UK Terrorist Incidents 1971 to 2008

HISTORY OF UK TERRORIST INCIDENTS

1971 - 2008

The IRA (Catholic Base) stands down in 2001 and Al-Qaeda (Muslim Base) moves in.....

The Last IRA attack on British soil took place in 2001. As from 2001, Al-Qaeda has established itself as a recognized threat to the US and the UK.

The Angry Brigade, Animal Rights Militia and far right politics have also left Wake Up Calls demonstrating grievances on British soil. In some cases, nobody has claimed responsibility for an attack and assumptions have been made by the authorities and media.

2008, 22 May: Princesshay Shopping Mall, Exeter, Devon. Nicky Reilly British, Muslim Convert.

2007, 30 June: Glasgow International Airport Attack. Dr. Bilal Abdullah, 27, born in the UK, and moved to Iraq as a child. Arrested immediately at Glasgow International Airport with Dr. Kafeel Ahmed, aka Khalid Ahmed, born in India.

2007, 29 June: London, two car bombs were discovered and disabled before they could be detonated. The first device was left near the Tiger Tiger nightclub in Haymarket and the second was in Cockspur Street, in the same area of the city.

2007, January - February: The 2007 United Kingdom Letter Bombs. Miles Cooper, a 27 year-old former primary school caretaker from Cherry Hinton near Cambridge was charged.

On 7 February, a device was sent to the main Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency centre in Swansea, south Wales. Four workers were taken to Hospital in Swansea.
On 6 February, a device was sent to the accountancy firm Vantis plc in Wokingham, Berkshire. The accountancy firm acted as the registered office of Speed Check Services Limited, a company that provided digital speed cameras to police. Two men received minor injuries, but did not need hospitalisation.
On 5 February, a device was sent to the Capita centre in Victoria, London, that deals with the congestion charge in London. One person was injured.
On 3 February a device was sent to the "Senior Manager" of dissolved Alpha Security company that used to be run from a private house in Folkestone, Kent. It was addressed to Mike Wingfield, 53, who suffered minor injuries to his hands, face and stomach.
On 18 January a device sent to the Forensic Science Service in Chelmsley Wood, West Midlands. On the same day, another device was sent to Orchid Cellmark in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and another to a company, LGC Forensics, located in Culham, near Abingdon.

2005, 21 July: The 21 July 2005 London bombings, also conducted by four would-be suicide bombers on the public transport, whose bombs failed to go off.

2005, 7 July: The 7 July 2005 London bombings conducted by four separate suicide bombers, killing 56 people and injuring 700.

2001, 3 November: Car bomb explodes in Birmingham. Blamed on Irish Dissidents.

2001, 3 August: The Real IRA detonated a car bomb containing 45kg of explosives in Ealing Broadway, West London, England injuring seven people.

2000 1 June: Real IRA suspected of planting a high-explosive device attached to a girder under the south side of Hammersmith Bridge which detonated at 4.30am.

2001, 6 May: The Real IRA detonate a bomb in a London postal sorting office. One person was injured.

2001, 14 April: Hendon post office bombed.

2001, 4 March: A car bomb explodes outside the BBC's main news centre in London. One London Underground worker suffered deep cuts to his eye from flying glass and some damage was caused to the front of the building.

2000, 20 September: Rocket Propelled Grenade attack - SIS Building, London.

2000, 1 June: Bomb explodes on Hammersmith Bridge.

1999, 17 April, 24 April, 30 April: David Copeland set off three nail bombs in London targeting the black, Asian and gay communities respectively, killing 3 and injuring 129.

1996, 15 June: The Manchester bombing when the IRA detonated a 1500 kg bomb which destroyed the Arndale shopping centre and injured 206 people.

1996, 18 February: An improvised high explosive device detonates prematurely on a bus travelling along Aldwych in central London, killing Edward O'Brien, the IRA operative transporting the device and injuring eight others.

1996, 15 February: A 5 lb bomb placed in a telephone box is disarmed by Police on the Charing Cross Road.

1996, 9 February: The IRA bombs the South Quay area of London, killing two people.

1993, 23 October: In Reading, Berkshire, an IRA bomb exploded at a signal post near the railway station, some hours after 5 lb (2 kg) of Semtex was found in the toilets of the station. The resulting closure of the railway line and evacuation of the station caused travel chaos for several hours, but no-one was injured.

1993, 24 April: IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate. It killed journalist Ed Henty, injured over 40 people, and causing approximately £1 billion worth of damage, including the destruction of St Ethelburga's church, and serious damage to Liverpool St. Tube Station. Police had received a coded warning, but were still evacuating the area at the time of the explosion. The insurance payments required were so enormous, that Lloyd's of London almost went bankrupt under the strain, and there was a crisis in the London insurance market. The area had already suffered damage from the Baltic Exchange bombing the year before. (see 1993 Bishopsgate bombing)

1993, 20 March: Warrington bomb attacks. The first attack, on a gasworks, created a huge fireball but no casualties, but the second attack on Bridge Street killed two children and injured many other people. The attacks were conducted by the IRA.

1992, 3 December: The IRA exploded two bombs in central Manchester, injuring 65 people.

1992, 16 November: IRA plants a bomb at the Canary Wharf, but is spotted by security guards. The bomb is deactivated safely.

1992, 12 October: A device explodes in the gents' toilet of the Sussex Arms public house in Covent Garden killing one person and injuring four others.

1992, 25 August: The IRA plant three fire bombs in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Bombs were placed in Shoplatch, The Charles Darwin Centre and Shrewsbury Castle. The latter causing the most damage as the castle housed the Shropshire Regimental Museum and many priceless historical aritifacts were lost and damaged by fire and smoke. No fatalities or injuries were recorded.

1992, 10 April: A large bomb explodes in St Mary Axe in the City of London. The bomb was contained in a large white truck and consisted of a fertilizer device wrapped with a detonation cord made from Semtex. It killed three people: Paul Butt, 29, Baltic Exchange employee Thomas Casey, 49, and 15-year old Danielle Carter. The bomb also caused damage to surrounding buildings, many of which were also badly damaged by the Bishopsgate bombing the following year. The bomb caused £800 million worth of damage, £200 million more than the total damaged caused by the 10,000 explosions that had occurred during the Troubles in Northern Ireland up to that point.

1992, 28 February: A bomb explodes at London Bridge station injuring 29 people.

1991, 18 February: A bomb explodes at Victoria Station. One man is killed and 38 people injured.

1991, 7 February: The IRA launched three mortar shells into the back garden of 10 Downing Street.

1990, 30 July: Ian Gow MP killed by a car bomb planted by the IRA while at his home in Sussex.

1990, 20 July: The IRA detonate a bomb at the London Stock Exchange causing damage to the building. Nobody was injured in the blast.

1990, 1 June: Lichfield City railway station - 1 solder is killed and 2 are injured in a shooting by the IRA.

1990, 16 May: Wembley IRA detonate a bomb underneath a minibus killing Sgt Charles Chapman (The Queen's Regiment) and injuring another soldier.

1989, 22 September: Deal barracks bombing: Eleven Royal Marines bandsmen are killed and 22 injured when base in Deal, Kent, is bombed by the IRA.

1988, 21 December: Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie) blown up by a bomb in a suitcase while in flight over Scotland after taking off from Heathrow. 270 were killed.

1985: Police found 10 grenades, seven petrol bombs and two detonators at the home of Tony Lecomber (far right politics) after he was injured by a nail bomb that he was carrying to the offices of the Workers' Revolutionary Party. Convicted under the Explosive Substances Act 1883.

1984, 12 October: Brighton hotel bombing, 5 killed and several injured in an attempt by the IRA to kill Margaret Thatcher.

