[ April 24, 2024 ]
United Kingdom officials are apparently so afraid of incurring the wrath of the pro-Muslim community that they’d rather let jihadis roam free.
That’s what’s occurring in spots in the U.K., where officials have adopted a don’t ask, don’t deal with reality type of policy in regards to jihadis.
Rather than locking them up, or at the least, following and tracking them, they’re allowing these dangerous terror-types to walk among the citizens. Hate preacher Annjem Choudary is just one example of where U.K. officials have turned blind eyes.
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But th Daily Mail has more of the story:
Only 40 of the 400 British jihadis who fought in Syria and Iraq have been prosecuted on their return home.
At least 360 battle-hardened fanatics are being allowed to go free because there is too little evidence to convict them.
The figures, disclosed by security minister Ben Wallace, will raise concerns over whether the authorities can keep track of all the dangerous extremists on our streets.
Police chiefs have repeatedly warned of the severity of the terror threat facing Britain – particularly from those who have been radicalised by fighting abroad.
John Woodcock, the Labour MP who had pressed for the release of the figures, said: ‘It’s no wonder the Government tried to keep secret that it has only managed to prosecute one in ten of the British jihadis returning from Syria.
‘It is an affront to our country that the difficulty of amassing admissible evidence means there is no comeuppance for people who went to aid an evil regime that wanted to slaughter British civilians.’
He said it should be made illegal to travel to terror hotspots without good excuse. This would mean evidence would not have to be produced to prosecute suspected fanatics.
A jihadi returned from fighting on the frontline in Syria to take up a job as a food delivery driver in London.
The only sanction the 34-year-old faced was the cancellation of his British passport, ensuring he can now never leave.
Despite once being a right-hand man of hate preacher Anjem Choudary he was not put on trial. Instead the man, who can be identified only by his pseudonym Abu Rayah, was given a council flat in east London.
He took up a job working as a driver for a restaurant, delivering takeaways to the homes of customers via food app Just Eat.
Rayah, who once worked for the NHS, travelled to Turkey in February 2014 under the guise of a two-week family holiday.
From there, he entered Syria for up to four months to engage in terrorism-related activity, probably including warfare.
The last time the Home Office revealed the number of returning foreign fighters taken to court was in 2016. Then it stood at 14. Speaking in a Commons debate on Monday, Mr Wallace said: ‘Approximately 40 have been prosecuted so far – either because of direct action they have carried out in Syria or, subsequent to coming back, linked to that foreign fighting.’
The 40 figure refers to successful prosecutions. More will have faced charges that did not stick.
Mr Woodcock, a member of the Home Affairs select committee, said the low prosecution rate showed ‘how urgently we need to toughen our terror laws’.
He cited Australia’s declared areas offence, under which its citizens risk ten years in jail for travelling to Iraq or Syria.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid said he would be ‘looking at just that’, adding: ‘There’s a bit more work to do on it, it’s not as straightforward as it might sound.’
‘The honourable gentleman mentions the Australian extraterritorial offence that has been created, and I am looking at just that. If it is to become a legislative proposal, I obviously want to make sure that we have considered it properly.’
Around 850 Britons are believed to have travelled to Syria or Iraq and at least 15 per cent of them are thought to be dead.
Security service chiefs and counter-terrorism officers fear those still there might try to return to the UK as the so-called caliphate is wiped out.
Several have also been detained in the region and their fate remains uncertain. They include Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, suspected members of the group nicknamed ‘The Beatles’, which murdered British and American hostages as well as Syrian soldiers.
Ministers are yet to agree on what to do with captured foreign fighters. If they are brought back to face trial there is a risk that there will not be enough evidence to convict them.
The low figure of those prosecuted when they return demonstrates the scale of the challenge facing the Government.
Police officers have been preparing for battle-hardened foreign fighters to return to the streets of Britain by carrying out mock exercises with soldiers.
British troops armed with AK-47s, knives and fake bombs posed as extremists carrying out a mass casualty attack during a pretend play at a theatre near Bishop Auckland in County Durham.
300 members of Durham and Cleveland police, the fire brigade and ambulance service, as well as 120 volunteers, took part in Exercise Root last September.
The eight soldiers from 1st Infantry Training Battalion, based at Catterick, North Yorkshire, were mainly Iraq and Afghanistan veterans took on the role of a ‘military-trained enemy’.
They were drafted in to take part in the exercise because they had experienced combat and could pretend to be returnees who have been to terror training camps in the Middle East and Africa or fought on the frontline with Islamic State.
Major Andy Witherell, the battalion’s second in command, told the Mail earlier this year: ‘Our partners in Northumbria were planning a counter terrorist exercise.
‘Normally they use their own people as a terrorist enemy force.’
But he said they ‘wanted a demanding enemy, not just someone who would roll over and die’.
Major Witherell said: ‘One of the concerns police and security services seem to have is people who have combat experience in Iraq and Syria returning to the UK.
‘They therefore pose a more complex threat to the security services and the police.
‘It was suggested who better to play that role than soldiers with combat experience.
‘Police want to test their teams to train against the threat.’
He went on: ‘We have soldiers who can replicate those returning fighters but also those who can replicate attacks we have seen in the UK.’
