Al Qaeda Cricket Fan Calls Off Terror Plot
The former chairman of Cricket Australia, Bob Merriman, says he knew nothing of a plot to attack the Australian and English teams during last year's Ashes tour.It has been alleged the men who bombed the public transport system in London last year had originally planned to target cricketers from the two countries.
An unnamed friend of one of the four bombers has told The Sunday Times in Britain that the bombers were plotting to kill the players using sarin gas inside their change rooms.
The paper says the order was allegedly made by Al Qaeda at a terrorist training camp in Kashmir.
The plot is understood to have been stopped because one of the bombers was a cricket fan.
Too bad there weren't any soccer fans to call off the Soccer Jihad of this summer.
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Radical Islamic militia fighters in central Somalia shot and killed two people at the screening of a banned World Cup soccer broadcast while dispersing the crowd of teenagers watching it, an independent radio station reported Wednesday.
The Islamic fighters, who have banned such entertainment, opened fire after the teenagers defied their orders to leave the cinema that was screening the Germany-Italy match, Shabelle Radio reported. It said the dead were a girl and the cinema owner.
I guess it's not all "Sharia and Sharia alike..."
Labels: al-Qaeda, Australia, Sharia Law, Terrorism, World Scene
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