1983, 17 December: Harrods was bombed by the IRA. Six are killed (including three police officers) and 90 wounded during Christmas shopping at the West London department store.

1982, 30 November: A group called the Animal Rights Militia sent a letter bomb to Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street, the device exploded injuring one person.

1982, 20 July: The Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings in London by the IRA kill eleven members of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Green Jackets.

1980, 30 April: The Iranian Embassy Siege where a six-man terrorist team held the building for six days until the hostages were rescued by a raid by the SAS which was broadcast live on TV.

1979, 30 March: Airey Neave killed when a car bomb exploded under his car as he drove out of the Palace of Westminster car park. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) claimed responsibility for the killing.

1974, 21 November: The Birmingham pub bombings, 21 killed and 182 injured by Provisional IRA bombs.

1974, 22 October: A bomb planted by the Provisional IRA explodes in London injuring 3 people.

1974, 5 October: Guildford pub bombing by the Provisional IRA leaves 4 off duty soldiers and a civilian dead and 44 injured.

1974, 17 June: The Provisional IRA plant a bomb which explodes at the Houses of Parliament, causing extensive damage and injuring 11 people.

1974, 4 February: Eight Soldiers and 4 civilians are killed by the Provisional IRA in the M62 Coach Bombing.

1973, 10 September: The Provisional IRA set off bombs at London's King's Cross Station and Euston Station injuring 21 people.

1972, 19 September: The group Black September post a letter bomb to the Israeli embassy in London killing an Israeli diplomat.

1972, 22 February: The Official Irish Republican Army kills seven civilians in the Aldershot bombing.

1971, 31 October: A bomb explodes in the Post Office Tower in London causing extensive damage but no injuries. The "Kilburn Battalion" of the IRA claimed responsibility for the explosion.

1971, 12 January: Two bombs explode at the house of government minister Robert Carr. This attack was one of 25 carried out by the Angry Brigade between August 1970 and August 1971. The Bomb Squad was established at Scotland Yard in January 1971 to target the group, and they were apprehended in August of that year.

SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_the_United_Kingdom

Nicky ReILLy / Mohammed Rashid/Rasheed - Giraffe & Tiger Tiger

Nicky Reilly is being described as an oddball, vulnerable, brainwashed, mentally ill and a loner with learning difficulties in the media, as justification for his actions. What poppycock! If you look at the profiles of all of the other suicide bombers, this particular description of Nicky Reilly is completely irrelevant.

Some Brits love to pin (heinous) crimes on loners, misfits, recluses, outsiders, the mentally ill and unsociable types. Unfortunately Brits forget, there are many people who are violent and highly abusive Behind Closed Doors. In public these people lead highly respectful and sociable lives and put on a fantastic stage act.


By way of comparison with Nicky Reilly's Character, the following Suicide Bombers need to be considered.

Saturday 22 December 2001 - Richard Reid attempted to destroy American Airlines Flight 63, a flight from Paris, Charles De Gaulle International Airport (CDG) to Miami International Airport (MIA), USA, by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes.

Thursday 7 July 2005 - London Bombings - Tube Trains and Bus.

Thursday 21 July 2005 - Failed Bombings - Tube Trains and Bus.

Friday 29 June 2007 - Two car bombs were discovered and disabled before they could be detonated in London. The first device was left near the Tiger Tiger nightclub in Haymarket at around 01:30, and the second was in Cockspur Street, in the same area of the city.

Saturday 30 June 2007 - An attack at Glasgow International Airport occurred when a Jeep Cherokee loaded with propane canisters was driven into the glass doors of the main airport terminal and set ablaze. Police identified the two men responsible as Bilal Abdullah, a British-born, Muslim doctor of Iraqi descent working at the Royal Alexandra Hospital and Kafeel Ahmed/Khalid Ahmed, the driver. Kafeel was an engineer pursuing a Ph.D. in computational fluid dynamics at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, in the UK, on the topic of "Computational Approach to Ink-jet Printing of Tactile Maps."

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NICKY REILLY : Thursday 22 May 2008

Terrorist Attack, Giraffe Restaurant, Princesshay Shopping Complex, Exeter, Devon

Was Known as 'BFG'

Was he being treated as a Big Friendly Giant, Big Fat Giant or a Big Fat Git by people throughout his life? BFG has more than one meaning.

When he was younger the kids used to call him 'Queen'.

Every human being needs to find a purpose in life. Most human beings react adversely to being persecuted, cast out, ridiculed, undermined or rejected by someone important, in their lives. Being Respected and Personal Achievement are Common Goals in Life. Perhaps here lies a couple of the Real Reasons behind Nicky Reilly's willingness to become a Suicide Bomber. Why are People ignoring the fact that some Muslims pursue Self Immolation instead of Suicide Bombing. http://aa-1177.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-would-it-take-to-prevent-islamic.html

What Is The Media Telling Us About Nicky Reilly?

Nicky Reilly, aged 22 and unemployed, converted to Islam about six years ago, and was regarded as a harmless loner by many people. He was more than 6ft tall, lived with his unemployed mother, Kim, and brother younger Elliott in a King Street flat and had acquaintances of both sexes among the large Kurdish community in East Stonehouse.

Reilly attended Coombe Dean School in Year 7 when he was 11 or 12, but was later excluded and home-tutored, never returning to regular school.

He spent much of his time using his computer and with friends in Islamic dress in an internet cafe close to his home.

He has been described by people around him as always being calm and a follower who wanted friends. One person said "He was a loner and people did make fun of him a bit - I always thought of him as a bit of an introvert." "He did not have many friends locally."

Reilly was friends with Omar Siddiqui, president of the Islamic Society at the University of Plymouth, and worshipped with him there and at the Islamic Centre at Greenbank Avenue, St Judes. Reilly stood out among the congregation because he is 14 stone, more than 6ft tall and white.

He changed his name by deed poll to Mohammed Rashid.

He has been recognised as having some mental problems because he spoke very slowly and had a problem pronouncing his Ts.

Reilly's brother Luke, aged 20, was jailed for six years in February for kicking a Polish man unconscious during a brutal street robbery.

Plymouth Primary Care Trust confirmed on 23 May in a statement:"Mr Reilly is known to the Primary Care Trust as a user of its services." Plymouth City Council said it could neither 'confirm nor deny' Kim Reilly and her family were being cared for by social services.

Sources close to the investigation said Nicky suffered from Asperger's Syndrome (a form of autism), had a history of self harm and had attempted suicide after problems with his girlfriend in his late teens. He was sectioned, and after being released from a mental hospital he was allegedly groomed by a group of radicals.

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You Can Get Away With It Once, But NOT Twice.

9/11 World Trade Center Fraudsters, Scam Artists, Con Artists, False Victims & Sickos

CAPITALIZING ON GRIEF AND CHAOS
World Trade Center Fraudsters, Scam Artists, Con Artists, False Victims & Sickos

How Low Can a Human Being Really Stoop?

(The Author of This Blog was falsely reported as a Missing Person in the World Trade Center. The People responsible (Blood Relations and Associates) have an extensive history of false reports, malicious communications and defamation. http://aa-1177.blogspot.com/2008/02/why-aa-1177.html )

The following false victim stories and scams are from 9/11. They provide just a few examples from over 500 cases, which have become public. If these scams, cons and lies materialized from the World Trade Center disaster, expect the same types of actions, to be unearthed from the 7/7 London Bombings and other global disasters. Great Britain has yet to publicize and charge ALL 7/7 Scam Artists and Sickos!

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How Much Cash did 9/11 Con Artists Try To Pocket?

