So we learned the
identity of two of the three London attackers.
And look at this -- Suspect Identified in London Terror Attack Featured in a Documentary
About Jihadis
Khuram Shazad Butt -- unfortunate last name -- and a second identified suspect Rachid
Redouane, both hailed from East London.
They say "Two of the three suspects in Saturday's deadly terrorist attacks
In central London have been identified, the Metropolitan Police said Monday.
Police named the first suspect as Khuram Shazad Butt, a 27 year old uh
British citizen born in Pakistan.
The second suspect, 30 year old Rachid Redouane, uh,
claimed to be Moroccan and Libyan. Redouane also went by the name Rachid Elkhdar.
The third suspect hasn't been identified yet.
Butt had also gained public attention.
He was feature in "The Jihadis Next Door,"
A Channel 4 documentary the aired in January 2016.
The film, made over the course of two years, shows him praying with an Islamist group called
al-Muhajiroun in front of an Islamic State flag in London's Regent's Park.
Butt appears in the film alongside Mohammed Shamsuddin, one of the ringleaders of the group.
Shamsuddin proudly proclaimed in the film that the jihadi flag may one day fly over 10 Downing street,
the British prime minister's residence.
He is believed to have fled to Syria in 2014 and
appears to have appeared in one of ISIS' execution videos!"
Whoa whoa okay okay okay okay okay
I touched on this yesterday, it turns out I was more correct than even I knew.
Um
One of the problems that they're dealing with
In Britain is that there's a decent number of - um
People who end up going to Syria,
fighting alongside the rebels on the battlefield of Jihad against the big bad Syrian government,
and then they come back.
So they leave,
they go and fight alongside Jihadists,
and then they come back.
Now, understand something
When
Donald Trump says "we need to do a Muslim ban, a total and complete shutdown of Muslims coming into the U.S.
Here, I just picked six nations that are Muslim nations,
I'm gonna ban everybody coming from those places.
Tremendous. Believe me."
That is a sign of bigotry, because it's - he's talking about
over 1.5 - 1.6 billion people, you're just lumping 'em all in - in
that
category of 'close enough to al Qaeda.'
Okay
That's bad. And bigoted and wrong. And stupid.
It's not bad, or bigoted or wrong or stupid to say
"Hey, maybe if people go fight along fuckin' jihadists in Syria,
Red flag.
Maybe track 'em. Maybe use your intelligence services
to track those motherfuckers. Or here's a wild idea:
Don't let 'em back in the country!"
If they go fight alongside goddamned jihadists
Maybe you don't let them back in the country. Call me crazy.
It's not like
you
If you take the position of 'no, whatever, there's no problem, don't track 'em,
don't use intelligence, uh, for this.
Don't -- or let 'em in the country,
you've become a caricature of a progressive position.
The progressive position is: No, we shouldn't be discriminatory.
We shouldn't do a religious test.
Y'know. We shouldn't, uh, ban all Muslims from coming into the U.S. That's crazy.
That's a progrssive position. Let's be reasonable and vet on, like, a case by case basis.
But it is a caricature of the Progressive or Liberal position to say
"Yes. If somebody stars in a documentary about jihadists,
goes to fight alongside jihadists in Syira and then comes back into the country -
How dare you wanna track that person using intelligence?
Or how dare you wanna kick - kick them out and not let them in the country?
I cannot believe
that is so bigoted and discriminator --
That's not bigoted and discriminatory!
That's fuckin' common sense. That's -
That's intelligence
That is intelligence.
That is intelligence 101 work.
You know how quickly, like, I don't know what the system is in-in the UK
But in the US you need a warrant, a specific warrant to do spying
on an individual - a person, place, or thing.
So, if they have, like, a warrant
in the UK
You know how quickly, if I was a judge, I would approve the warrant on this motherfucker?
Oh, he starred in a - in a series about jihadists,
and he prayed with a fucking Islamic State flag behind him.
He traveled to Syria.
So,
You're tellin' me this guy went to Syria, he's trying to come back in, and you want
to - to spy on him, and you want to do intelligence gathering?
Yeah bitch, here I can't sign this fast enough, boom
go ahead, do your thing.
And in fact what should've happened is he shouldn't have been let back in the country.
Now that's not saying literally everybody who lives in the UK and goes to Syria and then comes back
shouldn't be let in the country, because there's many journalists, for example
who will travel and come back.
But you can figure that out in the vetting process.
And that's why you need a strong, rigorous vetting process.
We have a strict vetting process here in the U.S.
Multiple government agencies involved, bio-metric screening,
they check records, they do multiple interviews; it takes people a year on average to get into the U.S.
You have to set up a system like that.
And you have to be reasonable. And intelligent. You can't fuckin'
You gonna let somebody go fight with jihadists?
"Yeah well *mumble* it was totally cool, I don't see what the problem is."
I mean this shit -- that's a caricature of a progressive position. That's what that is.
That's like -- now I'm gonna bend over backwards to act like
I'm not seeing anything when there's a million red flags there.
And they, like -- the fuckin' -- the police had the nerve to say something along those lines too
like, "Well we just didn't *mumble* we just didn't see any reason to be concerned."
Motherfucker
The facts I just gave you are reason to be concerned.
When someone's in a documentary called "The Jihadis Next Door", he's praying in front of the Islamic State flag,
travels to fucking Syria,
was in an ISIS propoganda video, who are you kidding? How stupid are you?
Okay. I think I've made my point here, but
If you don't
*laughs*
If you're not using your intelligence apparatus for this
What the fuck are you using it for?
Why does it exist?
What are - what are the police doing? Like, what are people doing all day?
If - if this is not
where you're putting your time and your effort?
And what're -- what's your
your border situation and your vetting situation if it's not lookin' at guys like this and going,
"You know what, get the fuck out."
What're you doing?
Jesus Christ, man
I don't even know what else to say other than
that's an abysmal failure of the entire system.
From the vetting process to, um,
border security, to
intellegence gathering, to police officers.
And no, don't -- you can't
Don't try to make it seem like, this, I'm taking a conservative position here.
I'm taking a common sense position here.
When there's all those red flags, you either track the fuck out of the guy,
and intelligence officers are on his ass 24/7,
or you don't let him into the fuckin' country when he comes back from Syria
when you know what his record is like.
And you know he probably went to go fight with jihadists, which means he might be a...
jihadist. That's exactly what he was.
So
Something should've been done to stop this. There's no excuse that this wasn't prevented.
This could've been prevented
if anybody along the way had common sense, and said,
"No, yeah, we gotta keep our eye here. What are we doin'?"