Million dollar suicide bomb
Laughing killer’s bumper payout
A BRAINWASHED British jihadi suicide bomber who blew himself up in Iraq this week was paid $1.6 million for being locked up at Guantanamo Bay.
Ronald Fiddler was filmed grinning maniacally at the camera as he sped towards an Iraqi army base in a truck laden with explosives. He was in one of three vehicles that exploded. The video of the Muslim convert, who went by the name Abu-Zakariya alBritani, was released by terror propagandists yesterday.
At least two of the jihadists managed to reach a base west of Mosul, where they killed several troops.
And last night it emerged the suicide attacker in the chilling Islamic State video was given $1.6 million in compensation for being held at the notorious jail. He was released from Guantanamo in 2004 after intense lobbying from the British Government, which said he posed no threat.
On his return to Britain he pocketed the taxpayer-funded payout and bought a house with it after accusing UK secret service agents of being complicit in his mistreatment by the Americans.
But Fiddler was able to head to Syria to join ISIS in 2014, despite security services being fully aware of his previous detention.
His wife Shukee Begum said she and their five children went to Syria to try to get him to return to the UK but failed and then had to flee for their lives from ISIS.
The US authorities concluded Fiddler was probably involved in a terrorist attack against the US after they detained him in Afghanistan in 2002. He was considered a “high threat to the US” and other Western powers.
He spent two years at Guantanamo. On his release in 2004 he was flown home and released without charge.
Iraqi troops have launched an offensive on western Mosul as they try to flush the ISIS jihadists out of their last stronghold in the city.