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American Journalist Beheaded by Islamic state Jihadist

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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>'HE WAS AWARE OF THE DANGERS BUT BELIEVED IN WHAT HE WAS DOING': FOLEY HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN KIDNAPPED IN SYRIA, FRIEND REVEALS</b></span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">James Foley knew his job carried risks but 'believed in what he was doing' covering the Syrian conflict, a friend said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 40-year-old New Englander had been kidnapped before while covering fighting in Libya, but had been eager to get back into action, film-maker Matthew VanDyke told BBC Radio 4's Today.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said seeing news reports of his friend's death was 'a complete nightmare' and urged other reporters in Syria and Iraq to take care, saying 'if it can happen to him, it can happen to anybody'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Van Dyke said: 'He was certainly aware of the dangers, he was very professional... He had been through a rough time in Libya when he was captured and even after that he came home a little bit and then he went right back to Libya to continue reporting on that conflict.'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brave: James Wright Foley has previously been kidnapped in Libya but had been keen to remain a conflict journalist as he 'believed in what he was doing'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Van Dyke said his friend went into Syria knowing that his presence amid the conflict was as dangerous, if not more so, than it had been in Libya.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'[But] he had a love for what he did and he wanted to tell the story of the Syrian people. And nothing was going to stop him from doing that.'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After being captured in Libya, Foley was held by the government alongside a small group of other journalists, but was released and given a one-year suspended sentence on charges of illegally entering the country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In an interview about that experience, Foley said he 'would love to go back', but recalled the horror of seeing a colleague killed in a firefight. He also spoke of a love of his profession.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Journalism is journalism,' he said. 'If I had a choice to do Nashua [New Hampshire] zoning meetings or give up journalism, I'll do it. I love writing and reporting.'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In an interview the BBC in a 2012 interview that he was 'drawn to the drama of the conflict and trying to expose untold stories'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said: 'There's extreme violence, but there's a will to find who these people really are. And I think that's what's really inspiring about it.'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Journalism is journalism,' Foley said another time. 'If I had a choice to do Nashua (New Hampshire) zoning meetings or give up journalism, I'll do it. I love writing and reporting.'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His alma-mater, Marquette University said it was 'deeply saddened' by Foley's death. It said he had a heart for social justice and used his talents to tell stories in the hopes they might make a difference.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'We extend our heartfelt prayers and wishes for healing to James' family and friends during this very difficult time,' it said in a statement.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned what it called Foley's 'barbaric murder' by the Islamic State, which says his killing was retribution for recent U.S. airstrikes in Iraq.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Background: Prior to a career in conflict journalism, James Wright Foley taught reading and writing skills to convicted felons at Cook County Jail in Chicago</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">James Wright Foley, has been missing since November 2012, after being taken hostage at gunpoint by militants from the group Jabhat al Nusra while reporting from Taftanaz, northern Syria</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another American journalist, Austin Tice, is also missing after disappearing somewhere outside Damascus, Syria in August 2012.  It is not known whether he is a hostage of ISIS. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His parents learned of Foley's death as they were preparing a vigil to commemorate the two year anniversary of his kidnapping. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'The last 635 days, we have had to share a horrible nightmare, which has made us close to the Foley family and our heart goes out to them. We pray eternal rest for James' soul and comfort and peace for his family,' the Tice family said in a statement.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The friends of photojournalist James Foley are mourning his loss online, following the 40-year-old's execution by ISIS terrorists. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Foley, from Rochester, New Hampshire, was a seasoned reporter who went missing two years ago while covering the Syrian conflict. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'James Foley was a generous colleague & friend. We had beers in Antakya a week before he was taken. We talked about marriage/kids,' Buzzfeed's Middle East correspondent Sheera Frenkel tweeted. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Following a video posted online showing Foley's graphic beheading, his former employer GlobalPost issued a statement. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'On behalf of John and Diane Foley, and also GlobalPost, we deeply appreciate all of the messages of sympathy and support that have poured in since the news of Jim's possible execution first broke,' Philip Balboni, GlobalPost CEO and co-founder, said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Remembered: James Foley, reporting from Syria in 2012 before his disappearance</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mother Diane Foley talked about her son in a January 2013 interview with a local television station and said her son was 'passionate about covering the story in Syria, passionate about the people there.' </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He is the oldest of five children. