Omar Bakri attacks our brothers of Fath ul Islaam

[Mustafa al-Muhaajir]

Lebanon militants will leave 'in coffins'

By Michel Moutot

An Islamist preacher barred from Britain two years ago for his radical views says the militants besieged in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon will be destroyed.

For 33 days the army and Sunni Islam extremists of Fatah al-Islam have fought a bloody battle in the Nahr al-Bared camp.

The fighting has killed more than 140 people and is the deadliest internal violence since the end of Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war.

A Lebanese of Syrian origin who headed the radical al-Muhajiroun group in London until 2004, Omar Bakri Mohammed says the militants will "pay" for the conflict.

"Attacking the Lebanese army the way they did was very wrong. They made a big mistake and now they are going to pay for it - they're going to be destroyed," Mr Bakri said.

"[They] are going to be killed. You will not hear a single complaint in Lebanon. They have not even called for their 'Islam brothers' to come to their rescue."

He said the Lebanese Army had the full support of all Sunni Muslims in the country to succeed in their avowed aim of crushing Fatah al-Islam.

"These people inside have only one way out - in a coffin. They have no way out, specially the Saudi jihadists. If they're sent to Saudi Arabia they will be hanged," Mr Bakri said.


Other jihadists

He said defeat for the militants would be a lesson for jihadists everywhere.

"They will see that if they have no support from indigenous people they're going to be killed," he said.

"More and more people think that after they finish this one the army should take care of Ain al-Helweh, the Islamist groups there."

Ain al-Helweh is the largest of the 12 official Palestinian camps in Lebanon, which house around half of the country's more than 400,000 registered refugees.

Mr Bakri said he doubted whether Fatah al-Islam, which has said it espouses views close to those of the worldwide terror network overseen by Osama bin Laden, really does have links to Al Qaeda.

"Since the beginning these people are too visible to be Al Qaeda," he said.

"They wished they had links to Al Qaeda, it would make them more powerful, but they don't. For the time being, Al Qaeda never praised them, never endorsed them officially."

Mr Bakri infamously praised the Al Qaeda hijackers who carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States as the "Magnificent 19".

He was declared an undesirable by London and deported, and has since lived in Tripoli, where he runs a bookshop and religious centre.

When foreign nationals were being evacuated last summer during Israel's 34-day war against the Shiite Hezbollah, he said he had tried to join the British evacuation but had been turned away because he did not have a British passport.


http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/...?section=world

[Ibn_Anas]

Is he working for the Lebanese govt now?

[Logic lover]

What should he have said to some of his followers (in his presence) demonstrating in front of US Embasssy in London - chanting ''Bomb Brittania''. How long would it have taken for Brittania to finish off the chanters?

[Abu_Abdillah2000]

I wonder what the "die-hard supporters" of OBM have to say about him now?

[abu_ibrahim]

His a pretender, he wanted to come back to the UK when Hizb fought Israel.

[Daniel]

What did you expect from `Umar Bakri? It is ironic though, him calling Fatah al-Islam agents of Syria (which he did on al-Jazeera).

[Suhaib Jobst]

Perhaps he is jealous, for they have accomplished more in the couple of months they have held off the entire Lebanese army, than OBM has done in his entire lifetime. By his defeatist rhetoric and absurd attempts to speak for the Muslims of Lebanon, he shows where his allegiance is - to the Lebanese government, controlled by Christians, Shi'ites, and secularist "Sunnis".

If he was indeed working for the British government, then this is proof positive, for he has now offered his services to the Lebanese government. He is trying to ingratiate to his new hosts, in the process showing his true colors and expressing his real allegiance.

[abu_ibrahim]

If he ever gets confronted about it on Paltalk or anywhere else, he will just deny it as usual.

Why is he telling others to do things, whilst he thinks he is excused from it?

Allah says in His Book: O you who believe! Why do you say that which you do not do? Most hateful it is with Allah that you say that which you do not do.

[Mustafa al-Muhaajir]

It seems I may have jumped the gun, here's a recent paltalk session with Bakri where he states his view on the situation in Lebanon. Very different than what the media has said.

It's in Arabic
http://ia350615.us.archive.org/1/ite...th_AlIslam.wma

[abu_ibrahim]

Does it not strike you as odd that everytime he is quoted in the media, he always seems to deny ever saying it?

Over dozen different reports in the media over the years where he has denied them when asked in person. Why is that? Have the Media singled him out each time and attributed a lie to him?