Al Jazeera television today carried a video featuring London suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer. Tanweer, 23, killed six people and himself on a tube train near Aldgate station on 7 July last year. "What have you witnessed now is only the beginning of a string of attacks that will continue and become stronger until you pull your forces out of Afghanistan and Iraq and until you stop your financial and military support to America and Israel." He said.
He also referred to the non-Muslims of Britain and saying that because they voted for a government which “continues to oppress… in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Chechnya”, then they deserve such actions.
Given the other content, including that from Al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahri, the video intended to make a link between the London bombers and Al-Qaeda. It was also intended to cause the greatest possible hurt to the families and friends of those who died on 7/7 and the hundreds of people who were injured in the terrorist attacks.
Shehzad Tanweer has been proved wrong so far when he said the attacks would increase – God forbid he will be proved right. His argument that any British person is fair game because they voted for the Government is simply a pathetic attempt to justify their choice of target. It hardly accounts for the Muslims who where killed or wounded at their hands but then again he would probably subscribe to the infamous “Kill them all God will know his own” quote attributed Arnaud Amaury during the Albigensian Crusade is appropriate (the original Latin phrase is the title of this post).
Tanweer is dead but London abides. I left work early today and went to Trafalgar Square with the intention to take a few more photographs of the Alison Lapper statue It was a normal day, very different to this time last year when there were major celebrations to mark the occasion of London being awarded the 2012 Olympics. Today it is was a normal day with tourists from all around the world going about their tourist affairs, dipping their feet in the fountain and generally being happy with the world. It gave me a great sense of well being just to see this. Tanweer failed.
The Tanweer story is available from just about every news source
7 comments:
Probably just death, I suppose!
Inexcusable! I actually saw this story on Fox News today. Thank God that there hasn't been anything more.
-Comrade Dave
There was no excuse for their acts. In their twisted, deluded minds they hoped to strike a blow for Islam, their blow took out commuters and tourist and achieved nothing but infamy.
I heard a comedian talking about how unfair it is that terrorists target mass transit to wage war. He said, "Holy crap, isn't life cruel enough when you have to ride a frickin bus everywhere you go, without worrying about certain death too"?
What mindset thinks they can win the hearts of the people for their cause when they slaughter innocents?
That's it. They don't want out hearts or minds unless spattered about the place along with our other internal organs
Caedite Eos! nobit enim dominus qui sunt eius, no mercy its the way of the fist, “I choose death before dishonor id rather die than live down on my knees, bury me like a soldier with my dignity”
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