Cartoon imam linked to German, Danish terror suspects
posted at 4:03 pm on September 5, 2006 by Allahpundit
His name’s Abu Bashar and he led the first of several delegations of Danish imams to the Middle East last December to see if they could stir up a little old-fashioned religious outrage over the Jyllands-Posten cartoons of Mohammed.
They succeeded. Due in part to the fact that they faked some of the evidence.
Bashar’s back in the news for, of all things, links to terrorism. Contain your surprise:
Today Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet reported the news that one of the [would-be German train] bombers, El Hajdib, was linked to the Danish imam Abu Bashar. According to the German BKA, when El Hajdib was arrested he was found in possession of a train ticket to the Danish city of Odense, where Bashar lives, and the cleric’s phone number. The BKA suspects that El Hajdib was supposed to hide in Odense with Abu Bashar’s help before reaching relatives in Sweden. Contacted by journalists, Abu Bashar denied any knowledge of the case.
The other suspect in the case told Lebanese police a few days ago that their main goal was to avenge the cartoons’ “attack” on Islam.
Today Danish police arrested seven persons of unknown description whom they’d had under surveillance after they allegedly tried to acquire bombmaking materials. According to Al Jazeera, Abu Bashar knows three of them. Oh, and he also knows why they’d be interested in blowing things up in Denmark. Straight out of the UK playbook:
“I’m afraid that there will be a terrorist attack in Denmark because there are Danish soldiers deployed in Iraq, and I’m afraid of what al-Qaeda may do if Denmark doesn’t withdraw its troops,” he told Danish news agency Ritzau.
He hasn’t said anything yet about fears of an anti-Islamic backlash among Danes, but give him a nanosecond. It’ll come.
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I’m Shocked! Oh…no wait. Forget it.
Iblis on September 5, 2006 at 4:12 PM
“Solidarity with Denmark and Death to Fascism”Christopher Hitchens, Washington DC, Friday, Feb. 24, 2006
RobCon on September 5, 2006 at 4:39 PM
I question the timing.
Marvin on September 5, 2006 at 4:55 PM
Just had some Imported Danish Cookies…they were Great..!
Wade on September 5, 2006 at 5:07 PM
Nothing unknown about the description of the suspects overseas. That bit of whitewashing is courtesy of our own media.
I just got off the phone with my mom who is over there, and she told me that all of the media are very clear in their description of the suspects as being “Muslims” of “of Islamic background”.
An example of Danish coverage (in English, I’m feeling helpful today ;) ) would be this article from Jyllands-Posten.
Misha I on September 5, 2006 at 5:09 PM
I meant to say “Muslims” OR “of Islamic background”, of course.
Misha I on September 5, 2006 at 5:10 PM
Oh brother. “Dat sure is a nice country you got ‘dere. Be a shame if it got broke.” This guy’s response to cartoons is to become one.
Tanya on September 5, 2006 at 5:47 PM