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Two Muslims from the U.S. captured waging jihad for the Islamic State in Syria

Jan 7, 2019 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

At least one of these men is a convert to Islam. But authorities have no interest in how he got the idea that his new religion required him to commit treason and mass murder. Warren Christopher Clark “was radicalized after viewing jihadist videos online.” Presumably, then, if we just could get rid of online jihadist videos, all would be well and all manner of thing would be well, and a new era of peace would dawn in the world. No Muslims in the U.S. could possibly be preaching jihad, could they? Of course not. Even to think such a thing would be “Islamophobic.”

Note also the information at the end of this article about the ACLU working to aid jihadists.

“Kurdish forces: Two American ISIS fighters captured,” by Chad Garland, Stars and Stripes, January 6, 2019:

Two Americans fighting for the Islamic State in Syria have been captured by Kurdish forces. Warren Christopher Clark, 34, and Zaid Abed al-Hamed, 35, were among the roughly 300 Americans who left or tried to leave the U.S. to fight in Syria.

Kurdish-led forces battling Islamic State militants in Syria say they captured five foreign fighters, including an American who once sought to become an English teacher in the jihadi group’s Iraqi capital.

The American, a Texan named Warren Christopher Clark, 34, was one of two reputed U.S. citizens captured in a counterterrorism raid near the Iraqi border, where U.S.-backed forces are continuing to battle a pocket of the terrorists, the Syrian Democratic Forces said in a release on Sunday.

The group of jihadis had been preparing to attack masses of civilians fleeing the area, the SDF said. Also captured were two Pakistani fighters and an Irish man….

Clark, who has one glass eye, had sought a nonmilitary role with the group, according to researchers with George Washington University’s Program on Extremism who, in a February report, named him as one of at least 64 Americans from 16 states who had traveled to Iraq and Syria since 2011 to join jihadi groups, mainly ISIS.

Under the alias Abu Muhammad al-Ameriki, Clark had submitted an application seeking to join ISIS as an English teacher in Mosul, which had served as the Iraqi capital of ISIS’s physical caliphate from summer 2014 until it was liberated by U.S.-backed and trained Iraqi forces in summer 2017.

Using the application’s resume and sources in Texas, researchers identified Clark as a University of Houston graduate who had converted to Islam in 2004 and was radicalized after viewing jihadist videos online, NBC News reported earlier this year. He had worked as a substitute teacher in Texas before traveling to Saudi Arabia to teach English for two years and then going to Turkey.

The second American the SDF captured was identified as Zaid Abed al-Hamed. The 35-year-old, who reportedly went by the alias Abu Zaid al-Ameriki, does not appear to have been one of the fighters — mainly U.S. citizens and legal residents — identified in the Program on Extremism report.

As with Clark, Al-Hamed’s Arabic nom de guerre, or “kunya,” contains a term traditionally used to identify Americans, but several fighters dubbed with the same term and appearing in jihadi propaganda materials since 2011 were not mentioned in the February report because their true names or backgrounds could not be verified, wrote Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Seamus Hughes and Bennett Clifford, the report’s authors….

In late 2017, they captured a fighter with dual Saudi-U.S. citizenship whom they accused of fighting for ISIS. After holding the unnamed man as an “enemy combatant” on a military base in Iraq for months, the U.S. planned to release him first to Saudi Arabia, then back into Syria under “safe conditions” in the area where he was captured.

Describing the planned release in Syria, a Pentagon official said in a court filing that such actions are “a traditional military practice” used in U.S. Central Command, but the American Civil Liberties Union, which took on the man’s case, called it a “death warrant.”

In November, a court filing shows that the Defense Department released him in Bahrain following negotiations with the ACLU.

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Filed Under: American jihadis, converts to Islam, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Warren Christopher Clark, Zaid Abed al-Hamed


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  1. b.a. freeman says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 1:21 pm

    … the U.S. planned to release him … back into Syria … in the area where he was captured.
    —
    this is why people who understand islam need to be involved in running the fight.

    … the [ACLU] … called it a “death warrant.”
    —
    and this comment illustrates the complete lack of understanding of islam by the great majority of americans.

    this guy is going to go along to get along, because once he gets turned loose, there won’t be any muslims trying to kill him; instead, he’ll be congratulated for fooling the stupid americans. many of the pious muslims who were part of IS were just ordinary muslims who saw the light and decided to put their religion into practice; when the armed fighters were defeated, these guys just went home and picked up their lives where the left off. nobody is going to attack them (they’re all sunnis), and everybody admires them for trying to rebuild the caliphate. nobody is going to turn them in to the syrian government, who are mostly alawites, a heterodox version of shia islam that most shia consider heretical, as, of course, do sunnis. in other words, the people in the pentagon, because they are completely unaware of this publicly-available information, are going to turn this guy loose. way to run a war!

    • keith says

      Jan 7, 2019 at 7:18 pm

      Your missing the point I feel.
      Everyone of these turds that make it overseas is a good thing, for a couple of reasons.
      1st. they give both our troops and the Kurds valuable marksmanship training opportunities and 2nd. They are not here trying to kill our people.
      It’s not these fools we need to be wary of, let them go, not our problem then.
      It’s the ones who stay behind with the intent of causing mayhem at home that we really need to watch.

      • Ian Leapingwell says

        Jan 8, 2019 at 3:02 pm

        Totally agree. Hope they get killed asap.
        Is it me or do they really look like a couple of neanderthal retards, like all jihadis?

  2. FYI says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 1:34 pm

    I guess they don’t know this but they are following the sunnah of ..muhammad who was…

    a WHITE man{Sahih Bukhari 63} who owned,bought,sold and murdered his BLACK slaves{Sahih muslim 3901,Sahih Bukhari 7263,6161,7142}

    Every time they say “pbuh” for muhammed, they are praising a WHITE owner/seller of Black slaves.

    The worst insult one could say about muhammed?

    “Ahmad ibn Sulayman,Sahnun’s companion ,said that whoever says
    the prophet was black was KILLED.The prophet was not Black”
    ASH SHIFA

    Now what does that say about muhammed and his followers?

    It’s way to late to get the Irony….

    • Michael Copeland says

      Jan 7, 2019 at 4:04 pm

      Chapter 66. Selling Animals For Animals …… Hand to Hand

      The Prophet said: ‘Sell him to me.’
      So he bought him for two black slaves.
      Sahih Sunan an-Nasa’I, 4625

      video by David Wood: How Muhammad Ali Was Deceived by Islam – YouTube

      • karl anglin says

        Jan 7, 2019 at 4:17 pm

        His original name, Cassius Clay, was given to him in honor of the man who freed his grandfather
        from slavery.

  3. The Crusader says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 1:39 pm

    Send them to GITMO.

  4. karl anglin says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 4:13 pm

    The Arabic word for black is also the Arabic word for slave.

  5. stitt29rg says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 5:28 pm

    Terror attacks stuck on 34325. Is it my cache or your side. 34382 on other site.

  6. gravenimage says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 6:15 pm

    Two Muslims from the U.S. captured waging jihad for the Islamic State in Syria
    …………………………

    Don’t let them back in.

  7. somehistory says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 6:47 pm

    The ACLU has its share of moslims acting like lawyers…in favor of moslims to keep moslims free to wage war.

  8. obbop says

    Jan 8, 2019 at 8:52 am

    We have a Congress creep we can swap for the guy.

  9. Meturaf says

    Jan 8, 2019 at 10:15 am

    The Kurds would do us a favor if they executed them as enemy combatants. Their citizenship is now ISIS so the US does not need to do something stupid like demand they be released for trial here.

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