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December 23, 2005

UK: Muslim Cleric Predicted 7/7 Bombing

News from Agence France Presse via Khaleej Times, Netscape news and abc.net.au states that radical exiled cleric, 47 year old Omar Bakri Mohammed made a prediction that Britain would be hit by terrorists. He made the prediction several months before the bombings against London Transport, which killed 52 people.

The videotape footage was shown on Channel 4's News program, and it was said according to AFP that the footage also featured on the website of a group "calling itself the 'Saved Sect'."

Someone did not listen hard enough. The group is actually the Saviour Sect, which is a residual group formed after the break-up of the terorist group al-Muhajiroun. Bakri was a former leader of al-Muhajiroun, and acted as mentor to members of the Saviour Sect and its companion group, Al Ghurabaa. The website of this group, http://al-ghurabaa.co.uk/ is currently removed from its server, with a message in German.

We reported on October 20 of the cleric's usage of the Al Ghurabaa website to broadcast his sermons and speeches, while he remained in exile in Lebanon. He had lived in the UK as an asylum seeker since 1986, but when he left to Lebanon this year, the Home Office announced an exclusion order against him.

Some former members of al-Muhajiroun, including Anjem Choudary, had joined him in Lebanon, and had claimed to be helping Bakri to set up a madrassa. Choudary was deported from Lebanon with four others. As well as the Saviour Sect and Al Ghurabaa, another group has recently been formed by ex-members of al-Muhajiroun, the Ahl ul-Sunnah Wa al-Jamma. Members of all three groups are essentially the same. The reason for the establishment of the new group may be a preventative measure, in case the government's current anti-terror bill becomes law.

This bill, which is currently being reviewed in the upper chamber, the House of Lords, for its second reading aims to proscribe Hizb ut-Tahrir and successors to the group Al-Muhajiroun in one of its clauses. Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Islamist group, but the founder of its UK branch was Omar Bakri Mohammed.

Al-Muhajiroun caused the deaths of three people in Mike's Bar in Tel Aviv in a suicide attack on April 30, 2003. Sixty five people were injured. The attack had been carried out by two British Muslims from Derbyshire, Asif Hanif and Omar Sharif. Hanif's bomb belt detonated, but Sharif's failed, and he was found drowned on the shore at Tel Aviv a few days later, suspected of committing suicide.

The videotape of Bakri has him saying: "The mujahedin are everywhere. They are everywhere around, fighting. And don't worry, they are causing enough anarchy around the world to put everybody down on their knees. When it becomes anarchy, it becomes one....becomes 'nobody governs', becomes 'fight for your lives', and that is exactly what is going on around the world now.

It's going to happen, but don't worry. You see, if it happens or don't happen, nothing can happen that deceives Allah. If Allah destines then it is going to happen. But take your precautions. Be aware."

He denied that he had anything to do with the bombings, and to be fair, it is the sort of rhetoric which he usually comes up with. He recently claimed while the French riots were still continuing, that Muslim riots will soon be happening in Britain.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at December 23, 2005 11:58 PM

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