They were accused of spying against the IS for Britain.
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There are hundreds of Britons believed to be in Syria and Iraq, and authorities are continuing to look at a number of possible suspects.
Meanwhile, one of Dhar’s former business associates told the BBC he had “no doubt” that the voice on the video was Dhar’s. “Decisions as to whether someone is put on police bail are operational matters for the police”, she said in Parliament.
Both his relatives and others who know him told British media outlets that there was a similarity between Dhar’s voice and that of the masked Islamic State spokesman who called Prime Minister David Cameron an “imbecile”. It was when he failed to comply with those bail conditions that it emerged he had absconded. “What a shoddy security system Britain must have to allow me to breeze through Europe to the Islamic State”, he wrote in the tweet.
A terror propaganda photo in 2014 showed her son, Isa, holding an AK-47 rifle.
Dhar, also known as Abu Rumaysah, fled Britain in 2014 while on bail.
Dhar’s mother and sister both watched the video and noted that the masked attacker sounded like him, according to the Telegraph.
Government spokeswoman Helen Bower said the Prime Minister would not comment on the identities of those involved.
A file picture shows a man identified by local media as Siddharta Dhar (centre in white) as he takes part in a demonstration outside the USA embassy in central London, September 11, 2011. What’s known about him? Shiraz Maher, senior research fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, told Sky News that he was “in a minority of people saying I’m not convinced that it is him”. Dhar, who is now believed to be 32, has spoken openly about his extremist views to the BBC, CBS News and Vice prior to fleeing the U.K. During a BBC debate on why British Muslims were joining ISIS, Dhar said: “For 90 years we have been without a caliphate and numerous rules within the Koran can not be implemented”.
“I was just in a bit of, sort of state of shock, because…”
“How odd it is that a leader of a small island threatens us with a handful of planes”, he says, referring to Britain’s recent vote to join U.S.-led airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria. “I know him very well”, he said, adding that he was being used for propaganda and “as a shield”.
“I am not taking it as he is my grandson to be in that situation”.
“Naturally it is my grandson, but this is not what God gave me”.
He said his daughter “should come back and face the music because she has let herself down”.
Grace Dare was brought up as a Christian but converted to Islam and started using the first name Khadijah.
“I thought it was unusual she wouldn’t read anything else”, he said.
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Mr Johnson said that the boy’s involvement amounted to “child abuse”. “I think we have a duty of care”.
