Kabir Ahmed, the Derby jihadi, claimed he would 'sacrifice my children 100 times'
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The Telegraph
7 hrs ago
A British
jihadi who carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq said he was prepared
to “sacrifice my children a hundred times for Allah” in an interview
before his death.
Kabir Ahmed, from Derby, said he had decided to fight jihad abroad while serving a 15-month sentence for a hate crime in which he told revellers at a gay rights parade: “We hope you die of Aids”.
The interview, featured in an obscure internet podcast first posted in June, offered Ahmed an uncritical platform to spout his hatred of Western life, even though he admitted once supporting Manchester United and eating “McDonald’s and KFC”.
Rui Vieira/PA Wire Derby jihadi, claimed he would 'sacrifice my children 100 times'
Ahmed, a father of three, was killed last week when he drove a truck packed with tons of explosives into a convoy carrying a top Iraqi police officer at Beiji, north of Baghdad, killing eight people.
In the interview Ahmed said of his decision to go to Iraq: “This is more important than my family. I will sacrifice my children a hundred times for the sake of Allah.”
Asked how he became radicalised, Ahmed said: “It wasn’t the videos, it wasn’t the lectures, it wasn’t the books that I was reading. What radicalised me was the Government.
“The American government, the British government … and what they were doing to our people in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
He claimed that he had been sent to prison on “trumped-up charges”.
In fact, he was convicted at Derby Crown Court in February 2012 under laws prohibiting the distribution of threatening material “intending to stir up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation”.
He was part of a group handing out leaflets calling for homosexuals to be put to death.
“When you’re sitting in that cell for months and months the only thing you can think about is jihad,” said Ahmed in the interview, broadcast on a web-based channel called “The Isis Show” under his nom de guerre Abu Sumayyah.
“You feel like a hypocrite, living in the West eating McDonalds and KFC.”
He said he wanted to “go from this world and meet our Lord”.
Ahmed added that he was hoping for his name to be moved to the top of his commander’s list of suicide bomb volunteers – a claim he also made during an interview broadcast by the BBC Panorama programme in July.
There was no answer at Ahmed’s parents’ home in Derby.
Neighbours suggested Ahmed had been "brainwashed" and was "easily led".
Aleem Sheid, 33,, said: "It makes me feel very upset to hear a young man with a young family has been brainwashed and done this.
"Nobody's born bad, it's people around you that make you behave bad and push you down a certain way."
Another resident, who declined to be named, said: "I can honestly say, no disrespect, that he was not the brightest of lads. He was a follower, not a leader. You could ask him to do something and he would do it, he was that sort of guy.
"What I read that he had said about foreign policy, I just thought that must have been a script because he couldn't speak like that."
A woman who answered the door at the home of Ahmed’s sister-in-law’s parents, in Bedford, said the family did not wish to comment.
Ahmed also spoke of how he had been part of Islamic State insurgent teams, and said he had planned and carried out operations including “targeted assassination missions”.
A Derbyshire Constabulary spokesman said: "We are aware of reports of this gentleman's death and we are working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to confirm details."
He was the second Briton to conduct a suicide mission for Isil after Abdul Waheed Majid, from Crawley, West Sussex, carried out a truck bomb attack on a jail in Aleppo, Syria, in February.
Separately, four men arrested in connection with an alleged Islamist terror plot just two days before Remembrance Sunday will be held for a further seven days, Scotland Yard said.
Counter-terror police detained the men, aged 19 to 27, on Thursday night at locations across west London and in High Wycombe, Bucks.
Kabir Ahmed, from Derby, said he had decided to fight jihad abroad while serving a 15-month sentence for a hate crime in which he told revellers at a gay rights parade: “We hope you die of Aids”.
The interview, featured in an obscure internet podcast first posted in June, offered Ahmed an uncritical platform to spout his hatred of Western life, even though he admitted once supporting Manchester United and eating “McDonald’s and KFC”.
Rui Vieira/PA Wire Derby jihadi, claimed he would 'sacrifice my children 100 times'
Ahmed, a father of three, was killed last week when he drove a truck packed with tons of explosives into a convoy carrying a top Iraqi police officer at Beiji, north of Baghdad, killing eight people.
In the interview Ahmed said of his decision to go to Iraq: “This is more important than my family. I will sacrifice my children a hundred times for the sake of Allah.”
Asked how he became radicalised, Ahmed said: “It wasn’t the videos, it wasn’t the lectures, it wasn’t the books that I was reading. What radicalised me was the Government.
“The American government, the British government … and what they were doing to our people in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
He claimed that he had been sent to prison on “trumped-up charges”.
In fact, he was convicted at Derby Crown Court in February 2012 under laws prohibiting the distribution of threatening material “intending to stir up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation”.
He was part of a group handing out leaflets calling for homosexuals to be put to death.
“When you’re sitting in that cell for months and months the only thing you can think about is jihad,” said Ahmed in the interview, broadcast on a web-based channel called “The Isis Show” under his nom de guerre Abu Sumayyah.
“You feel like a hypocrite, living in the West eating McDonalds and KFC.”
He said he wanted to “go from this world and meet our Lord”.
Ahmed added that he was hoping for his name to be moved to the top of his commander’s list of suicide bomb volunteers – a claim he also made during an interview broadcast by the BBC Panorama programme in July.
There was no answer at Ahmed’s parents’ home in Derby.
Neighbours suggested Ahmed had been "brainwashed" and was "easily led".
Aleem Sheid, 33,, said: "It makes me feel very upset to hear a young man with a young family has been brainwashed and done this.
"Nobody's born bad, it's people around you that make you behave bad and push you down a certain way."
Another resident, who declined to be named, said: "I can honestly say, no disrespect, that he was not the brightest of lads. He was a follower, not a leader. You could ask him to do something and he would do it, he was that sort of guy.
"What I read that he had said about foreign policy, I just thought that must have been a script because he couldn't speak like that."
A woman who answered the door at the home of Ahmed’s sister-in-law’s parents, in Bedford, said the family did not wish to comment.
Ahmed also spoke of how he had been part of Islamic State insurgent teams, and said he had planned and carried out operations including “targeted assassination missions”.
A Derbyshire Constabulary spokesman said: "We are aware of reports of this gentleman's death and we are working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to confirm details."
He was the second Briton to conduct a suicide mission for Isil after Abdul Waheed Majid, from Crawley, West Sussex, carried out a truck bomb attack on a jail in Aleppo, Syria, in February.
Separately, four men arrested in connection with an alleged Islamist terror plot just two days before Remembrance Sunday will be held for a further seven days, Scotland Yard said.
Counter-terror police detained the men, aged 19 to 27, on Thursday night at locations across west London and in High Wycombe, Bucks.
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