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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023278.php
(STRAITS TIMES.com)

October 29, 2008
“Australia’s Jihad Jack free”

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023194.php
(AUSTRALIAN)

October 22, 2008
“’White boy’ terror suspect claims to have ‘fooled’ al-Qaeda”

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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=3D93E1B8-1FB6-4EC1-9B99-3BC63346B833

“Aussie Al-Qaeda “
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, January 28, 2003

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Jack Thomas was “just an average Aussie,” a sometime cabdriver and chef who enjoyed watching movies and playing pool. That is, until he converted to Islam, changed his first name to Jihad, forsook Foster’s Lager, and journeyed to Pakistan — where he is now under arrest on suspicion of terrorist activities and ties to al-Qaeda. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat asserts that “there is more than credible evidence” to establish Thomas’s terrorist activity.

His friends and family say he did it for love. His beloved Maryati, an Indonesian Muslim, was adamantine: no conversion, no marriage. Jack embraced Islam, and he and Maryati were married in 1999. Generally those who join any Faith solely in order to marry are far from fervent. In Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh has uproarious fun with Rex Mottram’s superficial, perfunctory, and romance-motivated conversion to Catholicism. But Jihad Thomas is no Rex Mottram. The reasons lie hidden within Thomas’s heart, but at very least he took his new religion seriously enough to shove off for Pakistan — according to his family, to study to become an imam.

Thomas fits the profile of other Western converts to Islam such as John Walker Lindh and a fellow Australian, Camp X-Ray detainee David Hicks.”