THE SUN: CHANTING fundamentalist bile, extremist Abu Jibreel was on the front line battling police officers during a mock "funeral" for Osama Bin Laden.
With his beard and flowing robes, the follower of hate preacher Anjem Choudary was happy to tell anyone who would listen that he wants to bring down democracy and see adulterers stoned and drinkers flogged.
It is only when Jibreel's head scarf shifts to reveal a St George Cross and the word "England" tattooed on the nape of his neck that he betrays another life lived.
The Sun can reveal that the 39-year-old Muslim convert was born Paul Steven Mellor in Cheshire.
And just a few short years ago he was serving Queen and country as a Lance Corporal in the elite Irish Guards regiment — rather than trying to establish an Islamic state in Britain where women would be forced to cover up and music would be banned.
The former Church of England Sunday school boy even claims he guarded the royal palaces and marched in the Trooping the Colour in red tunic and bearskin during his nine-year Army career.
Jibreel's respectable family have turned their backs on him.
The dad-of-three told The Sun: "I was a soldier of the Queen, now I'm a soldier of Allah. I was on sentry duty at Buckingham Palace, I did Trooping the Colour. Now I'm against democracy. The system stinks. Read on and comment » | Oliver Harvey, Chief Feature Writer | Saturday, October 01, 2011
