Al-Qaeda Supergrass By Lewis Panther http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/news/news3.shtml A FRIGHTENED supergrass today reveals how thousands of young Muslims are preparing to unleash fresh terror atrocities on Britain's streets. Shame-faced Hassan Butt, 27, spent 10 years close to the heart of the al-Qaeda network as its preachers of hate recruited suicide bombers here. He acted as a heartless fundraiser from the Muslim community, collecting cash to send brain-washed young Brits to terrorist training camps in Pakistan. But, in the wake of the 7/7 London bombings, in which 52 innocent victims died, he no longer gloats about his sinister exploits. Instead he is about to become the biggest whistle-blower of all time- by exposing how the radical Islamic extremists operate. And he warned: "It's sad but we WILL have more atrocities like 7/7 because there are tens of thousands of Muslims who still support violence." Wanted in Pakistan for plotting against President Musharraf, Butt is back here living in fear of our security forces - and of Islamic revenge squads threatening him with jihad. Sinister And at last he is ready to tell the truth about our enemy within. He glanced nervously over his shoulder as he talked to our reporter in a cafe close to where the London suicide bombers hatched their deadly mission. He revealed how he: COLLECTED "taxes" from doctors and wealthy businessmen in the Muslim community with his sinister team to fund terrorism. LURED desperate drug addicts, aided by their evil dealers, in a plot to "poison the West with drugs". BLAMES moderate Muslim leaders for failing to face up to preachers of hate like hook-handed Abu Hamza and exiled Omar Bakri, leaving them free to twist young minds. Butt said: "Saying thousands of British Muslims support terrorism is no over-estimation. I know because I used to raise money from them. Doctors, teachers and businessmen would all chip in-and they knew it was going towards terrorism. "There might only be a few who go on to become suicide bombers, but it only takes a few to do all the damage if they have got that support network around them. "And the kids who are being recruited aren't getting any help from the mosques to stop them. "The moderate Muslims like the MCB (Muslim Council of Britain) aren't doing enough to stop people like Omar Bakri. He's certainly to blame for wrecking a lot of lives." It is the first time someone so senior inside the British Muslim terror network has spoken out about al-Qaeda. Butt, a former law student, is paranoid about being watched by MI5 as he moves from sleeping on one friend's floor to another's. But he's even more nervous about being hunted down by his former friends who believe they are fighting a holy war. A gang of thugs have already stabbed him in the street after he renounced their violent ways. But before he turned his back on terror, young Muslims, especially those who do not feel part of Britain, were easy targets for Butt. He was raised in Manchester and was just 16 when he became involved in radical and pro-violent Islamic groups. He said: "I was helping in a drug rehabilitation centre, which gave me easy access to potential jihadi recruits. The addicts were vulnerable and easy to convert to our cause. Profits "It may sound sick to outsiders but I genuinely believed I was fighting a war. That's why I was photographed with a loudhailer calling for Muslims to attack the British and Americans when I was in Pakistan. "The centre also gave me easy access to the drug dealers. You got to find out who they were and they wouldn't stand up to us either. Knowing we'd been involved in terrorist training made them stand up and pay attention -and pay up part of their profits. "They even thought they were helping our cause by only selling crack and heroin to non-Muslims. We saw it as a tactic of war to keep poisoning the West with drugs. "We all believed that you could steal, rob, lie and even sell drugs to support our fight." Butt found his recruits in the gyms and snooker halls. "We'd talk about the suffering of the Muslims all over the world," he explained. "We were well versed in the Koran, in the sayings of the Prophet and could make them believe it was permissible for people to go around killing innocent men, women and children." During his stay in Pakistan, Butt mixed with an even more violent band of radicals, buying guns to be shipped to fighters inside Afghanistan. And it was there in 2002, at his flat in the capital Islamabad, that he met the ringleader of the 7/7 London suicide bombings, Muhammed Siddique Khan. They were introduced by New York-born Junaid Babar, who later became star witness against the fertiliser bombers who plotted to kill hundreds of clubbers at London's Ministry of Sound and thousands of shoppers at the Bluewater complex in Kent. At that time Butt sent dozens of young Britons across the Pakistani border into Afghan training camps. He stayed in the background, working his way up to become one of the most senior members of the now banned al-Muhajiroun organisation. But since fleeing Pakistan and returning to Britain, Butt has had a change of heart. "It was all the talk of killing for no reason that got to me," he said. "People just wanted to go out and kill kaffirs (non-believers) just because they were kaffirs. Not because of the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. I started having deep doubts about this and how it fitted in with my beliefs and what the Koran said." It was the 7/7 massacre that finally changed his mind about supporting the suicide bombers. Innocent "We couldn't believe that al-Qaeda had given the order to attack here in England," he said. "London was a good place for us. We could move about and raise a lot of money easily. "So it was strange for the bombings to take place there. Although I said I wanted to become a martyr, and praised the suicide bombers before, it's something that's bothered my conscience for a very long time. "I couldn't get used to the idea that someone completely innocent sitting next to you could be killed." Butt plans to publish an open letter to British Muslims in July calling for an end to the violence he once glorified. It will tie in with the second anniversary of the London Tube and bus bombings. He believes it's up to British Muslims to stop fanatics influencing more young, impressionable minds and hopes his U-turn on violence will influence others. He said: "It'll be years before MI5 and the police get on top of it because it's so much harder to infiltrate the groups. It's going to take them 20 years. So it's up to us. "There are friends of mine who are disillusioned. But they are nervous about being open because they've seen what happened to me. "But someone's got to make a stand. What I've come to realise is that killing in the name of Islam for the sake of killing is completely prohibited. It's a very dangerous cancer in the Muslim world and it needs to be dealt with. "As long as we Muslims do not acknowledge that there is a violent streak in Islam, we are always going to lose the battle to the militants." [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: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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