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to a bio on the website Free James Foley, the journalist had traveled extensively in the Middle East and North Africa on assignment and had covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Prior to becoming a journalist, Foley helped 'empower disadvantaged individuals as a teacher and mentor, assisting them in improving their lives,' the website says. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He had been previously held captive while covering the uprising in Libya, and was released by Gaddafi's forces after six weeks. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Foley spoke about the 44 days of captivity in a video for the Boston Globe in May 2011. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'You don’t want to be defined as that guy who got captured in 2011,' he said. 'I believe that front-line journalism is important.'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Journalist Clare Morgana Gillis was also held captive with Foley in Libya, and wrote a 2013 essay in which she said captivity was 'the state most violently opposite [Foley's] nature.' </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She also described him as gentle, friendly, courageous and impatient with 'anything that slows his forward momentum'. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A May article in Vanity Fair about the dangers for journalists in Syria described Foley as 'affable' and devil-may-care'. <br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At the time of his disappearance, Foley was working as a freelancer for Agence France-Presse's Global Post, but he previously contributed to Stars and Stripes and other outlets.  </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The homegrown jihadists fighting for ISIS: How one in four foreigners who have signed up for Islamic State is British - and how half of them are The homegrown jihadists fighting for ISIS:</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: small;">ALREADY back in the UK </span></h1>
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<li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">500 of the 2,000 estimated foreign ISIS fighters are believed to be British</strong></li>
<li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MP believes that figures are 'nonsense' and figure closer to 2,000 Britons </strong></li>
<li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Majority are flying to Istanbul then catching a bus over the Syrian border </strong></li>
<li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Government reveals that only 23 passports have been seized this year </strong><strong> </strong></span></li>
<li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>More British Muslims fighting for ISIS than serving in the British Army</strong><strong> </strong></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By <a class="author" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Martin+Robinson+for+MailOnline" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">MARTIN ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At least one in four of the estimated 2,000 foreigners fighting for ISIS in Syria and Iraq is British - and half of those are already back in the UK, it has emerged today.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Serious questions have been raised as to whether enough is being done to stem the flow of fighters after the Government revealed it has only seized 23 passports this year to prevent them travelling to the war zone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Government says there are around 500 British among the fighters while a further 250 are thought to have already returned to the UK where the police and security services are attempting to watch them. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That means there are now almost three times as many British Muslims fighting for Islamic State than there are serving in the UK military, an MP has claimed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But Khalid Mahmood, Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, told Channel 4 News the lack of border controls meant the Government’s estimates of jihadi numbers were too low. ‘I think it’s about 2,000 people,’ he added.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to the Ministry of Defence, there are around 600 British Muslims currently serving in the Armed Forces - just 0.4 per cent of total personnel. This is far below the 4.3 per cent of the British population as a whole who are Muslim. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Irish police also believe that 30 jihadists are using the country as a base  while travelling to and from Syria and Iraq.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The murder of James Foley apparently by 'John' - one of a gang of British jihadis known as 'The Beatles' - has raised fears the killing fields of Syria and Iraq are dominated by extremist Britons.</span></div>
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<span id="ext-gen127" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Experts also say they are also the most 'arrogant, vicious and vociferous' jihadists - and have been able to fly with ease fly to Istanbul in Turkey and jump on a bus to get into neighbouring Syria. </span></div>
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<span id="ext-gen128" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here are some of the most notorious Britons fighting for ISIS: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Abu Abdullah Al Brittani, 32, who used a social network to produce a travel guide for would-be jihadists</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 32-year-old is one of ten Britons from Portsmouth to travel Syria to fight for ISIS.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A British jihadist who says he is fighting for ISIS has attempted to lure a child away from his parents with chilling online travel advice on how to reach the Middle East.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A man calling himself Abu Abdullah Al Brittani gave detailed information on how Iraq-bound Westerners can exchange currencies to an Ask.Fm user who described himself as 'underage', said he had never travelled alone before, and expressed concern about his mother and father finding out.