Al-Qaeda ordered attacks on Europe on May 29: Spanish newspaper

[maddezmom]

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MADRID (AFP) - The Islamist extremist group Al-Qaeda ordered attacks on Europe in a May 29 Internet message that the Spanish secret service forwarded to their British counterparts at the weekend, a Spanish newspaper reported.

The Spanish national intelligence centre (CNI) sent a copy of the Arabic-language message -- signed by "Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades -- European division" -- on Saturday to the British intelligence service MI5, and it was also published Saturday by the daily El Mundo.

The message, entitled "Letter to Mujahedeen in Europe", states in part: "We now call on the mujahedeen around the world to launch the expected attack".

Spanish intelligence officials believe this was a reference to the attacks in London last Thursday, El Mundo wrote Monday.

more;http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050711/wl_uk_afp/britainattacksqaeda_050711105306

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Gee I wonder what site they posted this message on

I hope it's not the one that turned out to be owned and operated by an American.

[allemand]

2. It was published "on some of the most important Islamist internet forums"

Dubai, 30 May (AKI) - The Abu Hafs al-Misri Brigades have called their 'sleeping' European cells to action with a message published on some of the most important Islamist internet forums saying: "We ask all waiting mujahideen, wherever they are, to carry out the planned attack." The message follows months of silence from the group which claimed responsibility for the Madrid train bombings on March 11 last year and threatened Italy last summer.

This time, part of the message is addressed directly to the European cells. The first part of the 'Message to the mujahideen in Europe', however, is directed at the Iraqi groups and reads: "We of the Abu Hafs al-Misri Brigades call on all our cells in Iraq to close ranks and start the bloody war against the enemies of Islam. We send out a message to America and its allies, wherever they are, to state that we will not let the sacrilege of the Koran pass unnoticed and there all be a reply in the future."

The second part of the message refers to the supposed attack that sleeping cells should carry out in Europe. "The truth about the infidel crusade has become obvious," the document says, calling on the cells to carry out the planned attack "after the infidels declared war on Islam, desecrating the noble Book that is the Holy Koran. But we also send a message to all those locked up in the prisons of the tyrants," it continues, "from Fes to Guantanamo: the dawn is near and so too is victory." (...)

The authenticity of the latest internet statement, which is dated May 29, has not been verified, but it was published on the forums normally used for messages from the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, who is believed to have been injured. The message has prompted heated debate on some fundamentalist websites, among those who believe it is authentic and those who dismiss it as a fake.

More:
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.172279807&par=0

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. They fail to mention the site

From other reports the message claiming responsibility for the London attack appeared on the following website. It was taken down within a couple of hours. This is the same site that a lot of other 'al Qaeda' videos and statement first appear. The funny part is that a fellow named Jon David claims to have taken over this site in 2002. Here some info on him:




Registration Service Provided By: DIRECTI
Contact: +91.2256797500
Website: http://www.directi.com
Domain Name: ALNEDA.COM

Registrant:
SFP, Inc
Jon David ([e-mail])
Po 312
Berlin
Maryland,21811
US
Tel. [phone]

Creation Date: 16-Jul-2002
Expiration Date: 16-Jul-2013



And here's an interview he did with Wired braggin about it:



How Al-Qaida Site Was Hijacked


Aug. 10, 2002

A Maryland hacker used simple Web tools like whois and traceroute -- as well as online translation software and an anti-cybersquatting service -- to take over the domain name of al-Qaida's website. And he's ready to do it again.

Jon Messner, the Internet entrepreneur who perpetrated the recent domain hijacking, used SnapName's Snapback service to obtain ownership of the domain www.alneda.com .

The switch in ownership was made on July 16, after the owners of alneda.com deleted its registration from an ISP in Malaysia. Messner believes this was in preparation to establish Al Neda on another server.

"It was a slippery bastard, but I've got it now," Messner laughs. "I own alneda.com."

<snip>

Now Messner was listed as Al Neda's owner.

At that point, Messner put up a copy of the original al-Qaida website on his new domain, with one subtle difference. "I put very simple CGI tracking on the site, so for five days I could trace back to nearly every hostile Islamic message board and website on the Internet."

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54455,00.html




According to the registery info, Messner owns this site until 2013. Makes you wonder who and what is behind these attacks?

[allemand]

4. The first statement was posted on www.al-qal3ah.com, purportedly owned

by Saad al-Faqih, though he denies it:

Alleged backer of al-Qaida is linked to bomb website

A WEBSITE used to claim responsibility for the London bombings has been linked to a British-based Saudi dissident suspected by both US and UK officials of being a supporter of al-Qaida.

Saad al-Faqih, who is based in Willesden, north-west London, has been connected to a statement claiming responsibility for the London terrorist attacks by two Israeli groups. But al-Faqih has denied any link to the message and said he doubted whether it was authentic anyway.

The statement published on the al-qal3ah.com site after the bombings on Thursday read: "The heroic mujahideen have carried out a blessed raid on London. Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern and western quarters." (...)

The US claims al-Faqih controls websites which are used to post al-Qaida statements.

More:
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=764132005

The second statement (by the "Abu Hafs al Masri Brigade") "was posted on a website run by Mohammad al-Masaari, a well known Saudi Islamic activist living in exile in London."
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050709/w070936.html

On edit:

According to this report in Italian, the website in question is called www.tajdeed.org.uk :

Londra: Nuova rivendicazione

Con un nuovo comunicato diffuso via internet (il terzo in ordine di tempo) il gruppo Falangi di Abu Hafs el Masri ha rivendicato la paternità degli attentati di Londra. (...)

Il comunicato di rivendicazione, datato sabato 2/6/1426-9/7/2005, è stato pubblicato sul sito in arabo con sede a Londra www.tajdeed.org.uk e minaccia nuovi attacchi: «Prima Madrid e Istanbul, adesso Londra. Domani i mujaheddin si faranno sentire di nuovo <...> I prossimi giorni vedranno i più grandiosi atti della jihad contro coloro che hanno dichiarato guerra all'Islam e ai musulmani. Non ci calmeremo e non ci fermeremo fino a quando la sicurezza non sarà una realtà sulla terra d'Islam».
http://www.ardea-online.org/


The website "http://alneda.com" is "no longer in use":
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/10/MNGHADLOR01.DTL

My guess is that either the person that posted on bellaciao.org or somebody at CNN got it wrong:
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6906