Men Skip Bail To Go And Fight In Syria

19th June 2014

That's a little bit cheeky of them, isn't it?!

Maybe Social Services should get involved - these families need help!

Two men who were under criminal investigation have absconded from the UK intending to join jihadists in Syria, the BBC has learned.

One - Junaid Hussain of Birmingham - left the UK while on bail pending investigation for violent disorder.

The other, Abu Aziz from Luton, has been convicted in his absence of an attack on a member of the public.

Aziz is an associate of Anjem Choudary, the high-profile former leader of a group banned under terrorism laws.

It is understood that Aziz, 32, fled the UK in March along with another British man, Mohammod Alom. The pair headed to Amsterdam before, according to multiple sources, going on to Turkey - the route for British fighters seeking to enter Syria to join jihadist groups.

While it is not known whether the pair crossed the Turkish-Syrian border, a former associate of Aziz, who wishes to remain anonymous, told the BBC that he believed the Luton man had made it to Syria. He said that he believed Aziz would not be returning, nor pose a threat to the UK.


A month before he disappeared, Aziz posted a lecture on a social media site calling on Muslims to go to Syria.

He said: "Why is it that we have become blinded by the dunya [material world], that we don't see what is happening to our brothers and sisters in Bilaad al Shaam [Syria]? Just because they are far away from us it does not mean they are not our family."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27911081