{"id":21511,"date":"2013-04-28T19:17:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T19:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=21511"},"modified":"2013-04-28T19:17:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T19:17:32","slug":"two-tales-from-the-outsider-jihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=21511","title":{"rendered":"Two tales from the outsider jihad"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — wanna know the very latest on those black banners from Khorasan? ]
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Here’s the scene that greeted four British recruits to the jihad<\/a> on their arrival at a training camp in Pakistan in August 2011: <\/p>\n

This wasn’t like the training camps of propaganda videos, with the black flag of al-Qaeda flying free in the wind. There were no racks of weapons waiting for recruits. And all the trainers had left for the religious festival of Eid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They came home to the UK, where their families “berated” them, they were arrested, tried, found guilty and sentenced to 40 month terms in prison.<\/p>\n

With jihad, as with so much else, you can’t always count on truth in advertising.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

And then there’s Omar Hammami<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Even Rusty Shackleford<\/strong> from My Pet Jawa<\/a> — “a weblog comparing Muslims to Jawas and containing criticism and satire of Islamic traditions and beliefs” — can’t help but like Omar Hammami<\/strong><\/a>, aka Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki<\/strong>, the American jihadist from Alabama who, as Wired puts it<\/a>, “shoots the breeze” on Twitter “with the people whose job it is to study and even hunt people like him.” He does it with verve, even when ridiculing al-Shabab, the group he was put on the the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List<\/a> with a $5 million bounty for joining:<\/p>\n

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Shackleford commented, \u201cI\u2019ve actually become kinda fond of the guy \u2014 if that\u2019s possible\u201d.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabab, however, appears to dislike him enough to have tried to assassinate him a couple of days ago, following up their failure with a major attack, results as yet unknown.<\/p>\n

With jihad in foreign lands, apparently, you can’t even trust your fellow mujahidin to treat you better than your avowed enemies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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