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19. november 2006
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British security services fear that al-Qaeda is sending young radicals back to Britain to establish "sleeper cells".
British Muslims volunteering to fight against coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are being sent back to Britain to become al-Qaeda "sleeper" agents, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.
MI5 agents believe that young Asian men, who have been trained to take part in the so-called "global jihad" in al-Qaeda camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan, are now regarded as too valuable an asset to be used fighting British and American troops.
MI5 and MI6 are working on the assumption that they are being ordered to return to their communities in Britain with instructions to establish secret, autonomous cells and to conduct independent terrorists operations without any direct input from al-Qaeda's high command.
Security sources claim that al-Qaeda is unlikely to send a British passport holder to his death as a suicide bomber in Iraq when he would be far more valuable as a "sleeper" in Britain.
Getting ready for the next phase of the war, obviously.
9:59:29 PM 
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A mainstream Muslim leader in Britain supported David Irving, known for denying the Holocaust, and offered to encourage Muslim websites to collect donations for his anti-Zionist struggle.
Asghar Bukhari, a founder member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), which describes itself as Britain's largest Muslim civil rights group, sent money to Irving and urged Islamic websites to ask visitors to make donations to his fighting fund.
Bukhari contacted the discredited historian, sentenced this year to three years in an Austrian prison for Holocaust denial, after reading his website. He headed his mail to Irving with a quotation attributed to the philosopher John Locke: 'All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good people to stand idle.'
In one email Bukhari tells Irving: 'You may feel like you are on your own but rest assured many people are with you in your fight for the Truth.' Bukhari pledges to make a donation of £60 to Irving's fighting fund and says that he has asked 'a few of my colleagues to send some in too'. He also offers to send Irving a book, They Dare to Speak Out, by Paul Findley, a former US Senator, who has attacked his country's close relationship with Israel. Bukhari says Findley 'has suffered like you in trying to expose certain falsehoods perpetrated by the Jews'.
In a follow-up letter, Bukhari writes: 'Here is the cheque I promised. Good luck, if there is any other way I can help please don't hestitate to call me. I have also asked many Muslim websites to create links to your own and ask for donations.'
Bukhari and MPAC now deny that Irving's Holocaust denialism was what prompted this support, and also accuse the Observer of 'islamophobia' for exposing this. Just so that you know what it means, next time anyone is accused of "islamophibia."
9:56:44 PM
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So, am I back up now?
Well, that was about time. Yesterday was a day of thunderstorms here in western Norway, with 381 strikes counted. Two planes were hit, a 737 had to do an emergency landing, a ferry was struck and could not leave the harbour, and the electricity came and went.
Of course I switched off my computer equipment when I heard the first thunderbolt. When the thunderstorm ended, my auxiliary PC, which I use for the blog software, refused to come back up. The graphics card was toast. Apparently, the thunderstorm had nothing to do with it, since the fan on the graphics card had broken off and gone on a bit of a roundtrip inside my cabinet. Luckily nothing else was damaged. I dug out an old graphics card, put it in, and the old PC came up fine.
Now I just discovered one of the hard disks of my new Dell PC don't want to talk to me. That doesn't prevent me from posting to the blog, but I guess I have to dive into the other cabinet and work out what is wrong. That can't be the lightning either, since it worked up till a few hours ago.
11:45:05 AM
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