Blackburn terror accused filmed themselves on military exercise
A home-made film showing two would-be terrorists on military-style manoeuvres crawling across a public park in Blackburn in broad daylight has been played to a jury at Manchester Crown Court.
Abbas Iqbal, 24, his brother Ilyas, 23 and Muhammad Ali Ahmad, a white Muslim convert, were said to be "intoxicated by the evil of terrorism" and planning to carry out jihad, or holy war.
The trio, who styled themselves "The Blackburn Resistance", were said to have studied guerrilla warfare, gathered a stockpile of weapons and a library of jihadist material. Although some of material was comical, the prosecution has suggested, their purpose was wholly serious.
Edward Brown, QC, for the prosecution, suggested that Abbas Iqbal filmed his brother and Ahmad, 26, in the style of typical al-Qaeda propaganda. Their aim was to distribute the material abroad.
The video apparently shows one of the duo carrying a rifle as they "leopard crawl" through Corporation Park, in the centre of the Lancashire town.
Mr Brown said the "promotional collage" for The Blackburn Resistance was among material which Abbas Iqbal had intended to radicalise others.
The video was introduced by a voice stating "They are fighting against oppression, they are The Blackburn Resistance", before it showed two of the group crawling through woodland and across a path in the park.
In the background, someone chants: "I am the armour for those who believe in the unity of Allah. I am the fire against the aggressor.
"I am the machinegun against the one who starts fighting. I am the one whose sun is shining. Over my day and my pride." Video clips of the trio holding and firing weapons while shouting Allah Akbar (God is Great) in a back yard were also found on the storage card, along with photographs of them in camouflaged clothing and carrying weapons.
The Iqbal family home in Blackburn, was later searched. Police discovered a camcorder video tape which showed Abbas Iqbal holding a young boy and raising a machete.
Playing the tape in court, Mr Brown told the jury: "It is plainly a joke and he obviously has no intention of hurting the boy." The boy, aged about eight, is on camera in a room with two girls as Abbas Iqbal holds the weapon and, in Urdu, says: "This is what I am going to do to somebody. God willing, when I find a Kuffar (non-believer), this I show, I am going to take his head off." Mr Brown said that the material was discovered in Abbas’ suitcase when he was arrested at Manchester airport in August 2008, en route to northern Europe with another alleged extremist, who cannot be identified for legal reasons.
Later Mr Ahmad told police that the video was "just a bit of fun
The video was among material found in a mobile phone storage card discovered in the suitcase of Abbas Iqbal when he was arrested trying to board a flight from Manchester Airport to northern Europe in August 2008.
Mr Aqbal was said to have filmed the duo - one of whom was allegedly carrying a rifle as he rustled through the park - training in Blackburn, Lancashire.
Last edited by S<Chowdhury; 02-24-2010 at 06:37 PM.
To my Akh's tryin to stay on their deen
It gets mean especially when u stay on the scene
And at the same try to stay out of trouble
But don't forget the blessing's in the struggle...
You gotta stay on your salats, your zakats, your Quran
lol this is so funny, i watched the video and laughed, they cant be serious. so from now on, if you film yourselves crawling in a park, playing bad type of jokes for some fun, you will get arrested for being a terrorist! but if you fly b-52 bomber and kill 30 civillians in one go, you will be labelled as a hero!
lol this is so funny, i watched the video and laughed, they cant be serious. so from now on, if you film yourselves crawling in a park, playing bad type of jokes for some fun, you will get arrested for being a terrorist! but if you fly b-52 bomber and kill 30 civillians in one go, you will be labelled as a hero!
Haha very amateur video
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To my Akh's tryin to stay on their deen
It gets mean especially when u stay on the scene
And at the same try to stay out of trouble
But don't forget the blessing's in the struggle...
You gotta stay on your salats, your zakats, your Quran
Help me to escape from this existence
I yearn for an answer... can you help me?
I'm drowning in a sea of abused visions and shattered dreams
In somnolent illusion... I'm paralyzed
this is the threat they're talking about the threat that justifies the two wars....some boys playing hide and seek
When I played hide and seek as a kid,( not in my 20's mind you).I diddnt fire real guns into the sky shouting "Jesus is Lord!"fill my house with Koreshan propaganda nor take a machete to the neck of a kid saying, "This is what I'm going to do when I find a Muslim"
I also diddnt do it in the context of a very sensitive clash of cultures. Nor did I fly to Pakistan to carry all this out.
But of course, they are "brothers",(except the white guy) so even if they killed your own sister in an attack, you would probably justify it.
The 7/7 bombers came from Batley. Just because they lived in a comical yorkshire town diddnt stop them from mass slaughter.
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When I played hide and seek as a kid,( not in my 20's mind you).I diddnt fire real guns into the sky shouting "Jesus is Lord!"fill my house with Koreshan propaganda nor take a machete to the neck of a kid saying, "This is what I'm going to do when I find a Muslim"
I also diddnt do it in the context of a very sensitive clash of cultures. Nor did I fly to Pakistan to carry all this out.(
I dont care what you did to be honest
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But of course, they are "brothers",(except the white guy) so even if they killed your own sister in an attack, you would probably justify it.(
Dont talk about my sister!! you're clearly talking gibberish here
format_quote Originally Posted by barney
The 7/7 bombers came from Batley. Just because they lived in a comical yorkshire town diddnt stop them from mass slaughter.
i dont care where they came from all i care about is that they were groomed and assisted by your fraudulent government.
One hide and seek video is shown everybody starts to talk about a non existing terror but when villages are burned to smithereens it never makes the news
if you are shocked by that video then i also get shocked sometimes when i watch tom and jerry especially when tom is chasing jerry with the kitchen knife :eek:
so join the club mate
Last edited by Uthman; 02-24-2010 at 07:54 PM.
Reason: Substituted a not nice word for a nicer word :-)
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