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British Isa Dare in the new propaganda video
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Islamic
State video shows British boy known as 'Junior Jihadi' blowing up three
prisoners
Execution footage is the
second time Isa Dare – known as "Junior Jihadi" – has appeared in one
of the group's propaganda films
By Robert Tait, Los Angeles
A British boy
believed to be aged four and nicknamed “junior jihadi”
has been filmed blowing up three prisoners in the latest grisly execution video
released by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).
In exploitative
footage that is shocking even by Isil’s standards, Isa Dare, whose mother Grace “Khadija” Dare is a convert to Islam who has sworn
allegiance to the jihadist group, is seen pressing a button on what appears to
be a remote control device seconds before a car containing four alleged “spies”
goes up in a ball of flames.
Wearing a black Isil headband and military-style
fatigues, the boy announced to the camera beforehand that “we are going to kill
the kuffars (non-believers) over there”. He is then seen standing beside the
car’s burnt-out remains, triumphantly punching the air and shouting: “Allahu
akbar.”
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| Isa Dare is wearing camouflage and a black headscarf with an Isil logo |
The men inside
the car, wearing handcuffs and orange jumpsuits, confessed their crimes to the
camera and appear resigned to their fates before the vehicle explodes.
It is the second
time Isa, who was brainwashed after his 24-year-old mother took him to Syria, has
appeared in an Isil propaganda film.
In the latest video, believed to have been shot in Isil’s de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria,
he is accompanied by a masked man
who issues a threat to David Cameron for
arming groups in Syria who are fighting the jihadists.
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| Khadijah Dare with her Swedish Isis fighter husband |
"You will never fight us except behind fortified fortresses or
behind walls,” says the man, speaking in an English accent.
“So no David Cameron….you’ve only done two things.
"Firstly,
when you sent your spies to Syria and when you authorised for your men,
thousands of miles away, to push a button to kill our brothers who lived in the
West.
"So today, we’re going to kill your spies the same way they helped
you kill our brothers.
“So prepare your army and gather your nations as we too are preparing
our army.”
Islamic State (Isil)
What is Isil?
An Islamic extremist group controlling
territory in Syria and Iraq
What is it called?
In the West, the group is usually
known as Isil (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) or Isis (Islamic State of
Iraq and Syria). In June, the militants said they wanted to simply be called
Islamic State in recognition of the self-declared caliphate
What about 'Daesh'?
Daesh is an abbreviation Dawlat
al-Islamiyah f'al-Iraq wa al-Sham, and is the derogatory name used by many
Muslims for Isil. Following the Paris attacks, the French government is now
using this term
What are its aims?
A worldwide Islamic caliphate - a
religious government - without borders
What terror attacks has it
carried out?
Isil has claimed responsibility
for the Paris attacks of 13 November 2015, the explosion of a plane travelling
from Egypt to Russia, and the individual killings of Western hostages,
including James Foley and Alan Henning
How is the group funded?
Looting, extortion and the
possession of oilfields providing an estimated £1.8m in revenue per day
How much territory does Isil
control?
An area of the Middle East that
is roughly the size of Belgium
Where is it based?
Isil's HQ is understood to be in
the city of Raqqa, Syria
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