The Washington Times



Islamists to honor 9/11 hijackers
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


The British-based Islamist group Al-Muhajiroun is holding a conference on the second anniversary of September 11 to honor the 19 terrorists who hijacked the commercial jets used in attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
A poster touting the event to be held at four locations in England includes photographs of the al Qaeda hijackers and refers to them as "The Magnificent 19" — a word play on the 1960 film "The Magnificent Seven."
Omar bin Bakri Muhammad, the group's leader, told the London Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat that participants will discuss the motives of the hijackers, whom he called "heroes."
The conference, being held in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Lester, will examine the root causes of the September 11 attacks and warned that if they still exist "the results might be similar to what happened in September [11] but in different methods," according to the newspaper's quotes of Bakri.
A message from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden also will be read, the newspaper reported. The speech will be called "Jawami al-Kalam," or compilations of words, drawn from earlier television messages by the al Qaeda leader.
Bakri, a Syrian-born British citizen, is viewed by U.S. officials as a key British contact of bin Laden, the attack's mastermind who is believed to be in hiding somewhere along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The U.S. government has offered a $25 million reward for his capture.
One British parliamentarian has called for the government to ban the conferences.
Steve Atkins, a spokesman for the British Embassy, said a similar event was held last year and that the group's activities are protected by free-speech laws.
"Everyone is allowed to express an opinion so long as it stops sort of incitement and stops short of acts of terrorism," Mr. Atkins said.
Like last year's conference, British police are expected to be called out for the conference because anti-Islamist demonstrators are expected, Mr. Atkins said.
As for Bakri, Mr. Atkins said: "The police and security services are fully aware of this individual and his organization, Al-Muhajiroun.
"The home secretary has already made it clear that his and their activities are closely monitored. Anyone breaking the law, whether provisions of the Terrorism Act, the Race Relations Act or the Public Order Act, will be prosecuted."
In the newspaper interview, Bakri was asked about a phrase on the conference poster that said the United Nations is "a legitimate target."
"They are legitimate targets because it represents the right-hand tool of the world Crusades led by America and its allies against Islam and the Muslims," he was quoted as saying.
Bakri also said the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which killed at least 23 persons, will not be the last terrorist attack.
The Al-Muhajiroun group, which means "the Emigrants" in Arabic, was the subject of a now-famous FBI memorandum sent by FBI Agent Kenneth Williams in July 2001 to FBI headquarters.
Mr. Williams stated in the memorandum that he had identified a link between one Middle Eastern man taking flight lessons at a Phoenix-area flight school and Bakri's Al-Muhajiroun.
The memorandum requested that the FBI launch an investigation of Islamist radicals who were taking flight lessons.
The memorandum was ignored by FBI headquarters and was identified by a special congressional inquiry as a key intelligence failure prior to the September 11 attacks, which killed more than 3,000 people and prompted the Bush administration to launch the war on international terrorism.
Bakri is shown on the conference's poster with the 19 suicide hijackers who are broken down into four groups based on the four planes they commandeered. Three commercial jets crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. A fourth jet crashed in the woods in Pennsylvania.

This is an interesting one...
A conference to "honor" the "Magnificent 19"...
but who were they, the apparent "Magnificent 19" - that's the real question here...;

What a memory hole, with a interesting turn of events we have here...

A Conference is being held to celebrate the "19 Hijackers"...
Pity really... in that their conference is a waste... [sarcasm]
Pity that no-one knows (or seems to care) as to WHO the hijackers actually were.

But then, that seems to always slip Sixgun's mind aswell.

Why haven't they been deported? Freedom of speech? baah..

Assholes know that they are safe...

If some peace activist goes to the kind of "islamist" society that these people support.. the peace activist would be killed off.

Like I said, one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

Corporate Pig,

You are really desperate here to say it was not Al Qaida. That they can't name all of the individual terrorist agents involved does not mean anything.

Or used as human shields. Some of these peace activists feel so strongly for the Islamist cause that they volunteer for it.

ironic really...
Your just really desperate to accuse Al Qaida, no matter what.
Half of your 'acclaimed' SUICIDE terrorists are STILL ALIVE.

So who flew the plane ?
Or dont questions like this really matter, when you have a 'devine' belief that you are right?

Its fairly dissapointing I believe; that Sixgun is so blinded by his own faith and belief in the US Administration, that the simple questions... such as "Who flew the plane", dosen't matter.

I guess the planes must have flown themselves otherwise?

Some of the doomed passengers had cell phones. They identified the hijackers as Arab males. Many had been identified as Al Qaida. Some of the individual terrorists have yet to be identified by name. Though its very plain that they were Islamic militants.


So out of all the millions of Islamic militants on the "Arab Street", our FBI can't always tell them apart from each other. Big whoop. These Islamic militants are all self declared enemies that have been attacking US targets for decades. I don't think its really importiant to tell them all apart from each other when they all look like targets.


Anyway, you are implying that Al Qaida was not behind the 911 attacks. You gotta lay off that crack or whatever it is you are smoking.

Probably the same guy who flew sorties for Dubya while he was AWOL from the Air National Guard.

That thing sounds about right.
They were "war heroes" in the eyes of those on whatnot's side.

So why not honor them?

You guys are smoking way too much crack.

why not honor them! wtf!
If they were actual WAR hereos, they would have attacked only military targets rather then a symbolic/civilian one as the primary.
*mumbles*
Death of thousands of innocent/irrelevant people to make a frkn point. gdi!

i have read that omsama bin laden who has diasappeared like saddam. Shit man why dont we hire out those guys who used to hunt down nazis? i mena they foudn people who had been huiding for years! or would the rebublicans hate them for lkilling off their reichs predecessors well anyway his brother wasa buisness partner of bush and died in a air liner crash! when bush was an oil tycoon! ar e we in the fourth reich already?

thnx for that, you beat me to it.

well it all depends on the definition one has of war.
for Muslims, war is to kill their enemies. who are the enemies? all the non-muslims, especially Jews and Westerners (and if it is an American who’s killed, the delight is even greater). they don’t care about quality (civilian or military) but about quantity.
they killed civilians, yes but they were on the bad side, so target reached. and as they killed so many, they are considered as heroes for all those having the same definition of war as they had.
the hijackers are now models for all Muslims involved in their holly war (= which I define as terrorism), and it's the reason why terrorist attacks must be feared at any time.
(and I think that kind of meetings are a way to get organized)

These Islamic terrorists are the modern equivalent to the medieval assassins.

The assassins were militant islamics who used much of the same tactics as these modern terrorists. They too were based in mountain fortresses in Afghanistan.
These assassins flourished until they tried to attack Ghengis Khan, who then sent his Golden Hoarde into Afghanistan where they destroyed the assassins and pretty much everything else.

The word assassin comes from hashish. These assassins were made to smoke the drug to put them to sleep where they would wake up in a palace with beautiful women and other pleasures.
They would smoke more hashish and then moved back to where they started so it all looked like a dream. Thus they got a taste of the rewards of paradise that comes from fighting a Jihad against infidels. This religious fanaticism mixed with pleasures denied to them on earth, only to be allowed in the afterlife, brings out the terrorist suicide bombers we have today.

Personally I say Honour the US/UK forces in Afghanistan which resulted from 9/11 and lob all of the 'celebrants' into camp X-ray

Neon

I thought Shakespere invented the word assassin...