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The Britons Killed After Joining Islamic State By US Drone

The Britons Killed After Joining Islamic State By US Drone

The Britons Killed After Joining Islamic State By US Drone

The Britons Killed After Joining Islamic State By US Drone

Sally Jones, the British terror recruiter dubbed the White Widow, has reportedly been killed in a US drone strike.

The London-born convert is thought to be the latest in an ignoble line of infamous Britons – including her husband – to die after joining the Islamic State of Iraq…

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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.

Earlier this week Isil released an image of him sitting inside the bomb car grinning broadly, with wires and what may be a detonation button in the background.

A statement released by the terrorist group said: “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.”

“Rafidha” is a derogatory term for Shiite Muslims, who Isil considers to be heretics.

His brother, Leon Jameson, told The Times Al-Harith had “wasted his life”.

He added: "I didn’t think he’d ever do anything wrong but, if he’s joining extremists, then, you know ... I’m not ashamed of him, I never will be. But it’s his own decision. I can only just give him advice if he needs any.”

The 53-year-old said his brother had been a keen sportsman in his youth, playing football, basketball and table-tennis and winning a trophy for karate when he was a teenager.

He later converted to Islam after meeting Muslim friends at a sixth form college.

“All I know is one day he brought a Quran home,” Mr Jameson told the newspaper.

“We were supportive of it, yeah,we didn’t see anything wrong with it at the time and the trouble only started later, seems like he’s been dragged into it."

The 50-year-old, originally from Manchester, was arrested by US forces in Pakistan in 2001 as a suspected Taliban sympathiser, before being sent to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in 2002.

At the time of his release, the then home secretary David Blunkett said: “No-one who is returned...will actually be a threat to the security of the British people.”

Earlier this week Isil named him as the man who had blown himself up in the car bombing at the Iraqi army base, and released a picture of him.

Al-Harith’s wife Shukee Begum travelled to Syria with their five children to try to persuade her husband to return to the UK, but failed and was taken hostage before eventually managing to escape.

Al-Harith, the son of Jamaican immigrants, converted to Islam in the 1990s and worked as a web designer before he travelled to the Pakistani city of Quetta in 2001 for what he claimed was a religious holiday.

He has insisted he tried to enter Iran when the US invaded neighbouring Afghanistan, but was captured and imprisoned by the Taliban on suspicion of being a UK spy.

When US special forces found him in a Taliban jail, they assessed him as a “high threat to the US” who was “probably involved in a former terrorist attack against the US”.

Al-Harith’s prisoner file from Guantanamo Bay, published online by WikiLeaks, refers to him travelling to Sudan in 1992 with “Abu Bakr, a well-known al-Qaeda operative”.

After his return to the UK - where he was released without charge - he joined three other former prisoners known as the Tipton Three in a failed attempt to sue Donald Rumsfeld, the then US Defense Secretary.

His legal action against the British government was more successful, resulting in a payment of up to £1 million in return for which he agreed not to talk about his ordeal.

Cage, the controversial human rights group, still features a profile of al-Harith on a part of its old website, Cageprisoners. It reads:

Born Ronald Fiddler on November 20, 1966, to devout, churchgoing Jamaican parents, al Harith converted to Islam in his 20s after reading Malcom X's biography. He has two sisters, Maxine and Sharon.

His family say he is a gentle, quiet man who rarely spoke of his faith unless asked, and after four years learning Arabic and teaching English at Khartoum University in Sudan, he seemed happy enough to return home where he started to study nursing. At this time, he also established a computer business. He later moved back to Manchester, where he worked as an administrator in a Muslim school.

He travelled from the UK to Pakistan at the end of September 2001, retracing a journey he had made to Iran in 1993. He paid a lorry driver to take him from northern Pakistan to Iran as part of a backpacking trip, but they were stopped near the Afghan border by Taliban soldiers who saw his British passport and jailed him, in October, fearing he was a spy. He had been away from home only three weeks when he was captured.

As the operation to mop up al Qaida forces went on into the spring of 2001, he was captured by US forces while being held in Kandahar Jail. He was interrogated by the CIA in Afghanistan before being taken to Guantanamo.

