of the signalling and electrical power control rooms as well. If you could do that (or have a huge bomb on board a river vessel, or a military aircraft dropped deep penetration "bunker buster" bomb) then, you could easily cause far more casualties or hit more sensitive targets, than by flooding part of the Tube network.
If this plan was seriously being considered, then why was the supposedly meticulous Dhiren Barot not also investigating other underground railways which pass under rivers or the sea e.g. Paris or New York ? Why not the Channel Tunnel ?
Our suspicion that Dhiren Barot was employing disinformation techniques to point the finger at targets which he was not really going after is strengthened by the reports that the Police recovered 600 sets of keys (not cryptographic keys, actual metal keys) and spent lots of time and effort searching 4,000 lockup garages and storage facilities which they might have opened, but have only found 77 of them so far. No weapons or explosives or radioactive sources appear to have been found in any of these.
This case does not prove the case for an even longer period pre-charge detention period than the current 28 days - he was successfully charged and convicted under the previous 14 days regime.
Barot, who has not been shown to have committed any terrorist or other attacks in the UK, whatsoever, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for at least 40 years, without any access to explosives, firearms, chemical , biological or radioactive materials in his possession, or any evidence that his "movie plot" ideas had ever got to the prototype or trial run stage.
So what if there are still unencrypted data files on some computer hard disks, which could possibly lead to further charges, they cannot lead to further criminal penalties !
We note the claims that Dhiren Barot used several false identities. [Nine British Passports - count'em]
Exactly how many of these were false British identities [NINE], involving either Passports or Driving Licences, i.e. ones which a perfectly working National Identity Register and ID Card scheme might have had a chance of detecting ?
We suspect that none of them are in this category, and that the Dhiren Barot case cannot be used to justify the claim that somehow the controversial National Identity Register will be of any ise in preventing terrorist attacks.
We noted that fingerprint and DNA analysis was used to check which chemical hazard reference books Dhiren Barot had consulted in various University reference libraries, e.g. at Brunel University.
Even if Barot had somehow succeeded in causing hundreds or thousands of casualties, he would still have utterly failed to destroy our Western democratic civilisation.
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