Sussex wrote:
Does anyone believe that you can just ring up and chat to the al-Qaida number three?
I don't know, do you think he'd have the audacity to put me on hold?
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| Author: | captain cab [ Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:13 pm ] |
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Taxi driver `had al-Qaida number' MEN! POSSESSING the phone number of al-Qaida's number three - discovered in Manchester - would be `gold dust' to a would-be terrorist, a court has been told. Hamza Rabia's number was on a piece of paper discovered at the home of Cheetham Hill taxi driver Habib Ahmed following his arrest in Augus, 2006, it was claimed. Terrorism expert Prof Michael Clarke told Manchester Crown Court it would be a `dangerous number to have'. Prosecutors say the phone number of Rabia, under his alias Haji Nawab, appeared on the ripped-out page of a notebook given to Habib Ahmed by his co-accused, Rangzieb Ahmed. Bomb-maker Other names to appear on the page included Mamoun Darkazanli, a suspected financier of the 2004 Madrid bombings, and Khalid Habib, a reported bomb-maker. Professor Clarke, based at King's College, London, said they were `fairly powerful names' who were high-ranking members of al-Qaida who were responsible for foreign operations. Contact details of leading al-Qaieda operatives were also found written in invisible ink in two diaries recovered from the same address. Habib Ahmed, 28, of Cheetham Hill, and Rangzieb Ahmed, 33, of Barnston Avenue, Fallowfield, both deny membership of al-Qaida between January, 2002 and September, 2006. Rangzieb Ahmed also denies directing terrorism but has pleaded guilty to being a member of a proscribed terror organisation called Harakat-ul- Mujahideen. Funding Habib Ahmed's wife, Mehreen Haji, 27, has pleaded not guilty to arranging funding for the purposes of terrorism by sending more than £4,000 to her husband when he was in Pakistan. Prof Clarke said the use of invisible ink by al-Qaida operatives was `fairly common'. "It is recommended on a number of websites and in a few al Qaida manuals," he said. "There are hundreds of ways of making it (ink). "It is known to be used quite a lot." More sophisticated techniques of writing were also believed to have been taught in the training camps, he added. |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:19 pm ] |
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Quote: POSSESSING the phone number of al-Qaida's number three - discovered in Manchester - would be `gold dust' to a would-be terrorist, a court has been told.
Does anyone believe that you can just ring up and chat to the al-Qaida number three? |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:24 pm ] |
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Sussex wrote: Does anyone believe that you can just ring up and chat to the al-Qaida number three?
I don't know, do you think he'd have the audacity to put me on hold?
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| Author: | gusmac [ Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:58 pm ] |
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captain cab wrote: Sussex wrote: Does anyone believe that you can just ring up and chat to the al-Qaida number three? I don't know, do you think he'd have the audacity to put me on hold? CC
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| Author: | captain cab [ Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:59 pm ] |
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Taxi driver 'posed as terrorist for cash' A taxi driver accused of being an al Qaida member told a jury today he lied that he was a terrorist to make money out of the media. Habib Ahmed, 28, of Cheetham Hill, Manchester, said he was working in a takeaway at the time he was supposed to be fighting the coalition forces in Afghanistan. He boasted in an interview with The Sunday Times in March 2002 that he was an al Qaida agent who had defied the security services to slip back unnoticed into the UK, Manchester Crown Court heard. Habib Ahmed was also reported to have attended endurance training camps in the Brecon Brecons, the Lake District and Scotland as part of his terrorism preparation. The court heard previously that contact details of top al Qaida operatives in invisible ink were recovered from a police search of the taxi driver’s home in August 2006. Giving his name as Abdullah and pictured wearing a scarf over his face, he said he was paid £1,400 for the Sunday Times interview. However, he said today he had “made it all up” to give the reporter the story he wanted. He said: “I was reluctant to do it but I knew he was paying money for it so I had to be the man they wanted me to be. “It was all made up. I was trying to convince him that I was the man who had come from Afghanistan. That was the story. If I did not convince him I would not get the money.” His barrister, David Turner QC, asked him: “Were you an al Qaida agent?” Habib Ahmed replied: “No.” “Were you part of a 10-man al Qaida cell in Britain,” Mr Turner added. “No, it was just all made up,” Habib Ahmed replied. The defendant also admitted acting as an intermediary to sell a similar story to the Daily Mirror for £100,000 in late 2001 – months after the 9/11 attacks in New Yorks. He was acting with his friend Hassan Butt, from Manchester – a man said to have renounced terrorism after previously claiming he recruited hundreds of Britons to fight with the Taliban. The pair were to share the cash by telling the newspaper that Mr Butt had returned to the UK from Pakistan after his recruitment boasts and that the security services were unable to arrest him because he had not committed an offence at the time. However, the pair became suspicious when they were photographed at the planned rendezvous with a reporter in Trafalgar Square, London. They fled without payment after a brief meeting in a nearby bookshop. Habib Ahmed told the jury: “At this time Hassan had made a name for himself in media circles. There was a lot of demand for someone like him him to say something like that. “Being naive, we thought we were going to get £100,000 in a suitcase. We were going to share it.“ He said the resulting front page article, which referred to Hassan Butt as a “outlaw who had recruited hundreds of Britons to fight for Bin Laden”, forced his takeaway boss to tell him to take two weeks off because it was bad for business. Habib Ahmed denies membership of al Qaida between January 2002 and September 2006. He also denies possessing articles and information for terror-related activities, and attending a terror training camp in Pakistan between April 2006 and June 2006. Fellow defendant Rangzieb Ahmed, 33, of Barnston Avenue, Fallowfield, also denies al Qaida membership and being a director of the organisation. He does admit to being a member of a proscribed terror group called Harakat-ul-Mujahideen, which the prosecution say is closely related to al Qaida. Habib Ahmed’s wife, Mehreen Haji, 27, denies arranging funding for the purposes of terrorism by sending sums of £2,005 and £1,991 to her husband while he was in Pakistan. The trial continues. |
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| Author: | Bart [ Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:21 pm ] |
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I have the phone number of the football asociation. That doesn't mean that I'm going to be playing for England anytime soon. |
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| Author: | GBC [ Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:47 pm ] |
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Ask Tottenham, they need some assistance. 
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:08 pm ] |
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Sussex wrote: Quote: POSSESSING the phone number of al-Qaida's number three - discovered in Manchester - would be `gold dust' to a would-be terrorist, a court has been told. Does anyone believe that you can just ring up and chat to the al-Qaida number three? brrr brrrr brrrr hello? hi, is that al queda? er, whose asking please? oh hi, id like to talk to you about reducing your mobile phone bill your kidding me? er, no, who are you with now, are you on contract? we are with taliban-tel and spend £100 a month but the signal is terrible right, and where are you located? we have a nice semi-detached cave on the border is that near builth wells? i went there once no, the india pakistan border er, so you your not mr hal keeder in bulth wells then? hardly right, er, whose your gas and electric supplier then? i think your on a loser here darling ok, have a nice day |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:10 pm ] |
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Quote: “Were you part of a 10-man al Qaida cell in Britain,” Mr Turner added.
we were but none of the local taxi firms had a d1 driver so we dumped 2 members so we could get to meetings in leeds... |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:32 pm ] |
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Guilty! |
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