English Man Detained in Iraq for Gun Running

- Times Online

A YOUNG British Muslim arrested in Iraq by US Marines was caught red-handed running guns in one of the most violent cities in the country, the US military said yesterday.

He was identified by the US marines as Mobeen Muneef, 25, born in London but with Pakistani nationality.

He had been held at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, but has since been transferred to the Bucca Detention Facility in the Iraqi capital.

The US military insisted that he was part of a group of foreign fighters “participating in suspicious activities” when he was apprehended by a patrol. The Times revealed on Thursday that two British citizens are currently being held in Iraq on suspicion of helping the insurgency. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has confirmed their detention.

One, a dual British-Iraqi national, was captured by British troops in November in southern Iraq and is being held in a detention centre at the main Shaibah military base on suspicion of involvement in terrorism.

Mr Muneef, the second man, was captured by a US Marines patrol on December 7 in Ramadi, one of the main centres for the insurgency against the US-backed Iraqi Government. “The gentleman was detained after Marines spotted men passing a weapon over a wall in Ramadi,” Captain Brad Gordon, of the US Marines in area, said. “When Marines approached the house, two men began to flee the house and were subsequently detained when they were found hiding in a shack near by.

“According to one report, in their possession was an Iraqi pistol and four AK-47s. When he was detained he was found to have an Iraqi ID card which he admitted was fake.

I can't say this shocks me. While England has been less of a recruitment center for terrorists groups as some in their European brotherhood, there have been terrorists from England.

Of course there have been jihadis from the United States, however there are many more from European nations other than England. All of them are indoctrinated with the message that the United States is fighting a war against Islam, which sadly is the same argument some on the Left have spread.

Cross-posted at In the Bullpen

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