Monday 25 May 2015

Why Wasn't 'British' Jihadist Bomber, Anis Sardar, Tried for Treason?

"Let not the believers take for friends or helpers unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah: except by way of precaution, that ye may Guard yourselves from them. But Allah cautions you (to remember) Himself; for the final goal is to Allah." So Allah tells his hate-filled believers, in his very own rambling & incoherent tome of trash, the Koran, in verse 3:28.

This explains why Western nations can never count on the loyalty of the Muslims living within their borders, when it comes to fighting scourges of the likes of the Taliban, al-Qaeda or the Islamic State. Time & again, we observe our 'fellow citizens' prancing off to the Middle East to fight our own soldiers or those of our closest allies.

Surely the law allows for these terrorists to be tried for treason when they do this? Surely it is time to send a message to Muslims, living in our country, that in no circumstances are they to hold themselves to be a state within a state & that if they display aggression towards the interests of the country in which they are living, then they either leave, never to return, or face the consequences? This is why the recent case of Anis Sardar, who killed an American soldier in Iraq, was a missed opportunity, even though his sentence of 38 years, as reported by Reuters on Friday, was very satisfying:

British bomber jailed for life for murder of U.S. sergeant in Iraq

A London taxi driver, convicted of making bombs which were used against U.S. forces in Iraq, one of which killed a U.S. sergeant, was jailed for life on Friday and told he would spend at least 38 years behind bars.

Anis Sardar, 38, of northwest London, was convicted at London's Woolwich Crown Court of murder and conspiracy to murder after his fingerprints were found on adhesive tape used to make two bombs planted under roads leading out of Baghdad in an area close to the U.S. Army's Camp Liberty.

One of the devices exploded as a U.S. armoured vehicle drove over it on Sept. 27, 2007, killing Sergeant First Class Randy Johnson, who was married with two young children.

Sardar
Johnson
Sardar had argued that he had become involved in the conflict in Iraq to protect Sunni villages from attack by Shi'ite militias during the U.S. "surge" operation in 2007, and had merely helped others put the bombs together.

But the prosecution argued that he was either deliberately targeting U.S. troops or did not care who the explosive devices killed.

"I am satisfied that at the material time, you had the mindset that made the Americans every bit as much the enemy as the Shi'ite militia," the judge, Justice Henry Globe told Sardar who was found guilty of murder and conspiracy to murder.

"I am entirely satisfied that you must be detained for an extremely long time."

Britain's Crown Prosecution Service described Sardar's conviction as a "landmark prosecution" that meant international boundaries would not stop "terrorists in the UK being brought to justice".

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