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| Suicide bomber wife cleared |
| 2004-07-08 |
| The widow of a British suicide bomber has been cleared of terrorist offences - but his brother and sister are to be retried. Tahira Tabassum was found not guilty of failing to alert authorities to an attempted terrorist act in a bar in Israel in 2003 by husband Omar Sharif. But Old Bailey jurors failed to agree verdicts against his brother and sister, Zahid and Parveen Sharif. Parveen faces a further charge of inciting a terrorist act. The widow, brother and sister of Omar Sharif, all of Derby, had all denied failing to disclose information about terrorism. In April 2003 Omar Sharif, 27, targeted a bar in Tel Aviv, Israel, with fellow British bomber, Asif Hanif, 21, after the pair had joined militant Palestinian organisation Hamas. Two men and a woman were killed and more than 50 injured when Hanif blew himself up in the popular European-style bar. Sharifâs explosives failed to detonate and he fled the scene. His body was found 12 days later in the sea. The family was with charged with failing to report information which could have prevented an act of terrorism after police offices interviewed them as part of investigations into Sharifâs preparations for the attack. Last week, after a two-month trial, the jury acquitted Tahira Tabassum - but told the judge they could not agree on a verdict for the remaining defendants. The judge gave the Crown Prosecution Service a week to decide whether they would be seeking a retrial, meaning the verdict acquitting Ms Tabassum could not be reported until now. The retrial of Parveen and Zahid Sharif is expected in November. Wouldnât mind knowing the ethnicity of the jury. Looked to be an easy one, this one. Damn. Bundles of extremist literature were taken from their house and the e-mail correspondence was fairly damning as well.. bring on the retrial. |
| Posted by:Howard UK |
| #8 yeh dumbo, now who was it that talked of jews "bitching and crying". your genocidal hatred is disgusting. never forget. never again. their fight is not useless, history will be unequivocal in its judgement, but i don't want to wait for history and if you had so much as a whiff of intellect you might know too that history came too late for those bitching and crying in the Warsaw ghetto. people as intellectually lazy as you were blind and silent AND racist then. you have, in that sense, your own blood on your collabarative hands. you can't have peace without justice a subject that Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi will explain to you, though of course, fascists are preturnaturally deaf. oh and yeh the Palestinians have generated their own imprisonment and massacre, yeh of course. now where have we heard that before? never forget, never again. you ridiculous fool |
| Posted by: Anonymous5614 2004-07-09 6:49:53 AM |
| #7 Hey Trollete: âso is it Jewish or Israeli custom to build concentration camps, demolish homes, torture, shoot, assassinate from the sky anyone who objects to decades of a military occupationâ Those camps were built and are maintained by the un. Israel offered MANY times to build nicer comfortable residences for these displaced people, but was refused. The would rather stay in a squalid camp and seethe about the bad Jews. The torture, shooting, and assassinations (you forgot beatings) would stop tomorrow if the terrorist would stop attacking Jews. Every time the Palestinians were offered peace THEY chose to continue a USELESS fight. And now it seems that the rest of the world is tired of their bitching and crying. |
| Posted by: Anonymous5618 2004-07-08 11:56:29 AM |
| #6 Trollage methinks. I think Jooos have contributed a hatful more to my country than Moooslims. They have integrated - withstood being the butt of racism that British Muslims so vehemently decry and have been economically successful. We cannot allow terrorists to use our free society as a launching pad for extremism elsewhere. I may be racist towards these thugs - but they have to be crushed for the sake of humanity. Anyone who wilfully targets women and children in acts of terror (IRA included) deserves irradication. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-07-08 9:55:46 AM |
| #5 ...oppressiveness... |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-07-08 9:43:05 AM |
| #4 let them go into your homes armed with your attitudes towards criminal justice... Works for me. My attitude is the same as the government's - failing to act on foreknowledge of a relative's intention to commit mass-murder deserves punishment reflecting complicity in the crime. It's governmental opprseeiveness to stop mass-murderers now, is it? Nutter. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-07-08 9:42:19 AM |
| #3 so is it Jewish or Israeli custom to build concentration camps, demolish homes, torture, shoot, assassinate from the sky anyone who objects to decades of a military occupation, or by not standing up against State terrorism are the British govt not wanting to be accused of oppressing ancient Jewish tradtion? Racists go to hell you know, or as you so elegantly put it, are driven into the sea. This trial is a blatant symptom of govermental oppressiveness, let them go into your homes armed with your attitudes towards criminal justice... you're already guilty of flagrant racism. |
| Posted by: Anonymous5614 2004-07-08 9:34:39 AM |
| #2 There is much debate concerning the legitimacy of loony cleric Yusuf Al-Qaradawi's visit to the UK. If anyone needs an answer as to why he isn't welcome it's this sorry tale. Did you know the family complained to the British Govt that Mossad had a part in the failed bomber's death - possibly he was a victim of torture before being drowned by them. These people (less than 1% of the Muslim community, I dare say) are space cadets and should be driven into the sea. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-07-08 8:37:24 AM |
| #1 Why it's just Muslim custom to have Jihadi literature inciting the killing of non-Miuslims; nothing more than what is already in the Koran. It's also Muslim custom to encourage relatives to go and blow themselves up in a crowd of strangers. Britains wouldn't want to be accused of oppressing ancient Muslim tradition, would they? Nothing amiss. Move along. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-07-08 8:02:06 AM |