Top British general channels Liam Neeson’s famous speech from Taken to warn Brits not to join ISIS
Major General Rupert Jones told would-be jihadis they would be hunted down without mercy if they came to Syria or Iraq
BRITAIN’s top commander in Iraq and Syria has channelled Liam Neeson’s famous speech from the film Taken to warn Brits against travelling join ISIS.
Major General Rupert Jones said it did not matter where jihadis came from, they would all be treated the same, telling would-be militants: "We will target you, we will find you, and we will kill you."
He said: "If you come to Iraq, if you come to Syria, and you bear arms against the people of Iraq and the people of Syria, against the sovereign forces of this country in Iraq, we will target you.
"It does not matter where you are from, we will target you under the laws of armed conflict.
"And it does not matter whether you come from London or Rome, we will target you, we will find you, and we will kill you."
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The chilling warning seemed to echo Liam Neeson’s threatening speech to his daughter’s kidnappers in the 2008 Hollywood blockbuster Taken.
Neeson’s character, who blazes a bloody trail through those who have crossed him, tells the gangsters: “If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you.
“But if you don't – I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”
Jones, the deputy commander of the international anti-ISIS coalition, also had a warning for ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, saying: "If we knew where he was hiding, his life would not last long.
"The point that is important is that the vast majority of his loyal lieutenants are already in graves.
"He and what is left of his leadership structure is in hiding. They are skulking and they are hiding for their lives.
"I am reasonably confident that he will be found, and when he is found, it will not be a pretty end for him."
Jones said he was “very confident” ISIS would soon be defeated as Iraqi and Kurdish forces continue to push through their former stronghold of Mosul.
And he said attention was beginning to turn to the group’s capital in Syria.
He said: "All eyes at the moment are on Raqqa – the self-proclaimed capital of what they like to call the caliphate.
";Raqqa is increasingly isolated, both physically and morally. We would expect the attack into Raqqa to start at some point over the coming weeks."
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