Where did Samata Ullah learn his understanding of Islam? Are British authorities looking into that? Have they visited his local mosque? Why not?
“Linux Mint-using terror nerd awaits sentence for training Islamic State,” by Gareth Corfield, The Register, April 28, 2017:
A paranoid Welsh Muslim who wore gloves while typing on his laptop, admitted being part of Islamic State, and, gasp, harbored a copy of Linux Mint, has been described as a “new and dangerous breed of terrorist.”
Samata Ullah, 34, who also used voice modulation software to disguise his thick Welsh accent while making instructional videos about encryption, pleaded guilty to five terrorism charges at Cardiff Crown Court. He was due to be sentenced Friday afternoon.
The former pensions administrator had bought 30 sets of cufflinks containing tiny USB sticks from eBay, the court was told. On one of those was a copy of harmless open-source operating system Linux Mint, while others contained military manuals for guided missiles, which Ullah was said to have been preparing to translate for the Islamic State terrorist organization, as reported by Court News UK.
Prosecutor Brian Altman QC branded Ullah a “cyber terrorist” and said he was part of a “new and dangerous breed of terrorist.” Ullah admitted to five charges:
- Membership in the Islamic State
- Terrorist training
- Preparing for terrorist acts
- Two charges of possessing terrorist material
Another charge, of directing terrorism for Islamic State by hacking information from its enemies, was left to lie on file.
Altman added: “We say [Ullah] employed his not-inconsiderable self-taught internet technology skills to further the cause of terrorism … all this he did from the relative security of his bedroom where he lived alone.”
The court heard that the FBI picked up messages sent between Ullah and alleged Islamic State terrorist Abu Fidaa, who is awaiting trial in Kenya. He was also alleged to have encrypted his blog, though The Register understands this means he hosted it on the anonymizing network Tor, a corner of the internet commonly referred to as the “dark web.”
Ullah, of Rennie Street, Riverside, Cardiff, gave 13 no-comment interviews to police and two prepared statements claiming he only wanted to gain an “understanding of the troubles of the Muslim world.” …
Speaking after the March trial, Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Commander Dean Haydon said: “Just because Ullah’s activity was in the virtual world we never underestimated how dangerous his activity was. He sat in his bedroom in Wales and created online content with the sole intention of aiding people who wanted to actively support ISIS and avoiding getting caught by the authorities.”
“This is just the sort of information that may have helped people involved in planning devastating, low technical level attacks on crowded places as we have seen in other cities across the world,” added the policeman.
cashu says
“Tor” is the “dark net??” Sounds like a government minion labeled it. “PGP” was demonized by the same entities because it couldn’t be cracked when used properly. Most of those of us who don’t particularly like those government entities checking our shorts on a regular basis will use an anonymizer to navigate the net. While I understand that “dark people” use the same techniiques, I resent the implication that ALL users are “dark” as well.
O.K. End of rant. Catharsis complete. Carry on…
mgoldberg says
Ok, for us ordinary folk, what the heck is an anonymizer, and can a regular non hacker, type use it to prevent intrusions??
overman says
There are browsers and search engines that can be used to anonymize your surfing activities.
With the ‘dark web’ you need to use an ‘onion router’ which is where ‘TOR’ comes in. You can use it on your cell phone too – just search your phone’s store for it.
There are even linux distributions [Mint is a linux distro] that anonymize automatically – like ‘TAILS’.
lf this guy was an admin at the pensions office in cardiff [the capital of Wales] then God knows how many fellow jihadi’s he could have helped false ID’s and financial benefits.
overman says
There are even Linux Hacker operating systems that a kid can use [and do] – like Kali Linux, which includes hacking software that will hack just about anything.
Walter Sieruk says
On an internet video the imam Anwar al Awlaki when speaking about the Islamic East having Muslim suicide/homicide terror attacks against the West he declared “We have men who are dedicated and sincere.” The key word in that statement “sincere.” Of course those violent jihadists are sincere they wouldn’t commit self- destructive jihad attacks against the West and Westerner if they were not sincere. This serves as an extreme example of how a person can be since but wrong. In this case murderous wrong. Therefore this, likewise, serves as an example of the total falsehood and folly of the fool saying which is that “It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as your sincere.”
With being sincere, many times, there are feeling that are, in essence, thoughts that have “good intentions.” A strange and odd as this is to the Western way of thinking the dangerous and deadly jihadist/Muslims have “good intentions.” with their deadly and violent jihad for the cause of Islam . This shows the truth of the old saying which is that “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
gravenimage says
Yes, Walter–in Islam, “good intentions” include raping and slaughtering Infidels.
