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UK: Muslim who killed 3 while screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ says
‘I’m going to paradise for the jihad what I did to them’
JAN 12, 2021 5:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Remember, when you read this story and this one about “Islamophobia” that efforts to combat this allegedly growing and yet persistently ill-defined phenomenon will inevitably remove obstacles that prevent people of like mind with Khairi Saadallah from emulating him. Counterterror efforts and honest analysis of the motivating ideology behind jihad violence have been dismissed as “Islamophobia” for years. Now, in these last days of the freedom of speech, expect such analysis to be criminalized.
“Khairi Saadallah: Terrorist who murdered three in ‘brutal’ Reading attack
gets whole life sentence”
by Duncan Gardham, Sky News,
January 11, 2021:
A terrorist who stabbed three people to death in a park in Reading – because he believed the pandemic heralded the end of the world – has been handed a rare whole life sentence.
Saadallah “executed” each man with a single knife blow to the back of the head in the space of less than 30 seconds, the Old Bailey heard.
The 26-year-old also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, who were injured in the attack.
Speaking on behalf of James Furlong’s family, Gary Furlong said “serious questions need to be answered” about how Saadallah was in a position to perform these attacks….
Several witnesses reported Saadallah yelling “Allahu Akbar” and a Muslim bystander heard him say in Arabic: “God accept my jihad.”
After his arrest, he told police: “Those men I killed were wrong ‘uns, they deserved it. I’m going to paradise for the jihad what I did to them.”…
Saadallah, it appears, was afraid the world would end without him having murdered some non-Muslims. Obviously, he felt unfit to enter paradise until he had done so. This is Islam!
More than 50 killed during Israeli airstrikes in Syria
By Clyde Hughes
An Israeli Air Force Lockheed Martin F-35 combat aircraft flies during the graduation ceremony at the Hatzerim Air Force base in the Negev Desert on June 27, 2019. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Israeli airstrikes killed more than 50 Wednesday morning. Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI
Jan. 13 (UPI) -- More than 50 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Syrian province of Deir Ezzor Wednesday morning targeting Hezbollah, Iranian forces and their proxies, according to the British-based nonprofit Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The organization said the airstrikes appeared to focus on warehouses and ammunition depots belonging to Iranian forces, Hezbollah based in Lebanon and the Fatemiyoun Brigade.
Israeli missiles hit the Ayyash warehouses, Sa'ka camp and other positions on the outskirts of Deir Ezzor, along with positions, weapons warehouses and ammunition depots in the Al-Bokamal desert. The attacks also included positions and warehouses in the Al-Mayadeen desert.
SOHR said 18 sites were hit in all and 57 people were killed in the raid.
The news organization Al-Mayadeen, which has ties to Hezbollah, said the targets had been evacuated before the attacks and did not report any casualties.
At least they admitted to being there.
Wednesday's attack was the third blamed on Israel over the past three weeks. Israeli military hit locations in southern Syria last Wednesday, targeting weapons depots, observation points and radar sites belonging to the Syrian military and militias.
Islamist murderers are playing the UK justice system, denying victims justice,
putting the public at risk & making mugs of us all
Damian Wilson
13 Jan 2021 20:11
A painted portrait is seen among the flowers as students pay their respects to the murdered school teacher James Furlong outside The Holt School, on June 22, 2020 in Wokingham, England © Leon Neal/Getty Images
As innocent bodies pile up, clever lawyers are finding legal loopholes to spare terrorists deportation, the intelligence services are losing track of those on watchlists and killers on whole life terms cause mayhem behind bars.
Terrorist Khairi Saadallah (see above) may be settling in for a whole-life prison term but his conviction for the murder of three men and the attempted murder of three more in Reading on a warm summer night last year doesn’t hide the fact that he has played the British government for mugs – and he is not alone.
Trained as a killer in Libya and with a record of criminal offences, prison sentences and serious mental health alerts, the home secretary’s inability to deport Saadallah after his release from prison – on the grounds that Libya is a failed state – two weeks before the attacks, shows just how adept Priti Patel’s despised ‘lefty lawyers’ have become in undermining justice for even the most egregious offences.
Video footage taken by police the day before his murderous rampage shows a shifty, evasive Saadallah in conversation with a policeman who seems determined to adopt the ‘buddy’ approach. Saadallah circles his grim flat and unconsciously stands guard over the area around his bed where a supermarket bag containing a knife bought for murder lies uncontested by the officer. Clearly something is up.
It’s not 20-20 hindsight. It is plain he does not want the policeman poking his nose around. Yet nothing was done and the next day, three men lay dead in a park having been murdered with an executioner’s precision as their killer yelled his devotion to Allah.
Once in court, the killer unconvincingly insisted he was not inspired by religious extremism, despite being overheard saying “God accept my jihad” by a witness to his evil deeds. With that strategy clearly a no-go, he then tried to persuade the judge that mental health issues were the root cause. He, and his lawyers, were fully aware that a court held little sympathy for a cold-blooded Islamist killer, better to play the victim of a failed state or purported voices in his head than admit the truth.
While Saadallah’s lawyers managed to convince the authorities that Libya was no place for their man, it seems the UN-backed Tripoli government was functioning just fine when the UK requested that it extradite Hashem Abedi (2nd story on link), the brother of evil suicide bomber Salman Abedi, for his role in the atrocity launched at an Arianna Grande gig at the Manchester Arena.
Abedi was arrested in Libya shortly after the 2017 attack and extradited back to the UK by the Libya Special Deterrence Force in 2019 to face trial. So the reasoning seems to be that when help from Tripoli is needed then it’s deemed a functioning government but when deportation is being disputed, it’s no place to send even the most evil of men.
