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UK-based Taliban spend months fighting Nato forces in Afghanistan
Guardian (UK) ^ | Wednesday 24 November 2010 19.15 GMT | Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Jon Boone

Posted on 11/24/2010 3:49:32 PM PST by Pan_Yan

Taliban fighter reveals he lives for most of year in London and heads to Afghanistan for combat

British-based men of Afghan origin are spending months at a time in Afghanistan fighting Nato forces before returning to the UK, the Guardian has learned. They also send money to the Taliban.

A Taliban fighter in Dhani-Ghorri in northern Afghanistan last month told the Guardian he lived most of the time in east London, but came to Afghanistan for three months of the year for combat.

"I work as a minicab driver," said the man, who has the rank of a mid-level Taliban commander. "I make good money there [in the UK], you know. But these people are my friends and my family and it's my duty to come to fight the jihad with them."

"There are many people like me in London," he added. "We collect money for the jihad all year and come and fight if we can."

His older brother, a senior cleric or mawlawi who also fought in Dhani-Ghorri, lives in London as well.

Intelligence officials have long suspected that British Muslims travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan each year to train with extremist groups.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; jihad; taliban; uk

1 posted on 11/24/2010 3:49:39 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Death of the UK, long ago.


2 posted on 11/24/2010 3:54:33 PM PST by boomop1
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To: Pan_Yan

All on the dole no doubt-


3 posted on 11/24/2010 3:56:35 PM PST by pastorbillrandles
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To: boomop1
Yep, I read the Guardian & the Mail regularly,
too many over there are resigned to what seems the demise of their nation...
'Broken Britain'
4 posted on 11/24/2010 4:04:30 PM PST by 45semi (If Islamicists possessed anthrax, do you doubt that they would have used it on us?)
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To: Pan_Yan

The UK and The Guardian are pathetic. Thank God only a part of my ancestors came from there. America is just as bad anymore anyway. Thank drooling idiots who watch Tv and are easily fooled because they are fools.

When the dollar implodes they might wake up.


5 posted on 11/24/2010 4:09:01 PM PST by Frantzie (Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)
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To: Frantzie

Free northern ireland from the socialist muslim queen worshipping limey bastards. Time for the uk to quit a lot of things.


6 posted on 11/24/2010 5:09:12 PM PST by Stayfrosty
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To: boomop1

Agreed. Their only hope of survival is to return to an absolute monarchy, and demonstrate what real sovereignty looks like.

But that isn’t going to happen. They are done.


7 posted on 11/24/2010 6:56:28 PM PST by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: Frantzie

Free northern ireland from the socialist muslim queen worshipping limey bastards. Time for the uk to quit a lot of things.


8 posted on 11/24/2010 7:15:32 PM PST by Stayfrosty
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To: Frantzie; boomop1

Given that we have jailed MANY more Muslim terrorists in Britain since 2001 than you, if we are pathetic, what does that make you?.


9 posted on 11/25/2010 9:15:26 AM PST by the scotsman (I)
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To: Stayfrosty

Free Northern Ireland from IRA-loving plastic paddies(who couldnt find NI on a map) like you.


10 posted on 11/25/2010 9:17:27 AM PST by the scotsman (I)
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To: Pan_Yan
Some of our British brethren here tell me that Muslims make up only 8% of the population in GB, so this isn't a problem. To me, Muslims are like rats, if you have one, you have a problem.
11 posted on 11/25/2010 9:25:45 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Republic of Texas

8%?. They make up just over 3%. And thats all white/black converts, and ‘nominal’ ie born but not practicising Muslims.

The gullability of freepers re ‘Muslim Britain’ is beginning to get frightening.


12 posted on 11/25/2010 9:31:15 AM PST by the scotsman (I)
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To: the scotsman

Ok, 3%. That’s 3% too many. We have .8% here in the US. THAT is too many. They will continue to breed, and they always bring down whatever civilization they infect. Oh, and those percentages are going up, not down.


13 posted on 11/25/2010 9:38:22 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Stayfrosty

Yeah, and return her to the socialist, EU subsidiary cash vaccuum to the south.

Good idea.


14 posted on 11/25/2010 3:07:39 PM PST by Mitch86
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