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More from the Whose Side Are You On Department, from the TimesOnline, with thanks to Nicolei:
ABOUT 70 young Muslim men have left Britain to join the insurgents who are fighting coalition troops in Iraq, senior security sources have revealed.At least three have been killed in combat, including one whose role in an Iraq suicide bombing in February was disclosed by police only last week.
The growing problem of militants from Britain travelling to Iraq has been highlighted by Eliza Manningham-Buller, director-general of MI5, in recent briefings to Tony Blair.
The MI5 boss warned the prime minister that would-be suicide bombers and other fighters who want to kill British and American troops were using “a number of routes” to get to Iraq from Britain. Most have travelled to Damascus in Syria before being smuggled over the border to meet rebel leaders.
Senior police sources say that they are trying to unravel a British-based network recruiting “martyrs” for the Islamic “holy war” in Iraq. The operation emerged following the arrest last week of a 40-year-old man who is alleged to have shared a house in Manchester with Idris Bazis, a 41-year-old French Algerian who blew himself up during a terrorist attack in Iraq four months ago....
The rebel commander, who used the name Abu Ahmad, said that another Briton, called Ammar and also 22, had been killed during clashes between Al-Qaeda and American troops around the time of the Falluja offensive in April last year. Ammar had travelled to Iraq with his brother Yassr, 18, shortly after the fall of Baghdad in March 2003. “They could not wait to go out and fight and kept on asking when they would go into battle,” the commander said.
He said that Al-Qaeda had “branches, supporters and financiers” in Britain as well as in France, Spain and Germany.
Posted by Robert at June 26, 2005 6:42 AM
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And yet muslims are allowed to join the police force in Britain, and are the target of a recruitment drive by the army!
What fools these mortals be.
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at June 26, 2005 7:26 AM
Although an estimated 70 had gone in the past two years, few had returned, the source said.
Were they to return, they should, of course, be charged with High Treason. Which still carried the death penalty (along with piracy and arson in HM Dockyards) up until 1998. Along with their bruvverz who pread sedition on the streets and in the mosques. I doubt that will happen in the lifetime of this government.
I'm just glad to hear that MI5 are on the case. Our intelligence is good, had a lot of practice through other troubles.
Posted by: Granny Weatherwax at June 26, 2005 9:42 AM
Aw.
The question should be how to get more of these pests of the british woodwork and into Iraq where they can fulfill their death wish in open combat with the Marines and Blackwatch?
Can we have televised appeals in arabic for all the 'Tawhid and jihad' minded to please book the almost-free vacation tour to syria??
Killing these scum is one way to reduce their numbers (though its far less efficient than openly letting the sunlight of truth disinfect the germs of islamism.)
Posted by: voletti at June 26, 2005 11:58 AM
Why would 70 British Muslims go to fight in Iraq? Islam is a religion of peace.
There must be some mistake.
Posted by: Amicus at June 26, 2005 1:01 PM
"(though its far less efficient than openly letting the sunlight of truth disinfect the germs of islamism.)"
I'm working on this and I'm not alone.
at June 26, 2005 1:06 PM
I see this as only good news for the Brits. They now have less (soon to be dead) brainwashed idiots on their hands to deal with.
Ding! Ding! Score one (or should I say 70) for the counter-jihad!
at June 26, 2005 1:27 PM
These are just misunderstanders of Islam. All religions have their extremists. Only yesterday a frenzied mob of rampaging Quakers....oh wait..
/sub-Robert Spencer sarcasm off.
What would be the collective noun for a bunch of Muslims? A 'rage' or a 'seething' of Muslims perhaps.
(I'd heard via David Starkey that academics can be the most evil backstabbers going - he spoke of a 'malice' of historians.)
Posted by: Interested at June 26, 2005 2:22 PM
An ignorance of Islamics.
A misery of Muslims.
A misfortune of jihadis.
a maladjsutment of mujahidee.
at June 26, 2005 2:53 PM
This type of activity will continue and expand as long as Phony Blair and the British government allow the UK to serve as the heart and soul of the Ummah in the West. Unlike France, Britain refuses even to expel imams calling for jihad.
Note also, that a number of these jihadists are foreign nationals living in the UK -- no doubt attracted to Britain by its liberal asylum laws, social benefits, and the immunity from prosecution assured by the powerful HRR (Human Rights Racket) in the country.
The UK continues to be my pick for the first European country to introduce Sharia. It will initially be packaged as a "community mediation scheme" dealing with family disputes, thus relieving the overburdened police force. Once installed, it will grow like a cancer and attain legitimacy as a culturally-sensitive alternative to British law.
And it will all happen without so much as a whimper from the populace which is already being muted and castrated with the religious hatred law.
Posted by: Charles Martel at June 26, 2005 3:19 PM
Which is all the more reason to keep resisting the Racial and Religious Hatred Bill. Phony Blair is a very good name. Except I can't see what's in it for him. Many of the PC crowd really believe in multculturalism. Where Islam is concerned they are wrong and must be, will be, stopped but they are sincere. Then there are the ones who think they can see some personal advantage particularly if they are dis-satisfied with their current lot. But what Blair and his acolytes will gain I don't know. Power? He's PM already. Money? He's an ex public schoolboy and barrister. More money? He has a greedy wife with her own agenda. Possibly.
Posted by: Granny Weatherwax at June 26, 2005 3:50 PM
MI5 needs to get some Arabic speaking (Pakistani Hindu loyal-to-the-U.K.?) immigrants to join the force, pretend to be Muslim jihadists, set up a sting operation for faux "suicide bomber recruitment" online and through clandestine avenues, have a staging area in some remote region of Iraq where the volunteers can be secretly flown in, give them cars loaded with semtex and shrapnel, send them out on the 'training course' (a Potemkin Village Iraqi mock-up 'town'), and simply blow them up by remote control once they drive far enough away to be safe to the MI5 detonators.
(Keep the rest of the would-be-Islami-kazees in a soundproof underground bunker, obliviously watching jihadist video lessons as they, one-by-one, are called up to meet their fate.)
After each one explodes, all MI5 needs to say is:
"NEXT!"
(The suicide bomber's get to fulfill their wish, no one else gets hurt, everyone is happy.)
Posted by: BigSleep at June 26, 2005 6:09 PM
Don't look for meaning in any of Blair's actions, for that way madness lies. Trying to understand Blair is like walking into a labyrinth where the walls slide back and forth, and nothing remains the same for long. One minute he's in the anti-nuclear movement, and the mext he's sending troops into Iraq. One minute he downgrades cannabis, then he bans the smoking of cigarettes in public places. He's probably happy to appease muslims by banning criticism of them simply because he has more in common with them than with the majority of secular Britons - he believes in a mysterious, ineffable power that permeates the universe, and he desires to regulate every aspect of people's lives.
Posted by: Doctor Phibes at June 27, 2005 2:24 AM
Yeah, I see this as a win. Less radical muslims in the UK... the idiots could do much more damage by plotting where they were.
The double dipper would be if they get killed by British troops! We can only hope.
Posted by: Troll at June 27, 2005 3:27 PM
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