Shaker Aamer says Islamic extremists living in UK should ‘get the hell out’

The last detainee at Guantanamo Bay from the UK, who was released after 14 years in detention, has said that Islamic extremists living in the country should “get the hell out”. Shaker Aamer, 48, was held at the US military facility in Cuba on suspicion of terrorist activities but was never charged or tried. He…

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The Paris attacks are an act of war – against Islam itself

The appalling attacks in Paris last night were, as Francois Hollande said, an act of war. They were Islamism’s declaration of war on free society – but, crucially, they represented something else. An act of war, by Islamists, upon Islam itself. As Douglas Murray says, it is lazy and wrong to argue that these attacks…

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‘He was groomed’ Family defends Yorkshire teen who is UK’s Youngest suicide bomber

Talha Asmal, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, was believed to be one of four suicide bombers who targeted security forces near an oil refinery in the town of Baiji. The family of the 17-year-old said they were “utterly devastated and heartbroken” after he detonated a vehicle fitted with explosives in the north of the country. They…

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British al-Shabaab jihadist Thomas Evans ‘killed in battle’ in Kenya

A young British man was among those killed in a botched raid by al-Shabaab fighters on a Kenyan army base at the weekend. Thomas Evans, a 25-year-old from the Buckinghamshire town of High Wycombe who went by the name of Abdul Hakim after converting to Islam, was among the dead fighters judging by photographic evidence,…

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‘Recruiter’ of UK jihadis: I regret opening the way to Isis

The “godfather” of the British jihadi movement, who recruited dozens of young men to fight in foreign wars, has said he now regrets opening the way for people to join terror groups such as Islamic State and al-Qaida. Abu Muntasir, 55, who lives in Suffolk, was one of the first influential propagandists in the UK for a…

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