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...conclude that Hanning's warning was justified. "You don't make a statement like that just to make people vigilant, otherwise you lose credibility," he says. "They've got something." But what? And is it enough to determine when and where al-Qaeda might strike? According to Omar Bakri Muhammad, the London-based leader of the radical Muslim al-Muhajiroun youth movement, the time is now and the place could be anywhere. The Muslim month of Ramadan, which began Nov. 6, is "the month of jihad," he told TIME, when "the inspiration of fighting against occupiers and invaders will...
Even if things turn out well in Iraq, Islamic terrorists will still be around, still able to kill and maim. Says Omar Bakri, who is based in London and is the leader of the radical Islamic Al-Muhajiroun youth movement, "The message was so clear in Bali--it is a war against the disbelievers' camp." A French investigator puts the terrorists' chilling beliefs in stark terms. "They really, truly don't care about which Westerner they murder," he says. "Just so long as an enemy is dead." In Bali, where a precise count of the charred bodies...
...interview, Bakri named Soubra the al Muhajiroun "leader" in Arizona but denied that Soubra had any links to al-Qaeda or bin Laden. (Soubra is not enrolled for the summer session at Embry-Riddle; efforts to contact him were unsuccessful.) Bakri said he thought bin Laden is "a great man; he stands for the truth, as far as Muslims are concerned," but insisted he himself did not support the Sept. 11 attacks...
...Whether Bakri is closely linked to al-Qaeda or--as some think--is just a loudmouthed bombast, al Muhajiroun is real. Bakri claims his organization has offices in 21 countries, and it certainly has a presence in the U.S. Early in May, al Muhajiroun supporters held a demonstration to support Chechnya outside the Russian consulate in New York City. On May 12, the group held a meeting at New York City's Brooklyn College, complete with videos of alleged atrocities committed against Muslims worldwide. Fahad Hashmi, a Pakistani-American student, spoke at the meeting, praising the American Taliban, John Walker...
LONDON The infamous Phoenix FBI memo linked Middle Eastern students at U.S. flight schools with Sheikh Omar Bakri, a radical leader based in London who was connected to "every al-Qaeda operative recently arrested or identified in Europe," an expert alleges. Last month a British judge dismissed the case against Algerian pilot Lotfi Raissi, whom the U.S. wanted to extradite in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks