© Abu Rumaysah / YouTubeSiddhartha Dhar
'Jihadi Sid', another Brit, has become the Islamic State's (IS, formerly ISIS) new executioner replacing the notorious 'Jihadi John'. Now US officials have put ex-bouncy castle salesman, turned terrorist, on its global kill list.
Siddhartha Dhar, named in the UK media as 'Jihadi Sid,' was designated a global terrorist on Tuesday by the US State Department. It said Dhar has now become the group's executioner, replacing Brit 'Jihadi John', real name Mohammed Emwazi, who was killed in a 2015 drone strike after becoming one of the top targets for the US-led coalition fighting IS.
Who is the UK's new must-kill terrorist? The former bouncy-castle salesman was raised as a Hindu, but converted to Islam for his wife Aisha. Neighbors in Walthamstow, east London, say she may have set Dhar on the road to extremism.
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