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The post outlines ISIS' openness to luring Western fighters of all ages to their cause - including an estimated 500 Britons, many of whom end being used as little more than 'cannon fodder' to protect better trained local jihadists.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Abu Abdullah was behind an Ask.Fm travel guide for would-be jihadists that formed part of an attempt to recruit young Britons to Iraq and Syria.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One user asks him: 'I havent any traveling and i'm underage but what do you mean with no worries about money. honestly I don't know how to change money into tukish or syrian money. How does it work? I can't ask my parents or they will now [sic]'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Despite the poster admitting he is a child and exhibiting clear naivety, Abu Abdullah responds: 'If u have $ or £ then u fine, any other currency exchange it to $ or £ before u get here and [God willing] u will be fine [sic].'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another message describes the 'welcome pack' new ISIS recruits receive when they complete theIr induction process.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'After training u get a ak47 and magazines (4) a vest pack, grenade [sic]' he posted on Ask.Fm.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another message contains detailed marriage advice for potential recruits.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Muhammad Hamidur Rahman</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Primark supervisor Muhammad Rahman left his high street job for Syria, but died in a gunfight</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A former supervisor at Primark who wanted to join the world’s most feared terrorist group, only to be killed in Syria.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Muhammad Hamidur Rahman, 25, from Portsmouth, was shot dead in a gun fight in July, a day before the Muslim festival if Eid, said his family.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His father, Abdul Hannan, 52, an Indian restaurant worker, said the family received a text message from a friend of Rahman in Syria who informed them that their son was dead.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rahman is the second British jihadist from Portsmouth to die in Syria. The first was his friend Iftekhar Jaman, 23, who died in December.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rahman’s father, Mr Hannan, said that Jaman went to Syria first at the beginning of last year, and then took his son there by contacting him through social media.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said that Rahman did not tell any member of his family that he was going to Syria, but suddenly disappeared from Portsmouth. Days later, they received a call from him saying he was in Syria.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Hannan said: ‘He asked us to pray for him, and said he wanted to become a shaheed (martyr) for the sake of Allah.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mashudur Choudhury</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mashudur Choudhury, 31, became the first Briton to be found guilty of travelling to Syria to fight in the civil war. He failed the selection process to join extremisrs and blew cash borrowed from his family to get there on foreign holidays, a luxury car and prostitutes</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He became the first Briton to be found guilty of travelling to Syria to fight in the civil war.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police said the conviction of Mashudur Choudhury, 31, was likely to pave the way for others returning from the fighting to be prosecuted.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The father of two went to fight with Al Qaeda to escape the shame of lying to his family about suffering from cancer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Choudhury, from Portsmouth, borrowed £35,000 from his family, claiming it was for medical treatment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But he blew it on foreign holidays, a luxury car and prostitutes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Desperate to atone for his actions and ‘make something of himself’ he resolved to become a martyr fighting the brutal regime of Bashar Assad.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But he is believed to have failed the selection process to join a hardline group of Syrian rebels and was thrown out of their training camp in disgrace.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was arrested by British anti-terror police on his return to Gatwick in October last year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After a 12-day trial at Kingston Crown Court, West London, Choudhury was found guilty of engaging in conduct in preparation for terrorist acts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ifthekar Jaman</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Ifthekar Jaman, 23, died last year in a battlefield clash 2,000 miles from his Hampshire home last December after bragging how life in Syria was '5-star' jihad" class="blkBorder img-share" height="254" id="i-d41699eb5eef335b" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/21/1408612950769_Image_galleryImage_British_ISIS_Ifthekar_Jam.JPG" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="306" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ifthekar Jaman, 23, died last year in a battlefield clash 2,000 miles from his Hampshire home last December after bragging how life in Syria was '5-star' jihad</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The young Briton boasted of fighting ‘5-star jihad’ in Syria but was killed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ifthekar Jaman, 23, died last year in a battlefield clash 2,000 miles from his Hampshire home last December.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was one of an estimated 350 British men to have taken up arms with Al Qaeda-linked groups in Syria – where they are known as British Kataa’ib, meaning British Brigade.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking a month ago, Jaman declared he was ready to die as a martyr, vowing: ‘I don’t plan to come back. Life is for the hereafter... it’s an eternal paradise so the sacrifice is small.