Posted on 02/21/2017 3:58:52 PM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
If you have an alternate location to send the “bad dudes” if they are not to be sent immediately to their graves, let’s hear it. For my part, any additional territory on Cuba’s soil to be surrendered to any member of the Castro dynasty is not tenable, with all due respect.
He had to do the releasing, yes.
I think it shows the sheer stupidity of the West. We have swallowed a poisonous ideology and are cutting our own throats.
I am
so surprised. This is so unexpected! Just like policies welcoming rapefugees
As the scimitar slices across the Englishman’s neck, he will smugly say to himself “At least they never called me a racist.”
The West are paying animals to breed and kill us.
You know, I just dont get this.
We give these guys “sensitivity training” before releasing them.
“..GITMO detainee released ..went through sensitivity training under the auspices of the Saudi’s Terror-to-Teachers program.”
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