British man who launched ISIL suicide attack was Guantanamo Bay detainee awarded £1m compensation

Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 21 February 2017 • 7:40PM | Gordon Rayner

[Olog-hai]

A British Islamic State fighter who carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq this week is a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was paid £1 million compensation by the government.

Jamal al-Harith, a Muslim convert born Ronald Fiddler who detonated a car bomb at an Iraqi army base near Mosul, was released from the US detention camp in 2004 and successfully claimed compensation after saying British agents knew or were complicit in his mistreatment.

He was freed following intense lobbying by Tony Blair’s Labour government.

Al-Harith, who used the nom de guerre Abu-Zakariya al-Britani, entered Syria via Turkey in 2014 to join Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, leading to questions at the time about the monitoring of terrorist suspects.

It also raised the possibility that compensation money paid by British taxpayers had been handed on by him to ISIL.

[PGR88]

£1 million will buy a lot of trucks and C4

[madprof98]

Nothing to see here. The real problem Brit is Milo.

[jch10]

No one is surprised.

[Strac6]

Splendid, just effing splendid!

[manc]

should have killed the scumbag

[gaijin]

"British"

[marktwain]

The British government lobbies to get him out of Guatanamo.

He gets out, then sues the British goverment and collects about $1.3 million (depending on exchange rate).

Then he merrily goes back to Jihad killing those that oppose ISIS.

Practically a fairy tale ending for a Jihadi.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Clearly, he was radicalized by his experience at Guantanamo. /S

[Professional]

British EBT Card Holder...

[Gritty]

It is no wonder Muslims think so many Infidels are the world's biggest suckers. We seem to prove it daily.

They must be laughing their azzes off at this one.

[rfp1234]

Thank you, Johnny and Lindsay. And Ted Kennedy too, wherever you are.

[Chgogal]

Stupid is as Stupid does. And the Brits want to keep Trump out! LOL

[AnotherUnixGeek]

“The martyrdom-seeking brother Abu Zakariya al-Britani - may Allah accept him - detonated his explosives-laden vehicle on a headquarters of the Rafidhi army and its militias in Tal Kisum village, southwest of Mosul.”

...courtesy of Tony Blair. That's the reality, and Blair should be made to wear it, along with every liberal agitating to close down Gitmo.

[WMarshal]

A more accurate title to the piece would be “The British government provides aid and money to Islamic terrorists to murder you”.

[dp0622]

Abu-Zakariya al-Britani...

I REALLY wish there was a way to outlaw names.

No abu or ali or al or whatever the #### they name themselves.

Keep your ####ing gutter muslim names in the ME.

[Yardstick]

It’s like a new absurdity every day.

[Lurkinanloomin]

was released from the US detention camp in 2004
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This one really is Bush’s fault.

[ptsal]

#7 my goodness
What a story.

[turfmann]

Thanks, Barry!

Am I the only one that thinks that GB should be shut down...

After all the prisoners are shot and left to rot in the tropical heat?

(forgive me - I just think that innocent people shouldn’t have to die so politicians can posture)