Jihad Thomas Update: justice done in Australia. From the BBC, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
An Australian man who changed his name to Jihad Jack has been convicted of receiving funds from al-Qaeda.Jack Thomas, a Muslim convert, was found guilty of accepting $3,500 (£2,000) and a plane ticket home from an al-Qaeda agent in Pakistan.
A Melbourne court heard that Thomas had visited al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan shortly before the 9/11 attacks.
He is the first Australian to be charged under laws on the funding of terrorism passed in 2002.
'No terrorist'
The 32-year-old former taxi driver could face up to 25 years in jail when he is sentenced by the Supreme Court in the next few days.
He was also found guilty of possessing a false passport, but he was found not guilty of intentionally providing resources for al-Qaeda.
The prosecution alleged that Thomas trained in al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan before moving to Pakistan.
Ohhh!
I was going to call him 'Jihad Jones' !!
I'll be surprised if he gets more than 5 years, out in 18 months. Afterall, Victoria is Australia's most left state.
I don't understand why his hijabbed Mrs. and his parents were saying the verdict was a victory. Perhaps because the charge of him acting as a sleeper agent was dropped. Obviously the lawyer managed to smooth talk his client out of that one. To go off to Pakistan, hang around with Al-Q, accept money from them, and call yourself 'Jihad Jack' - what else would you be, except for a sleeper agent? How many more clues do you need?
I'm getting tired of the argument that these converts are somehow just messed up silly boys who temporarily got caught up with the wrong crowd. These are traitors who seek to murder many people.
We're still not taking this seriously enough.
Strip him naked -except for a GPS ankle bracelet- and send him into the outback to catch rabbits (another invasive pest) for 25 years.
He can eat and cloth himself with them, if he is able to with his bare hands. (Didn't Osama teach him that... well, tough jihadist crap.)
Otherwise, no food, no contact with people, no water, no Fosters, no nothing.
Let him think about his betrayal for two and a half decades under the blistering Down Under sun.
C'mon Oz! Poetic justice, mate!