Con artists cashed in on $5.8M from 9/11 tragedy
BY THOMAS ZAMBITO - DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER - Sunday, September 9th 2007
539 thieves, fraudsters and schemers tried to siphon out of the millions of dollars in aid that flooded into the city after the attacks. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/09/2007-09-09_con_artists_cashed_in_on_58m_from_911_tr.html

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SUSAN ARROYO of Tennessee lied about the 9/11 death of her sister. She later explained that she did so in order to help re-establish ties with her brother.

JEROME BRANDL pretended to be a volunteer firefighter from Milwaukee. Brandl spent a few days at Engine Co. 39 on East 67th Street in Manhattan. The Queens district attorney's office has charged Brandl, a native New Yorker with a long criminal record, with scamming the Fire Department and city residents out of food, lodging, a ticket to Shea Stadium, money and other items following the terror attack.
Queens Woman Angry Over Phony Firefighter
http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/ny-nyscam032495252dec03,1,2163615.story

ALAN BRAKER of Orange, N.J., who has been charged with filing a false report, told stories about nonexistent, missing children. Braker's made-up daughter, Mya, was a 6-year-old supposedly visiting his former wife, who worked on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EFDD1F3AF93BA1575AC0A9679C8B63&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

ANGELA CESTERO, from Philadelphia charged for false application for death certificate.

A Florida woman, MAE CHRISTIAN, who reported that a niece had perished in the attacks. In fact, the "niece" was not even related to CHRISTIAN and had actually died in June, 2000. CHRISTIAN received $3,300 from Safe Horizon.

MAUREEN CURRY of Surrey, British Columbia, used the disaster to scam money from her employers and a member of the British Columbia legislature. She claimed her daughter had died in the tragedy and that she needed to be at her grieving grand children's side in this the hour of their loss but lacked the funds to travel to Winnipeg. She was provided with $2,400 to assist her. Curry's daughter, Carolyn Burdz, is alive and living in Winnipeg. She has never been to New York City, and thus dismisses all claims that she died there. Maureen Curry has since disappeared.

A Michigan man, DANIEL DJORO, who reported that his brother, Daniel Zagbre, had been at the World Trade Center for a business meeting. Daniel Zagbre was in fact a fictitious name the defendant himself had used. DJORO obtained $272,800 from the Red Cross and Safe Horizon.

A Florida man, ARIQUE DROSS, who claimed that his nephew worked in the World Trade Center and died in the attacks. The investigation revealed that the nephew was alive and living in Brooklyn. DROSS received $41,761 from the Red Cross.

WALDO FERNANDEZ of Miami stunned that town with his tale of unspeakable tragedy on 20 September 2001. Fernandez had only recently discovered he had a son and had made plans to travel to New York City to meet 34-year-old Eduardo Edmundo Raidel, his now-grown child who worked as a trader in one of the doomed towers. Days before the jubilant dad was to arrive, he heard that his son had died in the collapse of the WTC. The young man's mother and Fernandez's lost love, Dr. Sara Galloso, had also perished in the same tragedy, as had her husband, who was the father of her other children. According to Fernandez, all three bodies had been recovered and given a Christian burial. The reporter who originally broke the story in Miami thought to check further. None of the names provided appeared on the recovered bodies list. An examination of New York medical licences failed to turn up one in the name of Sara Galloso. The phone numbers Fernandez provided for Galloso's surviving children didn't work. Despite Fernandez's claim of having imminent travel plans to reach New York, he could not provide the date or the flight number, nor name the address in that city where he would have been staying. The reporter now believes he was hoaxed.


A Utah man, RICARDO FRUTOS, who claimed that a brother, niece and nephew died at the World Trade Center. The investigation revealed that the people reported had never existed, which was confirmed by other family members. FRUTOS received $47,257 from the Red Cross.

JANET GOODWIN, 48, of 320 Post Avenue, in Westbury, NY were charged after she filed for an expedited death certificate for the father of Goodwin's children, Giovanni Davi, claiming that he had died in the WTC attacks. Davi was living in Italy, on September 11, 2001. The charges include: Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree, an E Felony; Perjury in the Second Degree, an E Felony; Making an Apparently Sworn False Statement in the First Degree, an E Felony; Falsifying Business Records in Second Degree.

EMMA GREEN, from Queens, charged for false application for death certificate.

A Bronx woman, MARY GUERRIDO, who claimed that her daughter died in the attacks. In fact, GUERRIDO had been estranged from her daughter for over a decade before she died in 1994. GUERRIDO received $4,000 from Safe Horizon.

TANIA HEAD was formerly the president of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network. She claimed to have been in the South Tower of the World Trade Center at the time of the September 11 attacks in 2001, and to have had a fiance or husband who was killed in the North Tower. A New York Times story in September 2007 threw her claims into doubt, prompting the Survivor's Network to dismiss her.
In a 9/11 Survival Tale, the Pieces Just Don’t Fit - September 27, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/nyregion/27survivor.html?_r=1&em&ex=1191038400&en=620a38f8cc36fbd0&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin

SARA HEKRIY of Toronto went to a center for victims' families and submitted a notarized document saying her husband had been inside one of the towers. After her document and story were questioned, Hekriy allegedly admitted she was lying. On 26 September 2001, she was arrested and charged with perjury. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EFDD1F3AF93BA1575AC0A9679C8B63&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

A Queens man, CYRIL KENDALL, who reported that his 13th child had accompanied him to a job interview at the World Trade Center and had perished in the attack. The investigation revealed that the child never existed, a fact confirmed by other family members. KENDALL received a total of $190,867 from the Red Cross and Safe Horizon.

A Chinese man, ZHINGANG MA, who reported that his wife went to the World Trade Center on the 11th to meet friends for breakfast. The investigation revealed that his wife was alive and living in Japan. MA received $10,000 from Safe Horizon.

A Queens woman, LEEVICY MAUPIN, who claimed that her estranged husband had been a window washer at the World Trade Center. The investigation revealed that her husband was actually alive and living on Long Island. MAUPIN was assisted in the fraud by her sisters, one of whom, YVONNE PRESCOTT, notarized forged documents, while the other, ROSEANN NEBBLETT, falsely claimed that the husband had lived at her home. Both sisters have also been arrested. MAUPIN obtained a total of $89,599 from the Red Cross, Safe Horizon and FEMA.

DANIEL MCCARTHY told people at a resort casino in Lake Tahoe where he was getting married that he was an ex-NYC policeman who had been trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center for 79 hours after he tried to carry a pregnant woman on his back out of the building. He said his partner, Dominick Impertore, died at his side. The NYC Police denied he had ever been employed by them.

SUGEIL MEJIA of New Jersey appeared dressed in surgical scrubs at a local police station two days after the attack, saying her husband had called on a cell phone to tell her he was buried alive with other police officers. Rescuers flew into a frenzy, redoubling their efforts to reach the trapped men, invigorated by the news that there were still survivors. Authorities checked out Mejia's story and discovered a problem: The officer didn't exist, nor had her cell phone registered any incoming calls. They quickly arrested her on charges of reckless endangerment, falsely reporting an incident, and interfering with fire operations. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401E2D7113BF937A15752C0A9649C8B63

CASSAUNDREA MONTGOMERY
Federal authorities in Missouri charged Cassaundrea Montgomery of St. Joseph with creating a younger brother so convincing that she collected more than $63,000 in aid on the pretense that he had died in the trade center collapse.

