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Brit al-Qaeda heroes are street thugs with passports
TWO of the Britons being held by US forces have criminal convictions for violence. Asif Iqbal and Ruhal Ahmed were convicted after a 16-year-old Asian was attacked with hammers and bottles. Ahmed and Iqbal were fined £500 at Wolverhampton Crown Court in 1998 and had to do 150 hours community service after Rahim Rashid, now 19, of Dudley, was scarred for life in an attack in which he was kicked in the head and beaten. His fellow suspect, Rasul, had tried to recruit friends to fight with him in Afghanistan. One neighbour was quoted: âIt is ridiculous to suggest that he was brainwashed after going to Pakistan. He was preaching jihad while still in the West.â Ahmed lived a few hundred yards from Rasul, 24, and Iqbal, 20. All three went to Alexandra High School in Tipton and played in a local football team. Ahmedâs mother, Shalehah Begum, speaking to the local newspaper from her home in Tipton, said that her son was visiting relatives in Bangladesh.
Wonder how many of the Arabians, Paks, Chechens and other sweepings have the same kind of Clockwork Orange background?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-01-29 |
