Daily Mail
June 5, 2014
A young British Muslim who fled his suburban upbringing and travelled abroad to become a fanatical terrorist can today be unmasked by The Mail on Sunday.
London-born Ismail Jabbar, 22, is fighting for the ‘Unit Bin Laden’ of violent Islamic extremists in Syria, where he boasts of killing his enemies.
A former trainee with the House of Fraser store, he also incites fellow Muslims to murder soldiers, police officers and unbelievers back in Britain.
He disappeared from the UK nine months ago and smuggled himself into the war-ravaged country as a Kalashnikov-wielding jihadist who revels in bloodshed and has used a series of aliases to hide his true identity.
He is the only known British extremist to give a full account of fighting in Syria.
MI5 and the police have been monitoring his movements via the series of extreme online posts he has made on websites such as Twitter, Facebook and Ask.fm.
The Mail on Sunday has been told that this self-proclaimed terrorist and murderer will be arrested if he ever returns to the UK for inciting extremism as well as travelling abroad to commit terrorist acts.
Evidence of his extremism, compiled by this newspaper, include:
- Posting graphic images of ‘enemies’ he claims his group has killed, including a severed head and body parts, and one of himself apparently standing on a corpse in uniform.
- Inciting fellow British Muslims to launch ‘lone-wolf’ style attacks like that on soldier Lee Rigby, who was hacked to death outside his barracks in Woolwich, South London.
- Defending the two murderers of Rigby and urging followers to ‘clench a knife… and go stab a soldier’ or ‘chop couple pig heads in the streets of London’, believed to be a reference to the police.
- Justifying attacks on UK civilians as well as urging bomb attacks on targets like petrol stations.
- Fighting for a notorious Al Qaeda-linked group called Al-Nusra Front, and encouraging friends to leave the UK and join him for jihad.
To the horror of his parents – who are begging him to return to Britain – Jabbar has said that he wants to die in Syria as a ‘shaheed’ [martyr], while attempting to create an Islamic state with strict sharia law.
A family source said: ‘It’s been very stressful. No father or mother should have to go through this. I pray for every mother and father who have lost their son like us. I pray for them to come back.’
After telling friends he was travelling to Syria as part of an aid convoy, Jabbar trained with terrorists and has now formed his own group, the Unit Bin Laden, amid the chaos of a bloody civil war that has already cost more than 150,000 lives.
Jabbar’s case has come to light as David Cameron prepares to tighten the law so that more British jihadis will face prosecution for committing terrorist acts overseas.
The law change – to be announced in the Queen’s Speech this week – is in response to fears that Britons becoming radicalised in countries such as Syria present the greatest threat to Britain’s national security.