OMAR BAKRI & AL-QAEDA TARGETED DUBLIN

Lest you think that the Emerald Isle is not in Al Qaeda's crosshairs, that well-known neo-con house organ, the Guardian, reports that AL Qaeda bomb expert Abbas Boutrab was preparing to attack the Dublin Airport.

Last Tuesday the expelled Islamist cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed was seen exhorting young British Muslims in an online broadcast from Beirut to target Dublin because he incorrectly believed US troops used the airport as a transit centre on the way to Iraq and Afghanistan. Now it has emerged that key al-Qaeda bomb-making expert Abbas Boutrab visited both Dublin and Knock airports. Information on the airports was found at his north Belfast flat three years ago, according to evidence at his trial in Belfast Crown Court last November.

Note the congruence between Bakri and Boutrab. Seems like they're right on the same page, doesn't it? Is Bakri part and parcel of Al Qaeda, or do evil & puny minds just think alike?

The origins of Boutrab have yet to be established, though it was discovered that his first trace in Europe was in 1992 when fingerprints matching his were found in Holland belonging to a man travelling under the alias Maured Benali. When he was arrested in Belfast three years ago he was found to have nine separate sets of identity papers.

Interesting. Could he be an Iraqi intelligence agent? With identity papers taken from the records room in Kuwait City?

Al-Qaeda's presence in Ireland became apparent last August when the Garda seized a DVD with lectures on how to construct detonators and bombs while it was on its way to Britain. One senior officer in the Garda Siochana described the content of the training DVD as 'brilliant and terrifying'.

And there are more like him on the way (see post below).