Who fight or train with isis should be kicked out of uk
Manchester Arena when local-born Salman Abedi – the British-born son of Libyan refugees – detonated a suicide belt killing 22.
Alan, currently at home on leave in the north-east of Scotland but preparing to return to the war-torn region, said fighters like Abedi were the biggest challenge in defeating ISIS.
And the former British Army soldier said they should be treated as terrorists-in-waiting by British security services when they return – regardless of what they claim.
He said: “We need to stop ISIS in their tracks.
“Foreign ISIS fighters rarely get taken alive.
“They are the most extreme out of them all, particularly the western and Chechen ones.
“They are prepared to die for their cause, whereas local fighters are illeducated and maybe just in it for a wage.
“You have Brits and other Europeans travelling to Syria for fighting and training and then coming home to the UK and walking our streets freely.
“Regardless of how good our security services are, it is impossible to monitor all of them, all of the time.
“We need to remember they are members of illegal terror organisations and should be treated that way.
“When they are discovered to have returned to the UK, they should be deported to the country where they have fought, stripped of their British citizenship and forced to face justice there.
“If the countries don’t want them back they should be held in solitary confinement in the UK until they do want them.”