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UK: Almost 400 ISIS jihadis now at large, only 14 returned jihadis have been jailed

Oct 9, 2016 12:05 pm By Robert Spencer

Why were they let back in? They are enemy combatants in a war against Britain. But British authorities were much more concerned with keeping out foes of jihad terror. And so now nearly 400 Islamic State-trained, battle-hardened jihadis are in Britain, and British authorities don’t have the resources to prosecute them.

What do they think Britain will look like five years from now?

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“Almost 400 ISIS jihadis trained in Iraq and Syria are now at large on Britain’s streets… as it’s revealed just 14 fighters who have returned to the UK have been jailed,” by Martin Beckford, The Mail On Sunday, October 8, 2016:

Just 14 battle-hardened ISIS fighters who returned to Britain after waging war in Syria have been jailed, the Government has admitted.

The shock figure is far lower than Ministers previously claimed and means almost 400 jihadis trained in Syria and Iraq are at large on Britain’s streets.

Experts told The Mail on Sunday they could use the deadly skills with automatic weapons and bombs that they honed on the battlefield to plot atrocities such as the Paris and Brussels attacks in the UK, massacring hundreds.

Figures slipped out in Parliament reveal that the Home Office believes 850 Britons have travelled to fight for the Islamic State terror group and although many have been killed by drone strikes and in battle, about 400 have sneaked back into the UK.

Any of them could be prosecuted as it is a crime to attend terrorist training camps and also to be a member of a banned group such as ISIS.

But Ministers admit that only 14 people who have fought for Islamic State have been convicted, despite mistakenly claiming the number was 54 earlier this year.

Last night, critics urged Home Secretary Amber Rudd to give more money to the Border Force so it can catch terrorists as they sneak back into the country, as well as ensuring that police and MI5 have enough officers to track down those already here.

Labour MP Khalid Mahmood, who believes thousands of Britons have travelled to Syria and Iraq, said: ‘It is a tiny number who have been prosecuted and it’s absurd to say this is any form of success.

‘If they know who they are, they should be prosecuted but the police and security services don’t have the resources to do that.’…

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  1. Moses says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 12:07 pm

    They will take the opportunity to waste tax payers money on programs based on De radicalisation of Muslims

  2. ECAW says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    “What do they think Britain will look like five years from now?”

    Well and truly fucked in all probability, but it’s not a done deal yet. We must hope for some truly appalling atrocities, preferably involving those who got us into this mess. What else is going to wake us up?

    • Charli Main says

      Oct 9, 2016 at 4:01 pm

      With respect ECAW, flying jetliners into the twin towers in New York did not wake America up. The reverse in fact. It appears that the political elites of New York have re-doubled their efforts at Muslim arse licking and I cannot see anything different for Britain.

      The majority of Brits appear to be suffering from terminal Islamosomiasis. These are dark days but the war is far from lost.

      Its always darkest before the dawn BUT WE WILL WIN.

      • ECAW says

        Oct 10, 2016 at 2:46 am

        What will do it then?

        • Charli Main says

          Oct 10, 2016 at 3:03 am

          Succeeding where Guy Fawkes failed. Get rid of those that enable, sanctioned and condoned the Muslim invasion of Britain.

  3. Arthur says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 1:41 pm

    I’m sure the UK government is “monitoring” them. Then after the terrorist incident, the UK government can say, “We are shocked. We were monitoring the terrorist cell right up to when the bomb exploded, but we didn’t think they were really going to go through with it.”

  4. Angemon says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 2:17 pm

    in a sane society, those returners would be facing trial for treason.

    • Christianblood says

      Oct 9, 2016 at 8:27 pm

      Angemon

      Forget about those returners Angemon, doyou know that US, Britain and France are now air force for terrorists in Syria? Read it on the link below:
      https://www.rt.com/op-edge/362107-us-france-uk-syria-terrorists/

  5. Mark A says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 2:27 pm

    These people should be stripped of their citizensh[p and prosecuted for treason.

    It’s disgraceful that they should simply be allowed to return from terrorism training with ISIS and walk around freely.

  6. TH says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 3:35 pm

    It is even worse. A former head of Hungarian Intelligence states that many of the false refugees have military training and they have been sent to Europe to prepare the future civil wars by breaking out of the no go zones and attempting to estaablish what could be called Islamic Emirates within European countries.

