http://www.larouchepub.com:80/other/2007/3445terror_based_london.html
This article appears in the November 16, 2007 issue of Executive
Intelligence Review.
Terrorist Groups Are
Headquartered in London
This is excerpted from an open letter to Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright, dated Jan. 11, 2000. It appeared in the Jan. 21, 2000 issue of
EIR.
On Oct. 8, 1997, the U.S. State Department, in compliance with the
Anti-Terrorism Act of 1996, released a list of 30 Foreign Terrorist
Organizations (FTOs), banned from operating on U.S. soil.
Of the 30 groups named, at least five maintain headquarters in Britain:
The Islamic Group, and its subsidiary arm, Islamic Jihad, are headquartered
in London. In February 1997, the British government formally granted
permission to Abel Abdel Majid and Adel Tawfiq al Sirri to establish Islamic
Group fundraising and media offices in London. Abdel Majid was implicated in
the October 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
Abdel Tawfiq al Sirri, the co-director of the movement, has also been
granted political asylum in Britain, despite the fact that he was also
sentenced to death in absentia for his part in the 1993 attempted
assassination of Egyptian Prime Minister Atif Sidqi.
Similarly, the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which was responsible for
the assassination of Algerian President Mohamed Boudiaf on June 29, 1992,
has its international headquarters in London. Sheikh Abu Qatabda and Abu
Musab communicate military orders to GIA terrorists operating in Algeria and
France via the London-based party organ, Al Ansar. Sheikh Abu Qatabda was
granted political asylum in Britain in 1992, after spending years working in
Peshawar, Pakistan with various Afghani mujahideen groups. A third
London-based GIA leader, Abou Farres, oversees operations targetted against
France. He was granted asylum in Britain in 1992, after he was condemned to
death in Algeria for acknowledging responsibility for a bombing at Algiers
airport, which killed nine people and wounded 125.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), known as the "Tamil Tigers,"
headquartered in London since 1984, have carried out a decade-long terror
campaign against the government of Sri Lanka, in which they have killed an
estimated 130,000 people. In addition, LTTE was responsible for the
suicide-bomber murder of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on May
21, 1991, and the similar assassination of Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe
Premadasa on May 1, 1993.
In the case of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), the British government
played an even more direct role in supporting the 17-year war against the
Turkish government by the Kurdish separatists. An estimated 19,000 people
have been killed in Southeast Turkey since the PKK launched its terror war
in 1983. In May 1995, after the PKK was expelled from Germany, for seizing
control of Turkish diplomatic buildings in 18 European cities, the British
government licensed MED-TV in London, through which the PKK broadcasts four
hours a day into its enclaves inside Turkey, and all over Europe.
The same Lord Avebury has been an active backer of the Peru Support Group in
London, which has served as a major international fundraising front for the
Peruvian narco-terrorist group Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso). Adolfo
Héctor Olaechea, in July 1992, established the group's "foreign affairs
bureau," in London; he received a letter of recognition from Buckingham
Palace, which he circulated widely. The letter read in part, "The private
secretary is commanded by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth to acknowledge receipt
of the letter from Mr. Olaechea, and to say that it has been passed on to
the Home Office."
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