SEPARATING FAKES FROM 9/11 VICTIMS - December 31, 2002 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E7D7153FF932A05751C1A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

LUZ MORALES-COTTO, 52 of Plaza Carolina Station, Puerto Rico, was arrested in Puerto Rico on March 18 and faces an extradition hearing on March 21. The charges were filed after Cotto collected $15,250 from the Red Cross, $1,500 from Safe Horizons and $5,375 from Social Security in survivor’s benefits. The complaint alleges that the defendant filed for an expedited death certificate claiming that her daughter had a job interview at the WTC on September 11, and was among the missing. Investigators found that the daughter is alive and is currently living in Puerto Rico. The defendant was charged with Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, a D felony; Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, an E Felony; Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree, an E Felony and Scheme to Defraud in the First Degree, an E Felony.

CASEY OSHAY, from Parkway City, Arizona charged for false application for death certificate.

A Brooklyn man, GERARD RINALDI, who reported that his estranged wife was working at the World Trade Center and died on the 11th. The investigation revealed that his wife was alive and well, as RINALDI knew. RINALDI obtained $13,500 from Safe Horizon.

PABLO SANTIAGO, 66, of 801 West Park Avenue, Lindenwold, NJ. The defendant received $14,300 from the American Red Cross and he filed for an expedited death certificate, claiming that his nephew, Edgardo Amon died on September 11th. The defendant also submitted a false claim to Met Life for life insurance proceeds. The charges include: Insurance Fraud in the Second Degree, a C Felony: Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, a D Felony; Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, an E Felony and Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree, E Felony.

SASHE, 55, of 21 Odell Avenue, Yonkers, NY was charged for filing for an expedited death certificate alleging that his estranged ex-wife, Michele LaCrete Sashe, died in the WTC attacks. The defendant’s ex-wife is alive and was not in New York City on September 11, 2001. Defendant collected Social Security survivor’s benefits on behalf of two of his children. The charges include: Grand Larceny in the Fourth Degree, an E Felony; four counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, an E Felony; four counts of Offering a False Instrument For Filing in the First Degree, an E Felony; two counts of Perjury in the Second Degree, an E Felony and two counts of Making an Apparently False Sworn Statement in the First Degree, an E Felony.

SCOTT SHIELDS, the West Windsor resident became famous because of his allegedly false stories about searching with his dog for victims of the World Trade Center collapse. He later pleaded guilty to defrauding the federal government of Sept. 11 relief funds. Shields falsely told the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Red Cross that he lived near the World Trade Center before the Sept. 11 attacks and as a result received $38,906 in rental assistance funds from FEMA and $10,553 from the Red Cross.
http://www.nj.com/centraljersey/index.ssf/2008/03/w_windsor_man_pleads_guilty_in.html

GHERI SWEETING, 57, of Jamaica, Queens was charged after filing for an expedited death certificate for her brother Raymond Sweeting. She claimed that her brother had died in the WTC on September 11th. It was later determined that Raymond Sweeting is alive. The defendant received $2,500 from Safe Horizons and $13,881 from the American Red Cross. The charges against Sweeting include: Grand Larceny in Third Degree. a D Felony; Grand Larceny in the Fourth Degree, an E Felony; Falsifying Business Records in the Second Degree and Perjury in the Third Degree.

PAMELA WALKER, from East Orange, New Jersey charged for false application for death certificate.

A Bronx woman, ROWENA WEST, who reported that she and her mother were visiting the World Trade Center, got separated in the chaos of the attacks, and her mother was killed. In fact, the investigation revealed that her mother had died and been cremated in 1998. WEST obtained a total of $31,000 from the Red Cross and Safe Horizon.


A Mississippi woman, ROSALYN WHITMARSH, who reported that her twin sister had died in the attacks. In fact, she had no twin sister. WHITMARSH received $4,000 from Safe Horizon.

NAMOR YOUNG concocted a story about a dead husband to defraud disaster-relief agencies. Detectives say that Ms. Young, 32, melded the descriptions of two ex-boyfriends to create a fictitious spouse -- and collected more than $53,000.
SEPARATING FAKES FROM 9/11 VICTIMS - December 31, 2002
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E7D7153FF932A05751C1A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

SANAE ZAHANI, a 20-year-old woman from Morocco, gained national attention for the search for her sister who, so she said, had been working in a bond-trading firm inside the World Trade Center. She even told her story on the Rosie O'Donnell show. But Zahani never had a sister who lived in New York. Zahani disappeared when this awkward flaw in her story was discovered.


LINKS TO PEOPLE ABOVE AND FURTHER INFORMATION

New York State Insurance Department - ISSUED: 3/21/2002
TWENTY-TWO CHARGED IN WORLD TRADE CENTER FRAUD
http://www.ins.state.ny.us/press/2002/p0203221.htm

New York State Insurance Department - ISSUED: 6/19/2002
SERIO ANNOUNCES WORLD TRADE CENTER INSURANCE FRAUD ARREST
http://www.ins.state.ny.us/press/2002/p0206192.htm

False reports of loved ones lost in the attack on the World Trade Center have been filed by those looking for attention and sympathy.
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/sympathy.asp

Phony 9/11 Deaths
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/911deaths.html

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CHINA WARNS OVER QUAKE CORRUPTION - 21 May 2008 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7411921.stm

• Chinese regulators have warned that relief efforts for the Sichuan earthquake must be transparent, and say any corruption will be punished.
• The Communist Party's anti-corruption commission said any action that hampered progress or wasted supplies would be swiftly dealt with.
• In a circular, the Communist Party's graft watchdog told local agencies to deal "swiftly and severely" with any official corruption linked to relief work, Xinhua news agency reported.
• The source, destination and quantity of relief supplies should be made public, it said, and police should crack down on any fraudulent collection of donations for earthquake victims.
• There have already been reports of scam text messages calling for donations to help survivors.
  

Afzal Ramzan - 7/7 London Bombings Conman

"You don't know the truth from fiction!"

A message, for some people who have passed through my life.....

Afzal Ramzan is not unique. There will always be people who use natural disasters and Mass Casualty Incidents to falsely claim someone is missing and presumed dead. The motive is often financial however on occasions the Lie might actually cover up something more sinister.

Afzal Ramzan aged 27, was a benefits cheat who made money out of the 7/7 London bombings. How? He made bogus claims for emergency grants supposedly to help his sister, who he said had lost her husband and son in 7/7. A complete and utter lie! He manage to make £2,387 from this lie and other scams.

At the same time, AR posed as his own brother in order to claim jobseeker’s allowance. His brother was in prison, at the time.

In Court, Afzal Ramzan of Gateshead, GB, admitted 15 charges of making false statements to get benefit. He already had a string of convictions for dishonesty, including deceptions and perverting justice.

How was he caught? His brother Yasin made a legitimate benefit inquiry shortly before he was released from prison in June, 2006.

Afzal Ramzan was jailed for 15 months for his benefits scam. Judge Beatrice Bolton said: "You don't know the truth from fiction. These were very unpleasant and unpalatable lies."

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There are other people like Afzal Ramzan who have made false claims about people being missing in catastrophes, such as 911 and the Tsunami disaster. It is essential these people are contained and their motives exposed, as a warming to others.

There are also sick and disturbed people who send hoax communications to the relatives of people missing in natural disasters. Christopher Pierson, 40, from Riskington, Lincolnshire was charged with malicious communications and causing a public nuisance after sending some 35 emails to people who were searching for loved ones after the Tsunami. They had posted details of their loved ones on the Sky News website. CP wrote to them and claimed their relatives were dead. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/jan/04/newmedia.indianoceantsunamidecember2004



To Read More About Afzal Ramzan

JAIL FOR CONMAN WHO PROFITED FROM TERROR
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/43977/Jail-for-conman-who-profited-from-terror


JAILED..THE MAN WHO CLAIMED LOVED ONES DIED IN 7/7 BOMBS
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/05/10/jailed-the-man-who-claimed-loved-ones-died-in-7-7-bombs-89520-20412940/

Part 2 of 2 - Self Immolation, Hara-Kiri/Seppuku & Sati - DYING WITHOUT KILLING

In February 2009, I added an updated version of this post to my JUSTICE Will Be Served Blog. I would recommend you go to this revised page SELF IMMOLATION - Dying For A Cause > Human Rights > Violations and Abuses for optimal information.

