Ronnie Fiddler, a British man aged 50, is dead. Who he? When he died, he called himself Abu-Zakariya al-Britani. He killed himself and others in a suicide-bombing attack at an Iraqi Army base on Sunday. He did so as a follower of Daesh. For some reason, UK Prime Minster, Theresa May, is held to blame by the liberal media. But these are the same people who championed this man who became a mass-murderer.
Much has been written about Fiddler’s time in Guantanamo Bay. He got there after being picked up in a Kandahar jail by US forces. At this point in his life he was known as Jamal Udeen Al-Harith having converted to Islam in about 1994.
According to Wikipedia: “[…] in 2002 Al-Harith travelled to Pakistan for a backpacking trip. While there, he paid a truck driver to take him to Iran. The truck was stopped when he passed near the Afghan border. Taliban guards, seeing his British passport, arrested him as a British spy, which was typical of their treatment of foreigners.”
By 2002, the war in Afghanistan, triggered by the 9/11 attacks, had been raging for some months. Afghanistan was the world’s number one war zone.
We do not know precisely why Al-Harith wanted to backpack around a country that was involved in a major war, as Pakistan then was. It is also not clear why he chose to travel too close for comfort to the actual war zone.
Al-Harith wanted to visit Iran, and hitching a ride on a truck was the cheapest option. However, by anyone’s standards this was not the same harmless activity as sticking your thumb out and standing by a major road. There are safer places to have a backpacking holiday. There are better ways to get to Iran from Pakistan than skirting a war zone that apparently has a fluid border.
Google Maps shows that there are two main ways to get to Iran from Pakistan. One goes straight through Afghanistan. The other skirts the border to the south. The N40 route gets no closer than about 10Km to the border at the town of Nushki.
No readily available reports indicate exactly where Al-Harith was captured. Did the Taliban control the road there? What route did Al-Harith take? The news media do not say.
As a captive of the Taliban, American forces might have let Al-Harith go. Instead, they held on to him. He was taken to their detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. After being freed, Al-Harith reportedly obtained £1 million from the British Government by way of compensation. It has been suggested that, despite being an ‘innocent’ victim of both the Taliban and the US Army, Al-Harith was a target for surveillance in the UK. It is not clear why this should be so.
Al-Harith’s experiences at the hands of Western security services may have changed him. He might have already had a different attitude to the West as a result of his new-found faith.
What we now know is that in 2014 he ventured into yet another war zone just as more fighting involving yet another Islamist force had flared up. Instead of the Taliban, this was Daesh. They had managed to storm across half of Iraq that year. This month, he took a car loaded with explosives into an Iraqi Army base and detonated them, killing himself and numerous military personnel.
Right now, this is being regarded as some kind of security failure by the Home Office, and a way to attack Prime Minister Theresa May. However, the government’s measures to protect the population have been blocked by numerous cases brought by activists under the Human Rights Act and other measures.
Former Guantanamo Bay inmates are the darlings of the liberal media establishment. Well, now one of them has gone on to commit mass-murder in a foreign country at the behest of an Islamist group. On this inconvenient truth, the liberal media is silent.
Al-Harith’s civil rights, including the right to travel abroad, were defended by pressure groups and his supporters right up to the point where he blew up those poor Iraqi soldiers. His victims’ main desire was to liberate their country from the rampage of a death cult. Al-Harith’s freedoms should not be used as a way to discredit our Prime Minister. Liberal commentators should really be asking themselves exactly whose side they are on.
