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    Third jihadist in Isis video is from Aberdeen

    Good grief if that loon returns to Scotland, I will set about him.


    Later in the video, he says: "All my brothers living in the west, I know how you feel.


    "When I used to live there, in the heart you feel depressed. The cure for the depression is Jihad."


    Wonder what else Jihad cures. That itch you just can't quite reach, apply a bit of jihad.



    BBC News - Third jihadist in Isis video is from Aberdeen

    Third jihadist in Isis video is from Aberdeen

    23 June 2014 Last updated at 19:47 GMT James CookBy James Cook Scotland Correspondent, BBC News
    The news has stunned people in Aberdeen, as James Cook reports

    A third British man in a recruitment video for the Islamic militant group Isis is from Aberdeen, the BBC has learned.

    The man has been named locally as Raqib.

    The 13-minute video, There Is No Life Without Jihad, emerged on Friday, posted by accounts linked to Isis.

    Two of the six fighters shown in the film urging Muslims to join a holy war, have been identified as Nasser Muthana and Reyaad Khan from Cardiff.

    The footage emerged after militants led by Isis made rapid advances through Iraq in recent weeks.

    The video shows them urging other British Muslims to join their war.

    The men are believed to be among 500 Britons fighting in the conflict in Syria.

    Now the BBC has been told that a third Briton in the film grew up in Aberdeen, although he was originally from Bangladesh.

    He is identified in the video as "Brother Abu Bara' al Hindi".

    Reyaad Khan (l) Nasser Muthana (c) from Wales are also shown in the videoReyaad Khan (l) Nasser Muthana (c) from Wales are also shown in the video
    In the video, he says: "Are you willing to sacrifice the fat job you've got, the big car you've got, the family you have?

    "Are you willing to sacrifice this for the sake of Allah? Definitely! If you sacrifice something for Allah, Allah will give you 700 times more than this."

    Later in the video, he says: "All my brothers living in the west, I know how you feel.

    "When I used to live there, in the heart you feel depressed. The cure for the depression is Jihad."

    One former acquaintance spoke of his shock at seeing the man sitting with other self-declared jihadists, holding a gun, and urging other people from the west to take part in jihad.

    Fighting abroad
    The former acquaintance, who does not want to be named for fear of retribution, said the man had regularly been in trouble as a young teenager.

    He said Raqib later calmed down and had been more "humble" after becoming increasingly religious.

    The acquaintance said he could not understand how a young man who had grown up in Aberdeen had ended up fighting abroad.

    He said that no-one he had spoken to could believe it when they saw Raqib in the propaganda video.

    "I was shocked," he told the BBC, adding "it seemed utterly mad".

    Footage from the videoThe men are believed to be among 500 Britons fighting in the conflict in Syria
    The acquaintance said that he believed Raqib had moved to the UK from Sylhet District in north eastern Bangladesh some years ago.

    "He came here when he was a younger child," he told the BBC.

    "He went to primary and secondary school here.

    "After that he was around in Aberdeen. He was a bit arrogant.

    "A bit aggro, maybe something to prove. He ended up in a lot of fights.

    "To learn he's accepted religion in such an extreme way is a bit shocking. Shocking because he's a youth from Aberdeen who's ended up somewhere like that."

    He said he was worried that other young people would be enticed to follow the same path and insisted that he had never heard anything that would encourage radicalism at either of Aberdeen's mosques.

    The man said that, when he was younger, Raqib had enjoyed drinking alcohol and going to nightclubs and was often involved in fighting.

    If any trouble or racial abuse came his way, he "sorted it out with his fists", he said.

    He said he had not seen Raqib for the past couple of years and believed that his family had moved to Leicester.

    Ibrahim Alwawi, from Aberdeen Mosque, said: "We, as a Muslim community in the city of Aberdeen, are shocked like everybody else.

    "We are co-operating with the authorities as we usually do."

    Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis)
    Isis fighters have been pushing towards Iraq's capital, Baghdad

    Isis grew out of an al-Qaeda-linked organisation in Iraq

    Estimated 10,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria
    Joined in its offensives by other Sunni militant groups, including Saddam-era officers and soldiers, and disaffected Sunni tribal fighters
    Exploits standoff between Iraqi government and the minority Sunni Arab community, which complains that Shia Prime Minister Nouri Maliki is monopolising power
    Led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an obscure figure regarded as a battlefield commander and tactician
    Last edited by scooterscot; 23 June 2014, 20:02.
    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

    #2
    Ah yes, another normal young man radicalised and yet again nobody in his community had a clue or knows where it came from. This is getting rather hard to believe.
    bloggoth

    If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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      #3
      Perhaps he's gone native and has a chip on both shoulders
      Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

      No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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        #4
        23 June 2014 Last updated at 19:47 GMT James CookBy James Cook Scotland Correspondent, BBC News
        The news has stunned people in Aberdeen, as James Cook reports
        So a report by James Cook then???

        But on another note - this guy was obviously a scrote always fighting and getting into trouble - was never really going to hold down a decent job etc.

        He will have met and started down the fundamentalist path whilst at the local mosque - whether it was with the knowledge of the 'officiel religous leaders' is up for debate - but at the end of the day he just saw that as a way of being able to fight and be agressive - he has no interest in the Jihad other than the fact it lets him kill people legitimately (in his eyes).

        Should be bought back to the UK and tried for terrorism, found guilt and hung.

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          #5
          Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
          Ah yes, another normal young man radicalised and yet again nobody in his community had a clue or knows where it came from. This is getting rather hard to believe.
          I heard of a guy like that recently. First he started eating deep fried food on the sly. Then became tight with his money. Then started wearing a kilt. Died his hair red. Finally he want back to Scotland to fight for independence.

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            #6
            Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
            I heard of a guy like that recently. First he started eating deep fried food on the sly. Then became tight with his money. Then started wearing a kilt. Died his hair red. Finally he went to Brazil to support whoever was playing England in the World Cup.
            FTFY

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              #7
              Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
              I heard of a guy like that recently. First he started eating deep fried food on the sly. Then became tight with his money. Then started wearing a kilt. Died his hair red. Finally he want back to Scotland to fight for independence.
              dyed

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                #8
                Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
                Finally he went to Brazil to support whoever was playing England in the World Cup
                So he always picked the winning sides then?

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                  #9
                  Can they ever come back to the UK after fighting in a war?
                  What is the purpose of your travel? Business, Vacation , Jihad ?

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