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PART 2 OF 2
Part 2 of 2 - Self Immolation, Hara-Kiri/Seppuku & Sati - DYING WITHOUT KILLING

(Part 1 of 2 - Suicide Bombers & Kamikaze - DYING WITH KILLING)

What would it take to Stop Islamists engaging in Jihad in western countries today? Are Suicide Bombs the only way to make governments and people listen today?

In addition to the Jihadists, there are other groups (eg Tamil Tigers) and people who have sacrificed themselves in the name of a Cause. The Japanese are known for their Kamikaze and Hara-Kiri/Seppuku. Self-immolation has been used by many nationalities and could be viewed as a last resort or the only means of stirring public awareness.

We can assume people engage in these acts because of ONE or MORE OF THE FOLLOWING REASONS:

• They have a Message to Deliver
• They want to Act in the interests of a group or cause, they care about and identify with
• They hope people will benefit from their actions
• They want to convert people to their cause and spur sympathizers to greater efforts on behalf of the cause
• In the Name of Honour
• They have been conditioned/educated to respect these types of actions
• They have had contact with people who have engaged in these acts
• They want to seek revenge or inflict punishment (an eye for an eye is a recognised deterrent)
• They will receive public recognition, which their normal lives will not bring

DYING WITHOUT KILLING

JAPANESE HARA-KIRI / SEPPUKU (HONOUR)
The Samurai were bound by a strict code of honor and were expected to set an example for those below them. Part of the samurai honor code, seppuku has been used both voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, as a form of capital punishment for samurai who have committed serious offenses, and for reasons that shamed them. Seppuku is also known as hara-kiri, allowed a disgraced samurai to regain his honor by passing into death, where samurai were still beholden to social rules. Seppuku ("stomach-cutting") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku is performed by plunging a sword into the abdomen and making a left to right cut. Seppuku was originally reserved only for samurai.


SATI (also suttee)
A funeral practice among some Hindu communities in which a recently-widowed woman would immolate herself on her husband’s funeral pyre. The term is derived from the original name of the goddess Sati also known as Dakshayani, who immolated herself, unable to bear her father Daksha's humiliation of her (living) husband Shiva. The term may also be used to refer to the widow herself. The term sati is now sometimes interpreted as 'chaste woman'.

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SELF IMMOLATIONS - A Cause to Protest

Dying Without Killing, History of Self-Immolations, 1963–2002

From Making Sense of Suicide Missions - Michael Biggs
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/immolation.pdf

Self-immolation (Latin immolare "to sacrifice") is an extreme form of protest through self-sacrifice by suicide. Immolation implies suicide by fire but the term also includes other forms of self-sacrifice. The following people engaged in self immolation for a variety of reasons including the US's involvement in the Vietnam War and the Soviets Occupation of Eastern Europe. Let Us Remember....




Heo Se-uk was a 54-year-old South Korean labor union member and taxi driver who set himself ablaze on April 1, 2007 in Seoul to protest the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement. He lived for two weeks after the incident, despite serious burns on 63% of his body. He finally succumbed to a septic infection on April 15.

Uddhav Bhandari (d. 19 March 2007) was a Nepali asylum seeker who died after setting fire to himself at the Eagle Building in Glasgow on March 7th, prior to his immigration hearing. A former police officer, he was afraid of being deported to Nepal after exposing corruption within the police. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uddhav_Bhandari

Malachi (Mark David) Ritscher was a Chicago musician and anti-war protestor who committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest against the War in Iraq. Ritscher's self-immolation took place on the side of the Kennedy Expressway near downtown Chicago during the morning rush hour of Friday November 3, 2006.

In a suicide letter (http://www.savagesound.com/gallery99.htm) published on his website, he described at length his political convictions as to the Iraq War and his choice to take his own life, suggesting at one point, "if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world."

Roland Weisselberg (July 4, 1933 – October 31, 2006) was a retired Lutheran Vicar who received public attention by his self-immolation in a German monastery. A critic of the rulers of the German Democratic Republic, he retired in 1989 because of his state of health. After the German reunification he was worried about the weakness of Christianity in East Germany and about Islam, whose rise was, as he believed, furthered by the "ambiguity of the church". Weisselberg set fire to himself in the Erfurt monastery (where Martin Luther took his monastic vows in 1505), shouting repeatedly "Jesus" and "Oscar" (referring to Oskar Brüsewitz).

Eleftheriya Fortulaki (died 28 March 2006) was a Greek who committed self immolation in Sepolia, Athens, in order to highlight the treatment of the Kurds in Turkey. Fortulaki had a Kurdish partner, with whom she had two children.




On Tuesday 24 June 2003, Neda Hassani, 26, set herself on fire in front of the French Embassy in Great Britain to demand the release of Maryam Rajavi and 150 of her supporters, after a French crackdown on the People's Mujahedeen of Iran, also known as Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO). It has fought an armed campaign for the past 20 years to overthrow the religious rulers of Iran. The French government accused the MKO of plotting terrorist attacks against Iran. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/jun/25/world.iran

In 2001, a group of people self-immolated in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. China Central Television broadcast the event nationally on Chinese new year and claimed the immolators were practitioners of the Falun Gong. Falun Gong supporters claim it was a setup by the Chinese government.





Alfredo Ormando (San Cataldo, 15 December 1958 – Rome, 23 January 1998) was a gay Italian writer. On 13 January 1998 he set himself on fire in Piazza San Pietro (Rome) to protest the attitudes and policies of the Roman Catholic Church regarding homosexual Christians. After two policemen put out the flames, he was brought to Sant 'Eugenio hospital in critical condition. He died there 11 days later.




Kathy Change was a West Philadelphian performance artist and activist who killed herself in an act of self-immolation on the University of Pennsylvania campus in 1996. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Change


Sabine Kratze was a German student who committed self-immolation in order to protest against what she believed to be the unjust trial of six Buddhist monks which had taken place on August 15, 1995. Kratze, who was 25 at the time, set herself on fire with gasoline on September 3, 1995, at Hô Chi Minh City, in a room at a small hotel on Ly You Trong Street. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_kratze



Reinhold Elstner (born 1920 in the predominantly German inhabited and cultural Sudetenland, which now lies in the Czech Republic) was a German Wehrmacht veteran and Diploma Chemist who poured gasoline over himself and committed suicide at about 8 pm on April 25, 1995, on the steps of Munich's historical Feldherrnhalle, in protest against what he called "the ongoing official slander and demonization of the German People and German soldiers 50 years after the end of World War II". Twelve hours later, on April 26, he died in a Munich hospital.


