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Binny video, 4 passports found at Rowe's home
2005-09-08
A video tape of Osama Bin Laden was found at the former home of a suspected terrorist, the Old Bailey was told. The recording of the al-Qaeda leader was played at the trial of Andrew Rowe, who denies three charges of having articles for use in terrorism.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
The tape was found at his estranged wife's home in Birmingham. Mr Rowe, 34, of Maida Vale, west London, was arrested at the Channel Tunnel in France in 2003 as he was about to return to Britain. His luggage included a pair of socks, rolled into a ball, which had traces of explosives. The prosecution said the socks could have been used to clean a mortar launcher barrel. Mark Ellison, prosecuting, said he was playing the Bin Laden tape in court so the jury could have an insight into Mr Rowe's mind at the time.

Bin Laden, dressed in military fatigues, was shown sitting and speaking into a microphone to call on "the infidel" to leave the holy land. Later, 11 September bomber Sheikh Abu al-Abbas in his "living will" called on other young Muslims to give their lives for jihad.

Mr Rowe had also been given four new British passports in seven years, Mr Ellison said. He added Mr Rowe had visited several places of conflict in that time, including Bosnia. Mr Rowe had gone with his original passport to Bosnia in 1995 as a volunteer where he said he had been injured in a war zone, the court was told.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#3  The counterfeit Super Dollar plot traced the $100 bills from NK diplomats in pouches through Moscow to David Levin, to ex-KGB Russian Mafia, to Sean Garland, and the IRA in Dublin. From there it went to lawyer Terence Silcock in Birmingham for further distribution, probably to fund terrorism. Birmingham seems to draw all flavors of extremists. Did Rowe operate an Internet cafe, too? Names aren't the only repetitious pattern emerging.
Posted by: Danielle   2005-09-08 12:55  

#2  Mr Rowe had also been given four new British passports in seven years, Mr Ellison said.

The jihadis like to lose their passports in order to erase the records of where they've travelled.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-09-08 08:03  

#1  Convert + Bosnian holiday that led to wounds + multiple passports + likes 82mm mortars + inspirational videos + traveling (not on holiday) = sure trouble. Sounds like he might have ideas about reliving his glory days as a Mujahid in Bosnia. Alot of the jihadi propaganda about Bosnia came out of the UK end of Azzam.com which also gave advice on how to prepare and go there as well as mythical tales of the martyrs of Bosnia (all were devout and their bodies didn't rot after they died) and the obligatory videos, books and audio tapes (In the Hearts of Little Green Birds etc). The since whacked original combat cameraman for the Khattab/Baseyev propaganda machine was a Uk muslim (a convert also as I recall). I wouldn't be suprised to find this guy's face on one of those videos.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-09-08 07:58  

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