thedrifter
07-06-07, 06:37 AM
Cyber terrorists targeted Mayport, paper says
By Zachary M. Peterson - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Jul 6, 2007 6:11:37 EDT
A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened terrorist attacks at Naval Base Mayport, Fla., and specifically against the now-decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, the British newspaper the Telegraph reported July 5.
British authorities discovered details of the threats on a Web site run by a “cyber-terrorist” gang, the newspaper account said. The threats were posted on a Web site run by three young radical Muslims, who were sentenced July 5 by a British judge. The three were the first defendants to be convicted of “inciting terrorist murder” on the Internet.
The three defendants were students in their early 20s, the Telegraph said. They created chat forums to direct fighters to Iraq and discuss bomb attacks around the world. Police discovered they had films of hostages and beheadings, the report said.
The group of 45 doctors, which investigators believe has no link with the recently detained doctors and medics involved with car bomb attempts in London and Glasgow, planned to “undertake jihad and take the battle inside America,” according to the story.
The first target was supposed to be the “naval base that gives shelter to the ship Kennedy,” thought to be a reference to the carrier, the story said. The Kennedy was decommissioned at Mayport in March.
The message mentioned attacking strip clubs near the base and using six Chevrolet GT cars, three fishing boats and rocket-propelled grenades to blow up petroleum tanks, the Telegraph reported.
A Navy spokesman at the Pentagon acknowledged the sea service was aware of the reports but would make no further comment.
The three men who ran the extremist Web site were originally arrested in 2005. After a two-month trial, a London judge sentenced Younis Tsouli, 23, to 10 years in jail; Waseem Mughal, 24, to 7 and a half years; and Tariq Al-Daour, 21, to 6 and half years.
Ellie
By Zachary M. Peterson - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Jul 6, 2007 6:11:37 EDT
A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened terrorist attacks at Naval Base Mayport, Fla., and specifically against the now-decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, the British newspaper the Telegraph reported July 5.
British authorities discovered details of the threats on a Web site run by a “cyber-terrorist” gang, the newspaper account said. The threats were posted on a Web site run by three young radical Muslims, who were sentenced July 5 by a British judge. The three were the first defendants to be convicted of “inciting terrorist murder” on the Internet.
The three defendants were students in their early 20s, the Telegraph said. They created chat forums to direct fighters to Iraq and discuss bomb attacks around the world. Police discovered they had films of hostages and beheadings, the report said.
The group of 45 doctors, which investigators believe has no link with the recently detained doctors and medics involved with car bomb attempts in London and Glasgow, planned to “undertake jihad and take the battle inside America,” according to the story.
The first target was supposed to be the “naval base that gives shelter to the ship Kennedy,” thought to be a reference to the carrier, the story said. The Kennedy was decommissioned at Mayport in March.
The message mentioned attacking strip clubs near the base and using six Chevrolet GT cars, three fishing boats and rocket-propelled grenades to blow up petroleum tanks, the Telegraph reported.
A Navy spokesman at the Pentagon acknowledged the sea service was aware of the reports but would make no further comment.
The three men who ran the extremist Web site were originally arrested in 2005. After a two-month trial, a London judge sentenced Younis Tsouli, 23, to 10 years in jail; Waseem Mughal, 24, to 7 and a half years; and Tariq Al-Daour, 21, to 6 and half years.
Ellie