The Observer newspaper said that brutal scenes of Algerian army conscripts being killed were being distributed on video in Britain's mosques as part of a radical Muslim recruitment drive. It said the video, titled simply 'Algeria', contained footage of an attack on an Algerian government convoy, showed mutilated corpses and repeatedly used shots of a wounded conscript having his throat cut. The paper said the video was annotated with Arabic script with injunctions such as; "Fight them until the sentence of God is carried out on Earth," and "You have to kill in the name of Allah until you are killed." It also shows more mundane aspects of everyday life among the radical Salafist Group for Preaching and Fighting. London's Metropolitan Police said, "If the Observer wishes to take this video to a police station, then police will be only too interested in taking a look at it, as with anything that may have criminal images on it." Police would then determine whether the distribution of the video broke any laws.
The coppers might want to take a little more proactive stance on such things. No doubt those being forcibly ejected from this vale of tears aren't British subjects, but the recruiting of crazed killers would seem to have some impact on the nation's internal security. |