‘Most bloody jihadists’: Syrian rebels slam UK extremists for atrocities (GRAPHIC)

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Published time: May 27, 2014 12:54

Rebel fighters gather near the bodies of the victims of an alleged suicide bombing carried by al-Qaeda-linked group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) near the headquarters of the Army of the Mujahideen (AFP Photo / Zakariya Al-Kafi)

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A senior Syrian rebel commander has said that Britons in Syria make up the majority of the foreign members of the country’s most bloodthirsty terrorist group, renowned for its involvement in beheadings and crucifixions.

“They are not freedom fighters. They are terrorists. We, the Syrian people now experience beheadings, crucifixions, beatings, murders, outdated methods of treating women, an obsolete approach to governing society. Many who participate in these activities are British,” the Free Syrian Army’s Brigadier-General Abdulellah Basheer wrote in a letter to The Times published on Monday.

Other fighters come from France, Germany, Belgium and a range of countries across the Middle East and Africa, so the group is predominantly foreign, Basheer said.

Bodies of handcuffed and blindfolded dead men lie on the ground of the Aleppo headquarters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) after they were allegedly executed by the al-Qaeda-linked group, in the northern city of Aleppo (AFP Photo / Zakariya Al-Kafi)

At the same time, the leader called for the UK to supply weapons to help fight the Sunni group, known as The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and asked for help in restraining their spheres of influence and preventing its ideology from being exported.

The group uses such extreme violent methods that it has even been denounced by Al-Qaeda, which in February issued a statement to disown the group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) at that time. The final ‘S’ in the acronym comes from ‘al-Sham’ and can either mean the Levant or Syria.

“Terrorism is not out of fashion; Syria has become its leading production factory,” Basheer wrote. “If ISIL is allowed to expand, these terrorists, having put their skills to the test in my country, will return to their homelands, perhaps to the UK, and continue on their pernicious path of destruction.”

The bodies of two men who were allegedly crucified by fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked group, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa. (AFP Photo / HO / Syrian Observatory of Human Rights)

Last week, 31-year-old Mashudur Choudhury, a UK-based dad of two, was the first Briton to be found guilty by a jury of terrorist offences linked to the Syrian violence.

“The evidence clearly shows that this defendant planned for and then travelled to Syria with the intention of attending a training camp,” prosecutor, Alison Morgan, told the jury.

Basheer offered his assessment of the conviction: “He is one of many. They are not freedom fighters, just terrorists.”

According to the EU anti-terror chief, Gilles de Kerchove, some 500 Europeans are fighting in Syria.“Not all of them are radical when they leave, but most likely many of them will be radicalized there, will be trained,” he cautioned in April, reported the BBC.

Tens of thousands have been slaughtered in the Syrian conflict. ISIS has garnered particular infamy for its brutal executions, leaving bodies in public places. Other documented abuses have included the flogging of children and electric shock torture.

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Comments (43)

Gr1ff9 27.05.2014 16:21

Daniel Jones 27.05.2014 14:01

Yo u sent them there and dont want them to return? How do you think they got there?You dont think the MI5 personally recruited them and funds most of those so-called charity organizations which they used to get into Syria via Turkey? Dude,wake up.

I don't think my comment would disagree with that. I wouldn't support such clandestine operations of UK intelligence services.

biosphere 27.05.2014 16:20

[quote name='AL Nelson' time='27.05.2014 16:08']

Li sten you clueless, idiot - those people have to PAY for their passports just like you and your fellow alcoholic lager louts did before you went across the world for football tournaments and started riots at each one.

[ /quote]

One - I am not the clueless idiot. 2nd - I am not a lagar lout who travels to watch football. Thank you. These people are NOT BRITISH, Despite them getting FREE passports as immigrants. They should not be aloud back to the UK. They don't even call themselves British, but Muslims.

klowiepowie 27.05.2014 16:19

Elections in Islamic countries cause Muslims to replace an already evil dictator regime being replaced by an even more evil theocratic regime. Muslims telling that Islam is all peace and stuff. Why don't they protest against all that evil that's happening in Islamic countries?? Where are the silent marches for more tolerance?? We don't see any. The reason why, is because all that evil is just Islam.

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