Western Jihadism by Jytte Klausen

Author:Jytte Klausen [Klausen, Jytte]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780192643803
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2021-08-03T00:00:00+00:00

Textbox 7.1. Violent plots deriving from the At-Tibyan Forum

Foreign Fighters recruitment plot, Sudbury, MA: Tarek Mehanna, operating out of Sudbury, Massachusetts, recruited a number of other extremists in the area. He and Ahmad Abousamra traveled to the Middle East in 2004 to attend terrorist training camps and then returned home. In late 2003 Mehanna asked al-Daour to finance the Sudbury group’s travel plans. After a plan to join AQI failed, Mehanna conspired with others in New England to carry out an attack on a mall using automatic weapons, but the plot never reached the point of action. Mehanna was arrested in October of 2009, and sentenced to seventeen and half years in prison in April of 2012.

The “Schoolboys” Pakistan Trip (Bradford, U.K.): Akbar Butt, Awaab Iqbal, Aitzaz Zafar, Usman Ahmed Malik, and Mohammed Irfan Raja met through Tsouli’s At-Tibyan Forum. The teenagers planned to travel to Pakistan for terror training and to become foreign fighters. All five were arrested in 2007. An appeals court quashed the initial conviction in 2008 when a judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to prove that they intended to use the extremist material in their possession.

The Glostrup-Sarajevo Bomb Plot: In October 2005, two of Tsouli’s friends, Mirsad Bektašević, a Swedish citizen of Bosnian origin, and Abdulkadir Cesur, a Danish-born Turkish citizen, were arrested in Sarajevo. They were found to be in possession of 20 kg of explosives, a suicide belt, handguns and Jihadist videos. Another youth was on his way to Sarajevo when his father stopped him.

The Glostrup Group: In 2004, a group of twelve young Danish Muslims, all but one teenagers, traveled to London to attend a “summer festival” organized by Omar Bakri Muhammad. It was also attended by Tsouli and possibly other members of the At-Tibyan group. Ten days after the Sarajevo arrests, four teenagers from the group were arrested in Copenhagen for plotting to bomb targets in the city and to provide material support for the Sarajevo conspiracy. This led to the arrest of Tsouli in London. One of the Danish youths, Elias Ibn Hsain, who was 18 years old when arrested, was in regular contact with the would-be bombers in Sarajevo and Tsouli.

The Nassari Suicide Plot: Yassin Nassari was arrested at Luton Airport in May of 2006 after returning from the Netherlands. Suspected of planning a suicide attack, he was carrying instructions for how to make a rocket and explosives. He, too, belonged to the At-Tibyan forum and communicated directly with Al-Daour, who sent him instructions on how to fabricate poisons and make a suicide vest. He was convicted and served three and a half years in prison before his release in 2008. His wife, Bouchra el-Hor was also charged in the case because of a letter she had written telling him to become a martyr and promising to follow in his footsteps, or that she would send their baby son on to become a martyr. 83 She was charged but found not guilty of failing to report her husband.

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