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

[Right_in_Virginia]

British man who launched Isil suicide attack was Guantanamo Bay detainee awarded £1m compensation
Daily Telegraph (UK), Feb 21, 2017, Gordon Rayner

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.”


More:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/21/british-man-launched-isil-suicide-attack-guantanamo-bay-detainee/

 

[EC]

Him giving us the slip is a shameful thing that won't be forgotten any time soon.

[Norm Lenhart]

Make the people that released him and the people that awarded him pay the money back and serve his time in Gitmo. Clearly they were complicit in his crime/intentionally let a dangerous man out.

Then they can have their assets sold to help pay his victims.

[Frank Cannon]

Good news is that this idiot is now dead and he had the indignity of killing himself in a used Kia....

[bigheadfred]

Make the people that released him and the people that awarded him pay the money back and serve his time in Gitmo. Clearly they were complicit in his crime/intentionally let a dangerous man out.

Then they can have their assets sold to help pay his victims.

Don't put them in prison Norm. Send them to the front lines.

[Norm Lenhart]

Don't put them in prison Norm. Send them to the front lines.

No, they'd grab guns and start shooting at the enemies of ISIS...our soldiers. Let their spoiled liberal asses sit and rot in GITMO. Thats a fate worse than death for them.

[bigheadfred]

No, they'd grab guns and start shooting at the enemies of ISIS...our soldiers. Let their spoiled liberal asses sit and rot in GITMO. Thats a fate worse than death for them.

I'll only agree to GITMO only if extractions are involved.