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He also urged fellow Britons to join him, using his Twitter account to glory in his hate-filled missions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He described fighting in Syria as ‘5-star jihad’ because of its ‘relaxing’ nature.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Photographs showed Jaman – a supporter of fanatical British cleric Anjem Choudary – apparently manning armed checkpoints in the Middle Eastern war zone just before his death.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Salma and Zahra Halane</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Terror Twins' Salma and Zahra Halane, both 16, who have 28 GCSEs between them, fled Manchester for Syria, have married warlords and hope to train as doctors to treat ISIS fighters</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Schoolgirl sisters fled Britain to join ISIS and marry warlords and admitted their pride at being known as 'Terror Twins' and 'loves' living in Syria.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Salma and Zahra Halane, both16, who have 28 GCSEs between them, ran away from their family in Chorlton, Greater Manchester, a month ago for 'paradise' in the war torn Middle East.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They have vowed never to return home after following their brother to Syria and social media updates suggest the pair are training to use grenades and Kalashnikov rifles.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The twins are now believed to be based in Raqqa, Syria - an Isis stronghold - where they are said to have already married fighters.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The sisters were hard-working students who hoped to train as doctors.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One recent tweet from their account said: 'Training to be doctors to Training to be killers... I will become a doctor for Isis not for these pagans'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The pair left Manchester after sneaking from their bedrooms in the middle of the night and caught a flight to Turkey, before crossing the border into Syria.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police said the pair are thought to have followed their elder brother, who also ditched his own ‘excellent’ academic career to join the ISIS terror group around a year ago.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jaffah, Amer and Abdullah Deghayes </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brothers Abdullah 18, Jaffar, 16, and Amer Deghayes, 20, pictured, are fighting in Syria. Amer described how his brother died with a 'laugh and a smile' because he believes he became a martyr</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brighton University student Abdullah Deghayes, 18, was killed in a gunfight in Kassab in Latakia. His two brothers, Jaffar, 16, and Amer, 20, remain in Syria. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jaffar is considered the youngest Briton to have gone to fight for ISIS.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In June Amer described his brother's death and said: 'My brother was killed on the frontline, when he was the furthest person in the front.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'When he ran in, the army actually ran away and retreated, so he was killed for a really good cause, and his death was a sign of martyrdom. As he fell back, he laughed and smiled.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'I have a really strong feeling that he is alive. I do strongly believe that he is alive and we believe martyrs are not dead, they are still alive and enjoying themselves.'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nasser and Aseel Muthana</span></div>
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<span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+9</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Aseel Muthana, 17, left, followed his older sibling Nasser, 20, right, from Cardiff to join Isis in Syria, who became a poster boy for ISIS as they attempt to recruit more Britons</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Aseel Muthana, 17, followed his older sibling Nasser, 20, from Cardiff to join Isis in Syria.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In February Aseel fled Britain to fight in Syria after telling his parents he was staying at his friend's house ahead of a maths exam at his school.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But police then arrived at his home the following night after it emerged he had gained a second passport by lying about his age and was in Cyprus and about to sail to Syria.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His brother Nasser was a star medical student who secretly travelled to Syria from his family home in Cardiff despite being offered the opportunity to study medicine by four universities.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His family have not seen him since November 2013 and he reappeared as an ISIS poster boy on one of their propaganda films.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Furious father Ahmed Muthana, 57, said if his sons ever return to the UK, he would like to see them jailed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He says the Welsh capital is facing a crisis with extremists leafleting communities and holding 'pop-up' events to groom young men.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reyaad Khan</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reyaad Khan, also from Cardiff, appeared in a shocking recruitment video aimed at luring jihadists to Syria and could face a war crimes trial as he repeatedly uploaded bloodthirsty posts and pictures on social media</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reyaad Khan, also from Cardiff, appeared in a shocking recruitment video aimed at luring jihadists to Syria and Iraq.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He could face a war crimes trial as he repeatedly uploaded bloodthirsty posts and pictures on social media bragging about the inhumane killings.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In one he posted graphic photographs of the distorted corpses of alleged victims, tweeting: ‘Guys we caught & executed. This is how they looked less than an hr l8er’.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The former college student from Cardiff also laughed about witnessing the ‘longest decapitation ever’ and boasted in another: ‘Executed many prisoners yesterday.