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Beslan Killer Krew member went to Finsbury Park Mosque
2004-10-03
A member of the group responsible for the Beslan school massacre last month is a British citizen who attended the infamous Finsbury Park mosque in north London, The Observer can reveal.
I'm suprised, but I'm not surprised, if you know what I mean...
Two other members of the group, loyal to Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, are also believed to have been active in the UK until less than three years ago. They are suspected of taking part in the raid on the school in which 300 people, half of them children, died. Russian security sources described Kamel Rabat Bouralha, 46 years old and the oldest of the three, as a 'key aide' of Basayev, who has a £5.5 million price on his head. Basayev has boasted of training the men who took control of the school and wired it with explosives. Investigators believe that the three men, all Algerian-born, travelled to Chechnya from London to take part in fighting there in 2001. Russian investigators are thought to have now identified most of the 33 men who occupied the school in Beslan last month. They include two Algerians in their mid-30s called Osman Larussi and Yacine Benalia. Both are thought to have been based in London until recently. Like Bouralha, they too are believed to have attended Finsbury Park mosque and to have joined the network of groups loyal to Basayev on arrival in Chechnya. General Ilya Shabalkin said that Bouralha had been detained while attempting to leave Russia for medical treatment in Azerbaijan. 'He says he is innocent, but there is strong evidence of his involvement in a grave crime,' Shabalkin said.

Senior sources at Scotland Yard are investigating the Russian information. Former associates in London confirmed that Bouralha had been a frequent visitor at Finsbury Park mosque from around 2000. According to Russian security sources, there are up to 300 Arab mercenaries operating with rebel formations in Chechnya. The Observer has obtained detailed reports into al-Zarqawi's group compiled largely from 'communications intercepts' by a Western intelligence service. A series of telephones seized from militants has allowed investigators to build up a picture of a European network that stretches from Poland to the UK. There are several references to obtaining false documents from London.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#15  Aye, we should open up our air space to Russian fighters. There's not much in Finsbury Park we'd miss apart from the odd sorry-arse pub and ropey kebab shop.
Posted by: Howard UK   2004-10-03 2:57:46 PM  

#14  The thought I've kept in my head, that stops it from exploding every time I think about that place, is that it's being kept open as a honey trap so we can watch what they're doing and prevent them doing serious damage.

While I understand and applaud the idea behind what you're saying, Tony, it is high time to begin razing any and all mosques that propagate terrorism, just as Bulldog mentions. The civilized world needs to begin demonstrating in an unmistakable fashion that terrorism carries a direct price tag.

In light of this new Beslan connection, I'm hoping that Finsbury Park mosque is obliterated during a period of peak occupancy. This hive of terrorist filth needs to be sterilized.
Posted by: Zenster   2004-10-03 2:29:04 PM  

#13  'MacNails - your contacts in Notts get hold of a shoulder launch SAM?'

Well my missus is named Sam , dont think she'd appreciate being shoulder launched into FP mosque though :)
Like Bulldog said , a lil pressure from Putin would be nice to see
Posted by: MacNails   2004-10-03 1:06:31 PM  

#12  It may take international pressure to get Blair 'n' Co. to do to Finsbury Park (and the next mosque to feel the jihadi heat) what they should've done years ago: eradicate the vermin, box'em up and throw what doesn't have a UK passport to whatever grisly fate awaits it in the country it crawled here from. I'd like to hear Putin publicly turn the screws on Blair over this.

Whatever intelligence we've obtained from Finsbury, it's obviously not enough to warrant its continued existence as the UK's Jihad HQ.
Posted by: Bulldog   2004-10-03 12:14:54 PM  

#11  The thought I've kept in my head, that stops it from exploding every time I think about that place, is that it's being kept open as a honey trap so we can watch what they're doing and prevent them doing serious damage.

So how did three of those pieces of shit get to kill 300+ kids, their teachers and their families in Russia?

I'm just wondering what Putins hammer is going to look like, wetwork in Finsbury park?
Posted by: Tony (UK)   2004-10-03 12:04:47 PM  

#10  
Beslan Killer Krew member went to Finsbury Park Mosque
Of course he did.

That place must be terrorist central.

Any chance of an "accident" at a propitious moment?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-10-03 11:42:36 AM  

#9  I'll work on the beard.
Posted by: Howard UK   2004-10-03 8:31:07 AM  

#8  Howard I don't think you would want a surface to air missle (SAM) for this but a RPG or 2. Hell if you were polite you might even get the Finsbury Park Mosque to loan you a couple. Or a couple of the blokes hanging out there might have a few they would sell even.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-10-03 8:09:42 AM  

#7  Come to think of it, that still leaves them free to hit the Finsbury Park mosque.
Posted by: Bryan   2004-10-03 8:09:16 AM  

#6  The Russians said they would strike at terrorism anywhere in the world. What they mean is they'll strike anywhere they haven't helped to create terrorism. That rules out quite big chunks of the world, from eastern Europe to the Middle East to Africa.
Posted by: Bryan   2004-10-03 8:07:17 AM  

#5  MacNails - your contacts in Notts get hold of a shoulder launch SAM?
Posted by: Howard UK   2004-10-03 7:42:20 AM  

#4  humbug, sat here with my marigolds on doin a bit of spring cleaning(ok its october but hey), and had a thought.....
A lil naughty thought , precision strike on the FP mosque.. ahh well I can dream :/
hell if our government wont do it ,tell the Russians , after all , they said they would strike at terrorism anywhere in world . Give em some target practice :)
Posted by: MacNails   2004-10-03 7:17:57 AM  

#3  I am really suprised this place hasn't been fire bombed. It must be the 24 X 7 police protection the UK government must feel obliged to keep on it. We all value tolerance and restraint. In this case I think they are over valued.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-10-03 6:48:35 AM  

#2  They're just emulating the life of the psycho killer prophet as their Koran commands
them to do. The Koran and Hadith are all about Muhammad's
"examples". Episodes from Mo's life. The faithful Muslim is exhorted
to copy them.
Posted by: dennisw   2004-10-03 3:41:21 AM  

#1  I'm sure this will have the Finsbury Asshats just bursting with pride. And, well, the cousins should be wondering why they allowed this snakepit to be reopened.
Posted by: .com   2004-10-03 12:58:52 AM  

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