ISIS video suspect was ‘bouncy castle salesman from London’

The masked militant in an Islamic State video, purportedly showing the execution of five men, is believed to be a British national who formerly ran a business renting out children’s inflatable bouncy castles.

British media reported that Dhar, known as Sid, slipped out of the U.K.in 2014 even though he had been arrested on suspicion of supporting terrorism and the outlawed Islamist group Al Muhajiroun.

Henry Dare’s daughter, Khadijah, converted from Christianity to Islam before joining ISIS in Syria, The Guardian adds.

Authorities are searching through the names and details of hundreds of Britons known to have travelled to Syria and Iraq.

Meanwhile, London’s mayor said a small child shown threatening non-Muslims in the same video should be taken from his parents if the family ever returns to Britain.

“Now that we have this caliphate I think you’ll see many Muslims globally seeing it as an opportunity for the Koran to be realized”, he said in an interview on the BBC.

Although the possible link to the video has brought renewed scrutiny on Dhar, his sister said she isn’t sure he’s the man in the video and some who knew him in Britain say they can’t be positive it’s him.

British intelligence officials are analyzing the film and a security source said they had not yet reached a conclusion as to the man’s identity. He immediately made a break for Syria and joined ISIS, tweeting, “What a shoddy security system Britain must have to allow me to breeze through Europe to the Islamic State”. About 70 were believed to have been killed.

On Sunday, Isis released a video featuring a masked fighter, carrying a gun and speaking with a British accent, which showed the killing of five “spies” it said had worked with the global coalition fighting Isis jihadists in Iraq and Syria. In 2014, a British citizen named Mohammed Emwazi earned the nickname “Jihadi John” after he narrated the brutal executions of a number of Western journalists and aid workers.

The Government’s independent reviewer of anti-terror legislation, David Anderson QC, told BBC Radio 4’s World at One: “There are hundreds of people who have managed to get out of this country – people who were already known to the security service – and ended up in Syria associated with Isis”.

Lord Carlile, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, told the Press Association: “As I commented at the time of Dhar’s departure from the United Kingdom, the circumstances were a matter of real concern. Something has clearly gone very seriously wrong”, Mr Burnham told the Commons yesterday.

The British jihadist Dhar wrote a paragraph “When we descend on the streets of London, Paris and Washington the taste will be far bitterer, because not only will we spill your blood, but we will also demolish your statues, erase your history and, most painfully, convert your children who will then go on to champion our name and curse their forefathers”.

Dhar occupied Emwazi position as Jihadi John and appreciated Emwazi and said the executioner was “justified in his position” and there will be no end to the murder of hostages or captives.