  7. overman says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 4:39 pm

    They’d rather focus on this – which was headline news in D.Telegraph today. Still playing the Race card. This is beyond Trivial.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/09/womans-hijab-pulled-down-in-busy-london-street-in-shocking-racia/

    ‘Woman’s hijab pulled down in busy London street in ‘shocking racially-motivated attack’

    9 OCTOBER 2016 • 8:45AM
    A woman has had her hijab pulled down in a racially-motivated assault on a busy street.

    The victim, in her 20s, was not injured but was shocked and distressed by what happened, Scotland Yard said.

    She was walking in Haringey, north London, with a woman friend at around 7.30pm on Wednesday when the attack happened.

    As they crossed the road by The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London, she was approached from behind by two men.

    Racially and religiously-motivated crimes will not be tolerated
    Det Con Ben Cousin
    The Metropolitan Police said one of them pulled down the hijab she was wearing before both fled the scene.

    Police in Haringey are appealing for witnesses and information about the incident.

    • Judi says

      Oct 9, 2016 at 4:56 pm

      Haringey. I didn’t know there were any Brits left there to perpetrate such a ‘ shocking deed’.

      • LB says

        Oct 10, 2016 at 5:54 am

        There aren’t. It’s most likely another made up crime to stir the “islamophobia” narrative.

  8. mortimer says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 9:41 pm

    UK now has 400 ticking time bombs walking freely, boarding buses and underground trains, going to train stations, airports, busy venues, shopping malls.

    Only days before one of them goes off or trains others to commit terrorism.

    There should be a penal colony for them similar to Guantanamo.

  9. Marty says

    Oct 10, 2016 at 5:00 am

    In the UK muslims are effectively above the law.
    Not a single prosecution for FGM, plus a notable silence from women’s groups.
    One of the techniques used by muslims is to pretend islam is a race, so anyone
    who hates islam is automatically a racist.
    In the UK, racism is considered by the media, politicians, & police to be worse
    than pedophilia. As evidenced by over 1,400 non muslim girls raped & prostituted
    in one rotten dump called Oldham, quite openly, & with knowledge, even co operation
    of politicians, social services etc
    Here’s a UK headline today
    “Woman’s hijab pulled down in busy London street in ‘shocking racially-motivated attack'”
    No one knows the race of anyone hiding under a burka.
    Indeed, male criminals, including the 7/7 bombers wore their sisters’ burkas as
    disguises.

  10. Praeceptor Maximus says

    Oct 10, 2016 at 9:02 am

    It is a historical fact that wherever Muslims go they bring destruction in their wake. And that is because Allah was the demon of destruction. The ruling elites, with the aid of the mainstream media and the academia, due to their utter stupidity, shortsightedness, greed for political power and of course money, kept bringing in Muslims into the western world, all the while sedating their people through brainwashing and manipulation, that this was good for them, that this was to enrich their culture, that this was diversity, that this was good for their economic growth, that they were bigoted and racist if they thought otherwise. But they all exposed themselves for the liars that they were when they started to vilify Hirsi Ali, a black ex-Muslim woman who underwent FGM. Her talks at universities are often cancelled, the feminists shun her, and the mainstream media is hostile to her. England is disintegrating. Its proud culture and history is being replaced by Islam. Soon there will be nothing left of England. And when it becomes fully Islamic, it will also become fully stupid. There is a reason why majority of Muslims have low IQ. Aside from inbreeding (cousins marrying cousins), Muslims are not capable of critical thinking, because Islam does not allow critical thinking.

  11. Bindon Blood says

    Oct 10, 2016 at 3:14 pm

    These despicable traitors should thank their lucky stars that Britain ever had influence over the God forsaken hell holes they originate from. If the British Empire still existed the catastrophe of a rising Islam would not exist.
    These people never mention the biggest,longest living,most violent and oppressive empire of all,the Muslim empire. It conquered all Christian lands of the East causing slaughter, terror and slavery. Under the Ottomans it became more extensive and never became enlightened. Muslims have never apogised for all the misery Islam has caused,the millions of deaths and slavery and dhimmitude. Islam has never willingly given up one inch of land that It took by force and bloodshed,and never will. It was thanks mainly to the British that Islam was subdued in the 19th century and freedom brought to the dhimmi people’s.

  12. AformerMuslim says

    Oct 10, 2016 at 6:48 pm

    How did they get back into the country? I am not sure.

    Can it be that the Islamic State has sent these soldiers to attack and kill the British citizens?

    I fear for the United Kingdom.

    A Former Muslim
    http://www.aformermuslim.com

  13. Matthieu Baudin says

    Oct 10, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    Confusion reigns and their government has lost the will to fight. Nothing short of a Chartist style revolt will reclaim the lost authority of the people of Britain.

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