Bloodthirsty British jihadists: UK needs to stand up to terror

A timely warning comes from Syria that it is British fighters who top the league in beheadings and crucifixions

Crispin Black

“As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood’.

In a letter to The Times, Brigadier-General Abdulellah al-Basheer, chief of staff of the anti-Assad Free Syrian Army, didn’t actually quote Enoch Powell’s 1968 speech on immigration but he said much the same thing, claiming that bloodthirsty British jihadists in Syria are responsible for a string of atrocities including beheadings and crucifixions.

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is a former Welsh Guards lieutenant colonel and intelligence analyst for the British government's Joint Intelligence Committee. His book, 7-7: What Went Wrong, was one of the first to be published after the London bombings in July 2005.