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UK: Libyan migrant who went on stabbing spree in Reading was in government deradicalization program

Jun 26, 2020 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Much doesn’t add up about Khairi Saadallah. Here’s what we do know:

  • Former Labor Justice Minister Maria Eagle stated that Saadallah was “reported as being of interest to the security services as a potential terrorist sympathiser and was released well before the end of his sentence from a prison – a mere 16 days before this murderous rampage took place.”
  • His cousin claims that Saadallah converted to Christianity. But of course Christianity doesn’t preach “strike them upon the necks” (Quran 8:12). Other family members, including his mom, say “he had a privileged upbringing in a wealthy suburb of Tripoli, where he attended private school, enjoyed regular holidays and went to summer camps.” It also emerged that Khairi Saadallah’s brother had pictures promoting jihad, and called Brits “dogs” and “children of haram.” This turned up at twitter:

More about Khairi Saadallah:

  • He was on “MI5’s radar in 2019 over intelligence that he may have wanted to travel out of the UK to wage jihad abroad.” There must have been a reason to conclude that he “may” have wanted to wage jihad abroad, a reason that is being concealed.
  • Khairi Saadallah had boasted to friends in the UK that he had fought as a child soldier to overthrow Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Yes, “boasted.” This happy, privileged, wealthy Muslim was proud to boast about being a child soldier. It is also known that “Islamic militants” were at war with Muammar Gaddafi.
  • Saadallah was also deemed to be “mentally ill.” That’s become a popular fallback to describe many jihadists. By Western standards, anyone going on a stabbing spree is deemed “psychotic.” But only jihadists are motivated by religious doctrine. So far, nothing is being mentioned about doctrine with regard to Khairi Saadallah’s stabbing spree, nor are British authorities likely to discuss this no matter what they uncover.

So then, who really is Khairi Saadallah?

Conclusion: he was raised a happy, privileged, wealthy Muslim. He was known to M15. He MAY have wanted to be a jihadist fighting abroad. He has mental problems and boasted about being a child soldier, but then may have converted to Christianity. He was “of interest to the security services as a potential terrorist sympathiser,” and was part of a government deradicalization program. Now that is schizophrenic.

“Police stopped Reading terror suspect A DAY before attack: Khairi Saadallah was found wandering the streets by mental health team after missing a check hours before he ‘killed three people’ as it emerges he was on government’s deradicalisation programme”, by David Barrett, Larisa Brown and Rebecca Camber, Daily Mail, June 23, 2020:

Police intercepted the Reading terror suspect on the street just hours before he allegedly went on the rampage, the Daily Mail can reveal.

A specialist mental health team was asked to search for Khairi Saadallah after officials failed to find him during a routine check at his home last Friday.

Later that evening, just before midnight, he was found on a street in Reading, sources disclosed.

Saadallah is believed to have then been taken home to his council flat in the south of the town – and just hours later is alleged to have stabbed three men to death as they sat in a local park, Forbury Gardens.

Several police and psychiatric nurses, known as a ‘street triage’ team run jointly by Thames Valley Police and the NHS, encountered the 25-year-old Libyan after an alert was raised as part of his psychiatric care, sources said.

It came as a former Labour justice minister revealed in the Commons that Saadallah had been released from prison just 16 days before being arrested over the terror attack.

Maria Eagle said: ‘The person who has been arrested suspected of these offences has been reported as being of interest to the security services as a potential terrorist sympathiser and was released well before the end of his sentence from a prison – a mere 16 days before this murderous rampage took place.’

Home Secretary Priti Patel said she was unable to comment given the police investigation, but it will raise further concerns that the authorities missed opportunities to prevent Saturday’s knife attacks.

In other developments:

The remaining victims were named as David Wails, 49, a senior scientist at a global chemicals company, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, a pharmaceutical worker originally from the US, who died along with history teacher James Furlong, 36;
Police refused to rule out the possibility it may have been a homophobic attack;
The Home Secretary outlined plans to speed up deportation of foreign criminals, after No 10 vowed that ‘lessons will be learned’ from the attack;
The country’s former top counter-terror police officer, Sir Mark Rowley, warned that police and security services faced a ‘wicked problem’ deciding which of the 40,000 known threats could launch a terror attack;
Tory MP Chris Loder praised his parliamentary assistant, named only as James, who carried out CPR on a victim of the attack, using his shirt to stem bleeding;
Police were granted more time to question Saadallah, who was arrested on Saturday.

