Gitmo files: Britain and its mosques a global center of terror

via ABU HAMZA’S MOSQUE NAMED AS GLOBAL CENTRE OF TERROR

VILE hate preachers helped turn Britain into the hub of al-Qaida’s global terror network.

Secret Guantanamo Bay files have identified UK-based extremists Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada as key recruiters.

American officials believe they were responsible for radicalising dozens of young men before sending them off to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The secret documents have disclosed how radical clerics turned London into a global terror blackspot after claiming asylum and living off state benefits.

Secret documents weren’t need to disclose this information – it was widely reported including in a book titled Londonistan.

And the capital’s reputation as a breeding ground for terrorism over two decades was so bad it was even dubbed “Londonistan”.

The notorious Finsbury Park Mosque, where Hamza indoctrinated followers, was highlighted as a “haven” for extremists.

The Guantanamo papers released by the controversial whistleblowing website WikiLeaks have revealed how the mosque served as “an attack planning and propaganda production base”.

They show that at least 35 inmates at the military prison passed through Britain before going off to fight allied forces in Afghanistan, thought to be more than any other Western nation.

A staggering 17 of them were British nationals or had been allowed to stay after claiming asylum.

Another 18 came to the UK from abroad before being radicalised and sent to terror training camps.

Four mosques in London and an Islamic Centre were also highlighted as places where Muslim men were brainwashed and turned into potential terrorists.

The mosques took in dozens of impressionable immigrants and churned them out as potential killers.

The Finsbury Park Mosque “served to facilitate the training of recruits” and was “a haven for Islamic extremists”.

Al-Qaida ringleader Qatada, 50, described as “Osama bin Laden’s ambassador in Europe”, was said to be “the most successful recruiter in Europe”.

Hamza, 52, was accused of encouraging “his followers to murder non-Muslims”. Both preachers are currently in jail.

In 2009 Qatada was awarded compensation after claiming his human rights had been breached after being locked up in the UK without trial.

Millions have also been paid by the Government to former Guantanamo inmates sent back to Britain, despite many still being declared dangerous by the US.

The leaked files also reveal an al-Qaida operative accused of bombing Christian churches and a hotel in Pakistan in 2002 was working for British intelligence at the same time.

Algerian Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili, captured in Pakistan in 2003, was described by interrogators as a “facilitator, courier, kidnapper and assassin for al-Qaida”.

The Americans also believed he had “withheld important information from the Canadian Secret Intelligence Service and British Secret Intelligence Service and (was) a threat to the US and allied personnel in Afghanistan and Pakistan”.

The US Government even appear to have suspected the BBC of being a “possible propaganda media network” for al-Qaida.

It came after a phone number for the World Service was found in the possession of several suspected terrorists.

Much more from Melanie Phillips, author of Londonistan, via Sadly, I’ve been proved right. Britain IS a centre of terror. Tragically, our rulers can’t see the truth:

The truly disturbing thing was not just that these characters were allowed into the country, but that it was in Britain itself where thousands of young Muslims were subsequently radicalised — a process that continues to accelerate.

And as these files state, this didn’t just take place in London’s notorious Finsbury Park mosque under those two key preachers and terrorist recruiters Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza.

It also occurred in self-styled moderate establishments such as the flagship Regent’s Park and East London mosques. Between them all, they dispatched dozens of extremists to be trained in terrorism against the West in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Even more ludicrously, we now learn that one Guantanamo inmate was paid more than £300,000 of British taxpayers’ money to eradicate his poppy crops in Afghanistan. But instead he allegedly supported Al Qaeda — while continuing to act as a major drugs trafficker.

It was, of course, under the previous government that all this madness took such hold. David Cameron, by contrast, has made excellent speeches condemning multiculturalism and promising a new approach.

Yet there are still signs of muddled thinking at the top. For example, Security Minister Baroness Neville-Jones, who is drawing up the Government’s new counter-terrorism strategy, recently identified her task as ‘trying to convince minorities in this country that it’s their country as much as anybody else’s’.

But since the essence of the problem is that extremists in fact regard Britain as so much their own country they wish to turn it into an Islamic one, this is surely to miss the point spectacularly.

For it is not just terrorism that threatens Britain. It is also the steady incursion of Islamic sharia law, whose principles are inimical to Western values and human rights. This ‘sharia creep’ is now highly advanced in Britain. A parallel jurisdiction in Islamic family law has been allowed to develop in Muslim areas, turning British Muslim women into second-class citizens and worse.

There has been an enormous growth of Islamic banking — which, WikiLeaks says, the Americans feared might serve as an umbrella for the financing of Islamic terrorism.

Several education authorities have quietly taken to serving halal meat to all pupils. As TV programmes have shown, some Muslim schools and apparently ‘moderate mosques’ are teaching pupils and worshippers to hate ‘unbelievers’.

Islamic extremist speakers appear unchallenged regularly at British universities. Freely available in London are certain Muslim TV propaganda channels — one of which is owned and controlled by the fundamentalist Islamic state of Iran.

And the Government still hasn’t dealt with human rights law, which has driven our legal system so catastrophically off the rails and has come to act as the judicial weapon of the Islamic jihad.

The key problem I identified five years ago remains true today: that Britain’s ruling class even now does not want to acknowledge the true nature and scale of the threat that we face.