He was released from Guantanamo and returned to the UK on 9th March 2004. After a few hours of questioning he was released without charge and reunited with his family. Jamal was the first of the British detainees to speak publicly about his ordeal. He married in late 2004 and has three children (aged 3,5, and 8) from a previous marriage.

Tim Loughton, a Conservative MP reportedly said: "This is a scandalous situation. So much for Tony Blair’s assurances that this extremist did not pose a security threat.

"He clearly was a risk to Britain and our security all along. It adds insult to injury that he was given £1million in compensation because of Blair’s flawed judgement that he was an innocent."

John Pugh, a Lib Dem MP, said: "This raises serious questions about the reassurances Labour gave us that this man posed no danger.

"It is a kick in the teeth that he was given a fortune in taxpayers’ money after claiming he was innocent only to flee to Islamic State and pose a risk to the UK.

"The Home Office needs to explain how he was able to leave the country so easily despite his background mixing with those at the very top of Islamic terrorism."

As many as 850 people regarded as a national security concern have travelled to fight with jihadis in the Middle East.

Just under half are thought to have returned to Britain while 15 per cent are believed to have been killed.

The Foreign Office states:

The UK has advised for some time against all travel to Syria, and against all travel to large parts of Iraq.

As all UK consular services are suspended in Syria and greatly limited in Iraq, it is extremely difficult to confirm the whereabouts and status of British nationals in these areas.

1. Mohammed Emwazi / Jihadi John

Emwazi was reported killed in a November 2015 air strike, with US forces saying they were "reasonably certain" he was dead.

Isil later released what appeared to be an obituary to the fighter, who it called Abu Muharib al-Muhajir.

It featured a smiling picture of the militant, who appeared unmasked looking towards the ground.

Emwazi shocked the world when he appeared in a video in August 2014 in which he condemned the West and appeared to behead US journalist James Foley. He emerged again in a number of other videos released by Isil, including those in which American reporter Steven Sotloff and British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning were murdered. Kuwait-born Emwazi attended Quintin Kynaston Community Academy in north London and was described by his former head teacher as a "hard-working aspirational young man". He went on to gain a degree in information systems with business management from the University of Westminster. 2. Reyaad Khan Khan was 20 when he appeared in an Isil propaganda video titled, There Is No Life Without Jihad, in June last year together with two other Britons urging Westerners to join the war. The man, from Cardiff, is thought to have travelled to fight in Syria late in 2013. His Facebook page revealed that he was a Chelsea FC fan who enjoyed playing computer games FIFA 12 and Call Of Duty. After appearing in the video with a Kalashnikov assault rifle against his shoulder his mother said she believed he had been "brainwashed" into joining Isil.

In a direct appeal to her son, the woman, who asked to remain unnamed, sobbed as she said: "Reyaad, please come back home. I'm dying for you. You're my only son." Before leaving for Syria, Khan attended Cardiff's Al-Manar Centre (ACT) together with Nasser Muthana, who was also filmed for the Isil recruitment video. The mosque denied the pair had been taught extremist views there and blamed the internet as an "alarming source for radicalisation". David Cameron, the then Prime Minister, said Khan had been killed on August 21 2015 when he was targeted by an RAF remotely piloted aircraft while travelling in a vehicle in Raqqah, Syria. 3. Ruhul Amin Amin, 26, featured alongside Khan and Muthana in the 13-minute Isil recruitment video under the name Brother Abu Bara al Hindi. Wearing sunglasses and a white headscarf, he could be heard saying: "Are you willing to sacrifice the fat job you've got, the big car, the family you have? "Are you willing to sacrifice this, for the sake of Allah? If you do Allah will give you back 700 times more." Also known as Abdul Raqib Amin, he was born in Bangladesh and grew up in Aberdeen before reportedly moving with his family to Leicester.

