The ANNOTICO Report

Osman (real name Hamdi Isaac) Hussain's arrest in Rome sparked more than a
dozen follow-up raids across the country, as Italian authorities tried to
determine if any attacks on Italy were being plotted.

"Every single terrorist event we've had, and the failed ones we've had,
there usually are foreign connections, even though the cannon fodder may be
home grown.", which makes them extremely complex."

If the attacks of July 7 and July 21 are linked, they show a worrying
degree of preparation by a person or people making use of homegrown
radicals from two distinct ethnic groups -- with three of the four July 7
bombers of Pakistani origin, and at least three of the July 21 suspects
with East African roots. "It seems a very sophisticated level of planning
went into it," Standish said. "What will the next one be -- from Kashmir?
>From Nigeria? From Southeast Asia? From Saudi? -- We just don't know."

If the attacks are NOT linked, it shows even a greater concern for a
greater widespread disaffection springing up all over the world vs
Colonialistic, Imperialistic acting countries, who would use fabricated
excuses to invade, rob, and pillage countries whose resources or
geopolitical position they covet, and being not Western Civilizations, are
labeled "barbaric" to justify barbaric methods to pacify.

We see them as Terrorists, they see themselves as Freedom Fighters.

George Washington was King George's terrorist.

Menachem Begin (Irgun Zvai Leumi) was denounced as a Fascist and Terrorist
by no less than Albert Einstein for the massacre of 240 men women and
children in the Arab village of Deir Yassin, the blowing up of the King
David Hotel,(1946) among a series of  terrorist acts. <<
http://www.globalwebpost.com/
farooqm/study_res/einstein/nyt_letter.html >>

Ariel Sharon was/is essentially a terrorist. As Ha’aretz reported, Sharon’s
first documented action as a terrorist occurred in August 1953, when his
men attacked the refugee camp El-Bureig, south of Gaza. Israeli records
show that 50 refugees were killed. On Oct. 14, 1953, Sharon and Unit 101
attacked Qibya, a village in the West Bank. At least 60 Jordanian civilians
were killed. “In August 1971 alone, troops under Mr. Sharon’s command
destroyed some 2,000 homes in the Gaza Strip, uprooting 16,000 people for
the second time in their lives”, In the second half of 1971, 104 guerillas
were assassinated. ‘The policy at that time was not to arrest suspects, but
to assassinate them,’

In 1981-83, Sharon worked as minister of defense under Begin. In 1982,
Israel invaded Lebanon to supposedly expel the Palestinian Liberation
Organization. \During the invasion, Sharon helped orchestrate the massacres
at the refugee camps Sabra and Shatilla. The killing went on for 62 hours.
An estimated 3,000 people were murdered: men, women, children, the elderly,
and pregnant women. As Ha’aretz reported, some of the victims “were
mutilated or disemboweled before or after they were killed.” Thomas
Friedman, at the post-massacre scene, reported in the New York Times:
“Mostly I saw groups of young men in their twenties and thirties who had
been lined up against walls, tied by their hands and feet, and then mowed
down gangland-style with fusillades of machine-gun fire.”<<
http://www.catholicintl.com/
epologetics/articles/pastoral/
woeArial2.htm >>

Newsday
By David Rising
Associated Press Writer
July 30, 2005

LONDON -- When the bomb he tried to detonate aboard a London Tube train
failed to explode, police say Osman Hussain jumped out a carriage window,
ran along the track, then hopped through back yards before melting into the
city's bustle.

After going underground for five days, Hussain boarded a train at Waterloo
station -- possibly walking past his picture and those of three other
suspected July 21 attackers on posters that blanketed the city. Then he
slipped away, traveling from London through France to Rome.

His ability to escape a massive British dragnet, coupled with the arrest of
another suspect in Zambia with al-Qaida ties, raised fears about the global
reach of today's terrorists and the depth of their networks.

"The way people fanned out after the bombings, it's brought it home to
people ... that it is part of a kind of a network, interconnected -- all
the fingerprints are there," said Michael Cox, a professor at London's
Royal Institute of International Affairs specializing in the post-Sept. 11
terrorism threat.

"They'd have to have a much wider support base than just those who are
active suicide bombers."