Ben Wallace told the Mail last night: ‘This new Counter Terrorism legislation is vital for us to be able to deal with foreign fighters.
‘We are determined to deal with the threat.’
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21 Comments
5 years ago
With an islamist Home Secretary now ordering that Tommy Robinson be moved to Leicester prison, where the 76% muslim population run the place, what chance of any meaningful anti-terrorist legislation coming out of the UK Home Office in any time soon?
5 years ago
Reply to
Newspaniard
May is crazy to have appointed an islamist home secretary of the United Kingdom. Sheer madness……….
5 years ago
Reply to
vercingetorix
Or calculated act of appeasement, as British establishment under Islam’s hand-May-den, trembles before ascendant, increasingly assertive (aggressive?) Muslim population. Have wondered: There may also be sober recognition, that England’s compromised national fabric, multicultural-torn-landscape, dotted with hardly friendly semi-autonomous enclaves, is a volatile powder-keg, easily set-off.
5 years ago
Reply to
J-Rene'
Ancient philosophers have said never let a woman rule the country ( for many reasons ).
Sure, now GB have reach a point where they must make their choice.
Enough is enough or mimimimi.
That´s what your cowardly ( Musel infected ) goverment fears. That good people take their country back.
Destroy this corrupt, cowardly traitors before they destroy you.
5 years ago
Tommy Robinson is a political prisoner, whose life is in clear and pressing danger. We have to do everything we can to make sure he is granted political asylum. ~German MP Petr Bystron.
Freedom of speech is under attack all across Europe.
5 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Agree. Trump was correct in exposing the jihadi mayor of London http://bit.ly/2svuNZ3
Of course as usual he was called “racist” for it ! LOL !
5 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Tommy Robinson is a white supremacist Nazi. He hates Jewish people also.
5 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
Strange, Nazis call Tommy Robinson a Zionist.
Also strange that there is a video where T. R. burn down a Nazi-flag. And that T. R. has left the EDL because he thouhgt that the EDL was going in the wrong direction ( to far right ) doesnt stop you from telling lies.
5 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
He actually left the EDL some time before he was arrested, and how is he a Nazi?
5 years ago
The UK is overreacting. These jihadists won’t be staying on UK streets for long when the Islamic republic of Canadastan offers a $10.5 million immigration bonus per jihadi. Prime Mistake jihad Trudope will welcome them with open arms.
5 years ago
I see some people are drinking the anti Muslim kool-aid again. The whole article is utter nonsense.
5 years ago
Readers… please boycott UK this year. Do not travel to England. Do not buy British goods. Do not fly British Airways or other British carriers. Do not buy gas at any BP location. Call the British Embassy and its Consulates in USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other areas of the western world; and keep harassing them until Tommy Robinson is released.
5 years ago
400 “battle-hardened fanatics”, left Britain for Dark Age jihad (many of whom likely committed, or supported commission of extreme acts of savagery against mankind: pillage, plunder, rape, torture, murder) “return home”. HOME? How can their be “home” in the West (with all it ought to represent) for ENEMY COMBATANTS? Maybe prison cell, prior to execution. “Caliphate” buried in rubble, so in abject defeat they return, from dust settled. — Jackals of IS, nursing sentiments burned bitter against the West? Against Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, … — Vengeful rage, harbored in darkened breasts? Back “home”, those medieval-minded Mohammedans, casually rub shoulders with “Kafirs”. (Visions of slaughter dancing in their barbarian-trained heads?) “Citizens” come “home”? — True allegiance demonstrated to all.
“Welcome!” (as in Sweden), council-funded “home” given. Instead of BAN, or arrest at entry, security forces engage in “pretend” exercises for inevitable TERROR assault they will bring! As elsewhere, wild “lions”—implacable enemies of civilization, freedom of thought and liberty of life—are ALLOWED TO RETURN, as tourists back from safari: hunter-killers of civilized humanity. Dangerous predators, who probably fought against, and may have killed Western solders—fathers, brothers, and sons—of the very societies, jihadis return to! To prowl and stalk, from ISIS hailed? — Perhaps, one will deliver a meal to you.
5 years ago
More proof that Britain and Europe are beyond help. They are effectively gone IMHO.
5 years ago
To the citizens of Britain, your lives are in danger. You may go shopping, to the theater, to dinner, to school and you’ll never know if it will be your last.
You may laff and say it’s always been this way and you are correct, but your government just upped your chances in the lottery of life as the Moslem is an extremely unstable man.
You might say your government planted 400 TIME BOMBS all over your cities.
Good luck and, oh, good bye.
5 years ago
They Are Not British fanatics! They are muzrat fanatics operating and sometimes born on the island of Britain but are definitely Not British. These bastards hate Britain’ it’s history and all it’s ever stood for and I won’t rest till every last one of them is dead or pushed into the sea.
PROSCRIBE ISLAM IN THE UK!
5 years ago
It would be very helpful if this site would put up a web page with the names and pictures of those 400. The UK would block it, of course, but lots of mirrors could then spring up.
5 years ago
The British are doomed…where is the echo of their greatness, their majesty, their prestige from the days of yore?
