Thank goodness for that”. An alleged “British resident” (aka an Ethiopian) said to be just ‘skin and bone’ and close to death in the Guantanamo Bay camp is to be flown back to the UK within days.
West London “student” Binyam Mohamed, 30, who has been on a hunger strike since January 5 after being held in the prison camp for four years, has collapsed several times in recent days. His immediate repatriation to Britain is being arranged as US authorities face a political row should a British fatality occur in the prison. Lieutenant Colonel Yvonne Bradley, an American military lawyer who last week saw Mohamed in his cell – where he has been kept under solitary confinement – described how he was wasting away. ‘The real worry is that he comes out in a coffin,’ she said.
No, I wouldn’t have said this was a real worry, more of a real hope for those who despise Al Queda.
Let’s cut hrough the spurious nonsense here, shall we?
For starters, Mr Mohamed entered the UK illegally in 1994. That is precisely how valid his status as a “British resident” is. He is an Ethiopian wanting a slice of welfare UK.
Second, good old Londoner Binyam decided that because he had “drug issues” what better way to deal with them to travel to….an Al Queda training camp in Pakistan. He was subsequently captured and confessed to being an AQ terrorist.
“There is no doubt that Binyam Mohamed, a native of Ethiopia who lived in the United States and London for years, traveled to Afghanistan to train in al Qaeda’s al Farouq training camp in June 2001. He freely admitted this to his personal representative at Guantánamo. The government’s unclassified files explain that he “received 40 days of training in light arms handling, explosives, and principles of topography.” He was also “taught to falsify documents, and received instruction from a senior al Qaeda operative on how to encode telephone numbers before passing them to another individual.”
What happened after his training at al Farouq is a bit more ambiguous, but the government believes he was en route to America, where he was to stage an attack. Binyam and his lawyer claim that he wanted the al Qaeda training to fight in Chechnya — and not to fight American forces. But many fresh recruits were influenced to travel to Afghanistan for training to fight in Chechnya and ended up being repurposed by al Qaeda for other missions. This is what happened with some of the 9/11 hijackers.
The U.S. government believes that senior al Qaeda terrorists wanted to use Binyam in an attack inside America. He was allegedly going to work with convicted terrorist Jose Padilla. Early reports said that Padilla was attempting to use a so-called “dirty bomb,” comprised of radioactive components. The government’s unclassified files note that Padilla and Binyam reviewed information about a dirty bomb at an al Qaeda safe house, but this does not appear to be the plot they intended to execute. Binyam mentioned the possibility of attacking subways to his al Qaeda handlers. And they suggested attacking apartment buildings by setting natural gas lines on fire.
Naturally faux Londonder Binyam has since claimed he was tortured – just as the AQ training manual instructs. He has become a cause celebre and Britain wants him back. This is how weak-kneed our authorities hjave become in the fight against Jihad, they swallow every fabrication that AQ terrorists make and convince themselves that every Gitmo inmate is an innocent abroad. It’s a death-wish mindset and yet it is the one that prevails at this time. It’s as if we need to experience one massive Al Queda atrocity that makes even 9/11 pale into insignificance before official eyes open to the threat in front of us. But in the meantime, we import Jihadi.