Anti-Muslim US biker gang running security at contentious Gaza aid sites: Report
A British media investigation has revealed that members of an anti-Islamic US biker gang with a history of violent rhetoric against Muslims are providing security at controversial US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid sites across the besieged Gaza Strip.
The investigation by the UK's state-run BBC News confirmed the identities of several members of the Infidels Motorcycle Club working in Gaza for UG Solutions, a private contractor providing "security" at GHF aid distribution points across the besieged strip.
Infidels MC was set up by US veterans of the Iraq war in 2006, and its members comport themselves as latter-day crusaders.
At least 40 of about 320 people hired to work for UG Solutions in Gaza were recruited from Infidels MC, according to an estimate by a former contractor.
UG Solutions is paying each contractor $980 per day, including expenses, rising to $1,580 per day for team leaders at GHF’s “safe distribution sites.”
The gang is currently spreading Islamophobic sentiments on its Facebook page and other social media platforms.
Social media posts show that in May, just two weeks before traveling to Gaza, the gang’s leader, Johnny “Taz” Mulford, sought to recruit US military veterans from his Facebook followers, inviting anyone who “can still shoot, move, and communicate” to apply.
Edward Ahmed Mitchell, deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a leading Muslim civil rights organization in the U,S said the gang bore all the hallmarks of anti-Muslim hate group,s which for decades have used the name “Infidels.”
Mulford, a former sergeant in the US Army, has the date 1095 tattooed across his chest.
“When you see anti-Muslim bigots today celebrating 1095, celebrating the crusades, they are celebrating the wholesale massacre of Muslims — the erasure of Muslims and Jews from the holy city of al-Quds,” said Mitchell.
The report comes as GHF faces mounting international scrutiny, with hundreds of Palestinians killed while seeking aid at its distribution sites.
Scenes of chaos and pandemonium are commonplace at GHF distribution sites in Gaza.
As of the beginning of this month, at least 1,135 children, women, and men were killed near the sites while seeking humanitarian aid.
The UN has said most of the killings appear to have been carried out by Israeli forces.
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