*
told the police he was only making fireworks
_____
Terrorist bomb maker Hassan Tabbakh jailed for seven years
A terrorist bomb maker has been sentenced to seven years in jail for
manufacturing explosives in soft drinks bottles and providing instructions
in Arabic on how to mix them together.
By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent
Last Updated: 6:55PM BST 30 Jul 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2475249/Terrorist-bomb-maker-Hassan-T
abbakh-jailed-for-seven-years.html
Hassan Tabbakh, 38, an unemployed science graduate from Syria, wrote notes
to the terrorists he intended to use the devices telling them: "I have put
everything separately for safety and quick transport.
"Don't use the bottles in which I put the liquids because my fingerprints
are on them. I pray that Allah would keep you safe and grant you success in
the work for the sake of Allah."
Another said: "Step back at the time of execution."
Police do not know who the intended recipients were or what the targets were
intended to be.
Max Hill QC, prosecuting, told Birmingham Crown Court: "This defendant was
caught in the process of a practical attempt to create improvised explosive
devices, or bombs in everyday language.
"Because he was caught in the act, neither the written instructions nor the
bomb mixtures had reached their destination. Who, when or where the bombs
were going to be used is not known.
"The truth is that Hassan Tabbakh was stopped by the police before he had
the chance to finally prepare his bombs, and before any atrocity could be
attempted. That is our good fortune, and his bad luck."
The court heard Tabbakh, who was born in Damascus, Syria, and has a
university qualification in mathematical and physical sciences, was building
the bombs for "al-Qaeda-style jihad."
He arrived in Britain around 2000 and claimed asylum, living first in Hull,
East Yorkshire and then in Small Heath, Birmingham
Tabbakh received indefinite leave to remain in 2005 after claiming he had
been tortured in his home country and the court heard he was suffering from
post-traumatic stress disorder.
When he was arrested near his home in Birmingham, police found an MP3 music
player with headphones in his jeans pocket which included speeches by Osama
Bin Laden, as well as terrorist leaders Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , the former
leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq who was killed in 2006, and Sheikh Omar
Abdul-Rahman, known as "the blind sheikh" who was jailed in the US for
involvement in the World Trade Center bombing of 1991.
The player also had Islamic songs called "nasheeds" which included the
chorus 'this is the meaning of terrorism' repeated over and over.
At his flat nearby they found £3,000 in cash, which he had been given to him
as compensation for poor council accommodation, and three bottles of the
soft drink Tango containing a cocktail of chemicals.
Analysis revealed the bottles, which were stored in a hallway cupboard,
contained a mixture of Growmore plant food, acetone, nitrocellulose and
white spirit along with handwritten notes in Arabic which seemed to be
instructions on how to construct the bombs.
The notes told the user to mix the ingredients of the bottles with
fertilizer and aluminium foil, transfer the mixture into tin cans and insert
a detonator to make a bomb.
Tabbakh, who admitting building the devices and writing the notes, told the
police he was only making fireworks, but yesterday he was unanimously found
guilty of preparing an act of terrorism.
Sentencing him, Judge Frank Chapman said the materials were "third rate" but
had "great potential for destruction, injury and death."
(F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this
message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to
these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed
within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with
"Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976.
The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The
Copyright Act of 1976. "Fair Use" legally eliminates the need to obtain
permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials
if the purposes of display include "criticism, comment, news reporting,
teaching, scholarship, and research." Section 107 establishes four criteria
for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies
as a "fair use". A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four
criteria to qualify as an instance of "fair use". Rather, "fair use" is
determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not
substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use
copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you
must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to:
<http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml>
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS
PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
------------------------------------
--------------------------
Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
--------------------------
Brooks Isoldi, editor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.intellnet.org
Post message: [email protected]
Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has
not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of
The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT
YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the
included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of
intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods,
techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other
intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes
only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material
as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use
this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,'
you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
For more information go to:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/
<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional
<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join
(Yahoo! ID required)
<*> To change settings via email:
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
