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UK jihadist informant living on taxpayer dole to give evidence that imam was “terrorist of global reach”

Feb 3, 2014 10:32 pm By Robert Spencer

Badat

Abu Hamza al-Masri, the famous one-eyed, hook-handed former imam of London’s Finsbury Park Mosque, is now in prison in the U.S., awaiting trial on charges of being one of the organizers of a jihad terror training camp in Oregon. Saajid Muhammad Badat, now living a comfortable all-expenses-paid life courtesy of grateful dhimmi British taxpayers as a reward for giving information about jihadists to the British authorities who weren’t too busy appeasing those jihadists to listen to him, is set to give evidence to keep Abu Hamza behind bars for a considerable period.

“Shoe bomber’s accomplice to give evidence against Abu Hamza to prove he was a ‘terrorist with global reach,’” by Paul Thompson for the Daily Mail, February 3 (thanks to Kenneth):

An al Qaeda supergrass is to give evidence against hate preacher Abu Hamza and show he was a ‘terrorist with a global reach’.

British-born Saajid Muhammad Badat will be the star witness when Hamza goes on trial in New York later this year, according to court papers.

Badat, who was jailed for plotting to blow up a U.S. passenger jet with shoe bomber Richard Reid and later released for agreeing to become the first terrorist supergrass, has agreed to give evidence via a video link.

Prosecutors in the U.S. believe Badat’s evidence will help convict Hamza.

Assistant U.S. Prosecutor Ian McGinley said in court filings Badat will show Hamza ‘was a terrorist leader of global reach, who among other things, sent his young lieutenants around the world to engage in terror training’.

Badat was released from prison in 2010 after striking a deal with British authorities to give evidence in future terror trials.

The 33-year-old had been jailed for 13 years in 2005 for taking part in the plot to blow up a U.S. passenger jet along with Richard Reid.

He admitted being personally briefed on the plan by terror mastermind Osama bin Laden.

But Badat backed out at the last minute while shoe bomber Reid went ahead and was foiled by passengers who subdued him before he could explode his bomb on the Paris to Miami flight in 2001.

Reid is serving a life sentence in the SuperMax prison in Colorado and will never be released.

Badat, from Gloucester in the south-west of England, has been re-housed using taxpayers’ money and given money towards the cost of office space and education courses to help him get a job.

His mobile phone bills and internet are paid for by Scotland Yard.

U.S. prosecutors are hoping Badat’s evidence will help secure a conviction of Hamza who was extradited from Britain after a lengthy legal battle.

He will give evidence by video link as he is afraid if he attends the trial in New York he will be arrested by U.S. authorities.

Hamza, who lost his hands and an eye fighting the Russians in Afghanistan, faces a life sentence if convicted.

He is accused of being involved in hostage-taking in Yemen in 1998 that led to the deaths of three Britons and an Australian.

He is also charged with providing material support to the al Qaeda network by trying to set up a training camp in Oregon and attempting to organize support for the Taliban in Afghanistan.

While being held in a U.S. prison, Hamza has complained about the harsh conditions and claims the stumps of his hands have become infected.

Imprisoned Islamic jihadists always claim that they’re being tortured and mistreated. Either they’re all being tortured and mistreated, or some or all of them are lying.

A plea to move to a ‘softer’ jail was rejected by U.S. authorities.

Badat is well known to U.S. terror chiefs and has already given evidence via a video link against a group of terrorists who plotted to blow up the subway.

He is also due to be the star witness at the trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and bin Laden’s son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghayth….

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  1. mortimer says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    Someone should count the number of Muslim terrorist per Muslim population.
    We have a right to know how dangerous Muslims are compared to other groups in society and then have the ability to DECIDE whether it’s worth even having them.

    The cost/benefit of having Muslims in democratic countries MUST BE MEASURED. I believe the cost will be shown to be greater than the benefit.

    We have a right to decide.

    • Sovereign Man says

      Feb 3, 2014 at 10:54 pm

      How can you measure anything about Muslims, when it is “racist” to even admit that Muslims or Islam exist?

      • hardy stevenson says

        Feb 3, 2014 at 11:30 pm

        I suppose then that the muslims are racists themselves from that perspective. As they see themselves. Do you know what you say or are you happy to just counter any argument available?

    • Frankly Spoken says

      Feb 4, 2014 at 12:59 am

      If fanciers of the Prophet Muhammed constitute about 0.8% of the US population but 80% of the defendants in terrorism prosecutions, what would this over-representation indicate?

      If one percent of the world’s believers feel compelled to extol their divine superiority by laboring to kill and maim unbelievers, wouldn’t that mean 1½ million terrorists world-wide?

      If the one percent are not always the same people, if the actions to further the One True Faith are past hand-to-hand like the baton in a relay race, would not this mean some large multiple of 1½ million, say 6 million, maybe 10 million, require monitoring at any particular time?

