Al-Qaeda jihad plot against English Queen foiled

November’s Commonwealth Summit in Uganda secured as Al-Qaeda jihad plot against English Queen foiled, new report says

Camilla Tominey of the Daily Express, England, reported Sunday Jan. 13, the Al Qaeda terrorists posed as TV crews, the plan would have been to smuggle explosives in at the summit.

Two huge outside broadcast vans belonging to the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation were seized after a tip-off from intelligence agents.

As a result, UBC was unable to transmit live pictures of key summit events, including the Queen’s historic address to the Ugandan parliament on November 22.

“We received information that a terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda, the Allied Democratic Forces, was planning to carry out terrorist activities at the Commonwealth meeting,“ Dr Ruhakana Rugunda, the Uganda Minister of Internal Affairs, said.

“The security services in Uganda neutralized these threats,” he added, while refusing comment on the precise nature of the planned attacks or reports that Ugandan armed forces had seized a speedboat loaded with arms and homemade bombs.

A number of suspected ADF guerrillas aboard the boat on Lake Victoria are understood to have been taken into custody.

“A number of suspects have been arrested but I cannot comment on the specifics of this case,” Dr Rugunda said.

“What I can say is that we stepped up security because of the Al Qaeda threat but it was neutralized by our security services,” he added.

“In the end the summit was incident free and Uganda was happy to receive such distinguished guests, led by Her Majesty the Queen.” …

An attack on the summit would have been a boon to Al-Qaeda, reaching into royalty and causing possible collateral deaths among the 16 presidents and 20 prime ministers plus Prince Charles and Camilla attending in Kampala.

The plot details resulted in a push to thoroughly review security protocols for the royal family.

Dai Davies, former head of royal protection, said, “It will have huge implications globally for the Royal Family’s protection.

“It will obviously put forward planning into a huge new phase of concern,” he added. “But the Queen’s security arrangements are very sophisticated.” …

Al Qaeda’s deputy leader Ayman Al Zawahri directly addressed the Queen when threatening attacks on Britain last July, following the knighthood given to Salman Rushdie, who angered Muslims with his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.

In a 20-minute tape broadcast on Arabic TV channel Al Jazeera, he threatened: “I say to [Queen] Elizabeth and Blair that your message has reached us and we are in the process of preparing you for a precise response.”

Let’s hope the Brits come up with an even more precise response to Al Zawahri before hand.

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