Mr Anderson said that Dhar had been arrested under standard police procedures, rather than anti-terror laws which would have allowed less time for a decision on charges to be made.
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As with Mohammed Emwazi, the British propagandist for Isis who was for months the subject of an intense media hunt, there is already a lot of speculation on social media about the identify of the latest Briton involved and the boy.
ISIS’ new “Jihadi John” may be a well-known British radical, authorities tell ABC News. US officials said they were “reasonably certain” Emwazi was killed in an airstrike.
In the video, five men, wearing jumpsuits and kneeling in a desert location, appear to be shot in the back of the head, after making what is claimed to be their confessions.
In the video, the English-speaking militant rails against British Prime Minister David Cameron for waging war against Islamic State.
The child appears near the end of the terror group’s new 11-minute video, vowing to “go kill” non-believers.
Dhar went on to become a prolific figure among radical Islamists in London, frequently attending demonstrations against the U.S., Israel, Arab regimes or or any other cause the group believed to be un-Islamic, the BBC reports.
“I believed the audio to resemble, from what I remember, the voice of my brother”, she said.
His sister told media the voice of the militant in the video sounds like her brother although she was not sure it was him.
“I cried and I was like, ‘oh my God what is he doing?’ I’m just going to strangle him when I see him, but this is assuming it is him”. He often took part in debate programs and would also post videos online and stand outside mosques on Friday afternoons searching for new followers. But this is an organisation that’s losing territory, it’s losing ground, it’s, I think, increasingly losing anybody’s sympathy, and this again shows what an appalling organisation we’re up against. “As a Muslim I would like to see the United Kingdom governed by the Sharia”, he reportedly said during the interview. It is far superior to democracy.
When asked if he felt British, he replied: “I identify myself as a Muslim. I am Muslim first, second and last”.
The jihadi was able to leave Britain for Syria in September 2014 despite being on police bail and having been arrested on six occasions. “I’ll need to understand the circumstances in which that decision was taken”.
Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham today called for an inquiry into a “serious lapse in security”, saying: “How can someone on bail for terrorism-related offences travel to Syria?”
David Cameron has condemned a new Islamic State propaganda video as “desperate stuff” from an organisation that is guilty of perpetrating “utterly despicable and ghastly acts”.
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Using another name for Isis, the prime minister’s spokeswoman said: “We are examining the content of the video, and the prime minister is being kept updated on that”. Britain will never be cowed by this sort of terrorism, our values are so much stronger than theirs.