In July 2014 he boasted on ITV's Good Morning Britain that he had been "involved in a few combats" in Syria. Explaining the moment he left Britain, he said: "I left the house with the intention of not to go back. I'm going to stay and fight until the (caliphate) is established, or I die." A leading member of Aberdeen's Muslim community, who did not want to be identified, said he was not someone who "stood out in any particular way". He was killed in the same airstrike as Khan. 4. Junaid Hussain Computer hacker Hussain was described as a key Isil operative before he was killed by a US drone strike on August 24 2016. The 21-year-old, from Birmingham, was said to have been number three on the Pentagon's "kill list" of Isil targets. It is believed that he fled Britain to travel to Syria in 2013, and in June last year he was linked to a plot to attack an Armed Forces Day parade in south London.

The plan to explode a pressure cooker bomb - killing soldiers and bystanders on the route - was reportedly foiled after Hussain unwittingly recruited an undercover investigator from The Sun to carry it out.In June 2012, aged 18, Hussain was jailed for six months after he admitted making prank calls to a counter-terror hotline and publishing former prime minister Tony Blair's address book.He was a member of TeaMpOisoN (TeamPoison), a group which claimed responsibility for more than 1,400 offences where personal and private information has been illegally extracted from victims in the UK and around the world.Hussain was reportedly married to a Muslim convert named as Sally Jones, a mother-of-two from Kent who once was a member of an all-girl punk rock group.

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British Isis Gang Including Jihadi John Filmed In Syria

Four notorious British jihadis filmed talking together in Raqqa coffee shop. Group includes Mohammed Emwazi, ISIS's now-deceased executioner and member of the terror cell which became known as 'The Beatles'. Also present is Junaid Hussain, husband of 'White Widow' terrorist Sally Jones. Reyaad Khan, a recruiter, and Raymond Matimba, a sniper, are also present. See the story - click link

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Lawmakers say Briton killed in drone strike was threat to UK

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Lawmakers say Briton killed in drone strike was threat to UK

British lawmakers say a U.K. man killed by a Royal Air Force drone strike in Syria was an Islamic State group attack planner who posed a "very serious threat" to Britain.Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee scrutinized the August 2015 strike that killed Reyaad Khan and two others. It was the first such drone strike acknowledged by the British government.Committee chairman Dominic Grieve said Wednesday that intelligence assessments left "no doubt that Reyaad Khan posed a very serious threat to the U.K."But he said lawmakers still had questions about ministers' decision-making, because some documents were withheld from the committee. Grieve said that was "profoundly disappointing."

In January, Attorney General Jeremy Wright said it is legal to kill militants overseas if they pose an immediate or unstoppable threat.

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Drone strike that killed Reyaad Khan 'not transparent'

Drone strike that killed Reyaad Khan 'not transparent' Source: Al-Jazeera Intelligence and Security Committee says government did not disclose key documents over killing of Reyaad Khan in Syria. Drone strike that killed Reyaad Khan 'not transparent'

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Reyaad Khan was a 'prolific attack planner' against UK before he was killed by RAF drone strike

from News http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/26/reyaad-khan-prolific-attack-planner-against-uk-killed-raf-drone/

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Reyaad Khan was a 'prolific attack planner' against UK before he was killed by RAF drone strike

from News http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/26/reyaad-khan-prolific-attack-planner-against-uk-killed-raf-drone/

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Reyaad Khan was a 'prolific attack planner' against UK before he was killed by RAF drone strike

from News http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/26/reyaad-khan-prolific-attack-planner-against-uk-killed-raf-drone/

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British Islamic State terrorist killed by drone 'posed serious threat'

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British Islamic State terrorist killed by drone 'posed serious threat'

A British terrorist killed by a drone strike in Syria "posed a very serious threat to the UK" and was a "prolific recruiter and attack planner" for the Islamic State group. Reyaad Khan, along with another Briton, Junaid Hussain, "encouraged multiple operatives around the world to conduct attacks against the UK and our allies," Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) concluded. The assessment was based on 25 intelligence reports provided to the committee and two formal intelligence assessments carried out by MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. Khan was killed by a British drone on 21 August 2015 near Raqqa. Two other men died in the strike, one of them, Ruhul Amin, was also British.

