Dhar converted to Islam before escaping to Syria.
By Sreekanth A. Nair
A revelation made by Nihad Barakat, a Yazidi teenager who was held as a sex slave by the ISIS, alleges that Siddhartha Dhar, an Indian-origin IS terrorist originally from the UK who converted to Islam, is a senior commander of the militant group.
In an interview given to UK-based British Muslim TV, she said that the terrorist popularly known as “New Jihadi John” kidnapped her in Mosul, reported The Independent.
“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.
Dhar emigrated from the UK to Syria in 2014. He was out on bail when he escaped with his wife and young children.
He was suspected to be the terrorist who is seen killing hostages in IS propagation videos after Mohammed Emwazi, who was known as “Jihadi John” was killed in a drone strike.
IS terrorists kidnapped Barakat and her 27-member family when she was 16, from Sinjar province in Iraq two years ago. First, she was forced to marry an Australian militant Abdul Salam Mahmoud who was killed in Syria after a month.
“The ISIS leaders told us we had to convert to Islam or we will be killed,” she said.
She managed to escape from the militant group once but was captured again.
“They separated us into three groups, men, married women and single women; then took the single women and girls to Mosul. Sometimes they would come and take girls for their pleasure. They did everything to the girls,” she said.
“From the information I have, Siddhartha is deemed a leader in Mosul now, and she was very insistent on that name. When we showed her pictures of Siddhartha she recognized them but went very cold. She didn’t want to go further and got very agitated,” presenter Joseph Hayat was quoted as saying by The Independent.