Several British news organizations identified the masked man who speaks in the video as former London resident Siddhartha Dhar, 32, also known as Abu Rumaysah.
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Helen Bowers, spokeswoman for Prime Minister David Cameron, said an initial assessment has been completed but that officials will not comment on the identities of the people involved “at any stage of the process”.
“I don’t expect us to confirm our assessment of who this individual is at any stage in the process”.
The United States said in November it had killed Mohammed Emwazi, who as “Jihadi John” had become a symbol of Islamic State.
Dhar ran a business renting out bouncy castles in London, before converting to Islam and joining the radical Islamist group Al Muhajiroun. However, despite the lack of travel documents, he skipped bail and fled to France by bus with his family.
Meanwhile, London mayor Boris Johnson said the boy should be taken from his parents if he returns to the UK.
He said Dhar had never struck him as violent, and had always been friendly.
Mr Anderson played down suggestions that security agencies should have been monitoring Dhar, saying: “There are thousands of people who are subjects of interest. I am going to kill him myself”. “I can’t disown him”.
Siddartha Dhar – a bouncy-castle salesman from Walthamstow – is alleged to be the sinister voice behind a propaganda video showing five men being executed.
His mother, Sobita Dhar said: “I heard the voice, yes, but I don’t know, I’m not sure of the voice”.
He is being called the new “Jihadi John” by the British media.
A man widely reported by British media as the masked gunman in a new Daesh execution video is a Londoner of Hindu origin.
It also features a young boy wearing camouflage clothing and black headband, saying “We are going to go kill the kuffar (non-believers) over there” in what appears to be a British accent. After his father died when he was still a teenager, Dhar dropped out of school and converted to Islam under the influence of terrorist recruiter Mizanur Rahman, taking up the name Abu Rumaysah.
However, security experts believe that the man appears to be Dhar.
The child was identified by a man claiming to be the child’s grandfather, according to Britain’s Channel 4 News.
He said: “He (Isa) doesn’t know anything”.
Khadijah Dare is also a keen propagandist for the group who has posted images of herself and her toddler son pointing rifles on social media. “All of us, she’s let us down”.
One of the men says he had been asked to provide information about the location of IS militants, including two Britons, apparently to help target them with air strikes.
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“I was in a state of shock”, she told BBC.
