Shaker Aamer tells jihadists to "get the hell out"

Shaker Aamer, a British residence was held at Guantanamo Bay, and was finally released from detention after 14 years without charge on 30^th October 2015.

Aamer was working as an Islamic charity in Afghanistan when abducted by the Northern Alliance in November 2001, and then passed to the Americans. He allegedly claims that there were British officials who were present in the room when he was being tortured. He said, “They were accusing me of fighting with Bin Laden in the battle of Tora Bora, of being in charge of weapons stores; of being a terrorist recruiter, though I'd only been in Afghanistan for a few weeks.

The SNP's foreign affairs spokesman, Alex Salmond had stated, “The not unreasonable allegation that Shaker Aamer makes is that both the prime minister, Tony Blair, and then home secretary, Jack Straw, must have known not just about his illegal abduction but also about his torture at the hands of the US authorities.”

Although he was unfairly detained and allegedly tortured for several years, Shaker Aamer has not become cynical or negative. And in no way will he support and extremist. He said that if he ever came across a prospective jihadist, he would tell them to “get the hell out”. He said, “How can you give yourself the right to be living here in this country, and living with the people and acting like you are a normal person... and then you just walk in the street and try to kill people? Even if there is a war you cannot kill just anybody, you cannot kill kids, you cannot kill chaplains, you cannot just go in the street and get a knife and start stabbing people. If you are that angry about this country, you can get the hell out.”