To bar these people from returning to their home countries would be “Islamophobic.” “Al-Qaeda training British and European ‘jihadists’ in Syria to set up terror cells at home,” by Ruth Sherlock and Tom Whitehead for the Telegraph, January 19 (thanks to Traduction):
British people fighting in Syria are being trained as “jihadists” and then encouraged to return to the UK to launch attacks on home soil, an al-Qaeda defector and western security sources have told the Telegraph.
In a rare interview on Turkey’s border with Syria, the defector from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) said that recruits from Britain, Europe and the US were being indoctrinated in extremist anti-Western ideology, trained in how to make and detonate car bombs and suicide vests and sent home to start new terror cells.
He has provided the first confirmation from Syrian rebels that young British men are being indoctrinated in extremist anti-Western ideology.
The witless Telegraph doesn’t realize that they were already “indoctrinated in extremist anti-Western ideology” or they wouldn’t be in Syria in the first place.
Some of those intent on overthrowing the Syrian regime are being brainwashed by fanatics, the former member of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) warned.
His comments echo the concerns of the security services at a time when it is feared that up to 500 Britons are fighting in Syria and could return to emulate attacks such as the London bombings and 9/11.
Britain’s security and intelligence agencies believe the threat of would-be terrorists being directed back to the UK by al-Qaeda organisers in Syria is growing.
It is feared that as genuine opposition groups fade in the war-torn country, extremist and terror groups such as ISIS will have an increasing influence allowing them to target more foreign recruits for their cause. The threat from Syria is dominating the work of MI5 and the spy agency has had to allocate more and more resources to tackling the danger in the past six months, The Daily Telegraph understands.
In an interview with this newspaper, the defector, known as Murad, said of the foreign fighters he met in Syria: “They talked often about terrorist attacks. The foreigners were proud of 9/11 and the London bombings. The British, French and American mujahideen [holy warriors] in the room started talking about places that they wanted to bomb or explode themselves in Europe and the United States. Everyone named a target. The American said he dreamed of blowing up the White House.”…

Rojm says
This is 2014 and not 622, any god who gives rewards for killing oneself and others is not worth worshipping.
Charli Main says
” young “” British”” men are being indoctrinated in extreme anti- Western ideology”
Yes, they are being brain washed in all the Mosques and Madrassas springing up like mushrooms all over Britain.
and the biggest “joke” of all is that these hate factories are being funded and supported by the British Government AKA the British taxpayer.
You couldn´t make this insanity up !!!!!!
jay boo says
U.S. Military Eases Rules On Turbans, Beards, Skullcaps And Other Religious Items
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/us-military-eases-rules-on-wearing-turbans-beards-skullcaps
Charlie Griffith says
Please, please! Can we stop referring to these Muslim sympathizers as Americans, British, or European, even if they are native to those places?
They are Quislings …they should automatically forfeit their American, British or European “citizenship” by leaving our countries to fight for their Muslim sympathies. I thought that that condition used to be stamped in my United States States passports of years past. Is that now politically incorrect?
The passports they have in their pockets [or backpacks] have now ceased automatically to be any indication of their loyalties.
Passports now seem to be a quaint 19th Cent. anachronism.
Thomas Wells says
The “American security research community”:those people in DHS,SMART,CPC, EPA,GNDA,NNSA BBCI, NBIC,STC,JTTF,HSIN,HMRU,CBRNSU,LRN,FBI,NSA,ETC, and so on ,who award themselves purple hearts for paper cuts, are busy trying to figure out “reliable diagnostic indicators” that can help identify “lone wolf” or “small cell” terrorists. Possibly, they might consider people returning from an Al-Qaeda training camp or fighting alongside Al-Qaeda or other such groups to be “interesting people. Perhaps one might suggest the acronym :”TARGET”, for such folks, and house them at Guantanamo.
gravenimage says
Al-Qaeda training British, European and American jihadists in Syria to set up jihad terror cells at home
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They should not be allowed back into Western nations at all.
*Of course* a lot of them are going to put their shiny new Jihad skills to use against the civilized countries that have given them sanctuary.
These are not “British, European, and American Jihadists”—they are Jihadists who have wormed their way into the West, and are now using our own countries as a base from which to wage Jihad.
More:
The witless Telegraph doesn’t realize that they were already “indoctrinated in extremist anti-Western ideology” or they wouldn’t be in Syria in the first place.
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Quite so…
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It is feared that as genuine opposition groups fade in the war-torn country, extremist and terror groups such as ISIS will have an increasing influence allowing them to target more foreign recruits for their cause.
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This is a fantasy, as well—that they opposition in Syria was at one time made of Jeffersonian democrats. The fact is that the greater number and main impetus for ousting Assad has been Sunni Jihadists from the very beginning.
Scorpio says
The British and other European governments have much to reproach themselves for but the deliberate wholesale importation of Muslims and their “stone age” mentality is the primary candidate for the most damaging policy ever conceived by allegedly intelligent beings on the altar of political correctness and multi-culti inclusivity. If they had the guts to admit it they might consider using the Syrian crisis to advantage.
Instead of lamenting jihadists leaving Britain’s shores to fight in Syria, they should be positively encouraged and recorded. Many will be killed (hopefully) but those that survive will return and should, on reentering British soil, be arrested, jailed, stripped of their citizenship and/or deported back to any Muslim country of their choice; and please lets have no nonsense about human rights etc., these were never designed to cope with cults such as Islam trying to infiltrate and destroying the lives of indigenous populations.