Homa Darabi (January, 1940 - February 21, 1994) was a pediatrician from Iran licensed to practice medicine in New Jersey, New York, and California. She returned to Iran in 1976 to serve her country as a psychiatrist and after the Islamic Revolution, Islamic authorities shut down her office because she had refused to wear the hijab. On 21 February 1994, Darabi, a 54 year old mother of two daughters immolated herself in Tehran while shouting "Death to Tyranny! Long live freedom! Long live Iran!". Later, her sister Parvin Darabi named the Dr. Homa Darabi Foundation in her remembrance and co-authored with her son, a biography of Dr. Darabi, Rage Against the Veil. http://www.homa.org/


On April 29, 1993, Graham Bamford doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in front the British House of Commons in London. Bamford did it in hope to draw attention to atrocities committed the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina particularly the Ahmici massacre. A film about Graham Bamford, his actions, the silence built up around them, and also about the filmmaker and his effort to produce a film about the event are available here: http://www.factumdocumentary.com/pages/faccess/af3_2.htm


Chan I-hua was a Taiwanese pro-democracy activist. He performed self-immolation on May 19, 1989 when the funeral procession of fellow activist Cheng Nan-jung (who had similarly immolated himself) was blocked by the police in front of the Presidential Office Building in Taipei. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_I-hua


Cheng Nan-jung (b. September 12, 1947 in Taipei - d. April 7, 1989) was a Taiwanese publisher and pro-democracy activist. He was the founder of the Freedom Era Weekly. He is known internationally for setting himself on fire to voice for Taiwanese independence. In 1989, Cheng was charged with insurrection for printing a new Constitution for the Republic of Taiwan. An arrest warrant was issued. He refused to appear in court. When the police arrived to arrest him on April 7, he committed suicide by self-immolation. He set fire to the building and died in the blaze. At Cheng's funeral on May 19, another Taiwanese pro-democracy activist, Chan I-hua, also immolated himself when the funeral procession was blocked by police. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Nan-jung

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Sebastián Acevedo was a Chilean miner who committed self-immolation on 11 November 1983 as a protest against the detention of his children by the Chilean police during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Following a protest in the city of Concepcion, Acevedo's children Candelaria and Galo Fernando are arrested. Their father searches for them, but at each police station officials deny any knowledge of their whereabouts. In despair, Acevedo plants himself at the Cathedral entrance, shouting "Give me back my children!" Pleading that the CNI not torture his children, Acevedo pours gasoline over his clothing, and threatens to set himself on fire. A uniformed policeman attempts to disperse the crowd that has gathered, challenging him to carry out his threat. In an instant, Acevedo strikes a match, his body igniting like a torch. He dies that same day, after learning that Candelaria has been released. The agonizing image of 50 year-old Sebastian Acevedo, captured by a photographer, stuns the world. His act of bravery and devotion inspires the birth of a non-violent protest movement two months later. Led by priest Jose Aldunate, the Sebastian Acevedo Anti-Torture Movement becomes a broad-based organization that challenges the practice of torture. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/oct/08/pinochet.chile3

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Artin Penik (Died 15 August 1982) was a Turkish-Armenian who set himself on fire in protest of the terrorist attacks in Esenboğa International Airport by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA, also known as Third October) on August 10, 1982. Penik, a 61-year-old self-employed tailor, set himself on fire in Taksim plaza, the main square of Istanbul, Turkey, after leaving a suicide note in which he wrote "I can no longer bear the grief over slayings of innocent people." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artin_Penik

Oleksa Mykhaylovych Hirnyk (March 27, 1912 - January 21, 1978) was a Ukrainian Soviet dissident, an engineer by profession, who burned himself to death as an act of protest against Soviet suppression of the Ukrainian language, culture and history. The night of January 21, 1978, the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of Ukraine's declaration of independence by the Tsentralna Rada government, Hirnyk doused himself with four liters of gasoline and burned himself to death on Chernecha Hill, in Kaniv not far from Taras Shevchenko’s tomb. He had written close to a thousand leaflets containing quotes of Taras Shevchenko, protests against the russification of Ukraine, and calls for Ukrainian independence, and left them scattered on the hill.

Hartmut Gründler (11 January 1930 in Hümme–21 November 1977 in Hamburg) was a German teacher from Tübingen, engaged in environmental protection. On November 16,1977 ( the Day of Prayer and Repentance) Gründler burned himself in Hamburg during the SPD Party Congress out of protest against "the continued governmental misinformation" in the energy policy, particularly concerning the permanent disposal of nuclear waste. Not out of despair, but to set an example did he choose death by burning himself, about which he informed in writing some press organs as well as politicians and also the chancellor in advance, attaching his political last will. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmut_Grundler

Alain Escoffier (25 October 1949 – Paris, 10 February 1977) was a French anti-communist activist and martyr. He was a bank clerk and he had married an East-Germany refugee. He belonged to the right-wing Parti des forces nouvelles. On 10 February 1977, thirtieth anniversary of the Treaty of Paris he self-immolated on the Champs-Élysées before the offices of Soviet airlines Aeroflot. He died crying "Communistes assassins" (Murderer Communists). His gesture was inspired by those recurring in Eastern Europe, such as Jan Palach and others, and it was intended to protest against the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe and the Cold War division of Europe.

Oskar Brüsewitz was an East German Lutheran pastor who committed self-immolation to protest the repression of religion in the Communist state of East Germany. On August 18, 1976 Brüsewitz committed suicide by self-immolation in a public market in front of the church in Zeitz. He died on August 22 1976. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Brüsewitz

Romas Kalanta (February 22, 1953 - May 14, 1972) was a Lithuanian political victim known for his self-immolation for political reasons. Kalanta wanted to enter the seminary and become a catholic priest. Romas Kalanta set himself on fire in the square adjoining the Laisves Aleja in front of the Kaunas Musical Theatre in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas on May 14, 1972 in protest of the occupation of Lithuania and oppression of the Lithuanian language, culture and people by the government of the Soviet Union.

Joseba Elosegi was a Basque nationalist who self-immolated trying to embrace dictator Franco during a pelota game in San Sebastián September 19, 1970. He did it as a protest against the fascist Bombing of Gernika in 1937. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseba_Elosegi

Kostas Georgakis (23 August 1948 Corfu, Greece – 19 September 1970 Genoa, Italy), was a Greek student of Geology, who set himself ablaze in Genoa, Italy as a protest against the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Georgakis is considered the precursor of the later student protests, such as the Polytechnic uprising. At the time his death caused a sensation in Greece and abroad as it was the first tangible manifestation of the depth of resistance against the junta. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostas_Georgakis

George Winne, Jr., (1947 – May 11, 1970) is remembered as a protester of the Vietnam War who set himself on fire in a deliberate act of self-immolation in Revelle Plaza on the campus of the University of California, San Diego on May 10, 1970, to protest the United States involvement in the war. He died ten hours later, asking his mother to write a letter to President Nixon. His last words were "I believe in God and the hereafter and I will see you there."

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The memorial to Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc in front of the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. There are several other memorials to Palach in cities throughout Europe, including a small memorial inside the glacier tunnels beneath the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland.

Jan Zajíc (3 July 1950-25 February 1969) was a Czech student who committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest. He was a student at the technical college, specializing in railroads, and was also interested in poetry and humanities. In 1969 he took part in a hunger strike and a commemoration ceremony by students for Jan Palach near the statue of Saint Wenceslas in Prague. It was probably this event which planted the idea of becoming Palach's successor in Zajíc's mind.

Jan Palach was a Czech student who committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. Palach died after setting himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in Prague, Czechoslovakia on 16 January 1969 in protest. The funeral of Palach turned into a major protest against the occupation, and a month later (on February 25, 1969) another student, Jan Zajíc, burned himself to death in the same place, followed in April of the same year by Evžen Plocek in Jihlava.