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His claims about his involvement in the crimes carried out by a unit of ISIS are now being investigated by the United Nations.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Khan, who once dreamt of becoming Britain’s first Asian prime minister, could see his name added to the investigators’ list of suspected war criminals in Syria for future prosecution.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Aine Davis </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Former drug dealer Aine Davis left his wife for Syria. She was found guilty of trying to send cash to him. The gangmember also asked her if he could take more wives " class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="7" height="357" id="i-843088f7abd64410" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/21/1408613410933_wps_18_British_ISIS_Aine_Davis_l.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Former drug dealer Aine Davis left his wife for Syria. She was found guilty of trying to send cash to him. The gangmember also asked her if he could take more wives </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Career criminal Aine Davis grew up in a leafy London suburb, born to a mother who now works as a dinner lady and a father who sold clothes at John Lewis.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He is fighting with ISIS in Syria, and has swapped family portraits for poses in combat fatigues, surrounded by rebel soldiers holding AK47s.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 30-year-old was at the centre of an Old Bailey trial last week that saw his wife, Amal El-Wahabi, jailed for funding terrorism while university student Nawal Msaad, 27, was sensationally cleared of trying to smuggle £16,000 in her underwear to Syria.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Throughout the trial, the jury heard that El-Wahabi, the mother of Davis's two children, was sending him money in the Middle East.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The pair would keep in contact via WhatsApp, with Davis sending her photos of him as a jihadi soldier alongside messages urging her to join him. He also asked if it was okay to have more wives. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A petty criminal and drug dealer adopting the nickname 'Biggz' while part of a London gang. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When he was just four-years-old, he was sent to Gambia to live with his grandmother, because he drove his mother 'crazy'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Abdul Waheed Majeed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Abdul Waheed Majeed was a father-of-three from Sussex who became the first Briton to blow himself up</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The father-of-three was the first  Briton to blow himself up.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Laden with home-made plates of armour akin to the film Mad Max, he drove at high speed towards a jail in Aleppo, Syria, before detonating in a huge explosion which killed Majeed and dozens of Syrians.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rebels initially claimed up to 300 inmates were able to escape. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The video was reportedly shot by fighters with the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra rebel group and begins with footage of the truck, followed by shots of fighters exchanging heavy fire.</span></div>
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<li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">British military planes flying deeper into Iraq to capture surveillance footage</span></b></li>
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<li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At least 1,000 Royal Marines to be deployed to Jordan in exercise with US</span></b></li>
<li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kurdish and US forces set to take back strategically important Mosul Dam</span></b></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Britain was dragged deeper into the Iraq crisis last night as it emerged another 150 special forces troops are being deployed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the mission had escalated beyond a humanitarian one and could last for months.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">British forces are now helping Iraq to ‘combat’ the rise of Islamic State and its extreme form of terrorism, he said. And in his most uncompromising intervention to date, Prime Minister David Cameron warned that the situation may now require ‘military action to go after the terrorists’. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Change of tack: Michael Fallon, pictured meeting British forces at the RAF base in Akrotiri, Cyprus this weekend, said the mission had escalated beyond a humanitarian one and could last for months</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the Islamist fanatics of IS had to be stopped before they became strong enough to launch attacks on British soil.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Cameron spoke amid a series of dramatic developments on the ground that will fuel concerns about mission creep and prompt fresh demands for the recall of Parliament:</span><br />
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<li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">British military planes are flying deeper into Iraq to capture surveillance footage of jihadist fighters which is being used to help Kurdish and Iraqi forces on the ground.</span></li>
<li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regular soldiers from the Yorkshire Regiment were in the Kurdish region last week – despite Downing Street’s assurances there would be no ‘boots on the ground’.  </span></li>
<li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At least 1,000 Royal Marines are being deployed to Jordan in a long-planned joint military exercise with the US.</span></li>
