Åtta "tyska" terrorister dödade när de planerade terrordåd

Åtta terrorister med tyska pass dödades

vid en amerikansk droneattack i Pakistan

i början av oktober.

Terroristerna höll en viktig planerings-

konferens kring ett nytt terrordåd i

Tyskland. De dödades i byn Mosaki nära

staden Mir Ali i norra Waziristan. Det är

ett laglöst stamområde dit pakistanska

polisen aldrig vågar sig...

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Den pakistanska tidningen Express Tribune

uppger att omkring 150 terrorister, de

flesta av turkisk härkomst, med tyska

pass uppehåller sig i området.

De utländska frivilliga har nu organiserats i

en egen organisation Ittehad Jihadul Islami

(Alliance for Islamic Jihad) under Al Qaedas

kontroll.

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Tidningen räknar också upp ett antal av

"tyskarna" som dog i attacken:

Among the killed militants, Brusely was

the operations in-charge of Ittehad

Jihadul Islami. He was operating under

the local name of Fayyaz. Gagreen Gill,

a German of Turkish origin, was taking

care of finances for European militants

in the North Waziristan. His local name

was Siraj.

Milton Smith, whose local name was

Jamal, was an expert in bomb making.
Wash (Mustafa) and Johnson (Wasal)

had dual nationalities of Germany and

Saudi Arabia.
Anderson (Waqas), Paterson (Shaheen)

and Peterson Mckenzie (Usman) were

also among those killed in the drone strike.

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Den amerikanska attacken baserades på

uppgifter från tyske medborgaren Rami

Mackenzie från Taibamoskéen i Hamburg,

som greps redan i somras.

Uppgifterna har bekräftats av tyske inrikes-

ministern.

En månad tidigare dödades ett antal centrala

personer i terroristcellerna i Storbritannien

vid en liknande attack.

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När jihad blev ett helvete...

Elva islamister från Al Taibamoskéen i
Hamburg gav sig iväg till Afghanistan
för att kämpa för jihad tillsammans med
talibanerna. Der Spiegel berättar om hur
deras kamp slutade i ett praktfullt fiasko.
Några försvann redan på vägen.
De övriga upptäckte ett ogästvänligt
land med ovänliga och tjuvaktiga
infödingar, oätlig mat, ständig diarée,
dålig vapenträning där de själva tvangs
köpa sina vapen och ständiga anfall från
amerikanska droner som förvandlade livet
till ett helvete.
Snart längtade de alla tillbaka till det goda
livet i Hamburg...
Tyska säkerhetstjänsten sprider gärna be-
rättelsen för att avskräcka andra.
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It isn't necessarily the case that the
Islamic Jihad Union, the Islamic
Movement of Uzbekistan and the
other splinter groups in Afghanistan
and Pakistan were eagerly awaiting
these five men and two women from
Hamburg, even if the new arrivals
from Germany were highly motivated.
**
One might ask what they could have
done with a handful of guys who had
led comfortable, fairly inactive lives
in their German apartments.
Bedridden, feverish and afflicted with
diarrhea, they were probably more
of a burden than a boon to jihad.
according to all accounts provided
by those who have come back, when
new would-be jihadists arrive, the
Afghan commanders get particularly
excited about one thing: their travel
funds. Recruits are required to pay
for their rifles and grenades out of
their own pockets. And laptops,
binoculars and warm jackets are
happily accepted as tender.
In other respects too, there tends
to be a sharp contrast between the
expectations that the two groups
have for each other in the field.
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Ahmad Siddiqui - "tysken" som avslöjade terrorplanerna

Ahmad Siddiqui, en afghan från
Hamburg med tyskt pass, var den
som avslöjade terrorplanerna som
nu skakar Europa.
Siddiqui rekryterades i den nu stängda
al-Taibamoskéen på Steindamm 103 i
Hamburg. Sändes på terroristutbildning
i Waziristan i Pakistan och sedan till en
talibangrupp i Afghanistan. I juli tillfånga-
togs han av amerikanska trupper.
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Siddiqui uppges ha nära band till minst
fyra Al Qaedamedlemmar från
Hamburgcellen.
"Siddiqui attended the same mosque
as the Hamburg cell. In August of this
year, the Taiba mosque, which was
formerly known as the Al Quds mosque,
was closed down just weeks after
Siddiqui was detained in Afghanistan.
The imam of the Taiba mosque was a S
yrian-German named Mamoun Darkazanli,
who is a longtime al Qaeda operative and
was closely affiliated with the Hamburg cell."
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"Ahmad Siddiqui, who was captured in
Afghanistan in July, has told his inter-
rogators that he met with Said Bahaji
after joining al Qaeda's ranks in Pakistan,
Der Spiegel reported on Saturday.
Siddiqui also told interrogators that
Osama bin Laden had ordered and
financed the Mumbai-like terror plot
in Europe.
Bahaji is wanted by Western authorities
for his involvement in the 9/11 plot and
has been on the lam for years.
In October 2009, CNN reported that the
Pakistani military had recovered a passport
bearing Bahaji's name and photo after
taking control of a terror camp in the village
of Sherwangi in South Waziristan. The
passport contained a Pakistani visa
showing that Bahaji "entered Pakistan
on September 4, 2001."
Some members of the Hamburg cell fled
Germany shortly before the 9/11 attacks
in order to avoid arrest after the fact.
Today, Bahaji is both a senior propagandist
within al Qaeda and also involved in the
organization's operations."
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Räcker det med att stänga terrormoskén ?