cashu says
But, it’s always for the infidel’s own good, don’tcha know. Everything a muslim does to victimize an infidel is in the infidel’s best interests. The ultimate best thing for infidels is to die in the service of muslims, so the muslims can have the opportunity to gain favor in his afterlife – kinda like demonists try to accumulate victims in this life to serve them in their afterlife. There are a lot of similarities between them – but understandable since they both serve the same spiritual master…
Nigel GFF says
Fifth column and the ‘brown shirts’ of the left….. Haven’t we been here before? Or, (Mr Spencer and JW contributors correctly point to the absurd generalisation), that the rest of us are racist Islamophobes for making these observations.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-some-muslims-want-to-kill-us-10103203.html
Michael says
What are his chances of being declared to suffer from a mental disorder? Probation for this poor mentally disturbed fellow … A year at best in prison, so he can get out there and get back to work assisting murderers plotting death to infidels. Missiles and all that … he should just have said he’s a fireworks expert, and maybe he would’ve gotten a nod from the judge … ‘Hmm, fireworks … hmm … I see … well … okay. And you are Muslim … and I am NOT an Islamophobe — the word sounds just awful, doesn’t it? And I am not that, I assure you! Yes, well … so to your sentencing … do you PROMISE to be good, and just focus on sparklers — the hand held kind, of course — going forward? You do? Allah help you? Okay then … but be good now!”
It all gets ludicrous … not ‘gets.’ It is …
overman says
Yes, you can buy USB’s in all shapes and sizes these days, and some come with ready-loaded encryption software. There are even some that resemble credit cards.
l’ve been to Cardiff and over the years whole neighborhoods have been taken over. They build a Mosque and then buy up the areas around it. Claire Lopez says this in one of her videos.
There was a town in Wales that had a female muslim mayor well before Saddique Khan in London.
The vid below shows that they’re just as fanatical in the Welsh Capital as they are everywhere else, and it’s certainly fertile ground for islamic indoctrination. They were protesting some movie about mohammed [and this was a few years ago].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTpKuhhzhdk
Ade says
muhammad was a mass murderer, if anyone ever deserved “criticism” … it’s muhammad .. our official stance as a nation should be to discourage ANYONE from following muhammad
Jeanette says
Coulda, shoulda, woulda.
We’re going to have to more than say what should be done, since our elite controllers have no intention of doing what should be done.
jewdog says
A scene from the Ullah household:
“Samata! What are you doing in your bedroom all of that time? Why don’t you come out of there and mow the lawn and then help me butcher this goat?”
“Oh, Mother, I’m was just trying to sew on those cufflinks I bought on eBay onto my new dress shirts.”
“Samata, I can’t get you to change your underwear and you’re buying cufflinks! Is it a new girl you’re trying to impress?”
“Well, yes, Mother. You know, the sex slave I ordered from Daesh magazine. She should arrive in a few days.”
“Okay, but she should really be the one doing the mending around here, you silly nerd.”
overman says
LOL
berserker says
Good for him. These people have clear goals and are working towards achieving them. Meanwhile, we stand for nothing except for some nonsense called tolerance. The Kaffirs deserve what is coming.
Allahu Snackbar.
gravenimage says
The Kaffirs deserve what is coming.
……………
Speak for yourself.
Jeanette says
I have a history of warning Americans (and even Europeans) about Islam for over four decades.
I resent being told that any of us who have been doing what we can to stop the Scourge of Planet Earth deserve any such thing.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
“Ullah used voice modulation software to disguise his thick Welsh accent”.
I don’t believe this is possible; your accent is one of the things that voice modulation does not disguise. If this *is* possible, I’d like to hear a demonstration (on YouTube?). Disguising your accent is only possible with voice substitution software, such as a text-to-voice system whose accent can be chosen by the user.
Ullah should be deported to Iran, where he will have a nice career as Ullah the Mullah.
jewdog says
Well, I applied a “redneck dialectizer” to a likely message from Ullah, so this would be one way to disguise his Welsh accent:
Howdy-doo thar, Abdul, ah reckon. I’ve got th’ plans fo’ th’ missiles. ah can haf them shipped t’our jihadis in a few days.
saturnine says
They probably meant text-to-speech software. You type what you want to say and it’s spoken by a voice you select (e.g. English Male, American Female, etc.)
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim gave Islamic State encryption training online from his bedroom in Wales
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So much for the idea–held even by some Anti-Jihadists–that giving Muslims a Western education civilizes them. But as long as their allegiance is still to Islam, they will just use whatever they have learned against us.
Jeanette says
What?!!!!
The (likely free) western education didn’t “deprogram” them?
I’m shocked!
Chris Newcombe says
There is no such thing as a Welsh Muslim, your article should have begun ” A Muslim living in Wales.” The Welsh are a race apart with their own culture and language with a long history in non conformist Christianity. Muslims, on the other hand, have no country, no patriotism, no loyalty not even to family or friends only to their misogynistic 7th century death cult.
Robert Spencer says
I didn’t call him a “Welsh Muslim.” I don’t believe he is Welsh. The article I quoted from The Register, not I, called him a “Welsh Muslim.”
Voldposten says
An ISIS supporter using Linux Mint makes sense. The ‘creator’ (i.e. copycat) af that distribution is one Clement Lefebre – a outspoken antisemite:
http://abriefhistory.org/?p=774
More Ham Ed says
“The former pensions administrator had bought 30 sets of cufflinks containing tiny USB sticks…”
Anti-jihadi HAM-burger usb sticks (may or may not contain actual ham):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddx_p8kWx70