<li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kurdish and US forces made a major advance against IS – and are poised to take back the strategically important Mosul Dam.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There will also be men from a new SBS unit which will be used to monitor sensitive areas of the Jordanian border.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Earlier, Mr Cameron said Britain should use its military prowess to stop Islamists creating ‘a terrorist state on the shores of the Mediterranean’. He said the UK was ‘in  the middle of a generational  struggle against a poisonous and  extremist ideology’.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Prime Minister added: ‘If we do not act to stem the onslaught of this exceptionally dangerous terrorist movement, it will only grow stronger until it can target us on the streets of Britain.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Until now, Britain has limited its role to aid drops, surveillance and transporting supplies to Kurdish forces. But Mr Cameron, writing in a Sunday newspaper, said: ‘True security will only be achieved if we use all our resources – aid, diplomacy, our military prowess – to help bring about a more stable world.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He added: ‘We need a firm security response, whether that is military action to go after the terrorists, international co-operation on intelligence and counter-terrorism or uncompromising action against terrorists at home.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While saying he did not back full-scale military involvement and ‘sending armies to fight or occupy’, Mr Cameron left open the possibility of Britain taking on a more direct role in supporting Iraqi and Kurdish troops on the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking on a visit to the RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus, Mr Fallon said: ‘This is not simply a humanitarian mission. We and other countries in Europe are determined to do what we can to help the government of Iraq combat this new and very extreme form of terrorism.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Fallon revealed that troops from 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment flew in as part of preparations for a helicopter mission to save stranded members of the Yazidi group on a mountainside. They were on the ground for 24 hours before flying back to Cyprus after the operation was called off.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Addressing airmen and soldiers at the base, Mr Fallon said: ‘This mission isn’t over. The humanitarian needs are there…There may well now be in the next few weeks and months other ways that we may need to help save life, protect people. We are going to need all of you again and the surveillance you are able to give us.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Advance: A Kurdish peshmerga fighter close to the strategically important Mosul Dam, which Kurdish and US forces are poised to take back</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yesterday, US warplanes helped by Kurdish forces were on the brink of recapturing the Mosul Dam, which supplies water and electricity to northern Iraq, amid ‘fierce resistance’ from Islamists. It was reported yesterday that another 300 Yazidi men from the Sinjar mountain area are among their victims, with some beheaded in front of their own families.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">British military planes are filming surveillance footage on jihadist fighters which is passed to the US and used to help Kurdish and Iraqi forces.   The UK has more than 100 members of the SAS, SBS, Reconnaissance Regiment and signals specialists in Baghdad and  around Irbil.</span></div>
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Britain is dragged deeper into the Iraq conflict: 150 more special forces are on the way as minister says the mission will take MONTHS

Defence Secretary says mission has escalated beyond a humanitarian one Prime Minister warns the situation may require military action ...

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Islamic State Jihadists waging 'Sexual Holy War': A woman issues a heartrending plea

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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please, let American jets bomb my prison... death is better than to be forced off with a strange man: 8 months pregnant, captured by Islamic thugs waging 'Sexual Holy War' - one woman issues a heartrending plea</span></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By <a class="author" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Ian+Birrell+In+Dohuk" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">IAN BIRRELL IN DOHUK</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The call came in the early hours, the voice muffled, furtive and shaking with fear. ‘If they see me talking to someone they will kill me for sure, maybe kill all of us.’</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This was Nisreen, a 17-year-old seized by the vicious Islamic State forces who have swept through Iraq and Syria spreading fear and panic.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She told how she was one of 96 Yazidi girls kidnapped when their towns and villages fell to the fanatics.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now these teenagers wait in terror to be sold into slavery or forced into marriage with militant Islamists.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘I know this exact number because I hear them talking,’ said Nisreen. ‘We are sure they have sold us. We do not fear for our lives but for our dignity as women.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was a brave phone call from a desperate woman.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The world has heard the hideous stories of refugees fleeing the jihadists but here, for the first time, was a voice from the other side: from a kidnap victim trapped in IS’s newly-won territory.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The husband of another teenage woman, heavily pregnant, held  captive by the IS told me how she would rather the US bombed her prison – with her inside – than be handed out like a piece of property to an extremist fighter.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She said: ‘Let those jets come to bomb us and save us from this situation by killing all of us.’ She added death would be a better fate than to ‘be forced off with a strange man.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These two extraordinary accounts, together with information gathered from numerous first-hand sources in and around Irbil and Dohuk in the past week, reveal for the first time the appalling reality of life for captives held in IS-held Iraq.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Horrifically, we can reveal:</span></div>
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<li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A doctor conducts virginity tests to ensure women are ‘pure’ enough for the jihadists.</span></li>
