THE TERRORIST'S FRIEND
JEREMY Corbyn was branded "naive to the point of being dangerous" after he insisted the world's most wanted terrorist should have been arrested and put on trial.
The Labour leader said detaining murderous IS boss Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi would have been the "right thing to do".
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The jihadist blew up himself and his three kids with a suicide vest before US soldiers could get to him in a raid last month.
Mr Corbyn had been widely condemned for his silence on al-Baghdadi, but speaking on LBC he insisted the "right thing to do" would have been to put him before the International Criminal Court.
The Labour leader said: "If it would have been possible to arrest him, I don't know the details of the circumstances at the time.
"I have only seen various statements put out by the US about it...surely that would have been the right thing to do. If we want to live in a world of peace and justice we should practice it as well."
Boris Johnson said his latest comments exposed how Mr Corbyn's ignorance would endanger Britain’s national security if he ever got into No10.
The PM said: "Let’s make no bones about it, al-Baghdadi was absolutely a diabolical foe of this country and of our liberal values and was responsible for untold murders.
“I don’t think it’s realistic that he could be just apprehended by the police in the circumstances he was finally run to ground."
I think his approach is naive to the point of being dangerous
Boris Johnson
On Mr Corbyn, the Tory boss added: “I think his approach is naïve, and naïve to the point of being dangerous.”
The Labour leader - who was branded a "terrorist sympathiser" today by a Church of Scotland minister during an election campaign visit - said he would have preferred to see the ISIS leader face trial.
He had previously called it a "tragedy" 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden was killed by the US rather than being put on trial.
He claimed the al-Qaeda warlord's 2011 execution left the world a "more dangerous" place.
Speaking to LBC today Mr Corbyn said: "If it's possible to arrest somebody and put them on trial, then that is what should have been done and that is what I said about the death [of Bin Laden] in 2011 and it would continue to be my principle.
"If we believe, as we do, in international law and justice and the power of the International Court of Justice, then we should everything we can to bring people, where they deserve to go trial, to be put on trial as was [Slobodan] Milosevic and others."
However he admitted the ISIS chief being "removed from the scene" was a "very good thing".
If it's possible to arrest somebody, then that is what should have been done and that is what I said about the death [of Bin Laden] in 2011
Jeremy Corbyn
Tory security minister Brandon Lewis said Mr Corbyn’s comments were “yet more proof of his flawed judgement and inability to stand up to people who reject our values.”
He added: "Every time he is given the opportunity to take the side of this country's enemies he does so.”
Tory candidate Andrew Bridgen said arresting the ISIS chief "may have put the lives of the soldiers in danger."
He added: "He is responsible for some of the most heinous crimes committed by Islamic State, many of which against UK citizens.
"This is reinforcing what we already know about Mr Corbyn. He has an inexplicable friendly attitude to terrorists and a history of it."
Former Labour MP John Mann added: “Baghdadi blew himself up with a suicide belt. An arrest might have been slightly difficult in these circumstances.”
Mr Corbyn was also criticised for his controversial stance by Tory election candidate Michael Fabricant.
He said: "So easy. 'Well, Mr al-Baghdadi, we understand you are the military leader of ISIS. Please accompany me to the nearest police station.' What planet is Jeremy Corbyn on?"
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Jeremy Corbyn: Bin Laden death was a tragedy
JEREMY Corbyn has a long history of criticising the treatment of terrorists, most famously the world’s previously most wanted man — Osama bin Laden.
He told Iranian TV soon after US special forces killed the 9/11 mastermind in 2011 that he should have been put on trial.
In 1984 he hosted Linda Quigley and Gerard McLoughlin in Parliament, despite both being convicted of IRA terrorism.
Two years later he was arrested for protesting outside the Old Bailey trial of Brighton bomber Patrick Magee. And in 2000 Mr Corbyn shared a platform with Brendan McKenna, who was jailed for a bombing in Portadown during the Troubles.
In 2010 Mr Corbyn boasted of having a take-away with Hamas boss Khaled Mashal, who has urged jihadis to use knives and cars to slaughter innocents.
More recently he attended a wreath-laying ceremony for the Palestinian terrorists behind the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. And he has also said the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas, whose militant wing is classed as a terror group, are his friends.
It comes after Mr Trump said the Labour boss would take Britain to "such bad places" if he were to win the December 12 election.
In an interview with Nigel Farage on LBC, the US President said: "Mr Corbyn would be so bad for your country, he'd be so bad, he'd take you in such a bad way.
