UK Ex-Counterterror Chief: Let the Jihadis Come Back to UK

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Sure we deport Nazi war criminals. But let’s invite ISIS war criminals in.

British jihadis in Iraq and Syria should be encouraged to return home, a counter-terrorism expert said today. Richard Barrett, a former MI6 global counter-terrorism director, said repentant fighters must know ‘there is a place for them back at home’. His comments come after it was revealed some UK jihadis fighting in Syria want to come home after becoming disillusioned with the conflict.

Mr Barrett, 65, told The Observer: ‘Many of the people who have been most successful in undermining the terrorist narrative are themselves ex-extremists.’

So are the people most successful in blowing things up. And since the UK, like the US, has a long history of not being able to tell so-called extremists and moderates apart, largely because these terms are Western liberal attempts to make sense of Islamic theology and tactics which doesn’t align along such lines, this can only end well.

But here’s a few more facts about Dick Barrett from the wiki. See if you can tell how they connect…

1. Barrett is a recognized global expert on terrorism who frequently appears as a panelist in related conferences and whose commentary is regularly featured in the press.

2. Barrett also served as Director of Global Counter Terrorism Operations for the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) both before and after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States

3. Mr. Barrett was also a founding member of the United Nations Counter Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF), which was established in 2005 to promote the UN Global Counter Terrorism Strategy adopted by the General Assembly in 2006.

4. He is the author of several articles and commentaries including op-eds for The Guardian, The New York Times, The Financial Times and The International Herald Tribune.

5. Barrett sits on the boards of the Qatar International Academy for Security Studies in Doha

All terror roads lead back to Qatar.

  • Pete

    Qatar International Academy for Security Studies in Doha

    Come on now… a boy has got to pay his bills. How else could he live in Britain and not live in council housing?

    • Bamaguje

      Don’t they mean “insecurity studies”?

      Qatar has been promoting Jihadist insecurty in the Middle east & North Africa.

  • Una Salus

    explains a lot

  • Hard Little Machine

    With fewer than 180,000 Jews left across the whole of the UK I can’t say I’m in disagreement with this. All I ask is they abandon nuclear weapons before they adopt violent Sharia in place of the Magna Carta. Beyond that, if we can rescue all the Jews we can from them, they can rape, kill and eat each other to the last man standing for all we should care.

  • andrewwhitehead

    I have a question for Barrett, would he be willing to live next to one of these Muslim terrorists? How about giving them a room in his house? I’ll buy the plane ticket if he agrees.

  • De Doc

    Now there’s a blockbuster of an idea! And by that I mean the leveled area in London, when one of those creeps sets off his explosives laden truck after attending his ‘Just Say No to Terrorism’ workshop.

  • objectivefactsmatter

    This moron has no clue what “repent” actually means.

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    HOW MY EX LOVER CAME BACK WITH TEARS BEGGING FOR MARRIAGE

    Am Bida Stacey by name My ex-boyfriend dumped me 6 months ago after I accused him of seeing someone else and insulting him. I want him back in my life but he refuse to have any contact with me.I was so confuse and don’t know what to do,
    a friend of mine introduce me to the Dr Harrison by giving me his email, i never believed until
    I contact him and explain my problem to him and he cast a spell for me and assure me of 3 days that my ex will return
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    HOW MY EX LOVER CAME BACK WITH TEARS BEGGING FOR MARRIAGE

    Am Bida Stacey by name My ex-boyfriend dumped me 6 months ago after I accused him of seeing someone else and insulting him. I want him back in my life but he refuse to have any contact with me.I was so confuse and don’t know what to do,
    a friend of mine introduce me to the Dr Harrison by giving me his email, i never believed until
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