Aussie Terrorist Wants Australia To Save Him From Death Sentence in Iraq

By ZOE ZACZEK FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Sydney terrorist Ahmed Merhi has begged Australia to help him after he was sentenced to death by hanging in Iraq. 

Merhi, 27, was convicted for being a member of Islamic State in the Central Criminal Court in Baghdad.

The former Granville Boys High School student, from Sydney's west, travelled to Syria in  2014 or 2015.

Sydney terrorist Ahmed Merhi (pictured) has begged Australia to help him escape the death sentence he has been handed in Iraq

Merhi claimed he travelled to the warn-torn country for aid work but Judge Suhail rejected the claims.

The 27-year-old told News Corp he wanted to come home to Australia and argued he had been wrongly convicted.

'I'd like to go back to Australia,' he said.

Merhi said Iraq had no right to prosecute him as there was no justice and no evidence or witnesses.

'I'm a good person,' Merhi told News Corp. He pleaded for Australia to intervene despite turning his back on the country.  

Merhi claimed he travelled to the warn-torn country for aid work but Judge Suhail rejected the claims

'I'd like them to help me, by getting me justice and getting me released,' he said.

The Australian Government is not expected to take steps to assist Merhi, a high profile Australian Islamic State supporter.

He previously shared numerous photos to his social media accounts displaying weaponry and dressed in military uniform.

Merhi compared taking photos with guns to people who take photos with Ferraris - arguing it doesn't mean you own them. In another comparison Merhi said taking a photo with a model didn't mean it is your wife.

The 27-year-old told News Corp he wanted to come home to Australia and argued he had been wrongly convicted

Merhi was arrested by Kurdish soldiers in December 2017 when he was trying to escape to Turkey.

He was given to American troops who took him across the boarder and passed him on to Iraqi authorities. 

Merhi, who lost a leg in an air strike in 2016, complained about torture at the hands of Iraqi counter-terrorism officials but a medical examination found no marks of torture.

Within ten days Merhi's case will be automatically appealed and his lawyers have 30 days to present to an appeals court. The former Sydney builder could wait up to two years to have his case finalised.

Merhi was arrested alongside his cousin Tarek Khayat who is accused by Lebanese and Australian authorities of plotting to bring down an Etihad Airways flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi.

Merhi was arrested by Kurdish soldiers in December 2017 when he was trying to escape to Turkey

Khayat, 46, admitted to being a financial officer for the terror group Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria, and was ordered to face death by hanging.

Australian police allege Merhi was involved with extremists in Australia who were involved in a number of terror plots.

This included the murder of police accountant Curtis Cheng who was shot dead after he left work in Parramatta, Sydney, by a 15-year-old.

The teenager, Farhad Mohamad Jabar, was shot by police.

Merhi said his cousin's case was starting from scratch following investigation from the appeals court and hoped the same would happen with his case. 

I wonder how many people he killed? How many girls he raped and enslaved? It was all fun and games, until it wasn't. I wonder what his problem is; doesn't he get to go to paradise with 72 virgins waiting for him there? Why would Australia want to rob him of that?

Doctor Joins ISIS Medical Team in “Jihad” Against the West: “I Wish I’d Come Sooner”

Australian-doctor joins jihad

Pamela Geller
Another doctor, affluent and Western educated, leaves everything to join the Islamic State, blowing up Obama’s and every other Western leader’s delusional narrative about poverty, disaffection and illiteracy driving Muslims to jihad.

It’s Islam.

I’ll also point out that calling those who oppose jihad terror “racists” is laughable. Islam is not a race. Just ask this blue-eyed doctor.

Herdsmen in Nigeria, rappers in Germany, doctors in Glasgow, chemical engineering students in Canada, heart surgeons in Saudi Arabia, university students in Britain, imams in America and so forth – what brings these wildly different people together? Jihad. From the Sahara to the Kalahari, London to Lisbon, Manhattan to Madrid, Bali to Boston, Tiananmen Square to Thailand, Myanmar to Malaysia, Nairobi to Nigeria ….. no matter what the background, upbringing, schooling, wealth or poverty, color, what have you, it doesn’t matter. The understanding of Islam and jihad is the same, and it is the motive, the incitement to this monstrous war on the West and and the East and all points in between.

If the world were as concerned with the mass slaughter of non-Muslims by jihadists as they are about the fictional narrative of “islamophobia,” we might begin to defeat this enemy of humanity.

Why a 'normal' person would chose to become Muslim is barely conceivable. Unfortunately, the inability of politicians and media to relate the truth about Islam makes it seem more attractive than it is. To make it worse, people like Pamela Geller are shouted down as bigots, or barred from entering some countries, for telling the truth. 

The west is feeding the human supply lines of jihad with our culturally suicidal, political correctness. Boy, are we stupid!

The Age
Victoria, AU APRIL 25, 2015

Australian doctor joins ISIS medical team in ‘jihad’ against the west

 

The Australian doctor, who calls himself Abu Yusuf, says he travelled from
his home country to join IS and is using his medical skills
“as part of my jihad for Islam”

A YOUNG Australian doctor has appeared in an Islamic State video urging other medical professionals to travel to the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa in Syria to join the jihad against the west.

The stylish promotional IS video has not been verified but was circulated on IS-affiliated social media accounts.

The video introduces the “ISHS” — or IS Health Service — and appears to have been filmed in Raqqa in the Raqqa General Hospital.

The video features a number of doctors talking about medical facilities in the IS stronghold.

The Australian doctor introduces himself as Abu Yusuf and says he travelled to Raqqa from Australia to offer his medical services as part of his “jihad for Islam”.

Aussie doctor appears in IS video

“My name is Abu Usef. I’m one of the medical team here. I came from Australia to the Islamic State to live under the khalifah.

“I saw this as part of my Jihad for Islam to help the Muslims in the area that I could, which is the medical field and when I got here while I was very happy that I made the decision and I was a little bit saddened by how long I’d delayed it.

“I wish I’d come sooner.”

Facing the camera in a section of the video titled Pediatrics, he urges other doctors and medical professionals to join the medical team.

He is also shown treating babies in incubators. He says repeatedly that equipment is not the issue for the hospital but the availability of well-trained doctors

“We need the brothers and sisters to come and help us from all around the world. We just need the manpower … to help us grow this.

“After being here it’s disappointing to think how many fellow Muslim brothers and sisters who are in the medical field; doctors and nurses, physios and dentists are still living in the west and unfortunately here the Muslims are really suffering from not lack of equipment or medicine but lack of qualified medical care.

“So I suppose a message I would want to send out to any brothers and sister still living in the west who are considering coming … we really need your help. Any little thing gives the local people who are truly suffering a lot of benefit.

“Please consider coming, please don’t delay.

“I’ll see you soon”.

Australian National University terrorism expert Clarke Jones confirmed the video’s authenticity.

“This is certainly legit,” he said.

“It’s appealing with the use of the Australian to others, by showing them any ordinary Australian, in this case, can go across there and live a comfortable life beyond their expectations.

“It’s appealing to normal, rational people within the educated young crowd and it’s not just about fighting now, it’s about going over there and supporting brothers and sisters in the Islamic State.”

Dr Jones said the man broke the mould of those expected to flee Australia to fight.

“People want to say its either or (but) this guy does break the mould and that it appeals to a wide variety of people,” he said.

“If we don’t start to take a more understanding approach to this, which the Islamic State is beginning to have more appeal than Australia, we are going to continue to lose.”