After the Velvet Revolution, Palach (along with Zajíc) was commemorated in Prague by a bronze cross embedded at the spot where he fell outside the National Museum, as well as a square named in his honour. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palach

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Ryszard Siwiec (1909—September 12, 1968) was a Polish accountant, teacher and former Home Army soldier who was the first person to set himself on fire in protest against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. He set himself ablaze in Warsaw during a national harvest festival on September 8, 1968 at the Dziesięciolecia Stadium, and died in hospital four days later. His act was witnessed by nearly 100,000 spectators, including the national leadership and foreign diplomats who had been invited to the festival intended as a vast propaganda spectacle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Siwiec

Florence Beaumont (died October 15, 1967, Los Angeles) was an American who self-immolated herself in protest of the escalating Vietnam war. She had two children. After soaking herself in gasoline, she set herself alight in front of the Federal Building, Los Angeles.

Roger Allen LaPorte (1943 – November 9, 1965) is best known as a protester of the Vietnam War who set himself on fire in front of the United Nations building in New York City on November 9, 1965, to protest the United States involvement in the war. At the time, he was a 22-year old Catholic Worker Movement member.

Norman Morrison (December 29, 1933 - November 2, 1965), born in Erie, Pennsylvania, was a Baltimore Quaker best known for committing suicide at age 31 in an act of self-immolation to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War. On November 2, 1965, Morrison doused himself in kerosene and set himself on fire below Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's Pentagon office. Morrison took his daughter Emily, then one year of age, to the Pentagon, and either set her down or handed her off to someone in the crowd before setting himself ablaze. She was a powerful symbol of the children we were killing with our bombs and napalm--who didn't have parents to hold them in their arms."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Morrison

In 1965, a politician in South Korea, Huh Jik, set himself on fire to protest against a treaty with Japan.

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Alice Herz (1883 – March 26, 1965) was an elderly Quaker and the first activist in the United States known to have immolated themself in protest of the escalating Vietnam War, following the example of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc. A longtime peace activist, she attempted self-immolation on March 16, 1965, in Detroit, Michigan, at the age of 82. A man and his two boys were driving by and saw her burning and put out the flames. She died of her wounds ten days later.

Confiding to a friend before her death, Herz remarked that she had used all of the accepted protest methods available to activists--including marching, protesting, and writing countless articles and letters--and she wondered what else she could do. Evidently, Herz decided to make self-immolation her final act of protest. The war continued for another ten years following her death. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Herz

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Thich Quang Duc died on June 11, 1963 and was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on June 11, 1963. He was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem administration. Photos of his self-immolation were circulated widely across the world and brought attention to the policies of the Diem regime. Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of the monk's death, as did David Halberstam for his written account. After his death, his body was re-cremated, but his heart remained intact.

'Before closing my eyes to go to Buddha', wrote Quang Duc, 'I have the honour to present my words to President Diem, asking him to be kind and tolerant towards his people and enforce a policy of religious equality.'

Thich Quang Duc act increased international pressure on Diem and led him to announce reforms with the intention of mollifying the Buddhists. The promised reforms were implemented either slowly or not at all, leading to a deterioration in the dispute. With protests continuing, the Special Forces loyal to Diem's brother, launched nationwide raids on Buddhist pagodas causing deaths and widespread damage. Several Buddhist monks followed Thich Quang Duc example and burned themselves to death. Eventually, an Army coup toppled and killed Diem in November. The self-immolation is widely seen as the turning point of the Vietnamese Buddhist crisis which led to the change in regime.

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In 1964 in India, a Tamil labourer called Chinnaswami set himself alight to protest against the encroachment of the Hindi language. A year later, when Hindi was supposed to replace English as the official language of India, five Tamils died by fire and three swallowed poison. Tamils have a tradition of self-sacrifice.

On July 3, 1936, Stefan Lux, a Jewish Czech journalist, actor and director, shot and killed himself with a revolver in the general assembly room of the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland during its session, to protest the treatment of Jews in Germany under Adolf Hitler. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Lux

Part 1 of 2 - Suicide Bombers, Kamikaze - DYING WITH KILLING

Part 1 of 2 - Suicide Bombers & Kamikaze - DYING WITH KILLING

(Part 2 of 2 Covers Self Immolation, Hara-Kiri/Seppuku & Sati - DYING WITHOUT KILLING)

What would it take to Stop Islamists engaging in Jihad in western countries today? Besides the obvious, what do their messages really communicate? What facts are they delivering to the general public? Are Suicide Bombers the only way to make governments and people listen today?

In addition to the Jihadists, there are other groups (eg Tamil Tigers) and people who have sacrificed themselves in the name of a Cause. The Japanese are also known for their Kamikaze and Hara-Kiri/Seppuku. Self-immolation has been used by many nationalities and could be viewed as a last resort. We can assume people engage in these acts because

• They have a Message to Deliver
• They want to Act in the interests of a group or cause, they care about and identify with
• They hope people will benefit from their actions
• They want to convert people to their cause and spur sympathizers to greater efforts on behalf of the cause
• In the Name of Honour
• They have been conditioned/educated to respect these types of actions
• They want to seek revenge or inflict punishment (an eye for an eye, is a recognised deterrent)
• They will receive public recognition, which their normal lives will not bring
  
  
  

JAPANESE KAMIKAZE - God-wind, Spirit-Wind, or Divine Wind

(OBEYING ORDERS & HONOUR)

Refers to the suicide attacks by Japanese military aviators from the Empire of Japan, against Allied shipping, in the closing stages of World War II to destroy as many warships as possible. Kamikaze pilots would attempt to crash their aircraft — often laden with explosives, bombs, torpedoes and full fuel tanks — into Allied ships. The aircraft's normal role was converted to a manned missile in a desperate attempt to reap the benefits of greatly increased accuracy and payload over that of a normal bomb. The goal of crippling as many Allied warships as possible was considered critical enough to warrant the cost of a trained aviator and his aircraft. These attacks began in 1944 and followed several significant military and strategic losses for Japan. They were implemented to stop or slow the Allied advance towards the Japanese home islands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze

Last Testimonies (Diaries & Correspondence)

Flight Petty Officer Kameda, age 19

A man will die sooner or later. The value of being a man is given at the time of his death.

Ensign Okabe

My life will be rounded out in the next thirty days. My chance will come! Death and I are waiting. The training and practice have been rigorous, but it is worthwhile if we can die beautifully and for a cause.

Komatsu Takeshi

When you hear of my death don't cook red rice and or put on a black kimono. Yell 'Banzai' and greet my remains with joy.

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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

LTTE have been fighting a war for the national liberation of Tamils living in the north and east of Sri Lanka since the early 1970s. From 1972 to 1976 they were called the Tamil New Tigers. In 1976 they changed their name to LTTE. Their first suicide attack took place on 5 July 1987.

JIHADISTS

These martyrdom videos were allegedly found at the home of one of the defendants (Assad Sarwar) at the Heathrow Plot Trial.

ABDULA AHMED ALI: "BLESSED OPERATION"
Someone who had aspired martyrdom since the age of 15 or 16.

"I'm doing this because the rewards, the big rewards that Allah has promised those who step on his path and Inshaallah [God willing] become martyr and the best of amongst those to me is the guarantee of Jannah [paradise] for myself and my family and those that are close to me.

"On top of this is to punish and to humiliate the Kuffar [non-believer], to teach them a lesson that they will never forget.

"It's to tell them that we Muslim people have pride, our people of Allah, the people of Islam, we are brave.

"We're not cowards. Enough is enough. We've warned you so many times get out of our lands, leave us alone, but you have persisted in trying to humiliate us, kill us and destroy us.

"Sheikh Osama [the prosecution say this means Osama Bin Laden] warned you many times to leave our lands or you will be destroyed and now the time has come for you to be destroyed and you have nothing but to expect that floods of martyr operations, volcanoes and anger and revenge and erupting among your capital and, yet, taste that what you have made us taste for a long time and now you have to bear the fruits that you have sown."

