[h=2]The ISIS suicide bomber YOU paid £1million! British fighter who blew himself up in Mosul was compensated for serving time in Gitmo - after Tony Blair got him freed - then fled to join ISIS[/h]
Ronald Fiddler, named by ISIS as Abu Zakariya al-Britani, was photographed (shown centre) moments before blowing himself up at a military facility near Mosul, Iraq (shown right). Muslim convert Fiddler - who changed his name to Jamal Udeen Al-Harith in 1994 - was sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2002 after he was caught by American forces in Afghanistan. But after intense campaigning by Tony Blair's government, British citizen Fiddler - who had pleaded his innocence - was freed two years later. He launched a compensation claim on the grounds British agents knew or were complicit in his mistreatment and was handed up to £1million of taxpayers' money to stay silent. But it emerged that, despite security services being fully aware of his previous detention, Fiddler was able to escape the UK in 2014 to fight with ISIS in Syria. His British wife Shukee Begum (shown left), along with their five children, joined him in Syria before fleeing from the Isis-controlled territory in 2015. Fiddler was held at Guantanamo alongside Moazzam Begg (pictured inset).
A British ISIS suicide bomber has been revealed as a former Guantanamo prisoner who was handed £1million in taxpayers' money as compensation before fleeing to Syria. UK national Jamal Udeen al-Harith was photographed moments before blowing himself up in an attack on a military facility near Mosul in Iraq. The Muslim convert - who changed his name from Ronald Fiddler in 1994 - was sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2002 after he was caught by American forces in Afghanistan. But after intense campaigning by Tony Blair’s government, the British citizen – who had pleaded his innocence – was freed two years later. He launched a compensation claim on the grounds British agents knew or were complicit in his mistreatment and was handed £1million to stay silent.
The British ISIS suicide bomber who was pictured moments before he blew himself up has been revealed as Jamal Udeen al-Harith, a former Guantanamo prison from Manchester
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The terrorist, named by ISIS as Abu Zakariya al-Britani (above), was pictured moments before targeting a military facility to the southwest of war-torn Mosul in Iraq
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Al-harith's British wife Shukee Begum, along with their five children, joined him in Syria in 2015 before fleeing from the Isis-controlled territory
At the time of his release from Guantanamo, then-Home Secretary David Blunkett said: 'No one who is returned… will actually be a threat to the security of the British people.' But it emerged that, despite security services being fully aware of his previous detention, al-Harith, who worked as a web designer for a time, was able to escape the UK in 2014 to fight with ISIS in Syria. His journey was revealed following an escape from ISIS-controlled Syria in 2015 by British mother Shukee Begum and her five children. Miss Begum was married to al-Harith before he left the family home in Birmingham to fight in Syria, and had flown to the war-torn country to try to persuade the fanatic to return to the UK.
However, her attempts failed, and she endured a ten-month ordeal being passed between hostages and rebel groups as she tried to escape. In 2015, she told Channel 4: 'I’d love to go back to the UK. The UK is my home. I grew up there. My friends are there. My family are there. That’s where I consider to be home. 'But I’m just not sure at the moment, with the track record of the current government, if the UK is somewhere I can achieve justice. I hope I’m wrong.' At the time, she said she was biding her time before returning to Britain because she fears she could face terrorism charges.
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The video then cuts to a plume of smoke in the distance after the car bomb is detonated
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Footage said to have been captured yesterday morning shows Abu Zakariya's reinforced vehicle setting off along a dusty road
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Al-Harith (left) is pictured in his early years in Manchester, England, before his detention at Gauntanamo in 2002. His wife Shukee Begum is shown right
Ms Begum, a law graduate from Greater Manchester, insists she did not support the extremists, and says she wanted to persuade al-Harith to return to the family home. She told Channel 4 News: 'I was thinking about the children's futures. Was he part of it? Will he come back? All these things go through your mind.' She added: 'I was seeing on the news at this point that Isis was going from bad to worse… So I decided that I was going to try and speak some sense into him. 'At the same time I wanted to see him. I wanted the children to see their father. I wanted the baby to meet his father as well.' After arriving in Syria, Ms Begum ended up living in a crowded safe-house in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, along with dozens of other foreign women looking for their husbands. [h=3]TIMELINE OF EVENTS[/h]1966: Ronald Fiddler is born in Manchester to parents originating from Jamaica. 1994: He converts to Islam, changing his name to Jamal Udeen Al-Harith. October 2001: Al-Harith travels to Quetta in Pakistan, on a 'religious holiday'. A few day later the US invasion of neighbouring Afghanistan began Early 2002: He is arrested by American forces in Afghanistan after they discover him in a Taliban jail and later transferred to Guantanamo Bay prison. 2004: After lobbying from Tony Blair's Labour government, al-Harith is released along with four other British citizens. He returns to the UK where he is released without charge, and joins three other prisoners in suing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. 2009: His case against Rumsfield and the US government is finally dismissed on the grounds of 'limited immunity' for government officials. 2014: Despite security services being fully aware of his previous detention, he is able to escape the UK to fight with ISIS in Syria. 2015: His British wife Shukee Begum, along with their five children, join him in Syria before fleeing from the Isis-controlled territory February 2017: Al-Harith is killed in a suicide attack near Mosul, Iraq
