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Terror video used to lure UK Muslims
Mosque recruitment film shows bin Laden slayings
Jason Burke, chief reporter
Sunday January 27, 2002
The Observer
A gruesome video showing Islamic extremists murdering and mutilating
'infidels' is being circulated in Britain's mosques as part of a
recruiting drive for Osama bin Laden's worldwide terror network.
The video, which was smuggled into the UK only days before the 11
September attacks, shows people having their throats cut and the
wholesale slaughter of secular forces by a group linked to the
world's most wanted terrorist.
It was produced by the Salafist Group for Preaching and War (GSPC),
an extremist Algerian organisation backed by bin Laden and widely
regarded as one of the most active and brutal in its country. GSPC
sympathisers then ci
rculated the film in London.
A second video shows graphic footage of Taliban soldiers decapitating Northern
Alliance opposition troops following a gunfight in Afghanistan. A number of other
videos showing blood-curdling scenes are being sold in Brita
in to raise funds for the Islamic 'cause'.
The revelations came as it emerged last night that five more Britons had been seized
by American forces in Afghanistan and were due to be airlifted to the Camp X-Ray, the
special prison set up at Guant�namo Bay in Cuba.
With three Britons already being held in Cuba, the arrests confirm fears in the
intelligence community that Britain is a major recruiting centre for Muslim radicals
prepared to fight for bin Laden.
An Observer investigation has established that some of the recruiting videos have been
distributed among worshippers at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London. Our
reporters last week bought a selection for �10 each. Se
curity sources believe that extremist activists have been using the videos to recruit
new volunteers.
Two British-born al-Qaeda suspects currently held by the Americans have attended
sermons at Finsbury Park. Richard Reid went on to try to blow up a Miami-bound
passenger jet and Feroz Abbasi, a student drop-out from Croyd
on, was captured by the Americans after fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan. His
mother claimed he had been 'indoctrinated' at the mosque.
The film shows a series of operations by the GSPC in Algeria around 18 months ago.
There is graphic footage of the deaths of more than 20 young conscripts in an ambush.
After the soldiers' trucks hit mines laid in a road,
the extremists are seen slitting throats and shooting survivors. Pictures of
government troops, some with their skulls shot away and their brains exposed, are then
shown, followed by images of the Islamists congratulatin
g each other and offering prayers of thanks.
The commentary calls for 'holy war until judgment day', and tells viewers to 'kill in
the name of Allah until you are killed. Then you will win your place forever in
paradise... the war against the Jews and the Christians
is being won.'
Algerian security service investigators called the video 'an appalling pornographic
catalogue of violence' and said they hoped that those responsible for its distribution
would be 'swiftly taken out of circulation'.
The disclosures will increase pressure on the UK to crack down harder on the extreme
Islamists who have sought sanctuary here from regimes overseas. Middle Eastern
governments have criticised Britain for allowing extremis
ts to base themselves here. Intelligence officers working in London have compiled a
list of 200 suspected militants from Algeria alone who are in the UK. Many are
believed to be killers.
Security agencies in Spain and France have recently traced links to the UK from
al-Qaeda operatives they have arrested. On 26 September last year six men belonging to
a GSPC terrorist cell in Spain were arrested. They wer
e led by a militant allegedly trained by bin Laden and had planned hijacks with two
suspected al- Qaeda terrorists who were living in Britain.
�The son of the controversial Muslim cleric Abu Hamza returned to Britain last night
after serving three years in prison in Yemen for plotting a bombing campaign.
Mohamed Mustafa Kamel, 21, was convicted in August 1999. Four other
Britons are still serving sentences in Yemen, including Muhsin
Ghailan, also 21, thought to be Abu Hamza's stepson.
Guardian Unlimited � Guardian Newspapers Limited 2002
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