A sex-slave, Nihad Barakat, a Yazidi teenager, who escaped from the clutches of Islamic State has told British Muslim TV that she was kidnapped and trafficked by Abu Dhar, one of the strong-men and senior commander, based in Mosul, the group’s Iraqi stronghold.
“When I was captured near Kirkuk, they took me to another leader from Mosul. His name was Abu Dhar. He also took Yazidi girls for himself. Every day he would tell me that I had to marry another man,” she said.
The Independent admits that while it is difficult to verify whether “Abu Dhar” is the same man as the most-wanted British terror suspect, the documentary’s presenter said he was “very confident” Ms. Barakat was referring to Siddharth Dhar, the radical Indian-origin Islamic State terrorist, who escaped from UK via Paris just two days after he was released on bail in September 2014.
BBC has revealed that Siddharth Dhar was born and raised in London in a hindu family before he converted to Islam in late teens and took the name Saiful Islam.
Source: BBC
As a speaker for the al-Muhajiroun network, a group banned under terrorism legislation, he frequently attended demonstrations against the US, Israel, Arab regimes or any other cause the group believed to be un-Islamic.
He would stand outside mosques on Friday afternoons, seeking to find new followers to the radical network's way of thinking and would post videos online and rarely turned down an opportunity to speak to the media. He rarely hid his radical views.
He had been arrested six times before he made his escape to Syria in 2014.
Nihad Barakat, yazidi teenager, has now revealed that Dhar has taken the place of the Jihadi John, and is now a senior commander of the dreaded outfit.
Documentary presenter Joseph Hayat told The Independent he was “very confident” Barakat knew who she was talking about: “From the information I have, Dhar is deemed a leader in Mosul now, and she was very insistent on that name.
“We asked her later if these were foreigners or ordinary Iraqis and she said they were foreigners. When we showed her pictures of Siddhartha Dhar she recognised them but went very cold. She didn’t want to go further and got very agitated.”
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