ISIS few days back had released a new video in which they killed so called spies and threatened to invade Britain calling UK Prime Minister an ‘imbecile’. It is now being analysed if the man in the execution is Britisher Siddhartha Dhar.
According to a report in the BBC, Dhar was the focus of investigations into the video, which purports to show the killing of five men ISIS says were spies.
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“A lot of people think it is him,” a source said to BBC, although there has been no official confirmation.
Dhar was a Hindu who converted to Islam and joined the Islamic State. Before this, he had joined the radical Islamist group al-Muhajiroun, which is now banned in the UK. He is now known as Abu Rumaysah. He was arrested in 2014 but jumped bail, says the report.
Al-Muhajiroun, founded by British extremist preacher Anjem Choudary, was banned a few years ago, leading to the formation of Islam4UK. Choudary is currently languishing in jail for helping garner support for ISIS.
Hailing from Walthamstow in east London, Siddhartha Dhar is a father of four children. After jumping bail, he fled to Syria to join Islamic State.
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Siddhartha Dhar aka Abu Rumaysah would regularly attend Al-Muhajiroun demonstrations against the US, Israel, Arab regimes or any other cause the group believed to be un-Islamic.
He would stand outside mosques on Friday afternoons, seeking to find new followers to the radical network’s way of thinking. He would post videos online and rarely turned down an opportunity to speak to the media, promoting his radical views.
Dhar’s sister according to BBC reports is unsure if the latest ISIS video is of her brother.
“I was in a state of shock,” said Konika Dhar. “I believed the audio to resemble, from what I remember, the voice of my brother but having viewed the short clip in detail, I wasn’t entirely convinced which put me at ease”.