In which the pond renews acquaintance with arch criminal law-breaker, Fred of the Nile ...

The Terrorists made it a feature this day ... Australia Day of all times ... and so the pond just had to pay attention to the fate of the hapless Fred ...

Now according to the clueless, hapless Fred, it's all Obama's fault, and it's some dark, devious conspiracy that's been at work ...

And now since the Yanks don't seem to want to talk and Fred doesn't seem to understand, perhaps the pond can help ...

This photo is a good starting point ...

And then there's this story ... you can google the source if you like and want to meet up with "info" but this is what turned up online ...

Yes, it's that sort of organisation, a PO box and an email address ...

But there were handy photos featuring our Fred of the Nile ...

Now at the time it didn't go unnoticed by others ...

Indeed, that posting here provided a handy link to a Fairfax story here quoting gorgeous George ...

Senator Brandis said: ''Australians travelling to Iraq or Syria to engage in, or support, terrorist activities are not only committing criminal offences, but may face personal risks such as being kidnapped, seriously injured or killed.'' 

He said it was illegal for any Australian, including dual citizens, to ''fight, provide funding, provide training, or supply weapons to the conflict in Syria or Iraq''.

The posting also provided a link to Fred at Facebook ...

Well the pond, not wanting to support criminal activities, has provided a screen cap, so that link which enabled financial support for Dwekh-Nawsha doesn't work ...

What was that thing gorgeous George said?

Senator Brandis said: ''Australians travelling to Iraq or Syria to engage in, or support, terrorist activities are not only committing criminal offences, but may face personal risks such as being kidnapped, seriously injured or killed.'' 

He said it was illegal for any Australian, including dual citizens, to ''fight, provide funding, provide training, or supply weapons to the conflict in Syria or Iraq''.

Um Fred, please have a chat with gorgeous George ...

When asked about the wisdom of his Facebook splash and link, Fred came back with a bit of classic dissembling ...

Um, Fred, you didn't speak to gorgeous George, did you?

You know, the bit about it being illegal to provide funding...

Oh you good old Xian lawbreaker, you arch criminal you ...

Okay, here's a profile which inter alia, includes details of the group supported by Fred Nile ...the pond particularly enjoyed the header featuring ex-skinheads and angry white men ...

The piece profiled a couple of the soldiers fighting with the group, including one self-confessedly suffering PTSD from Afghanistan who saw it as a good way to get back into the action, and another Scottish lad, with good Christian views ...

...Daesh [an Arabic acronym for IS] is growing in Great Britain. Unfortunately, in my country, I can't do anything, I can't say anything, or I will go to prison. My only other option to do something about it is to come here, where I can get a weapon, where I can fight Daesh," he says. An admirer of Britain First, a far-right nationalist party that rails against the perceived 'Islamisation' of the country, James believes that Muslim extremism is spread by "out-breeding" Britain's white population. 
"Britain in a few years will be a Muslim country, a complete Muslim country," he says. 
His urgency is not only informed by his beliefs. Approaching 50 and divorced, he was stuck in a rut at home and looking for purpose in life. "This is my last chance to do anything good, because I am getting older," he says. 
These are words that 52-year-old Jim Atherton from the English town of Washington can relate to. A former skinhead and white van driver, Atherton spent over 20 years delivering cargo across Europe. "To be honest, I was looking for something else," says the father-of-three, wearing combat trousers and Doc Martin boots. "I've got a colourful history, and I'm getting on in life. I want to say I've done something." 

This is how the story wrapped up ...

With its adept use of the media, the tiny Christian group has learned a valuable lesson from its mighty enemy on the other side of the trench. Compared with IS, whose online recruitment efforts and propaganda have convinced thousands of foreign fighters to join its ranks, Dwekh's efforts are paltry. But in spite of a very different cause, the foreigners facing off on the plains of Nineveh have a few things in common: On both sides, men are searching for a purpose in life. They hold some suspect views, and they are looking to escape their problems at home. Atherton refuses elaborate on his colourful past, but it prevented him from joining the army in spite of several attempts.

Suspect views, colourful pasts, and looking to escape from their problems at home by joining the fight ...

And Fred helping with the funding ...

Now the pond has to say that it loathes Daesh, perhaps even more than it loathes fundamentalist Fred, since Daesh throws gays off buildings, and the best Fred can manage at the moment is to send them to hell or call down rain on the Mardi Gras.

So it hopes the fight against Daesh goes well, though not if fundamentalist Islam is only replaced by fundamentalist Xianity ...

Meanwhile, the law is the law ... and you'd think a member of parliament might know it.

So here's another tip Fred.

Here's what Australia's fearless leadership had to say in the context of former Labor Party NT president Matthew Gardiner wandering off to join Kurdish fighters in Syria (in full at the ABC here).

And so back to Fred of the Nile's recent predicament.

It's all Obama's fault?

You really are more than a little dumb, aren't you Fred?

Though perhaps not as dumb as the Terrorists, who might have included all this in their story, it only being a click of a mouse away from them ... instead of just joining Fred in lumping it all at Obama's feet ...

Surely a little credit should go the way of Fred himself ... stumbling like a dummy into a war zone and ignoring gorgeous George and his great bookcases...

And so, as a way of wrapping things up, a few items from the pond's archive, celebrating  our very own ancient Fred of the Nile ...

God might well forgive Sydney. But will She ever forgive Fred?