Canadian-Islamist Dregs of Humanity
"The Kurds have always made these kinds of arrests public eventually. They do it both to show that they are treating these prisoners with respect, but also to continue to pressure Western governments to take their prisoners back."
"It is not clear what will become of these prisoners as the nature of the conflict on the ground changes, and as Trump decides to pull out American forces. They could be handed over to the Iraqi government, or the Iraqi Kurds."
Amarnath Amarasingam, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
"Over the past year, Daesh [Islamic State] has lost significant territory in Syria and Iraq. This has raised international concerns about the potential threat posed by extremist travellers returning to their home countries as they escape the conflict zone."
"Canada has not experienced, and does not expect to experience, a significant influx of returning Dash-affiliated extremist travellers."
"Many of these individuals have been killed or captured in Syria and Iraq, and many will remain abroad due to their ongoing commitments to the cause."
"Investigating, arresting, charging and prosecuting any Canadian involved in terrorism or violent extremism is the government’s main objective and priority. However, there are often challenges associated with the collection of evidence and the use of intelligence and sensitive information as courtroom evidence, particularly when alleged criminal offences took place on a battlefield abroad."
"Of the CETs remaining there, only a few have openly expressed a desire to return to Canada."
Public Safety Canada report: "Canadian Extremist Travellers (CETs)"
The U.S.-supported coalition of militias known as the Syrian Democratic Forces led by the Kurdish YPG distributed a video online recently of a newly-captured Ethiopian claiming Canadian citizenship who was found in Deir al-Zour in the steadily shrinking territory remaining to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Syria. Obviously an Islamic State fighter, the 41-second video shows the man being questioned by a Kurdish interrogator in a quiet, unstressed fashion.
The man identifies himself as Mohammad Abdullah Mohammad who speaks of his entry to Syria through Turkey at the Idlib border. "I am originally from Ethiopia and I came from Canada."
"And you were in the trench?"
"Yes."
"You got out and you had a clash with our guys?"
"Yes."
Dressed in a black shirt over which is a jacket with a camouflage pattern, the man responds calmly as one would with the conviction that he is in safe surroundings, though a prisoner. He fears no repercussions relating to his commitment to a jihadist terrorist group. He is among civilized people for whom he is a prisoner of war and who envision that his country of citizenship will reclaim him and lift the man off their hands and from their international responsibility. That is their hope. It is not one the countries from which these psychopaths emanate share.
Despite Mohammad Abdullah Mohammad's identity claims, Professor Amarasingam who studies Western foreign fighters shares different information, that he has been informed that Mohammad was born in Saudi Arabia in 1983 and came to Canada in 1988. There eventually he studied computer networking at Seneca College in Toronto. And at some time between May and September of 2013 he left for Syria to join Islamic State. A spokesperson for Seneca College failed to confirm whether the man ever studied there.
Five other ISIL foreign fighters were captured a week earlier in the area; two from the United States, two from Pakistan and one from Ireland. None of these countries are lining up, anxious to repatriate their citizens who were caught attempting to put as much mileage between themselves and the ISIL controlled Mid-Euphrates Valley as they could manage. As matters turned out, it was more than they could manage.
The Kurdish YPG now holds four Canadian men, three women and seven children, all claiming to be Canadian among the more than two thousand men, women and children from 44 countries the Kurds have captured and maintain as prisoners in areas formerly part of the Islamic State caliphate. The countries from which these Islamist psychopaths came are all too obviously content to leave them where they are.
The Kurds, with enough problems of their own, from threats by Erdogan to eradicate them and 'cleanse' the area of their presence, and keeping the area clear of ISIL fighters still remaining, would vastly prefer to have these prisoners taken off their hands. Western nations who bred these pitifully monstrous specimens dedicated to Islam-inspired atrocities to instill fear and revulsion and succeeding wildly, clasp the hope that they will simply disappear off the face of the Earth.
Were the Kurds to give aid to that wish the countries unwilling to repatriate these wretchedly pathetic excuses for human beings would be quick to decry their inhumanity. It is a situation of gross unfairness where a cultural ethnic group deprived of their heritage geography and suffering continual discrimination and violent threats have been the only reliable fighting force to oppose and destroy the universal threat represented by Islamic State.
In return, they are summarily thanked, and left to fend for themselves, including ensuring the welfare of the most despicable dregs of humanity. Of the estimated 190 Canadians who fled Canada to engage in terrorism, about half ended up in the Syria-Iraq-Turkey region. An additional 60 returned to Canada -- few among them believed to have been fighters with ISIS. Four who left Canada for Syria then returned have been charged, two convicted, two awaiting trial.
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| Kurdish forces have been appealing to governments to take back their citizens, who are being held in makeshift prisons and camps in northeast Syria. |
"The families of 21 Canadian detainees have asked FAVE to help get them out of the northern Syrian camps."
"The majority of these Canadians are infants and children who are suffering from hunger and illness in frozen tents."
Prof. Alexandra Bain, director, Families Against Violent Extremism
Labels: Canada, Conflict, Islamic State, Kurds, Prisoners, Syria, YPG
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, January 16, 2019
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