British Militants Openly Support Bin Laden and the Rule of Islam

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/26/international/europe/26EURO.html?hp

By PATRICK E. TYLER and DON VAN NATTA Jr.

Published: April 26, 2004

LUTON, England, April 24 — The call to jihad is rising in the streets of Europe, and is being answered, counterterrorism officials say.

In this former industrial town north of London, a small group of young Britons whose parents emigrated from Pakistan after World War II, have turned against their families' new home. They say they would like to see Prime Minister Tony Blair dead or deposed and an Islamic flag hanging outside No. 10 Downing Street.

They swear allegiance to Osama bin Laden and his goal of toppling Western democracies to establish an Islamic superstate under Shariah law, like Afghanistan under the Taliban. They call the Sept. 11 hijackers the "Magnificent 19" and regard the Madrid train bombings as a clever way to drive a wedge into Europe.

On Thursday evening, at a tennis center community hall in Slough, west of London, their leader, Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammad, spoke of his adherence to Osama bin Laden. If Europe fails to heed Mr. bin Laden's offer of a truce — provided that all foreign troops be withdrawn from Iraq in three months — Muslims will no longer be restrained from attacking the Western countries that host them, Sheik Mohammad said.

"All Muslims of the West will be obliged," he said, to "become his sword" in a new battle. Europeans take heed, he added, saying, "It is foolish to fight people who want death — that is what they are looking for."...

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1. Britain, I hope you get a handle on this. Anotehr reason to get the Labor

Party to put Blair in prison.

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2. Small pack of idiots

I don't believe they represent anything but their own stupidity.

On edit: Of course, that doesn't mean they won't eventually pose a threat. Sigh.

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3. it needed only a small pack of 19...

...to kill 3000+ ...

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5. I had that thought right after I posted.

I'm fed up and frustrated by so many folks who are bent on killing to achieve their aims. I don't care where they come from or why. But, then again I have to remind myself that many of these are kids with limited life experience.

Isn't it sad that the older 'leaders' of these movements never see any need to strap themselves up to a bomb. They just push these kids.

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4. good heavens we are screwed

what have we done? I'm speechless