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| Secret SAS mission to Somalia uncovers British terror cells |
| 2007-06-25 |
| Hattip Lucianne.com Terrorist sleeper cells said to be planning attacks in the UK have been unmasked after the bodies of Britons killed in US bombing raids in Somalia were identified by a top-secret SAS mission. The four British men were among an estimated 400 people killed in a series of American air raids on Al Qaeda training camps in the war-torn East African state in January. In March, British and US special-forces troops were secretly sent back into the region to take DNA samples from the exhumed remains of more than 50 of those killed during the attacks. The joint SAS and Delta Force teams spent a number of days in the former Al Qaeda strongholds of Hayo and the island of Lamu, trying to identify foreign terrorists. They were armed with profiles of wanted terrorists they believed had been hiding and training in the area. The wanted list included people who were tracked from America, the UK and other European countries - notably France, Spain, Italy and Germany. The British and American teams are now playing a key role in the war against terror and take their orders directly from the CIA. The DNA samples were processed on a US aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea and the results sent to the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Washington DC. MI5 is understood to have used the samples to identify four British men killed in the US attacks. Their relatives and friends have now been put under covert surveillance in the hope of identifying further terror cells in the UK. Said a source, "Up to four UK-based terror cells may have been disrupted or destroyed because of the air strikes, as well as cells based in other European countries." The attacks were mounted from the neighbouring state of Djibouti, where 2,000 US troops were stationed. They had been waiting to join a push by the Somali government against the Islamic Courts regime in Mogadishu, which forcibly took over much of the country in 2006. Three Britons were arrested in Kenya after fleeing the US air raids on Somalia. All were interrogated but were finally allowed to return to the UK. One of the men, Reza Afsharzadagen, 25, from North London, says he was in Somalia teaching computer programming. I believe him. Programming is a key skill for brave electronic jihadis, hoping to die suddenly as they sit at the keyboard, so as to achieve their 72 perpetual virgins and the unnumbered boys with faces as beautiful as pearls. Of course, there is the presumption that this Persian-named Englishman knows enough about programming to teach it to others. He claims to have been accused of terrorism and interviewed by MI5, but he has faced no charges on his return to Britain. No mention of the watchers at his windows, the taps on his phones, and the ever so slight disarrangement of his possessions he noticed when coming back from a short holiday. Then too, his computer seems to have slowed down a bit lately, but the virus scans aren't turning up anything. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #13 It's a good thing the Special Forces are being expanded, DarthVader, to include the junior varsity team. But note that the Special Forces guys were in Somalia in March. It's now nearly July, plenty of time to trace connections and bug computers. I suspect, in my ignorance, that the international connections are long since under observation, whatever that means in the real world. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-25 23:10 |
| #12 I think the special forces arms are working overtime recently. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-06-25 14:39 |
| #11 Unfortunately this victory vs. Al Queda is a one-time event since we blew operational security and let the bad guys know what we were doing after the Aethiops flushed the jihadis and we sent Spooky and SOF to deal with them. |
| Posted by: JAB 2007-06-25 14:06 |
| #10 I think you are on to something Frank G: "The taxi-cab gene." I think you could steal some of our money back from our "ferel govmint" via a grant to study the taxi-cab gene. There is probably a terrorist gene too. :) |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-06-25 09:58 |
| #9 Wake me up when their relatives, clan, tribe begin to spontaneously combust. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-06-25 09:48 |
| #8 Their relatives and friends have now been put |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-06-25 09:45 |
| #7 Their relatives and friends have now been put under covert surveillance in the hope of identifying further terror cells in the UK. Good thing it is covert. We would not want to tip them off. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-06-25 08:51 |
| #6 apparently Somalians are genetically predisposed to drive cabs. Wonder if that shows up in the DNA... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-06-25 07:40 |
| #5 SAS and Delta Force, lot of Spec Op guys. Talk about bringing in the heavy hitters! Paul we've got them by the boat load in Minnesota too. TW nice to see someone else understands the Quran "boys and pearls" passage. Zen, tis Islam not family genetics, I think.... Point taken, what a fricking cocktail. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-06-25 07:01 |
| #4 Thats what we get for being the dumping ground of the World where anyone who wants a free house,medical treatment/education no need to work comes to the UK.Last 10 years we have let loads of scum into this country and we are now paying for it!!!!!!. Ps There are loads of somalians in London alone!!!!! |
| Posted by: Paul 2007-06-25 06:48 |
| #3 Nothing to worry about. Merely a few kilt wearing Scots skipping down to toss some cabers at the locals. Eventually the DNA library may get good enough where we can sift out the likely suspects prior to interrogation. That is based on the assumption that many of the jihadi groups are inbred That would be a good assumption to make. Terrorism runs in the family. Secrecy, loyalty and supportiveness are all a lot easier to gauge and garner amongst relatives. We really should consider using DNA tests to qualify who gets into America. Now that idiotic European countries like Britain and France have flooded themselves with jihadis, nation of origin is no longer a defining criteria. I'd wager the presence of a DNA lab on one of our aircraft carriers is a solid indication that this idea is being taken seriously at some level. While I'm no fan of using genomic traits for the purpose of discrimination, the consequences of not performing intensive screening as persons of unknown origin or allegiance arrive at our shores are simply too great. Absent any other containment policy, a program that involves cataloging the DNA of known terrorists—including their family members and relatives—is a matter of prudence. That bin Laden's relatives were allowed to exit the United States without undergoing any sampling of genetic material was a total failure of national security. I also refuse to be disuaded by any arguments that the Muslim preference for marriage between cousins would make such a methodology overly inclusive. That would be—as they say—a feature and not a bug. It still remains an item of curiousity as to whether a predisposition for violence is genetically transmissible. The penchant for bloodshed that is so common amongst many Muslim cultures suggests this trait has been reinforced by untold centuries of intermarriage between cousins. Any conclusive proof of such an apparently warranted assumption would certainly seem to validate selective application of genomic cataloging in an attempt to screen potential terrorist candidates. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-06-25 01:48 |
| #2 "When I woke up this morning, I discovered that during the night, someone had replaced all my possessions with identical duplicates. So I asked my roommate if he had noticed anything unusual last night. He replied, 'Who are you?'" |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-06-25 00:28 |
| #1 Eventually the DNA library may get good enough where we can sift out the likely suspects prior to interrogation. That is based on the assumption that many of the jihadi groups are inbred than Warren Jeffs |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2007-06-25 00:09 |