London Attack: SOoAQiE Responsible?

From a World Tribune.com article, London bombings called workof Al Qaida's new generation :

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM [/] Friday, July 8, 2005

LONDON — A series of blasts that rocked the British capital was believed to have been carried out by a new Al Qaida network based in Western Europe and trained in such places as Afghanistan, Bosnia and Iraq.

An organization called "The Secret Organization of Al Qaida in Europe" claimed responsibility for the blasts, in which 700 people were injured.

Western intelligence sources said the group appeared to represent a new generation of Al Qaida operatives aided by at least two major organizations based in Algeria and Iraq. They said the attacks were meant to disrupt the G8 summit in Scotland. [/] At least 50 people were killed in three explosions in London's subway system during rush hour on Thursday in a strike that resembled the train bombings in Madrid in 2004, Middle East Newsline reported. A fourth explosion destroyed a double-decker bus filled with people. [/] Over time, the cornerstone of Al Qaida's religious and political rhetoric has remained consistent:

Muslims should view themselves as a single nation and unite to resist anti-Islamic aggression on the basis of obligatory defensive jihad,

- a Congressional Research Service report, entitled "Al Qaida: Statements and Evolving Ideology," authored by Christopher Blanchard, said.

Non-Islamic government is unacceptable, and Muslims should join Al Qaida and other sympathetic groups and movements in opposing those seeking to establish secular democratic governments or maintain existing governments deemed to be insufficiently Islamic,

- the congressional report, published in June 2005, said.

Al Qaida employed at least 20 people from the organization's sleeper network to carry out the bombings, the intelligence sources said. They said operatives maintained surveillance on London's mass transit network for at least six months to determine vulnerable points.

Since 2002, British authorities disrupted plans to twice attack the London subway system, the sources said. They said they believe the attacks, including Thursday's strike, were organized by Al Qaida, including operatives loyal to Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi, the most lethal insurgent in Iraq.

[…] The sources said "The Secret Organization of Al Qaida in Europe," which claimed responsibility for Thursday's bombings, appeared to be part of a new Al Qaida network established in the continent in 2003. The sources said the network could have included planners or operatives involved in the 2004 train bombings in Madrid in which 191 people were killed. […]

Their acronym would appear to be SOoAQiE. Possibly pronounced, "sue-ah-que-eye-eee". Although, on second thought, that might be too close to the sound employed in hog calling contests for the group to be very comfortable with it.

Update: 7/9/05 7:15a edt - New York Post reports the new group's name as "the Secret Group of al Qaeda's Jihad in Europe". That would make the acronym SOoaQJiE. Possibly pronounced, "sue-ah-que-jie-eee". Sounds even more like hog calling.