Detained militant in Iraq details World Cup plot

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BAGHDAD — An alleged al-Qaida militant detained in Iraq said Tuesday he had talked to friends about attacking Danish and Dutch teams at the World Cup in South Africa next month to avenge insults against the Prophet Muhammad.

Iraqi security forces holding Saudi citizen identified as Abdullah Azam Saleh al-Qahtani arranged for The Associated Press to interview him at an unidentified government building in Baghdad. He said he initially came to Iraq in 2004 to fight Americans and was recruited by al-Qaida.

An Iraqi security official with knowledge of the investigation said al-Qahtani was arrested after a joint U.S.-Iraqi operation in April that killed the two top al-Qaida in Iraq figures — Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. The official asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to discuss details of the case.

Documents found in the house where they were killed, including a note written by al-Qahtani detailing a plan to launch attacks at the World Cup, led to his arrest on May 3. Iraqi authorities made it public on Monday.

"We discussed the possibility of taking revenge for the insults of the prophet by attacking Denmark and Holland," al-Qahtani told The AP. "The goal was to attack the Danish and the Dutch teams and their fans," he added.

"If we were not able to reach the teams, then we'd target the fans," he said, adding that they hoped to use guns and car bombs.

It was unclear whether the militants had the ability to carry out what would have been quite a sophisticated operation — a complicated attack far from their home base. The Iraqi security official said no steps had yet been taken to put the plan into motion, such as obtaining bomb-making materials.

Al-Qahtani said the plot still needed approval from the al-Qaida chain of command, specifically the group's No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.

The alleged militant, who is about 30 years old with a mustache, was wearing an orange prisoner jumpsuit and had no outward signs of injury or abuse. He did not appear nervous or fearful.

Al-Qahtani said he had been captured by U.S. forces in 2007 and held at Camp Bucca until he was released in 2009; a U.S. military official, Keli Chevalier, confirmed that American forces had captured a man by the name of Abdullah Azam Saleh al-Qahtani and that he was held at Camp Bucca.

The U.S. military referred all other questions about al-Qahtani to the Iraqi government.

Al-Qahtani said the idea came up in late 2009 during talks with friends over some publications in Western media they deemed offensive to Muslims.

In 2006, 12 cartoons of the prophet in a Danish newspaper sparked furious protests in Muslim countries.

In the Netherlands, an anti-Islam party has become the country's fastest growing political movement. Its leader, Geert Wilders, calls the Quran a "fascist book" and wants it banned in the Netherlands. His 2008 short film offended many Muslims by juxtaposing Quranic verses with images of terrorism by Islamic radicals.

He advocated taxing clothing commonly worn by Muslims, such as headscarves, because they "pollute" the Dutch landscape.

Wilders' popularity is partly a reaction to a spate of Islamic radical violence that sent shudders through the nation a few years ago. In 2004, a young Muslim murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who had produced a short film portraying alleged oppression of Muslim women.

Al-Qahtani said the World Cup was considered a high-profile international event and South Africa was thought to be easier to travel to than either of the two European countries they wanted to target.

Vish Naidoo, a spokesman for South African police, said Tuesday that South African officials were still awaiting word from their Iraqi counterparts about the arrest. He said the only information South African officials had was from media reports.

FIFA said in a statement Tuesday it would not comment on any specific potential threats.

U.S. and Iraqi officials have said that the deaths of al-Masri and al-Baghdadi were considered a heavy blow to the terror group and its abilities to carry out attacks. Iraqi authorities have also said that materials obtained in their investigation and search of the safehouse where al-Masri and al-Baghdadi were found has led them to other members of the organization and provided them with valuable intelligence about the group.

Al-Qaida in Iraq has coordinated attacks with leaders like al-Zawahri in the past, said Brett McGurk of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

"What would be a surprise is if al-Qaida in Iraq was able to carry out an attack on this scale internationally given its weakened state in Iraq," McGurk said.

Associated Press writer Gerald Imray in Johannesburg, South Africa contributed to this report.
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Source: Associated Press

Stay the **** out of our country. Go screw your own up some more instead!
 
Remembers General Cele's words "shoot to kill" ...

Come here to cause k@k, go home in a casket.
 
Muslims have integrated for the most part successfully without compromise on their identity in South Africa this attack will have major problems for South African Muslims
 
Attention whores... taking credit for everything. I'm sure they would take credit for the BP oil spill, global warming, economic crisis... if that were possible:mad:
 
If an attack is carried out by Al-qaeda on South African soil it would really be said day for SA muslims, more of a death warrent for all muslims in the country. Al-qaeda's goals in SA don't out-weigh the consequences.
 
An alleged al-Qaida militant detained in Iraq said Tuesday he had talked to friends about attacking Danish and Dutch teams at the World Cup in South Africa next month to avenge insults against the Prophet Muhammad.

