New ‘Jihadi John’ Islamic State executioner identified

Britain’s independent reviewer of terrorism laws said the main failing in the Dhar case was not asking him to hand over his travel papers immediately.

Rumaysah, who was born a Hindu and called Siddhartha Dhar, was arrested in September 2014 – when he was 31 – along with eight other men as part of an investigation into alleged support of the banned extremist group al-Muhajiroun.

Since leaving Britain he gained further attention through online videos in which he exhorted life under ISIS.

He said his daughter “should come back and face the music because she has let herself down”.

British media have reportedly spoken to family and former neighbors of Dhar, who believe that he is the Daesh spokesperson in question.

The boy was identified by his grandfather as the son of a British woman who travelled to Syria in 2012. He spoke with a British accent and threatened the United Kingdom with terrorist attacks.

The man suspected to be Dhar plays a key role in an ISIS video released over the weekend that shows five people being executed with pistols.

His sister, Konika, told the BBC this week that she was in a state of denial that this could be her brother but said the voice sounded familiar, although she was not entirely sure.

British officials are investigating how Dhar could have traveled to Syria if he had given up his passport, as he should have, when he was released on bail.

Two facial recognition experts have told Sky News they believe the masked killer is not Dhar.

This has led some to dub him the new “Jihadi John,” the same nickname given to the British-born ISIS executioner later identified as Mohammed Emwazi, who is believed to have been killed in an airstrike late a year ago. But she also has said that the man in the video does not look like her brother.

“The system has failed because it allowed him to abscond to Syria” Andy Burnham the home affairs spokesman for the opposition Labour Party said in Parliament on Tuesday. Leech claims Dhar loved the football club Arsenal and rock band Nirvana.

“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”.

“To remember him like that and then see him supposedly in this video, I don’t understand that”, he said, adding that Dhar must have had some very significant experiences in Syria with Islamic State to make him capable of doing what he did.

British authorities have not yet confirmed the identity of the man or the child in the video.

In one video on his YouTube site, Dhar distances himself to some extent from the killing of US and British citizens who were apparently beheaded by Jihadi John. He appeared masked and wielding a knife in a series of ISIS propaganda videos featuring the beheadings of Western hostages, including Americans Steven Sotloff and James Foley.