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Name: Casey Britton
Location: Houston, Texas, United States

Tuesday, September 02, 2003

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The fatwa, or religious edict, represented "a message for the US and the
British Governments or any other government of non-Muslim countries to
stay away from Iraq, Palestine, Pakistan, Arabia etc. or face a full scale
war of Jihad which will be the responsibly [sic] and the duty of every
Muslim around the world to participate in." Moreover, it called upon all
Muslims worldwide "including the Muslims in the USA and in Britain to
confront by all means whether verbally, financially, politically or
militarily the US and British aggression."

In May 1998, when Britain was
considering deporting several individuals connected with the Egyptian
terrorist group al-Jihad, Omar Bakri threatened "to respond to this
British terrorism with fundamentalist terrorism." Less than one year
later, in response to renewed British bombing of Iraq, a member of
Al-Muhajiroun attacked a British army base with a firebomb. More recently,
Omar Bakri gained much notoriety in July 1999 when he issued "An Open Call
to Sheikh Osama Bin Laden," encouraging the wanted terrorist to "aim [his]
weapons at the occupying forces" and ordering all Muslims to "stand and
engage in Jihad or support the Mujahideen [holy warriors]." August 7, 1998.

Before
establishing an independent website of their own, Omar Bakri and his
disciples used their webspace on the Islamic Gateway to propagate their
attempts to "rid [themselves] from the shackles of democracy and
secularism and once and for all and work together for the implementation
of the Khilafah and the domination of Islam world wide [which is]
inevitable." The Al-Muhajiroun website has regularly provided a variety of
calls for Muslims to engage in a military jihad against the U.S. and its
allies; it appeals to Muslims to "let not the struggle launched by the
mujahideen last year against the US occupiers have been in vain." The site
furthermore proclaims the intention of Al-Muhajiroun to form a "fifth
column" of Muslims in Great Britain for the purpose of penetrating
"strongly in society and to become in position to overthrow the British
[infidel] regime."

DLR and Al-Muhajiroun are not the only radical organizations to have
benefited from the services of the Islamic Gateway. Yet another group
notorious for its material posted on the website has been the British
group Supporters of Sharia (SOS). Not surprisingly, SOS and its leader Abu
Hamza al Masri are heavily connected in Britain with CDLR and
Al-Muhajiroun.
Followers of SOS were recently convicted in a court in
Yemen of taking part in an attempted bombing conspiracy against
"un-Islamic" targets in that country. Abu Hamza al Masri, himself, was
recently profiled in a British documentary by reporter Deborah Davies.

One
of Hamza's sermons cited in the documentary was a call for Muslims to "get
training" in order to "get the [infidel] and crush his head in your arms,
so you can wring his throat, so you can whip his intestines out. That's
why you are doing training, to rip the people to pieces. Forget wasting a
bullet on them, cut them in half!" The SOS website on ummah.net identifies
one of the goals of SOS as support for "the Mujahideen in, Afghanistan,
Bosnia, Kashmir, etc.," including recruiting and aiding "front line
soldiers."