Friday, May 17, 2013

Australian terrorist's top tips for joining jihad

 

Australian ex terrorist accused's top tips for joining jihad

http://www.news.com.au/world-news/australian-ex-terrorist-accuseds-top-tips-for-joining-jihad/story-fndir2ev-1226645042913

 

 

    Candace Sutton

    news.com.au

    May 17, 2013 1:01PM

THE first Australian charged under anti-terrorist laws has issued a how-to list on Facebook for how young men can engage in holy war without getting killed or ending up in Guantanamo Bay.

 

Zaky Mallah, who travelled to Syria and lived with the rebels engaged in the bloody civil war against Muslim hardliner President Bashar el Assad, has posted his top tips for joining jihad and experiencing life on the frontline.

 

Mr Mallah, now 29, says ASIO once claimed he was at risk of becoming Australia's first suicide bomber. At the age of 20, he was arrested and charged for making a jihad-style video after ASIO refused him a passport.

 

He spent two years in the high maximum security Multi Purpose Unit at Goulburn prison before being acquitted.

 

Mr Mallah told news.com.au that young people should go to Syria and engage in jihad to experience the freedom fight taken up against El Assad by members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA).

 

Five Australians have been killed in the company of FSA rebels since the war began during the Arab Spring uprising in 2011.

 

This week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights revised the death toll in the two-year conflict up to 94,000 people, but said it was likely to be as high as 120,000.

 

Under Australian law it is illegal to engage in fighting for either side, or to fund, train, arm or recruit others to fight in the conflict.

 

The United Nations also retains arms embargoes in neighbouring Lebanon and Iraq, which are punishable by up to ten years' prison in Australia.

 

But Mr Mallah said Australians could travel with the FSA to the frontline "and assist them in non-lethal jihad".

 

"Jihad is not just about taking up arms and fighting, it can also be undertaken without breaking laws," he said. "There are several methods of being involved in the struggle."

 

Mr Mallah's tips on Facebook for Australians wanting to travel to Syria and engage in non-combative jihad are:

 

1. Help a fighter who has just been shot or injured and attend to him or taking him to the local hospital for treatment or aid.

 

2. Be on the frontline and use knowledge from sheiks or scholars to remind fighters what is required in jihad from a combatant.

 

3. Look after humanitarian aid, and prepare food, carry water or carry the flag while walking, running, ducking for cover or being in live cross fire.

 

4. Use your phone or camera on the frontline to record the fighting. So long as you don't engage in a hostile act, or recruit fighters, under Australian law, you are safe from prosecution.

 

5. Jihad is not just physically fighting the enemy, but be careful. Any of these activities is as dangerous as rebel fighting and the enemy does not discriminate between a fighter and an assistant helping on the frontline.

Both are considered targets, both are considered struggles and both result in Shahada (martyrdom) if killed.

 

6. Remember the frontline is scary business. It's safer to assist or help at check points or road checks that are liberated by the FSA, where there are many fighters patrolling the streets, and where you can sit, pray, eat and help out, according to your ability. Just look out for fighter jets - then run!

 

7. Humanitarian aid in refugee camps in Syria and in Turkey is generally the the best way to become involved and is safer again than check point positions and frontline. However, you might need to travel with a doctor or a nurse or gain a permit by officials to be allowed entry to these camps.

 

Mr Mallah said he calls his list "safe Jihad, without prosecution".

 

"It is however, up to you how you go about your struggle," he said.

 

Mr Mallah, who is studying for a Bachelor of Arts in security, terrorism and counter-terrorism from Murdoch University, is setting up an Australian office for the Free Syrian Army.

 

Read more:

http://www.news.com.au/world-news/australian-ex-terrorist-accuseds-top-tips-

for-joining-jihad/story-fndir2ev-1226645042913#ixzz2TW4o4f5T

 

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