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2021-08-17 Britain
British Jihadis Going to Afghanistan to Fight for the Taliban: Report
[Breitbart] British intelligence services have reportedly intercepted communications from murderous Moslems in Afghanistan indicating that UK jihadis have travelled to Afghanistan to join the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Phone calls intercepted from war-torn Afghanistan have revealed jihadis with British accents living among the Taliban. It is believed that the British fighters smuggled themselves into the country following the withdrawal of American military personnel.

"We have received some intercepts of two British men, probably below 30, talking openly on mobiles," a senior military intelligence source told The Sun.

"One had a London accent, what you might call a street accent."

Another security service source reported that the government has "intermittent intelligence" indicating that British fighters have joined forces with the Taliban.

Colonel Richard Kemp CBE, who previously served as a commander of British forces in Afghanistan, said: "Many British and other foreign jihadists travelled to Afghanistan before and after 9/11 to fight there and, in many cases train, organise and then travel elsewhere for jihad.

"The more gains the Taliban makes, the more it will encourage jihadists to carry out attacks at home and also head for Afghanistan.

"If the country, or a large part of it, is permanently controlled by the Taliban it will again become a safe haven for faceless myrmidons as it was before 9/11.

"We are on the verge of a threat no less than that from [the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
] at its height."

In a statement, the government said that British Talibs "pose a very serious national security risk," and that "The Home Secretary has a number of powers available to prevent the return of individuals who pose a national security risk to the UK.

"Those who do return must expect to be investigated by the police."

It is believed that around 800 British nationals travelled to Iraq and Syria to join forces with the Islamic State, many of whom have been allowed to return to the country, often without being prosecuted for anything.

Last year it was revealed that Britannia’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency was aware of at least 43,000 suspected faceless myrmidons living in the United Kingdom.

There have long been concerns over the connections between UK-based terror cells and radical Islamists in Afghanistan, with then-Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson warning in 2018: "We consistently see terrorist groups operating here in Afghanistan, [and] evidence of their links back not just to the United Kingdom but to the whole of Continental Europe."

With the country falling into chaos amid a bungled withdrawal by the Biden Administration, the British government has called on its citizens to evacuate Afghanistan. Some 600 British soldiers have been deployed back into the Islamic republic to help with rescue missions of the estimated 4,000 UK citizens in the country.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top
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#1 

"No need now, ya lazy bastards!"

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-17 02:03||   2021-08-17 02:03|| Front Page Top

#2 There's so much to see and do in Afghanistan. Plus the food is good if you like goat cheese and such.
Posted by jpal 2021-08-17 12:58||   2021-08-17 12:58|| Front Page Top

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