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2006-11-06 Britain

Al Qaeda Briton 'plotted to kill thousands'

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Posted by lotp 2006-11-06 11:56|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "another black day for the enemies of Islam and victory for the Muslims", he wrote.

So if we were to blow up Muslim landmarks and public places so as to kill as many people as possible, that would result in a victory for us? I know we're casting about for a strategy for victory and I'm wondering whether Mr. Barot is offering a suggestion.

It's an odd sort of victory that ends with body parts of helpless passerbys strewn about without any bearing on your enemy's military capabilities. Atrocity as victory, with the most ruthless and bloodthirsty cast as the most pious. Brilliant.

Posted by Baba Tutu 2006-11-06 14:51|| 2006-11-06 14:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Barot, from Willesden, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to carry out murder over four years between January 2000 and August 2004.

Note the beginning date.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-11-06 18:13|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-11-06 18:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Part of his plea acknowledges his part in each of the London plots and in the conspiracies to attack the International Monetary Fund and World Bank buildings in Washington, the Stock Exchange and Citigroup buildings in New York, and the Prudential skyscraper in Newark.

In Newark? I really don't see how that would upset the nation in the way attacks on Washington, DC and New York City. Perhaps one of the plotters saw it outside his window every day, and assumed that it must loom over the rest of the country likewise? As for the rest (possibly excepting the IMF and the World Bank -- I don't think they are subject to US rules for such things), starting pre-Y2K and accellerated post-9/11 their transactions are backed up (hourly?) in computers far distant from the work sites, so the tragedies would be that of murder, not at shutting down the nation's/world's economy. More terrorists who aren't as smart as they thought themselves.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-06 18:13|| 2006-11-06 18:13|| Front Page Top

#4 The catastrophic results would have produced "another black day for the enemies of Islam and victory for the Muslims", he wrote.

A few more "victories" like this and Islam will be undone ... probably with nuclear bombs. Muslims had better get a clue as to just how much danger these jihadists are putting them in.

As with their Thundering Silence, the overall lack of reaction by Muslims concerning this peril which jihadis place them in obliges me to assume that they really do not care and tacitly support the terrorists. Silence eventually becomes more than just consent, it becomes a lie.

I doubt there will be the least peep of condemnation chirped by Muslims over Dhiren Barot's plan to kill untold thousands. More likely, in most Islamic quarters there will be secret disappointment.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-06 18:26|| 2006-11-06 18:26|| Front Page Top

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