Date of source: Sunday, February 23, 2003
While the British Ministry of Interior is reconsidering granting asylum to a previous officer of the Taliban, British sources revealed that the former minister of sports (during the reign of the Taliban) lives in London as an asylum seeker.
Date of source: Thursday, February 20, 2003
The two sons of Abu Hamza Al-Masri, the leader of Ansar Al-Shari´a group [Supporters of Shari´a], stand trial before a British Court over the charge of vandalizing Finsbury Park Mosque and assaulting two police officers.
Date of source: Friday, February 14, 2003
Yesterday, a court in London ordered the release of the sons of Abu Hamza Al-Masri, the leader of Ansar Al-Shari´a [Shari´a Supporters] Organization, pending a retrial on February 20 on the charge of attacking police officers.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 4, 2003
The Islamic Research and Studies Center, the mouthpiece of the Al-Qa´ida network, issued a CD containing a book titled “The Reality about the New Crusade.” Some Islamists say the book is a “legal justification” or a “passport” for the operations Bin Laden and his group executed or will execute...
Date of source: Saturday, January 4, 2003
The war of defamation has been ignited between fundamentalists in London. The battlefield is the Islamic forums on the internet especially between the leader of the organization Ansar Al-Shari’a and an Egyptian fundamentalist who writes under pseudonyms.
Date of source: Monday, August 1, 2005
An Islamist who follows the activities of al-Qācida has suggested that the ‘grandsons’ of that organization consider the Internet their ‘shaykh’, not Usāma Bin Lādin or Ayman al-Zawāhirī.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Responses of how the Islamic world could respond to rapid changes and developments.
Critique on fake muftīs who issue eccentric and controversial fatwas on satellite television.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 22, 2005
A London-based fundamentalist center revealed that Britain’s Home Office has turned down a political asylum application by an Egyptian Islamist affiliated with the banned al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya [Islamic Group].
Date of source: Monday, November 22, 2004
Legal documents pertaining the latest court session in the trial of Ahmed Abdel Sattar, the legal assistant of the spiritual leader of the Egyptian banned group of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya revealed a strong security cooperation between the US’s FBI and UK’s Scotland Yard obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat...
Date of source: Monday, December 9, 2002
Usama Roshdy, former spokesman of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya, says that he is facing fierce campaign by Dutch media aiming at muzzling and expelling him from The Netherlands. He believes the campaign is the result of reports by the Egyptian Embassy in The Netherlands.