Taliban and al Qaeda Sending Suicide Bomber Teams To U.S. and Europe
June 18, 2007 by Homeland Security NTARC News
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Brian Ross and ABC News are reporting that according to evidence contained on a new videotape obtained by the Blotter, large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are being sent to the United States and Europe.
Teams assigned to carry out attacks in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany were introduced at an al Qaeda/Taliban training camp graduation ceremony held June 9.
A Pakistani journalist was invited to attend and take pictures as some 300 recruits, including boys as young as 12, were supposedly sent off on their suicide missions.
The tape shows Taliban military commander Mansoor Dadullah, whose brother was killed by the U.S. last month, introducing and congratulating each team as they stood.
“These Americans, Canadians, British and Germans come here to Afghanistan from faraway places,” Dadullah says on the tape. “Why shouldn’t we go after them?”
The leader of the team assigned to attack Great Britain spoke in English.
“So let me say something about why we are going, along with my team, for a suicide attack in Britain,” he said. “Whether my colleagues, companions and Muslim brothers die today or tonight, every drop of our blood will invigorate the Muslim (unintelligible).”
Dirty Bomb Terror Threat Increasing
June 18, 2007 by Homeland Security NTARC News
Filed under Homeland Security News
The threat of terrorists attacking Britain with a radioactive “dirty bomb” has grown rapidly in recent months, a leading defence expert has warned.
Prof Sandra Bell spoke out following the sentencing last week of seven al-Qaeda “foot soldiers” who had plotted dirty bomb attacks in Britain and the United States.
The men were jailed for a total of 136 years at Woolwich Crown Court. Their leader, Dhiren Barot, is serving life for conspiracy to murder.
Prof Bell, the director of homeland security at the Royal United Services Institute, said: “The threat from dirty bombs is now higher than it was two years ago, and has increased significantly over the last six months.
“I used to think you had more chance of winning the lottery than of being attacked with radiation weapons, but times are changing.” She said that turmoil in parts of Africa and the former Soviet Union had created a black market in radioactive materials which could be used to lace a conventional bomb.