((Ali is asked by a voice off-camera by way of inquiry: "What about the innocent people? Surely just because the Kuffar kill our innocent does not mean that we should, that we should kill theirs? What about this so-called 'collateral damage'? What about it?))

"You and show more care and concern for animals than you do for the Muslim Ummah [the Islamic nation].

"Those who know me, who really know me, will know that I was the happiest person that they could ever have imagined, and those that know me know that I was over the moon that Allah has given me this opportunity to lead this blessed operation.

"Thanks to God I swear by Allah, I have the desire since the age of 15/16 to participate in Jihad in the path of Allah. I had the desire since then to punish the Kuffar for the evil they are doing.

"I had the desire since then for Jannah [paradise] for the Koran. I want to go to my prophet and his companions.

"Leave us alone. Stop meddling in our affairs and we will leave you alone.

"Otherwise expect floods of martyr operations against you and we will take our revenge and anger, ripping amongst your people and scattering the people and your body parts and your people's body parts responsible for these wars and oppression decorating the streets."


UMAR ISLAM: "REVENGE FOR YOUR ACTIONS"
"This is from Umar Islam, the son of Islam, to the people of the world, to let you know the reasons for this action which Inshaallah [God willing] I am going to undertake. This is an obligation on me as a Muslim to wage Jihad against the Kuffar [non-believers].

"We are doing this in order to gain the pleasure of our Lord and Allah loves us to die and kill in his path.

"Anyone who tries to deny this, then read the Koran and you will not be able to deny this because this is the words in the Koran and the words of our the messenger of Allah, prayers and peace upon him, who said them and we will not leave this path until you leave our lands, until you feel what we are feeling.

"This is revenge for the actions of the USA in the Muslim lands and their accomplices such as the British and the Jews.

"This is a warning to the non-believers that if they do not leave our lands there are many more like us and many more like me ready to strike until the law of Allah is established on this earth.

"Know that without doubt your dead are in the hellfire whilst the Muslims who died due to your attacks will be in paradise.

"Martyrdom operations upon martyrdom operations will keep on raining on these Kuffar until they release you and leave our lands.

"I'm happy and I do not fear the blame of any blamer of what I'm going to do, as you call us terrorists; but you can see we don't mind that, if you call us terrorists, because we will keep on terrorising you until you learn your lesson."

((The man is heard saying he and others were happy because of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because Allah could make martyrs of them. A voice off camera asks him what he would say if accused of being a barbarian who was setting out to kill innocent civilians. He replies:))

"I say to you disbelievers that as you bomb, you will be bombed. As you kill, you will be killed. And if you want to kill our women and children then the same thing will happen to you. This is not a joke.

"If you think you can go into our land and do what you are doing in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine and keep on supporting those that are fighting against the Muslims and think it will not come back on to your doorstep then you have another think coming.

"You are just sitting there, you are still funding the Army, you have not put down your leader, you have not pressured them enough.

"Most of them are too busy watching Home And Away and EastEnders, complaining about the World Cup, drinking your alcohol, to care about anything. "That is all you seem to care about - and I know because I have come from that."

IBRAHIM SAVANT: "ENTER THE BATTLEFIELD"
"I participate within this blessed raid for - upon the enemies of blessed Islam, for several reasons.

"I, Savant, have sacrificed my life cheaply, within the sake of Allah, not to save myself from a life of trials and tribulations but to fulfill a covenant and promise with Allah the almighty, and to make it Deen [religion or way of life] reign supreme.

"As for the lovers of life and haters of death, you will class my case as a case of suicide.

"I say argue your case with the most high, and as he has said, and never think those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead, rather they are alive with their Lord and receiving provision.

"All Muslims take heed, remove yourself from the grasp of the Kuffar before you are counted as one of them. Do not be content with your council houses and businesses and western lifestyle.

"So we also say that if you are among the polytheists [polytheism is a doctrine of plurality of gods, of different gods, different religions] whilst they are attacked, we are free from you whatever may befall you.

"All Muslims feel the need to dust your feet in the training camps of Jihad where men are made."

"Cease debate and enter the battlefields seeking paradise. Mujahedeen, for years I've desired to meet you, to walk the paths you've walked, to sacrifice what you have sacrificed. Now Allah has honoured me with an invitation to his Kingdom.

"Obviously after this beautiful operation they will accuse us brothers of all sorts of things and most of the things they will accuse us of is killing for the sake of killing, hating freedom, hating the west, being fed up with our lives."

WAHEED ZAMAN: "NOT BRAINWASHED"
"I have been educated to a high standard and had it not been Allah had blessed me with this mission, I could have lived a life of ease.

"But instead chose to fight for the sake of Allah's Deen [his religion or way]. All of you so-called moderate Muslims, there's only one way in which to solve this crisis, the problems will not be solved by means of campaigning, big conferences, peaceful negotiations with the disbelievers.

"The only solution to this current situation of the Muslims is by fighting Jihad for the sake of Allah until the enemy is fully subdued and expelled from our lands.

"America and England have no cause for complaint for they are the ones who invaded and built bases in the land of the Muslims. They are the ones who supply weapons to the enemies of Islam, including the accursed Israelis.

"I'm warning these two nations and any other country who seeks a bad end, death and destruction will pass upon you like a tornado and you will not feel it.

"You will not feel any security or peace in your lands until you [stop] [we say] interfering in the affairs of the Muslim completely. "I'm warning you today so tomorrow you have no cause for complaints. Remember, as you kill us, you will be killed and as you bomb us, you will be bombed."

"I will pray that Allah makes us successful in our actions, may he grant us Jannah [paradise].

"May he raise us on the Day of Judgment to be with the prophets, martyrs and people in the right path. May Allah bless the Mujahedeen with victory upon victory wherever they may be and may he focus their aim and may he make them of the patient ones.

"I have not been brainwashed. I have been educated to a high standard. I am old enough to make my own decisions."

TANVEER HUSSAIN: "WORTH THE PRICE"
"People keep on saying, you know, that we keep on targeting innocent civilians, yeah. "We're not targeting innocent civilians. We're targeting economic and military targets.

"They're the battle grounds of today so whoever steps in these trenches, they, yeah, you haven't got us to blame.

"You've got to blame yourself, and collateral damage is going to be inevitable and people are going to die, besides, you know, it's work at a price."

"You know, I wanted to do this myself. For many years, you know, I dreamt of doing this, but I didn't have no chance of doing this. I didn't have any means.

"Thank God Allah has accepted my duas [prayers] yeah, and provided a means to do this.

"You know, I only wish I could do this again, you know come back and do this again, and just do it again and again until people come to their senses and realise, you know, don't mess with the Muslims."

"Stop supporting the puppets and helping our enemies. If you do this, we're going to leave you alone. If you don't, you're going to feel the wrath of the Mujahedeen Inshaallah [God willing]."

ARAFAT WAHEED KHAN
"We will rain upon you such a terror and destruction that you will never feel peace and security.

"There will be floods of martyrdom operations and bombs falling through your lands. There will be daily torment in this world and a greater torment awaiting in the hereafter.

"Now I'd like to address the bootlickers who stand shoulder to shoulder with Kuffar in condemning these beautiful operations and the Mujahedeen.

"In particular, I'd like to address the scholars to whom Allah has given knowledge which they concealed and play with to please the Kuffar, to save themselves from their disapproval.

"What a miserable deal. Pleasing the Kuffar all while just pleasing Allah. Fearing them instead of fearing Allah."

"I would like to thank Allah for giving me this opportunity to bless me with this Shahada [martyrdom]. "I ask Allah to forgive me for all my sins, to accept me as a martyr. I ask Allah to help the Mujahedeen everywhere in every way."

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