The threat he posed was ongoing and there appears to have been no realistic prospect of it diminishing

Dominic Grieve MP

The strike was exceptional because it was the first time the UK had carried out a lethal drone strike outside of a military campaign. At the time Parliament had not voted and approved British airstrikes in Syria. "It was a highly specific, targeted operation," chair of the committee Dominic Grieve MP said. Three days later, Khan's close associate Hussain was targeted and killed by an American drone. In evidence given to the Committee, an unnamed intelligence officer said the strikes made the UK safer. "We have not seen anywhere near the pace of operational activity that we saw from Khan and Hussein," the intelligence officer said. "I would describe the effect of the disruption as being immediate and serious on the network."

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British Islamic State terrorist killed by drone 'posed serious threat'

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British Islamic State terrorist killed by drone 'posed serious threat'

A British terrorist killed by a drone strike in Syria "posed a very serious threat to the UK" and was a "prolific recruiter and attack planner" for the Islamic State group. Reyaad Khan, along with another Briton, Junaid Hussain, "encouraged multiple operatives around the world to conduct attacks against the UK and our allies," Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) concluded. The assessment was based on 25 intelligence reports provided to the committee and two formal intelligence assessments carried out by MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. Khan was killed by a British drone on 21 August 2015 near Raqqa. Two other men died in the strike, one of them, Ruhul Amin, was also British.

The threat he posed was ongoing and there appears to have been no realistic prospect of it diminishing

Dominic Grieve MP

The strike was exceptional because it was the first time the UK had carried out a lethal drone strike outside of a military campaign. At the time Parliament had not voted and approved British airstrikes in Syria. "It was a highly specific, targeted operation," chair of the committee Dominic Grieve MP said. Three days later, Khan's close associate Hussain was targeted and killed by an American drone. In evidence given to the Committee, an unnamed intelligence officer said the strikes made the UK safer. "We have not seen anywhere near the pace of operational activity that we saw from Khan and Hussein," the intelligence officer said. "I would describe the effect of the disruption as being immediate and serious on the network."

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Briton killed in drone strike on Isis 'posed serious threat to UK'

Long-awaited report into attack finds Reyaad Khan was prolific Isis recruiter but MP criticises lack of access to decision-making process A British member of Islamic State killed in an RAF drone strike in Syria, Reyaad Khan, posed a “very serious threat to the UK”, according to a long-delayed parliamentary committee report. But the committee chairman expressed “profound” disappointment at the lack of access to ministerial decision-making material and to other primary evidence that made it impossible to conduct a complete investigation. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/26/briton-killed-in-drone-strike-on-isis-posed-serious-threat-to-uk-reyaad-khan?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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Basis for air strikes on jihadists to be set out

Basis for air strikes on jihadists to be set out

[ad_1] Image copyright ISIS via Al Hayat TV Image caption Reyaad Khan, from Cardiff, was killed in an RAF drone attack The UK’s chief legal adviser is to set out – for the first time – the government’s basis for military strikes against terror suspects abroad. Attorney General Jeremy Wright will say in a speech later that it is vital that international law adapts to respond to modern threats. In…

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Call For Clarity Over Drone Strikes' Legality

Call For Clarity Over Drone Strikes' Legality

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A cross-party group of politicians has called for the Government to clarify the legal basis for its policy of launching drone strikes against Islamic State terrorists.

An enquiry conducted by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has accepted that a drone strike which killed British jihadi Reyaad Khan last year had been justified, as the killing was part of the ongoing war against IS.

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Call For Clarity Over Drone Strikes' Legality

Call For Clarity Over Drone Strikes' Legality

[ad_1] A cross-party group of politicians has called for the Government to clarify the legal basis for its policy of launching drone strikes against Islamic State terrorists. An enquiry conducted by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has accepted that a drone strike which killed British jihadi Reyaad Khan last year had been justified, as the killing was part of the ongoing war against IS.…

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LEAKED: Names, addresses, family details of 22,000 ISIS members plus date of birth and next of kin

LEAKED: Names, addresses, family details of 22,000 ISIS members plus date of birth and next of kin

In what could be the biggest breakthrough in the fight against Terrorism, a cache of documents containing the personal information of 22,000 ISIS jihadists in Syria and Iraq has been retrieved by U.K intelligence chiefs after a disgruntled recruit stole the memory card of ISIS’ leader.