Dutch arrest 12 "men of Somali origin" thought to be ready to launch jihad attack

Merry Christmas, Infidel! Of course, there is no mention of the ideology driving the "terror" plot. "Dutch arrest 12 thought to be ready to launch terror attack," from CNN, December 25:

Dutch authorities have arrested 12 men of Somali origin they believe were about to carry out a terrorist attack, authorities said Saturday.

The country's intelligence service provided information that led to the arrests in Rotterdam, Public Prosecution Service spokesman Wim de Bruin told CNN.

No weapons or explosives were found and there has been no increase in the Netherlands' terror alert level, he said. The suspects are in police custody.

"The attack was said to be imminent so the national police started an investigation which led to the arrest of 12 Somalis later on Friday in Rotterdam," de Bruin said. "We are not sure about what the target was, how they were going to carry out the attack or when."

The men, between ages 19 and 48, were arrested in various locations. Police have searched a pawn shop, four homes and two hotel rooms, de Bruin said.

Six of the suspects live in Rotterdam and one is from Denmark. Some are Dutch citizens. They all are of Somali origin, de Bruin said.

Posted by Marisol on December 25, 2010 6:29 AM

Misunderstanders of Islam "call on our brothers to come to Somalia and to help us expand the East Africa jihad"

It's funny how none of the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims seems interested in going to Mogadishu to explain to al-Shabaab how they're getting Islam and jihad all wrong, wrong, wrong. Honest Ibe? Brave Ahmed? Boy Reza? Anyone? Anyone? "Somalia: Al Shabaab calls for continuation of 'East Africa jihad,'" from Garowe Online, December 25:

Somali insurgents have called on Al Qaeda terrorist network to 'come to Somalia' and join what the insurgents called 'East Africa jihad', Radio Garowe reports. Al Shabaab insurgent spokesman, Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage "Ali Dheere," told a press conference in Mogadishu on Friday that Al Qaeda fighters should come to Somalia to "expand the East Africa jihad."

Sheikh Rage. What an apt name for an Islamic jihad leader.

"We call on our brothers [Al Qaeda] to come to Somalia and to help us expand the East Africa jihad," Ali Dheere said, who was sitting alongside former Hizbul Islam insurgent spokesman, Sheikh Abdifatah Mohamed Ali....

Posted by Robert on December 25, 2010 12:37 PM

Somali-born teenager held over U.S. 'car bomb' plot after tip-off from someone concerned about him

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:28 AM on 29th November 2010

Mohamud was arrested the day after Americans celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday

A Somali-born U.S. citizen arrested after allegedly attempting to bomb a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony was stopped after police received a tip-off from someone concerned about the teenager.
A law enforcement official revealed that Mohamed Osman Mohamud was acting on his own - without any instruction from a foreign terrorist organisation.
Yelling 'Allahu Akbar!' - Arabic for 'God is great!' - he tried to kick agents and police as they went to arrest him, according to prosecutors.
He was held after he had just dialled a mobile phone that he thought would blow up a van full of explosives at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon.
The 'bomb' was a dummy supplied by undercover agents as part of a sting.
Mohamud was arrested at about 5.45pm local time, the day after Americans celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday.
'This defendant's chilling determination is a stark reminder that there are people - even here in Oregon - who are determined to kill Americans,' said U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton.
'We have no reason to believe there is any continuing threat arising from this case.'
Mohamud, a naturalised U.S. citizen living in Corvallis, Oregon, was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. He's due to appear in court on Monday.
The arrest comes as the U.S. has been struggling with a rise in Americans or U.S. residents plotting terrorist attacks.
Holton released federal court documents that show the sting operation began in June after an undercover agent learned that Mohamud had been in contact with an 'unindicted associate' in Pakistan's north-west, a frontier region where Al Qaeda and Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents are strong.
'The complaint alleges that Mohamud attempted to detonate what he believed to be a vehicle bomb at a crowded holiday event,' said David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security.
'Law enforcement action was able to thwart his efforts and ensure no one was harmed.'

The Christmas tree lighting ceremony last night in Pioneer Courthouse, Portland, where Mohamud is alleged to have been planning to detonate a bomb

 

According to a federal complaint, Mohamud was in regular e-mail contact with the 'unindicted associate' in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province starting in August 2009.
The complaint states that in December 2009 Mohamud and the associate used coded language in an e-mail in which the FBI believes Mohamud discussed traveling to Pakistan to prepare for 'violent jihad'.
In the months that followed Mohamud made 'multiple efforts" to contact another 'undicted associate' to arrange travel to Pakistan but had a faulty e-mail address for that person.
Last June an FBI agent contacted Mohamud 'under the guise of being affiliated with the first associate'.
Mohamud and the undercover agent agreed to meet in Portland on July 30.
At that meeting, the undercover agent and Mohamud 'discussed violent jihad', according to the court document.
Mohamud told the agent he wanted to set off explosives at the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square, an event that occurred on Friday.
On Friday, an undercover agent and Mohamud drove to downtown Portland in a white van that carried six 55-gallon drums with detonation cords and plastic caps, but all of them were inert, the complaint states.
They got out of the van and walked to meet another undercover agent, who drove to Union Station, the Portland train station, where Mohamud was given a cell phone that he thought would blow up the van, according to the complaint.
Mohamud dialed the phone agents had given him, and was told the bomb did not detonate. The undercover agents suggested he get out of the car and try again to improve the signal, when he did, he was arrested, the complaint said.
U.S. authorities have been struggling against a recent spate of terror plans by U.S. citizens or residents.
In May, Faisal Shazhad, a naturalized citizen also from Pakistan, tried to set off a car bomb at a bustling street corner in New York City.
U.S. authorities had no intelligence about Shahzad's plot until the smoking car turned up in Manhattan.
Late last month, Pakistan-born Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Virginia was arrested and accused of casing Washington-area subway stations in what he thought was an Al Qaeda plot to bomb and kill commuters. Similar to the Portland sting, the bombing plot was a ruse conducted over the past six months by federal officials.
Also in October, a Hawaii man was arrested and accused of making false statements to the FBI about his plans to attend terrorist training in Pakistan.
In August, a Virginia man was caught trying to leave the country to fight with an Al Qaeda-affiliated group in Somalia.

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333576/Somali-born-US-teenager-held-car-bomb-plot-Oregon-Christmas-tree-lighting.html#ixzz16TMi7yHp

Teen Girls Had Been Executed to Chants of 'Allah Akbar'...AL-Qaida Executes Two Young Women Before Hundreds of Onlookers

AL-Qaida Executes Two Young Women

With a cry of “there is no God but Allah!” [Allah-u-Akbar!!!] two young Somali girls ages 18 and 15 were executed before hundreds of witnesses in a spray of bullets in Mogadishu, Somalia, yesterday.

The girls were sent to their deaths by Sheikh Mohammed Ibrahim in the town Belet Weyne which is an  al–Qaida Islamic militia run village.

The charge brought against the two young women was  that of spying for government soldiers.

The two girls, Ayan Mohamet Jama and Huriyo Ibrahim died blindfolded while shocked villagers, forced to attend by Al Shabab, looked on.

These executions come amongst a string of Al Shabab- sponsored whippings, amputations and executions such as those suffered by  the two young women — – all in the name of Islam and overseen by judges whose only qualifications are that they are men who claim to  know the Koran.

http://www.reporterslive.com/2552-al-qaida-executes-two-young-women-before-hundreds-of-onlookers.html