Predators by Williams Brian Glyn

Author:Williams, Brian Glyn [Williams, Brian Glyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Published: 2013-09-11T14:00:00+00:00

DRONES FOIL A MUMBAI-STYLE TERRORIST ATTACK IN EUROPE

For those who support Obama’s withering drone campaign, there is no better proof of drones’ success in foiling terror strikes than their role in killing several German and British Muslims in North Waziristan who were planning a mass-casualty terrorist strike in Europe based on the model of one carried out in Mumbai, India, in November 2008. During the infamous Mumbai attack, members of the Pakistani jihad group Lashkar e Toiba roamed the streets of Mumbai raiding restaurants, hotels, a cinema, a Jewish center, a train station, and a college. In all 168 people were gunned down in cold blood or blown up by hand grenades as the terrorists spread carnage through the heart of India’s largest city.

The Mumbai attack was praised by jihadists and terrorists throughout Pakistan and seemed to serve as inspiration for similar slaughters in Europe, according to Ahmed Siddiqui. Siddiqui was a thirty-six-year-old German of Afghan decent who was arrested in June 2010 as he attempted to fly out of Kabul International Airport to Germany. He was subsequently interrogated by the United States and its Coalition allies at Bagram Air Base. Coalition forces had previously noticed that a group of eleven radicals tied to the Al Quds Mosque in Hamburg, Germany (the same mosque attended by 9/11 suicide team commander Muhammad Atta), had mysteriously left the country in 2009. They then reappeared in training camps in North Waziristan. There the German-Muslim jihadists were filmed training with weapons and making threats against the West.

Initially, the German authorities thought the group of eleven extremists had traveled to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to fight Coalition troops, but Siddiqui dropped a bombshell after his arrest. During interrogation he confessed to being a member of a terrorist team that was planning to attack civilian targets in Germany, France, and Britain. According to one U.S. official, “They were going to attack multiple centers in Europe over a few days. They were going to shoot the hell out of people, terrorize them.”102 Their aim was to punish these NATO countries for their role in the Afghan conflict, much as terrorists had punished the Spanish government for its role in Iraq with the 2004 Madrid bombings.

Bin Laden, Siddiqui claimed, had personally approved the plot.103 British Muslims of Pakistani descent who formed a group known as the Islamic Army of Great Britain would attack the British targets, and German Muslims who were members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan would carry out the attacks in Germany and France. A second German jihadist who was arrested and “other sources” verified Siddiqui’s claims.104

Word of the plot was leaked in September 2010, and the British, German, and French governments went on high alert. Travel advisories were issued to Americans warning them not to travel to those countries. The Eiffel Tower was closed twice because of bomb scares, and even the British royal family was put under special protection.

By this time the CIA had learned that the British terrorists in North Waziristan were being led by a Pakistani-British Muslim named Abdul Jabbar.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.