""The British government has started an investigation after the revelation
that some British Muslims of Pakistani origin have joined extremist groups in
Syria to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al Assad.
British
journalist John Cantlie and Jeroen Oerlemans were captured almost immediately
after crossing the Turkish border and held for a week at an extremist training
camp in northwestern Syria, revealed British extremists with “Birmingham and
South London accents”, who were among a group that shot a British war
photographer and his Dutch colleague after taking them hostage in Syria last
week.(...)
He added that they spoke of being under the leadership of an unidentified “amir”. Oerlemans told Dutch media, “They were definitely quite extreme in their religious beliefs. All day we were spoken to about the holy Quran and how they would bring sharia law to Syria. I don’t think they were al Qaeda, they seemed too amateurish for that. They said, ‘We’re not al Qaeda, but al-Qaeda is down the road’. They would cock their weapons and say, ‘Prepare for the afterlife’, or, ‘You better repent and accept Islam’. It was pretty terrifying, I can assure you.”" (thanks "Ibn Rushd")
He added that they spoke of being under the leadership of an unidentified “amir”. Oerlemans told Dutch media, “They were definitely quite extreme in their religious beliefs. All day we were spoken to about the holy Quran and how they would bring sharia law to Syria. I don’t think they were al Qaeda, they seemed too amateurish for that. They said, ‘We’re not al Qaeda, but al-Qaeda is down the road’. They would cock their weapons and say, ‘Prepare for the afterlife’, or, ‘You better repent and accept Islam’. It was pretty terrifying, I can assure you.”" (thanks "Ibn Rushd")