<li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">lS leaders have sanctioned ‘Jihad al Niqah’, an extreme form of sexual holy war that permits fighters to take any women they want.</span></li>
<li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seized women are being handed as gifts to IS fighters, starved into submission and sold off as slaves, while children are stolen to be raised as Muslims and scores of men face conversion or death.</span></li>
<li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">lS guards warning captives they will get four chances to convert. Twice they will be asked politely; the third time they will be whipped with a leather strap; if they still refuse at the fourth time of asking, they face death.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The detailed evidence comes from captive women talking from their prisons, dozens of desperate families, a leaked United Nations report and activists collating information amid the chaos of Iraqi Kurdistan with 200,000 refugees driven from their homes by militants. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Their stories are shocking and strikingly similar, whether from the hostage themselves, husbands talking to captured wives, fathers whose daughters and sons are behind bars, even escaped children who witnessed parents marched off by IS forces under black flags.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In an exclusive interview offering disturbing insight into their cruel zealotry and callous practices, IS prison official Abu Obaida detailed the stark options confronting seized women and girls.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He confirmed forcing children into militant Islam and explained why Christians can pay to flee their clutches, but not Yazidis. He even invited me to go and live under the medieval Caliphate declared by IS.</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Teenagers wait in terror to be sold into slavery or forced into marriage with militant Islamists'</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thousands were seized when Sinjar, an historic centre for the Yazidi sect, fell a fortnight ago. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many more fled into nearby mountains, terrified by stories of IS savagery such as beheading and crucifying their enemies, and are now refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The hostages  – two thirds of whom are women, according to Yazidi activists – are held in prisons, schools, sports centres, mosques, hospitals and even private homes in areas under IS control.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nisreen was taken from her home village to Mosul, Iraq’s second city which fell in June, then into Syria for a week. She was bought back by bus to an Iraqi prison for three days, then moved to a location I promised not to reveal from where she made that courageous call.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She is just one among many. As I toured building sites, schools, roadsides and camps crammed with Yazidi refugees last week, I heard story after heartbreaking story.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Faysal Sherif, 27, was finishing his masters degree in microbiology at a Turkish university when the Islamists drove forward. His 24-year-old wife and infant son were seized along with 39 other members of her family and all their possessions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The men were tied up in the centre of their village, then not heard from again, while the women and children were taken to Telafar prison for 12 days then moved to a nearby school.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His wife, having hidden her mobile phone, calls her distraught husband daily. ‘When we talk they are crying and wailing,’ said Faysal. ‘They told the women either you convert to Islam or you die of starvation. Many children are dying of dehydration.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘They get just one piece of bread a day. The children get one can of milk between ten each day. My son has had diarrhea for ten days now –he will surely die soon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Forced from their homes: Thousands of Yazidis were seized when Sinjar, an historic centre for the anicent sect, fell a fortnight ago. Above, Yazidi men at Bajed Kadal refugee camp</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fleeing: Many more fled into nearby mountains, terrified by stories of IS savagery such as beheading and crucifying their enemies, and are now refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan. Above, Yazidi women at the refugee camp</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘We need help from the UK, the US, the United Nations. Anyone. Every minute, every hour is costing lives.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Salem, a 19-year-old handyman, fled into the Sinjar mountains after fighting for four hours against the Islamist militia until their bullets ran out.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His wife Hayam was captured, although eight months pregnant, along with his brother and four younger sisters. He had left Hayam with spare batteries for her mobile phone. She called him several times from a centre crammed with kidnapped women and children, saying they are being ‘tortured’ with starvation and too little drink in the searing heat.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The women have been told they will stay in the school until they convert. Salem added: ‘Some children are still there, some have been taken away.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They were told the children are being taken away to teach them the laws of Islam. Some are in Syria, some are in Mosul.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As he told his tragic story, this young man’s distress was palpable; he broke down at one point in tears. His parents are also both missing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He has contacted Kurdish politicians and Yazidi activists to persuade the US to destroy the school holding his wife. ‘They say death is better than to be forced off with a strange man for the rest of your life.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All those I spoke to were adamant that conversion was not an option. One authoritative source revealed how a teenage captive killed herself when ordered to wash and change clothes for the first time after 12 days in prison, fearing she was being married off.