Eventually, Ms Begum and her children were reunited with al-Harith, and the family moved to a house near al-Bab in northern Syria. But her planned to bring him home failed: she could not convince him to leave. Ms Begum said she only planned to keep the children in Syria for a month, but after a bag containing her phones, travel money and passports was stolen, she found herself trapped. She asked her husband to help her get out, to no avail. And she appealed to an Islamic court to give her permission to leave, but was told: 'Women and children belong in ISIS territory.' She reached safety when she was rescued by Al Qaeda-linked group Al Nusra. Her last known location was in Syria, on the Turkish border. Al-Harith's back story has resurfaced after pictures online shows him grinning next to what appears to be wires connected to a red-buttoned detonator. ISIS claim his attack, during a raging battle for control of the city, caused multiple casualties but this has not been confirmed. They gave his name as Abu Zakariya al-Britani. After his release from Gauntanamo, al-Harith spoke of the treatment he received at the hands of the guards. Speaking in 2004, he told the Mirror: 'The whole point... was to get to you psychologically. 'The beatings were not nearly as bad as the psychological torture - bruises heal after a week but the other stuff stays with you. 'After a while, we stopped asking for human rights - we wanted animal rights.' He said said he was interviewed upwards of 40 times by American officials - sometimes to 12 hours at a time - and nine times by British agents. Born Ronald Fiddler, he turned to Islam in the 1990s and changed his name to Jamal Udeen al-Harith. In October 2001, he travelled to Quetta, Pakistan, on what he claimed was a religious holiday. A few day later the US invasion of neighbouring Afghanistan began. He claimed the Taliban locked him up and accused him of being a British spy. A few months later he was found in a Taliban jail by US special forces and transferred to Guantanamo Bay.
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Former detainees of Guantanamo Bay (from left to right); Martin Mubanga, Moazzam Begg and al-Harith
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Muslim convert al-Harith (left) was sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2002. He has been pictured in the past with fellow Guantanamo prisoner Moazzam Begg (right)
US authorities considered that he was ‘probably involved in a former terrorist attack against the US’. He was assessed as being an Al Qaeda fighter and considered a ‘high threat to the US’. When al-Harith was released in 2004, he was repatriated to England and released without charge. ISIS said al-Harith as one of two militants involved in the attack on a Shiite army outpost. The attack came as Iraqi forces advanced on ISIS positions in the west of the city. Footage said to have been captured yesterday morning shows Abu Zakariya's reinforced vehicle setting off along a dusty road. The video then cuts to a plume of smoke in the distance.
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An ISIS statement claimed British suicide bomber Zakariya al-Britani had carried out a deadly attack in Mosul
A statement released by the terror group today said: 'The martyrdom-seeking brother Abu Zakariya al-Britani - may Allah accept him - detonated his explosives-laden vehicle on a headquarters of the Rafidhi army and its militias in Tal Kisum village, southwest of Mosul.' It is not known where Abu Zakariya is from in the UK or when he travelled to Iraq. The video also shows a fighter named as Abu Hajir al-Iraqi, speaking to the camera before speeding off down the road to blow himself up as well. 'Rafidha' is a derogatory term used to refer to Shiite Muslims, who Islamic State fanatics consider to be heretics. Forces from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation), a paramilitary umbrella dominated by Shiite militias backed by Tehran, are active in the area mentioned in the statement.
They are fighting alongside other Iraqi forces - including the army and the federal police - as part of a push that started on Sunday to retake the west bank of Mosul. Tens of thousands of Iraqi forces launched a massive offensive on October 17 to retake the city, which is Iraq's second largest and the only remaining major stronghold of the jihadists in the country. They retook control of the eastern side of Mosul last month. ISIS fighters of a variety of nationalities, including Britons, have carried out suicide attacks on many occasions in Iraq and Syria in the past three years. The ISIS statement said that the British fighter's attack, and that of another suicide bomber of Iraqi nationality, caused many casualties. This claim has yet to be independently verified.
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The bombing targeted Shiite Muslim troops, the statement claimed (Stock picture)
Ronald Fiddler, named by ISIS as Abu Zakariya al-Britani, was photographed (shown centre) moments before blowing himself up at a military facility near Mosul, Iraq (shown right). Muslim convert Fiddler - who changed his name to Jamal Udeen Al-Harith in 1994 - was sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2002 after he was caught by American forces in Afghanistan. But after intense campaigning by Tony Blair's government, British citizen Fiddler - who had pleaded his innocence - was freed two years later. He launched a compensation claim on the grounds British agents knew or were complicit in his mistreatment and was handed up to £1million of taxpayers' money to stay silent. But it emerged that, despite security services being fully aware of his previous detention, Fiddler was able to escape the UK in 2014 to fight with ISIS in Syria. His British wife Shukee Begum (shown left), along with their five children, joined him in Syria before fleeing from the Isis-controlled territory in 2015. Fiddler was held at Guantanamo alongside Moazzam Begg (pictured inset).
