powerful.

This. Is. Brilliant.

Released after 2 years in solitary confinement without charge, ouch

a wonderful speech.

in my mind this is what the net should be about. wish i could upvote twice

Seem like a nice enough chap, but i did a little research...



'He fully acknowledges giving financial support for Muslim combatants.

A police search of his home reportedly found night vision goggles, a bulletproof vest, and extremist Islamic literature.

He was again arrested in 2000 under British anti-terrorism laws during a raid on the Maktabah Al Ansar bookshop in Birmingham, which he had founded. The British government retrieved encrypted files from his computer and ordered Begg to open them, but Begg refused.

in 2000, his store was found to offer such titles as The Virtues of Jihad and Declaration of War. In 1999 the store commissioned and published a book which said such things as "Terror works and that is why the believers are commanded to enforce it by Allah.


A Summary of Evidence memo of the following allegations against him:

a. The detainee is a member of al Qaida and other affiliated terrorist organizations.

1. The detainee recruited individuals to attend al Qaida run terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.
2. The detainee provided money and material support to al Qaida terrorist training camps.
3. The detainee has received extensive training at al Qaida run terrorist training camps since 1993. He has been trained on the AK-47, Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs), handgun, ambush theory, detection of land mines and he manufacture of improvised grenades.
4. The detainee provided support to al Qaida terrorists by providing shelter for their families while the al Qaida members committed terrorist acts.
b. The detainees engaged in hostile acts against the United States or its coalition Partners.
1. The detainee was armed and prepared to fight on the frontlines against US and allied forces alongside Taliban and al Qaida fighters.
2. The detainee retreated to the Tora Bora Afghanistan along with other Taliban and al Qaida fighters.
3. The detainee engaged in these hostile actions while neither he nor his fellow fighters wore distinctive military emblems on their clothes, not followed a typical chain of command.
4. The detainee provided support to Usama Bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network with full knowledge that Bin Laden had issued a declaration of war against the United States and that the al Qaida network had committed numerous terrorist attacks against the United States and its citizens.

Begg's known and suspected contacts with extremists:

Shahid Akram Butt
* Leader of the 'Lynx Gang', in Birmingham, England known associate of Begg arrested in Britain for fraud and in Yemen on conspiring to cause death and destruction
Khalil al-Deek
* lived in Peshawar, Pakistan while Begg lived there;
* invested with Begg
Abu Zubaydah
* an associate of al-Deek;
* Begg claims never to have met Zubaydah, but United States Department of Defense (DoD) says he admitted to it during interrogation.
Richard C. Reid
* DoD suspects links
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi
* DoD suspects links
Abu Qatada
* DoD suspects links
Dhiren Barot
* Wrote a book that was commissioned and published by Begg's bookshop'




Just saying...

(Did you expect people in extremist groups to be big scary green monsters?)