TIME kommenterar stängningen
av terroristmoskén Taiba i Hamburg:
"The Taiba mosque was the main meeting
point for radical Islamic militants in
Hamburg and had been supporting
the international terrorist network
for years," Manfred Murck, deputy
director of Hamburg's intelligence
service, tells TIME.
**
"Young Muslim men were drawn to
the mosque — they met there, prayed,
chatted together, became radicalized
and set up extremist groups."
Murck adds that the men came from
different backgrounds, ranging from
Moroccans and German Islam converts
to militants from the former Yugoslavia,
Chechnya and the Middle East.
They all had one thing in common —
their commitment to jihad.
"Some Muslims at the Taiba mosque
had contacts with al-Qaeda," claims
Murck.
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Intelligence officials say the mosque
had been under continuous surveillance
since the 9/11 attacks. Back then, the
mosque was known as al-Quds.
Hijackers Mohammed Atta, Marwan
al-Shehhi, Ziad Jarrah and Ramzi
Binalshibh — who according to U.S.
officials was a key 9/11 facilitator
and Atta's roommate — were all
regulars at the prayer house in the
run-up to the 2001 attacks.
**
In March 2009, the Taiba mosque
again became a location of special
interest to investigators when a
group of 11 Hamburg jihadists,
mostly German men with roots in
the Middle East and the Caucasus,
traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan
to attend terrorist training camps.
**
Now that the mosque has been closed,
fears have been raised that members
could regroup and gather in other
mosques in Hamburg. A large harbor
city with a thriving immigrant
community, Hamburg has acted as a
haven for Islamic extremists in the past,
as New York, Washington and
Pennsylvania learned to their horror
nearly 10 years ago.
(....)
With one of their alleged meeting points
closed, the challenge for intelligence
agencies now is to prevent new terrorist
cells from forming within their dispersed
ranks.
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Tyska polisen stänger jihadistmoské i Hamburg

Den tyska polisen stängde i morse den
s k Al-Taibamoskén på Steindamm 103
nära Hauptbahnhof i centrala Hamburg.
Moskéen var tidigare känd under namnet
Al-Quds och var samlingsplats för ett antal
av islamisterna som genomförde flygkapningarna
11 september 2001. Mohammed Atta var den
ledande i jihadistcellen i Hamburg och rekryterade
där flera frivilliga till attacken. Imam i Al-Quds-
moskén var då marockanen Mohammed El
Fazazi som inspirerade teroristerna och upp-
manade alla rättroende muslimer "to remove
the infidels from power, kill their children,
capture their women and destroy their houses."
El Fazazi avtjänar numera 30 års fängelse i
hemlandet och har avsvurit sig terrorismen...
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Författningsskyddet konstaterade förra året att
moskén blivit den viktigaste kontaktpunkten för
jihadister i Tyskland. Tongivande har varit syriern
Rami Mackenzie, som organiserade en grupp
på ett dussin jihadister som for iväg till IJU:s
talibanskola i Pakistan. Mackenzie greps av
pakistanska polisen i sommar utklädd i burqa.
Han lär då ha erkänt sitt samarbete med Al Qaeda.
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Det finns klara kopplingar mellan kretsen kring
Al-Taiba och Sauerlandgruppen, som nu fått sina
domar för terrorism. Eric Breininger från Sauerland-
gruppen som dog i eldstrid med pakistanska polisen i
maj vördas nu som martyr i nätverket av jihadistiska
moskéer.
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UPDATE:

A suspected German al-Qaeda operative,

arrested in Pakistan on Tuesday, told

investigators that dozens of Europeans

recruited by the terror outfit were fighting

in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Reports quoting intelligence officials questioning

Rami Mackenzie said that he had met

militants from Germany, Spain, Sweden and

Norway on both sides of the Pak-Afghan border.

They were either receiving training at militant

hide-outs in Pakistan or fighting the NATO-led

International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)

troops in Afghanistan.

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