In other news, the anc/sacp/cosatu incite Africans to commit genocide against Europeans, to avenge a separation that was called apartheid...
 
Al Qaeda presence in South Africa?
Over the past few months the South African and international media has increasingly focused on an alleged presence of the terror network Al Qaeda in South Africa. The news began in late May with dual assertions by the South African National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi that five suspected members of al Qaeda had been deported ahead of the national elections, and that boxes of South African passports had been seized from an al Qaeda-linked house in London. The South African Department of Home Affairs confirmed that the passports were South African, and alleged that they had been obtained by fraudulent means.

The next blow came when two South Africans were arrested in Pakistan after a gun battle, which also led to the arrest of a suspected high-level al Qaeda member, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. Feroze Ganchi and Zubair Ismael were arrested July 25th in the small Pakistani town of Gujrat. Despite initial reports that the pair had designs to attack South African cities, the SA government denied the allegation saying, “no information that any particular installation in South Africa is targeted by al Qaeda,” and reassuring South Africans that they “could sleep easy.” Two other South Africans were arrested in subsequent days, one in the US and one in Mexico, for their alleged ties to al Qaeda.

By late August, South African authorities had finally gained limited consular access to Ganchi and Ismael. Though intelligence confirmed that the men had been in the presence of high-level al Qaeda members, they also concluded that no attacks were planned against South African targets.

In early October, it was alleged that Al Qaeda leaders were hiding in South Africa. An American television news report, citing a CIA report, alleged that South Africa was among the states wherein “second- and third-tier” al Qaeda leaders were hiding. South African police confirmed that they were monitoring individuals “from Cape Town to Durban, from Eastern Cape to several places in Gauteng.”

This news was followed with fears that al Qaeda members may be hiding in, even recruiting from, South Africa’s Islamic theological schools, and a report that the ‘kingpin’ of the al Qaeda suspects that were deported prior to the country’s national elections was still at large in Southern Africa. According to some newspaper reports, Ronnie Kasrils, the South African Minister of National Intelligence confirmed al Qaeda’s presence in that country. However, Kasrils was clear that South Africa was not being “overrun” by al Qaeda and warned against a “witch-hunt” within or against the country’s moderate and “stable” Muslim community.

The al Qaeda presence is not confined solely to South Africa, but news reports would indicate that individuals with terrorist affiliations might be operating from elsewhere in the sub-region and beyond. In Malawi, a business executive was investigated by the CIA on allegations that he had been involved in smuggling and terrorist financing. Angolan intelligence authorities say they are on alert after allegations that al Qaeda-linked individuals had entered the country and were establishing business ties. There have also been allegations that Mozambique and Swaziland may be home to al Qaeda elements.

http://www.iss.co.za/uploads/0104_2.HTML#article3
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News - Education: SA fears al-Qaeda men hiding in local schools
Oct 4, 2004 ... The government fears al-Qaeda operatives may be hiding out in South African Muslim theological schools.

www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=105&art_id=vn20041004100210304C720798
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:whistle:
 
I wonder if I want a GTI is part of this plot, he seems to be an avid supporter of the extreemists. Maybe we should report him to the NIA...
 
ponder said:
I wonder if I want a GTI is part of this plot, he seems to be an avid supporter of the extreemists. Maybe we should report him to the NIA...
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Nah he's just a little b!t ch, if he were ordered to execute a martyrdom mission he would be running to his mommy crying, remember martyrs get 72 virgins in paradise but no mention of a GTI, he will not give up his Eurocentric ways and the ideology of material wealth for the cause he so firmly believes in !! :whistle:
 
BigBullBully said:
Nah he's just a little b!t ch, if he were ordered to execute a martyrdom mission he would be running to his mommy crying, remember martyrs get 72 virgins in paradise but no mention of a GTI, he will not give up his Eurocentric ways and the ideology of material wealth for the cause he so firmly believes in !! :whistle:
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ponder said:
I wonder if I want a GTI is part of this plot, he seems to be an avid supporter of the extreemists. Maybe we should report him to the NIA...
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Freedom of expression... besides I don't see you reporting Master Cain & his merry band of right wingers to the NIA:whistle:
 
South Africa is considered a fairly safe harbor for the many many many many muslim extremists out there. They often forge our passports as they skulk around for their imaginary God.
 
news24 said:
If an attack is carried out by Al-qaeda on South African soil it would really be said day for SA muslims, more of a death warrent for all muslims in the country. Al-qaeda's goals in SA don't out-weigh the consequences.
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think so too, it would make the xenophobic attacks 2 years back look like a picnic
 
R13... said:
Freedom of expression... besides I don't see you reporting Master Cain & his merry band of right wingers to the NIA:whistle:
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You need to read up on hate speech, but then again you have on more than one occasion showed support for racism on this forum.
(just fyi, black people can be racist)

:whistle:
 
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