"He'd take you into such bad places. But your country has tremendous potential, it's a great country."
But Mr Corbyn immediately fired back - accusing Trump of trying to interfere in the election to get his "friend" Boris re-elected.
Last month the President announced al-Baghdadi had "whimpered, cried and screamed like a coward" as he was cornered in a tunnel at his hideout before he detonated a suicide vest killing himself and three of his children.
The president triumphantly called it a "great night for the US and for the world" as they had brought the "world's greater terrorist leader to justice".
Mr Trump told how those involved in the raid "brought body parts" back with them, even though there "wasn't much left" of al-Baghdadi's body "but there are still substantial pieces that they brought back...they have his DNA, more of it than they want."
Every time Jeremy Corbyn is given the opportunity to take the side of this country's enemies he does so
Brandon Lewis
Reacting to the news, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: "The death of Baghdadi is an important moment in our fight against terror but the battle against the evil of Daesh (ISIS) is not yet over.
"We will work with our coalition partners to bring an end to the murderous, barbaric activities of Daesh once and for all."
Mr Corbyn's intervention comes as he was branded a "terrorist sympathiser" today.
As he stopped to tell reporters about a scarf he was wearing, which had been given to him by representatives of the Who Cares Scotland charity, he was interrupted by Richard Cameron.
The minster at Scotstoun Parish Church shouted: "I thought you'd be wearing your Islamic jihad scarf.
"Do you think that the man who is going to be prime minister of this country should be a terrorist sympathiser, Mr Corbyn?
"Who's going to be the first terrorist invited to the House of Commons when you're prime minister?"
Corbyn criticises West's strikes against IS extremists
JEREMY Corbyn has repeatedly criticised the West’s strikes against murderous IS extremists.
When Jihadi John was killed in a US drone strike in 2015, the Labour leader said it would have been “far better” if the brutal executioner had been tried in a court of law.
And he later blamed the UK for the crimes Jihadi John had committed, such as the sickening beheading of aid worker and former taxi driver Alan Henning.
Mr Corbyn said the killing, which was filmed by IS and broadcast around the world, was the “price of jingoism” by the West.
The leftie also linked the 2017 Manchester bombing, which killed 22 people including children, to the West’s foreign policy and said Labour would “change what we do abroad”.
Mr Corbyn has refused to say whether he would have used a drone strike against British terrorist Sally Jones.
She was killed by a strike in 2017 but the Labour leader said she should have been put on trial.
Mr Corbyn’s repeated failure to condemn IS terrorists comes despite the litany of atrocities the group has carried out, including its genocide of thousands of Yazidis in Iraq, brutal beheadings and throwing gay people off rooftops.
Mr Corbyn did not react to Mr Cameron, and was then ushered into the community centre by Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard.
Mr Cameron then accused Mr Corbyn of "running away".
On Monday a furious homeowner accused the Labour boss of being a "terrorist supporter" after activists turned up at his front door asking for his vote.
The Labour leader has previously been seeing wearing a Palestinian Keffiyeh scarf when attending events against Israeli military action on Gaza.
He was in Glasgow before heading to two Lanarkshire constituencies - despite senior party figures fearing "toxic" Mr Corbyn’s trip could backfire.
Mr Corbyn has also been repeatedly criticised for meeting the leaders of Sinn Fein in the 1980s and 1990s when the IRA was still conducting a terror campaign against the UK.
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He also invited two convicted IRA volunteers to the House of Commons in October 1984 two weeks after an IRA bomb killed five people at the Conservative Party conference in Brighton.
Meanwhile at a meeting of Stop the War Coalition in Parliament in 2009, Corbyn referred to invited members of Hezbollah and Hamas as "friends".
Both Hezbollah and the military wing of Hamas are considered terrorist organisations by the Government.
The Sun says
ANOTHER triumphant day for Labour.
A heckler correctly brands Corbyn a terrorist sympathiser. A fact Corbyn cunningly confirms by regretting that IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi wasn’t arrested before he could blow himself up.
Labour’s health spokesman denies they would impose a crippling four-day week on the NHS, only to be humiliatingly corrected by the shadow chancellor.
The party’s conference policy of “free movement” for all-comers is forecast to almost quadruple net annual migration to a jaw-dropping 840,000.
An ex-Labour minister tells voters to back Boris. And the Communist Party stands down its candidates because its policies are no different from Labour’s.
Every single non-Tory vote propels these mad extremists towards power.
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