TERRORISM BUSTED!
Al-Qaeda Plan to Bomb US Govt Facilities in Nigeria Aborted…Conspires to Murder American nationals abroad
- Niger Republic Suspect Arrested, Charged with Plotting to Bombing US Govt facilities in Africa
- FBI: “Ibrahim Suleiman Plotted to bomb US diplomatic buildings”
- Suspect’s involvement in Sept. 11 attack exposed
- Al-Qaeda Chief blood brother warns: “France playing with Fire over Mali”
- Cameron, British PM: “War against al-Qaeda in Africa could last decades”
BY SAMSON SHOAGA/MANAGING EDITOR/NEW JERSEY
A leading Al-Qaeda African member earlier involved in the September 11, 2001 attack and planning another recent ‘deadly’ attack against the interest of United States in Africa, especially Nigeria and North Africa, Ibrahim Suleiman, better known in the suicide bombing arm of this terror group as ‘Adnan Adam Harun’ had been arrested in New York and placed on trial by Bureau of Federal Investigation (FBI). He was charged in U.S. District Court with conspiring to murder U.S. nationals abroad, plotting to bomb U.S. government facilities in Africa and other offenses.
FBI Unveils African-Al Qaeda man identity
FBI reportedly said “Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun, an Al Qaeda member, plotted to bomb U.S. diplomatic buildings in Nigeria. He is another terrorism suspect indicted in New York.”
Naija Standard gathered that this Nigerien man was allegedly involved with Al Qaeda at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and indicted by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn, N.Y., marking the second time this month the Obama administration announced criminal charges against suspected terrorists.
Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun was charged in U.S. District Court with conspiring to murder U.S. nationals abroad, plotting to bomb U.S. government facilities in Africa and other offenses. He could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted. Harun, a Saudi native with Nigerien citizenship, is not expected to enter a plea to the allegations.
“Reaction of jihadi fighters is likely to be strong, be it in Mali or on French territory”-Al-Qaeda
Naija Standard confirmed the anger of this terrorist group against France for their military intervention in Mali, when Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri threatened that France is “playing with fire” in Mali, warning that Islamic fighters would retaliate in the African nation and “on French territory.”
France launched a military offensive in Mali in January to help the army push back Islamic extremists who had taken hold of the north and has begun a phased withdrawal of its 4,500-strong force.
His words: “France is playing with fire… By attacking Mali, France lit the fuse and will suffer the consequences. The reaction of jihadi fighters is likely to be strong, be it in Mali or on French territory. France kills our children, we must respond. We have neither bombs nor planes, but our resources allow us to take hostages to defend ourselves. Will we, Muslims, come to Europe and attack you because we are opposed to secularism and Catholicism? You have no right to intervene in our beliefs.”
France’s military intervention in Mali saw French-led troops recapture key towns in northern Mali that had been occupied for months by Islamist groups linked to Al-Qaeda.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden as Al-Qaeda chief in 2011, had already warned France at the beginning of April that it would meet in Mali “the same fate as America in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Mohammed al-Zawahiri was sentenced to death in absentia in Egypt in 1998 on charges of undergoing military training in Albania and planning militant operations in Egypt. He was arrested a year later in the United Arab Emirates and handed over to Egyptian authorities. He was released along with other prisoners in 2011 after the fall of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, only to be rearrested within 48 hours. He was subsequently awarded a retrial and was acquitted in March 2012.
“War against al-Qaeda in Africa could last decades”–British PM
For Britain, it faces a battle against Islamic extremism in North Africa and the Sahara that could last for decades, warned David Cameron, British Prime Minister
The Prime Minister said that countering the rise of al-Qaeda-affiliated groups in the Sahel region will require an “iron resolve” and greater military, diplomatic and economic engagement with the region.
Naija Standard observed that Cameron made this known when he confirmed that six British citizens had died after extremists took scores of hostages at a gas plant in eastern Algeria. France recently called the hostage-taking “an act of war”. Some of the dead were “executed” by their captors as Algerian forces stormed the In Amenas complex.
