By Judi McLeod
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Bomb-making websites are the arsenals of terrorists the world over.
Glasgow bomber Kafeel Ahmed, last seen engulfed in flames on television screens, seemed to drop from world headlines in the aftermath of the bungled attack.
Medics at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary raced against the clock to save the terrorist's life, even treating his burns with a radical process derived from sharkskin.
Ahmed, 27, is believed to have been the driver of the Jeep Cherokee deliberately driven into the busy airport terminal.
Obsessed with terrorism, Ahmed who died in early August of 90 per cent burns to his body, was in life an online Jihadist.
Authorities say there are some 6,000 al Qaeda websites training terrorists at any given time.
"In six years I have bookmarked some 6,000+ Jihadist websites and the list is still growing," says Archangel, code name for an online Jihadist-tracking expert.
Jihadists working in cyberspace operate with impunity under cover.
When exposed, Jihadist websites can virtually disappear overnight, as was the case with the self-touted "al Qaeda media website", Global Islamic Media website, operating from pastoral Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The Global Islamic Media website disappeared from the radar screen one day after Canada Free Press exposed it on July 6, 2007.
According to a security source, the Glasgow airport bomber who died of burns one month after the attack, sent an email confession to relatives.
"Claiming to be acting in the name of Allah and talking about martyrdom, the bomber's relatives also picked him out in CCTV footage fleeing one of the failed nightclub car bombs in London the day before the Glasgow airport attack of June 30." (Daily Mail, Aug. 20, 2007).
A security source has told London reporters that Ahmed sent a text to a relative just two hours before the Jeep was driven into Glasgow Airport.
When Ahmed died, vital clues about the al Qaeda network died with him. Analysis of his computer is said to have indicated that he visited bomb-making websites. His mobile phone was found in the burnt-out jeep.
Like most terrorists the mainstream media allows to melt into the shadows after bungled attacks, there were few reports about how medics were fighting to save his life, at a cost of 150,000 to the National Health Service--with shark skin grafts not always so readily available to other burn victims.
The text Ahmed sent to a family member contained a password to access a linked email.
In the email, Ahmed is said to admit to both the London car bombing attempt and the Glasgow plot--and to say that he was serving Allah.
Although the email apparently acknowledges that his relative would be shocked by his involvement in terror, he says that he desires martyrdom and appears to describe the Glasgow attack as a suicide bombing.
The email was not read by its recipient, however until well after the Jeep had been engulfed by flames at the airport.
It is now believed that the Glasgow attack was launched in a hurry after the London bombings failed, because the terrorists feared that their arrests were imminent.
Medics said Ahmed never emerged from a coma throughout his long unwilling battle for life after he was pulled out of the burning Jeep.
One source said: "This was one of the worst cases of burn I have ever seen. It was very traumatic for everyone involved in his care.
"I was surprised he survived this long."
The other occupant of the Jeep, Iraqi doctor Bilal Talal Samad Abdullah, has been charged with conspiring to set off lethal explosions.
Meanwhile, we can only hope that Abdullah, Jordanian doctor Mohammed Jamil Asha and Ahmed's brother Sabeel, 26, also charged over the attacks, do not get to disappear from the radar screen.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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