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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 8:20 am

    “Act like you are his friend. Then kill him.”
    Mubarak Gilani

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 8:22 am

    ” the 40,000 known threats….”
    Not long ago it was 23,000.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 26, 2020 at 11:09 pm

      Good point, Michael. There are only 123,200 police in all of England and Wales–they could not *possibly* keep all 40,000 known Jihadists under observation–so more Britons will die.

  3. Phil Copson says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 8:22 am

    “….Police refused to rule out the possibility it may have been a homophobic attack….”
    ———————————————————————————————————–

    Thereby allowing the “authorities” to move it from the “Jihadi Terrorism” folder, and re-categorise it as “Right-Wing Terrorism” – neatly allowing them simultaneously to deny the dangers of islamic terrorism and bolster Neil Basu’s laughable claims that the UK is rife with murderously-inclined members of the mythical “Extreme Right-Wing” ….

    (Orlando, anybody ? )

    • Col Kurtz says

      Jun 26, 2020 at 8:36 am

      Supermax prison out west in the desert. Life sentence. He will be with the other muslim killers and have time to pray all day.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 26, 2020 at 11:06 pm

        Only if we let Khairi Saadallah come over here to murder Americans, Col Kurtz.

  4. Rethmann says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 8:32 am

    MUSLIMS ARE THE FIRST VICTIMS OF TERRORISM

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 26, 2020 at 11:04 pm

      Well, except in this case, where the victims were all Infidels.

    • Warren Sandford says

      Jun 28, 2020 at 5:02 am

      Zzzzzzzzzz!!!

  5. Chistopher Watson says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 9:18 am

    The government and the police response has been laughable. There are 40,000 people currently in the UK who are possibly/probably dangerous to the population. Then there is the ‘theory’ that it was a ‘homophobic’ attack. Don’t make me laugh! The Home Secretary tells us ‘lessons will be learnt’. Well, they haven’t been learnt so far after 15+ years. You may be a very nice person Patel but if you cannot do the job then let someone who can. As for Basu: he is just a public-relations man. Let’s have a good old-fashioned copper who gets the ‘crooks’ off the streets.Finally it is inconceivable that we still allow 40,000 dangerous people to walk our streets particularly when we are having a stabbing or stabbings every 2 weeks. This is insanity. We do not deserve to last as a country. Just to put Britain into perspective: we are a country which once dominated 3/5 of the world. We are also the country that had Theresa May as Prime Minister. Let that fact sink in.

  6. Jayell says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 10:13 am

    As a ‘happy, wealthy, privileged muslim’ back in Libya, did he bring his money with him to support himself and pay for all the medical attention he was receiving? If so, why was he living in a council flat in Reading that a deserving local family could have had? Did he have a job? If not, who was paying his living expenses, his rent and the special Police/NHS ‘Street Triage team’ looking after him? How much was all that costing? Would one perhaps be correct in assuming that perhaps all of his accommodation and support was falling on the British taxpayer, whom his brother called ‘dogs’ and ‘children of haram’? And whose lives he could not be bothered to respect?

    We need a complete clearout of all this disgusting scrounging scum in the UK..

  7. keith O says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 5:16 pm

    He was on a “deradicalization program”. That obviously worked well.
    And as for the theory that he had mental health issues, I can see the sense in that statement. Considering that anyone who is the follower of a fat lying pedophile who preaches hatred and murder as a way of peace, is obviously screwed in the head.
    After all no sane person would willingly follow Islam!

  8. b.a. freeman says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 6:50 pm

    ” … plans to speed up deportation of foreign criminals …”
    —
    they must be making reference to robert spencer and pamela geller, those 2 well-known international criminals. guess they don’t know that these folks aren’t currently in UKistan. i mean, what other criminals are there in UKistan, anyway?

  9. gravenimage says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 11:03 pm

    UK: Libyan migrant who went on stabbing spree in Reading was in government deradicalization program
    ………………

    Well, we see how well *that* worked.

    And why would a supposed Christian be in such a program? Of course,this relative was lying.

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