      If zakat contributions, a “pillar of Islam” and a religious duty, fund terrorism world-wide, and the contributors feel entitled to know their donations are being applied according to their pious intentions, would not the internet be useful in displaying results like beheadings, roadside bombings or other services rendered to Allah? Would this explain why emirates247.com reported that among the planet’s urls there are some one hundred, mostly in European languages, described as countering jihadic, but some ten thousand, in Arabic, Urdu, Pashtu, Farsi and how many other tongues, celebrating jihad?

      Have we not determined that sarin, a neurotoxin that lends itself to aerosol dispersal, is within the Islamic arsenal? Were not al Qaeda operatives reported apprehended within Turkey near the Syrian border with a quantity of this toxin within the last year?

      Have not Saudi chemical engineering undergraduates been detected making nocturnal forays into reservations holding our reservoirs?

      Are we not leading with our chins when people who wish us dead, and actively work to make this so, are invited to live among us and use our openness to plot our extermination?

      We cannot stop them from killing and mutilating everywhere, but by securing their absence can we not prevent them from doing it here?

      Don’t governments exist for the purpose of keeping us safe? Cannot democratic governments be goaded into doing that?

      If three thousand dead before lunch is unconvincing, how many more must perish as mine canaries before the general population is alarmed enough to act? Does the fact that people who chant “Death to America” seem to already have selected targets for their imminent A-bomb arsenal within disturb anyone but us crackpots?

  2. Sovereign Man says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 10:52 pm

    As is usual for media, especially UK media, there is no use whatsoever of the words Islam or Muslim or their derivatives in the article, and comments that contain the words are screened.

    Using Orwellian tactics to inflict self-defeat. Oh how far Western civilization has come.

    • hardy stevenson says

      Feb 3, 2014 at 11:32 pm

      Do you know what you say or are you happy to just counter any argument available?

  3. Alan says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 11:43 pm

    Observing the craven appeasement and accommodation with which the left wing – previously Judeo-Christian, ruled countries of Europe and North America – are rushing to submit to the Abuse and Tyranny of Muslims the world over makes me sick. Because the left-wing politically correct narrative is dominant in global political discourse, the West will wake up to the barbarism of Islamic invasion (Hijra, Jihad, Sharia, religious and gender apartheid) and rampant mosque building when it is to late to save themselves. Unless ordinary people rise up and expell this death cult by peaceful means, something like the Spanish Reconquista – sadly forgotten by the West – will be needed to rid the world of this evil. Thanks to the ignorance and crass stupidity of Idiots like Harry Ried, John Kerry, the pro-muslim brotherhood Clintons and Barak Hussein Obama the Mullah’s and Sheiks and Jihadists have already plunged the world into chaos. Why does the non-Islamic world not remember Kosovo, Manzikert, Vienna, Constantinople, Charles Martel etc. Etc.? Islam has not changed in 1400 years.

    • Frankly Spoken says

      Feb 4, 2014 at 1:09 am

      So it’s always the strawman left? Grover Norquist and the oil money Texans (think about it) escape culpability?

  4. Will Doohan says

    Feb 4, 2014 at 2:37 am

    test

  5. Tayloch says

    Feb 4, 2014 at 2:38 am

    ….become the first terrorist supergrass

    What the heck is is supergrass?

    • Tayloch says

      Feb 4, 2014 at 2:49 am

      Sorry, I answered my own question. Another obscure English word that is completely valid but is otherwise forgotten:

      I thank my British cousins for teaching me “My Word of The Day”.

      supergrass (ˈsuːpəˌɡrɑːs)
      n
      1. (Law) an informer whose information implicates a large number of people in terrorist activities or other major crimes

      Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

  6. chevalier says

    Feb 4, 2014 at 4:40 am

    I used to think that he status of dhimmitude was one harshly inflicted by the Caliphate on “People of the Book”. Such is the certain deduction from reading the formidable Bat’ Yeor who chronicles this burden on Jews and Christians in muslim dominated lands during the last thousand years or so.
    But now i believe that in western countries that have not yet submitted to Islam, that it is a strange self inflicted trauma – a deep mass psychological illness.
    the Question becomes – Why do we submit voluntarily to accept such barbarism without oppressive violence upon us?

    • Charli Main says

      Feb 4, 2014 at 4:56 am

      Like paralysed rabbits caught in the headlights of an on coming juggernaut, Chevalier. !!!!

  7. London Jim says

    Feb 5, 2014 at 6:52 am

    Badat has, effectively, become a ‘ward of state’. Though his former ‘bruvvas’ may regard him as a coward/turncoat, he may well be on the road to being an outspoken apostate from Muhammedanism. One can only hope.

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