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The Salem military court in the West Bank sentenced Muhammed Amudi to 11 life sentences, and 20 additional years in prison for his role in a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv shawarma restaurant last spring.

On 17 April, 2006, a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself at a crowded fast-food stand near Tel Aviv’s old central bus station. Amudi was the mastermind behind the terror attack, which left 11 people killed and dozens injured. — YNet

The attack was actually carried out by Sami Salim Mohammed Hammed, a young man from Jenin. The explosive device detonated after a security guard asked Hammed to open his bag; it included the usual nails, etc. to inflict the maximum number of injuries. The same restaurant had been previously targeted in January with 31 injuries and no deaths. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad took credit for both attacks.

I have no idea of what Amudi said to Hammed to get him to agree to be a human bomb. Some sources give his age as 21. Judging by the photo, I doubt it.

All of this is remind us that when the various terrorist groups demand the release of ‘political’ prisoners from Israeli jails, they are talking about creatures like Muhammed Amudi.

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More is known about the two doctors that were arrested in connection with the attempted terrorist bombings in London and Glasgow:

Dr Mohammed Asha, 26, from Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs, was arrested with a 27-year-old woman believed to be his wife on the M6 on Saturday night.

Originally from Lebanon, he trained in Jordan and worked at the North Staffordshire Hospital, Stoke under a provisional GMC registration. He lived there with his wife and baby boy.

The second doctor is thought to have been one of the two men who drove a blazing Jeep packed with gas canisters into a terminal building at Glasgow Airport.

He was employed at Paisley’s Royal Alexandra Hospital, where police yesterday detonated a car in a controlled explosion. One of the men involved in the Glasgow attack is also receiving treatment at the hospital. — Daily Telegraph, UK

In my previous post, I suggested that entirely new categories of thinking are needed in order for the West to deal with the assault against it exemplified by these attacks.

In the past, areas of concern for security forces included agents of enemy states, members of organized terror groups, mentally disturbed individuals, and criminals.

Today the threat appears to come from a combination of a particular ideology — radical Islamism — with ‘facilitators’ such as certain nations as well as independent groups like al-Qaeda, all amplified and ultimately coordinated by internet communications. Some of these radical Islamists are prepared to use violent means to achieve their goals; this group can be called ‘jihadists’.

Jihadists, inspired by Islamist websites, may develop plans for terrorist actions with or without the help of facilitators. They may establish a connection with a facilitator earlier or later in the planning process and the ultimate result can be amateurish, like the “Fort Dix six” plot, or horrendous like the London Transport bombings.

There are 1.5 billion (1.5 x 10⁹) Muslims in the world. How many of these support radical Islamism? Estimates vary, both by who is doing the estimating and what population is being studied; but Daniel Pipes puts the figure at 10% worldwide (the UK, interestingly, tends to have one of the highest figures). Let’s be conservative and use 5%. Now assume that of this 5%, one out of a thousand is prepared to take direct, violent action in support of his belief. That comes out to 75,000 violent jihadists, with possibly ten times as many prepared to offer material support.

There is no way that security agencies can determine who these people are in advance of their actions by traditional intelligence techniques, because they may have no connection with any known terrorist group; and if they are in contact with a facilitator, it will be an electronic one buried among millions of harmless web views, chats, or emails.

What I am about to say will be highly offensive to some, but I don’t see an alternative.

The only way to stop this kind of terrorism is to develop techniques of profiling to determine who, among the Muslims living in the West fit the category of ‘radical Islamists’, and which of these are most likely to belong to the smaller category of violent jihadists.

There is no way to do this with the limited amount of resources available other than by investigating people who have not committed any crime and who have no demonstrated connection with terror groups, people singled out only for their beliefs.

I am aware that this is anathema to many in our society where such great value is placed on privacy, freedom of thought and expression, freedom of association, etc.

The alternative — which we may decide to choose — is to simply accept a certain amount of random terrorism from those like the British murder doctors, and hope that they do not come to possess weapons with more potency than propane canisters.

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How do we get our minds around this?

Two doctors were among five people being held as terror suspects last night after the bomb plots in London and Glasgow. One was one of two men who tried to drive a blazing Jeep packed with petrol, gas canisters and nails into Glasgow Airport on Saturday.

Police are still investigating the precise links between that attack and the two Mercedes car bombs left in the West End of London early on Friday.

Both doctors were working at UK hospitals and were apparently here legally…

“These are highly-educated, articulate and intelligent people,” one security source said. — Daily Mail, UK

Imagine spending the day curing disease and patching up accident victims, closing wounds, comforting people in distress, doing whatever is possible to keep the elaborate and finely balanced mechanism of the human body functioning evenly, hearing “thank goodness you’re here, doctor”, receiving the trust and respect that very few professions are honored to receive, because — even though we know that they’re people like anyone else — in a sense they are different, set apart because they dedicate themselves to the well-being of others.

And then you get into your car and try to create a burning hell for as many man, women and children as you possibly can. You include explosives and nails so that the bombs will tear flesh and embed bits of metal in the brains, guts, eyes, and livers of the arbitrary people — Christians, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, Hindus — that are unlucky enough to be in the Glasgow airport. You add a few canisters of propane in the hopes of creating a fuel-air bomb of sorts, in which the propane will mix with the air inside the building before it ignites. When it does, the immediate blast wave will most likely blow the walls out and collapse the roof; then, after that, a massive negative pressure resulting from the consumption of almost all the atmospheric oxygen will rip the lungs out of anyone who survived the initial explosion.

It would seem that only an insane person could do both of these things. But there were two doctors. Were they both insane in the same way? The Mail reports that one is a Jordanian, with a wife and baby. Another was an Iraqi who had been granted asylum in Britain. There were two doctors and numerous others, who will probably also turn out to be more or less respectable citizens.

I think we need to understand that we are facing something here that — at least before 9/11 and all the other terrible attacks since then — we really didn’t have the categories to deal with. By now we need to have those categories set up. It’s not a question of mentally deranged individuals, nor people that are “hopeless” because of the poverty or oppression that characterizes their homelands. It may not even be people who are agents of a well-organized conspiracy like the al-Qaeda of 9/11.

As Daniel Pipes has written, the West could lose this one.

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Farfour the Hamas mouse is gone, brutally beaten to death by an Israeli official who tried to persuade him to sell his land. But Farfour, patriotic to the end, refused, calling the Israeli a ‘terrorist’.

“Farfour was martyred while defending his land,” said Sara, the teen presenter. He was killed “by the killers of children,” she added. — AP

If you haven’t been keeping up with Farfour, Palestinian Media Watch describes him thus:

The squeaky-voiced Mickey Mouse lookalike, named Farfur, is the star of a weekly children’s program called Tomorrow’s Pioneers on the official Hamas TV station (Al-Aqsa TV). Farfur and his co-host, a young girl named Saraa’, teach children about such things as the importance of the daily prayers and drinking milk, while taking every opportunity to indoctrinate young viewers with teachings of Islamic supremacy, hatred of Israel and the US and support of “resistance” – the Palestinian euphemism for terror.

Farfur tells children that they must pray in the mosque five times a day until there is “world leadership under Islamic leadership.” The earnest and soft-spoken Saraa’ explains that the nucleus of this world Islamic leadership will be from “all of Palestine,” i.e., including Israel. Farfur refers to Israel as “the oppressive invading Zionist occupation,” which the children must “resist.”

Well, he’s gone to his 72 black-eyed rodent virgins now, and good riddance. Station personnel say that he has been taken off the air to make room for other programs. Perhaps even Hamas is afraid of Disney’s legal department.

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