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘Every day we do not liberate these girls and women means we lose some more to IS,’ said Narin Shammo, a Yazidi journalist, who has been using social media to try to establish the number of captives. In one day alone, she received 657 possible new cases.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">From the start of its rise during the Syrian civil war, IS – formerly called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria – has used the most inhumane tactics, combined with kidnapping and hostage-taking to raise funds.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One Iraqi soldier told me he was part of a group captured in June. Ten Shia Muslim and 5 Yazidi troops were instantly murdered by the militants. More than 20 survivors were taken to Syria, then each of their families was told to pay $50,000 to save their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All eventually paid up except for one soldier from a very poor family who negotiated a cut-price deal. This single action alone raised more than $1million.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Iraqis, blindfolded while in prison, said they were warned to tell the truth during interrogations ‘because the chief is an American who has graduated from college’. It is estimated up to one-third of IS forces are foreigners.Such activities have increased  since the recent collapse of large chunks of Iraq into the Caliphate.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Christians are given a choice of conversion or payment of an annual tithe if they wish to stay in their homes but most fled in fear.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Yazidi, a Kurdish sect falsely seen as devil-worshippers by the extremists due to their ancient beliefs, are treated far more harshly with a choice only of conversion or death.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Shivan, a Yazidi soldier in the Iraqi army, claimed IS took 700 people from his three local towns alone. ‘They started taking the girls and women, killing many of the men whose bodies were left lying on the streets. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They said they were taking the women to Talafar prison, to Badash prison, to Mosul.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Like others, he alleged some local Arabs sided with IS and turned on former friends and neighbours.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A ten-year-old boy called Daud told of seeing his parents seized. He said men with military clothing and black flags fluttering from four-wheel vehicles stopped his family fleeing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘We were taken back to the village and they started to line us up against a wall,’ the child said. ‘They stood us there, then left with lots of people. They took my mother and father.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Such tales of misery pile up in places where Yazidi seek sanctuary. One man told of 42 missing relatives, another of 14 taken from his wife’s family, a third of 150 kidnapped from his village.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lurid rumours are circulating of enforced cannibalism, of mass rape, of mothers made to set themselves on fire. And internal UN documents from their mission in Iraq quote reports that IS ‘elements’ killed ‘well over 500 Yazidi individuals’ in retaliation for the first US air strikes last week, according to a source there.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Alarmingly the UN also believes Kurdish Peshmerga forces are being ‘overwhelmed on numerous fronts’ by IS, which has more troops and better equipment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The abuse and atrocities were  confirmed quite happily by the IS official enforcing extreme Islamic rules in Telafar prison when we spoke on Thursday night.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Obaida, an Iraqi from Mosul, insisted his religious laws permitted the kidnap and sale of women. He said: ‘If they convert to Islam they can go back to their homes and we will protect their dignity and safety.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘But if they resist or turn to atheism they will be like slaves and will be judged and traded according to our laws towards slaves.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘Selling is according to sharia because they are slaves. But we have not sold anyone yet.’ Obaida claimed some Yazidi had converted, but could only get their wives back if they too agreed to become Muslims. ‘It is not possible in Islam to f*** atheist women.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the captured children were ‘safe’, although added chillingly they would be brought up under their ‘essentials’ of Islam. ‘Then we will release them and provide for them for a proper life.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This polite bigot said the Yazidi were singled out for special treatment because unlike Jews and Christians, ‘they are not people of the book’.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said IS would fight until they all converted to Islam as part of their mission to drive non-Muslims from their Caliphate.The only question he refused to answer was over IS foreign fighters. ‘I cannot talk about this subject,’ he said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asked about extending their struggle to Western countries, Obaida said this would be decided by the ‘minister of war’ appointed by their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – a man reportedly radicalised during detention after the US-led invasion of 2003.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘We will fight the USA because they are using Arab rulers to fight us,’ Obaida added. ‘But we do not want massacres, we do not want fighting. We just want all these people to convert to Islam so their dignity, money and safety is with us.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Such fine talk. Yet words such as dignity and safety could not be  further removed from the latest hell that his fanatical forces have unleashed on Iraq, especially for those frightened women such as Nisreen cowering in their cells  as they await sale like cattle in  a market.</span></div>
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