Instead, we keep them here and they make friends with each other in our maximum security prisons so they can plan attacks on those in charge of guarding them. Just like Abedi did with oddball Parsons Green Tube bomber Ahmed Hassan last May for which the pair, and another accomplice, were today charged with assaulting a prison officer in Belmarsh jail and now face trial in April.
Hassan was never really one to operate under the radar prior to his September 2017 attack and told immigration officials that he had been trained to kill in Iraq by Islamic State jihadists.
Unbelievably, still this failed to raise a red flag and he was allowed to plan and execute a bomb on a packed train that left 50 people injured.
So blissfully unaware of his inclinations was the local authority responsible for this deeply troubled young man that 10 days before he detonated a home-made bomb on a rush hour tube it was reported everything seemed hunky-dory and they were thinking of closing his case file.
And the list goes on.
Earlier that year, on April 7, in 82 seconds of mayhem, Khalid Masood drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, killing six people – he knifed PC Keith Palmer to death at the gates of Parliament – and injuring 50 more. Again, he was no stranger to law enforcement.
Just a few months later, three terrorists ran amok at London’s famous Borough Market near London Bridge in June, ploughing their van loaded with petrol bombs into pedestrians before running amok, slashing and stabbing at random, killing eight people and injuring 48 more before they were unequivocally dealt-with by heavily-armed police.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack carried out by those jihadists: Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba. It might have been avoided altogether had the alarm raised by Butt’s brother been passed on to MI5 instead of lost or ignored. The killer was already known to UK police while his accomplice Zaghba was flagged on an international terrorism database.
It was London Bridge again that provided the backdrop when Usman Khan, released from prison on licence after serving time for terrorist offences in 2018, exploited his attendance at a rehabilitation course in November 2019 to wreak havoc, stabbing five people, two fatally, before being shot dead by police on the bridge.
In January last year, Sudesh Amman (3rd story on link), who was actually – almost unbelievably – under surveillance by counter-terrorist police at the time, was gunned down as he went on a knife rampage in a south London street, having recently been released from prison following a conviction for terrorist offences.
This highlight-reel of horror with its grim cast of evil, dangerous men prepared to martyr themselves as long as they could take the lives of others with them shows just how twisted and corrupting the skewed ideology of radical Islamism can be. Most disturbing is the one thing they have in common: all those involved – with just one of the Borough Market killers the exception – were known to the police or security services.
But because of the intervals between the various attacks, the focus on the very personal and tragic stories of those killed and injured, and a tendency to move our gaze away from the culprits once they have been dispatched to the great beyond – either at the hands of the police or by their own suicide vests – or to a maximum security prison by the courts, we tend to forget about them.
So we never ask the big questions. How can this have happened again? Why were these foreign nationals and known terrorist sympathisers with serious criminal records allowed to roam the UK free? Why were warnings from those closest to the killers routinely ignored? And why does “known to the intelligence services” seem more like a humiliating excuse than a reassurance?
The tempting answer to all the above is that we have no idea of what we are dealing with. And while there are plenty of terrorism experts out there, psychologists with their ideas about what motivates a jihadist, lawyers on the lookout for human rights breaches and police trying to keep an eye on known suspects with their limited resources, the fact that two of these killers who both launched horrific attacks can team up in a maximum security nick, recruit a fellow traveller and attack a prison officer then something is very, very wrong.
Our justice system looks like a soft touch. Sure, Hashem Abedi is serving 55 years and Ahmed Hassan in for a 34-stretch, but as long as they can continue to cause injury and chaos even under the tightest prison regime the UK can offer, we can never be said to have beaten them, nor can their victims be satisfied that they have achieved true justice.
In the eyes of Islamist terrorist murderers everywhere, the British government and the judicial system look weak. And to those who have survived an attack or live in fear of another, there is absolutely no comfort in that.
Damian Wilson is a UK journalist, ex-Fleet Street editor, financial industry consultant and political communications special advisor in the UK and EU.
The problem has been the same for decades, British police, judicial systems, and social welfare systems are far more afraid of offending Pakistanis than anything else. They have sacrificed thousands of young, British girls on the altar of political correctness rather than arresting child rapists.
The situation is the same with terrorists. As Syrian psychologist, Dr. Wafa Sultan wrote: “I came to the absolute conviction that it is impossible…impossible…for any human being to read the biography of Mohammed and believe in it, and then emerge a psychologically and mentally healthy person.”
Muslim radicals must be segregated from British society as the odds of transforming one into a useful and productive British citizen are close to zero.
‘Battle of the jihadists’ as ISIS and HTS clash in Syria
Morning Star
THE two largest Islamist groups in northern Syria have been slugging it out in a “battle of the jihadists” for control over positions close to the border with Turkey.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) fighters were reported to have stormed ISIS positions near the town of Salqib late on Tuesday, with at least three members of the latter killed.
The groups have been at loggerheads for years, although both have been assisted by Turkey, which has used them as part of its war against Kurds in northern Syria.
HTS, an offshoot from al-Qaida, has tried to move away from its roots and rebrand itself with the support of Ankara. The Islamist group has been charged with facilitating Turkish logistics and military operations in northern Syria.
According to a Chatham House analysis this relationship has been mutually beneficial: HTS needs political cover both regionally and internationally to protect it from being targeted as a terrorist group.
“Turkey needs ties to an armed group with military and organisational discipline that is able to control the territory and that is not subordinate to any foreign power,” the analysis says.
The fighting continues at present.
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