“The four suicide bombers–three of them of Pakistani origin–who carried out the July 7, 2005, attacks on the London Underground that killed fifty-six people and injured seven hundred were connected to FATA [Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas]. The ringleader, Mohammed Siddique Khan, visited FATA in 2003 and 2004, when he had ‘some contact with al […]
7/7/2005
“On 7 July 2005 three young British Muslim men of Pakistani origin and living in Leeds and one other Jamaican-born man from Buckinghamshire blew themselves up on the London transport system, killing fifty-six and injuring more than 700 people. Within hours of the attack ‘the Secret Organization of al Qaeda in Europe’ had claimed responsibility […]
7/7/2005
“During the [Pakistani President Purvez] Musharraf era, al Qaeda used Pakistan to mount its most important raids into the West, a highly successful one being the London bombings of July 7, 2005. Four British citizens, three of whom were of Pakistani descent, blew themselves up on British mass-transit vehicles. Three blasts occurred in underground trains […]
7/7/2005
On July 7, 2005, “four terrorist explosions rocked London’s transport system at the height of rush hour, killing at least thirty-three and wounding roughly a thousand others. A group calling itself the Secret Organization of the Al-Qaeda Jihad in Europe later claimed credit for the attacks, and asserted that the attacks were payback for Britain’s […]
7/7/2005
“According to the British intelligence services, ‘The command, control and inspiration’ for every major terrorist operation in the United Kingdom since 2003–including the July [7] 2005 attack on the London underground and the August 2006 plot to simultaneously blow up ten jumbo jets over the North Atlantic–were directed and commanded by the al Qaeda core […]
7/7/2005
Besides the 9/11 plot, al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-“Zawahiri has also claimed credit for other ‘raids’ into the West since then, the most important being the July 7, 2005, attack on London’s underground, in which fifty-two innocent people and four terrorists were killed.” – Bruce Riedel, The Search for Al Qaeda, Page 32 […]
7/7/2005
“On July 7, 2005, at 8:50 A.M. during the morning rush hour, three bombs simultaneously exploded in three separate cars of London’s subway. …A fourth bomb exploded one hour later on a double-decker bus. …There were fewer casualties than in Madrid [Spain]–fifty-six including the attackers, who were suicide bombers.” – Antonia Juhasz, The Bush Agenda, […]
6/30/2005
“In a two-year period between June 2003 and June 2005, nearly 55 per cent of the foreign fighters killed in Iraq were Saudi. It gave credence to the charge that official Saudi Arabia allowed, if not actively encouraged, the insurgency.” [The 30th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Ali A. Allawi, […]
6/29/2005
“While the acts of torture were happening, the Bush Administration, pursuant to Article 19 of the CAT [United Nations Convention Against Torture], submitted on June 29, 2005 a report to the Committee Against Torture, established by the CAT’s Article 17. In that report, the U.S. expressed its total conformity with the provisions of the [Geneva] […]
6/29/2005
“In a guerrilla first, [al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab] al-Zarqawi released a highly professional forty-six-minute film called All Religion Will be for Allah via the Internet on 29 June 2005. This slick production condensed many operations, including suicide bombings and ambushes, into one gory celebration. The distribution was as professional as the production, […]