Hussain, an Ethiopian-born Briton, was captured Friday at his brother Remzi
Isaac's house in Rome, where police traced him through his use of a
relative's cell phone. Italian newspapers said investigators suspected
Hussain's real name was Hamdi Isaac.

He admitted to a role in the attack but said it was only intended to be an
attention-grabbing strike, not a deadly one, a legal expert familiar with
the investigation told The Associated Press in Rome.

Hussain told interrogators he wasn't carrying enough explosives even to
"harm people nearby," the expert said, speaking on condition of anonymity,
citing the ongoing investigation, which under Italian law must remain
secret.

He also told investigators the bombers were motivated by anger over the
U.S.-led war in Iraq, but said his cell was not linked to either al-Qaida
or the cell that carried out the deadly July 7 suicide bombings, Italian
media reported.

The arrest sparked more than a dozen follow-up raids across the country, as
Italian authorities tried to determine if any attacks on Italy were being
plotted.

In addition to Hussain, at least two of the other July 21 suspects were of
East African origin, and Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said the
country was watching the area closely.

"We are following the evolution of the overall situation in the Horn of
Africa where, in stateless lands, al-Qaida has arrived, has settled, and
from where it tends, in various ways, to dispatch its followers into Europe
and the rest of the world," Pisanu said.

Though officials have not yet said they found links between the July 7
attacks that killed 56 people, including four attackers, and the failed
attacks exactly two weeks later -- both of which targeted three subway
trains and a bus -- police chief Sir Ian Blair said there was a "resonance"
between the two.

If it turns out both events had a single mastermind and a common bombmaker,
experience shows they probably would have fled Britain before the attacks,
said Alex Standish, editor of Jane's Intelligence Digest. A likely hiding
place would be in western Europe, where they could flee without having to
undergo tough border security checks.

"They'll go to ground in areas that they will not be conspicuous," Standish
said. "Most European Union countries have a significant Muslim population
where these guys can just sit there and fade into the background."

Britain was seeking Hussain's extradition and said it was seeking the
return of one of its citizens detained in Zambia.

Though the Foreign Office has not released the person's name, it is widely
reported to be Haroon Rashid Aswat, who Zambian officials have said was
being questioned about 20 phone calls he allegedly made to some of the men
suspected in the July 7 attacks, which killed 56 people, including four
suicide bombers.

Aswat is implicated in a 1999 plot to establish a terrorist training camp
in the United States and has told Zambian investigators he once was a
bodyguard for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, Zambian officials said.

Aswat's family said in a statement released Saturday they were "concerned,
distressed and disappointed" by Britain's handling of the case.

"It is very worrying that after more than 10 days the British government is
still unable to verify that the British citizen detained is actually
Haroon," said the relatives, who live in northern England. "Our son, albeit
estranged for many years, is surely entitled to the presumption of
innocence as any other British citizen.

"We wonder whether the government's attitude would have been any different
if it was a white, non-Muslim citizen detained in a foreign country?"

Before he was detained in Zambia, Aswat had been hiding in Johannesburg,
South Africa, and was followed after entering the country from Botswana,
the Zambian officials said.

"Every single terrorist event we've had, and the failed ones we've had,
there usually are foreign connections, even though the cannon fodder may be
home grown," said Magnus Ranstorp, director of the Center for the Study of
Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews in
Scotland.

"The Bouyeri network in the killing of (filmmaker Theo) van Gogh in the
Netherlands, the Madrid bombings -- all of these investigations have a
foreign component to them, which makes them extremely complex," he said.

British authorities had good quality closed-circuit television pictures of
the July 21 suspects. That could have spooked them into a "panic" response
counter to known terrorist training methods, with three failing to
immediately flee the country and Hussain using a cellular phone that could
be traced easily, Ranstorp said.

If the attacks of July 7 and July 21 are linked, they show a worrying
degree of preparation by a person or people making use of homegrown
radicals from two distinct ethnic groups -- with three of the four July 7
bombers of Pakistani origin, and at least three of the July 21 suspects
with East African roots, Standish said.

That ensured that when police focus was on the Pakistani community after
the July 7 attacks, the East African group could still move freely.

"It seems a very sophisticated level of planning went into it," Standish
said. "What will the next one be -- from Kashmir? From Nigeria? From
Southeast Asia? From Saudi? -- We just don't know."

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