Speculation that ISIS executioner ‘could be Walthamstow jihadi’ – child identified as son of Lewisham convert

Walthamstow yet again. From the Waltham Forest Guardian

Speculation is rising that a masked man narrating a new ISIS execution video could be a Walthamstow jihadi who fled to Syria, a report has claimed.

Father-of-four Siddhartha Dhar, 32, also known as Abu Rumaysah al Britani, travelled to the Middle East in September 2014 after he was accused of inciting terrorism.

Now, it is thought that Dhar may be the narrator and potential executioner in a propaganda video showing the killing of five men alleged to have been spying on the extreme Islamist group for the United Kingdom.

In the video, the masked man threatens David Cameron and warns of possible attacks in the West.

terror expert Raffaello Pantucci, director of international security studies at Royal United Services, said the narrator sounds “very similar” to Dhar.

He said: “He sounds a bit like Abu Rumaysah from Al-Muhajiroun videos. From watching him in Al-Muhajiroun videos and this new video he sounds very similar.The masked man sounds like he is from London. ISIS is full of people who are from all over the place, but he seems educated, given he uses the word ‘imbecile’ a number of times.”

Dhar was a supporter of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun, which praised the September 11 attacks, and radical preacher Anjem Choudary. A former bouncy castle salesman, Dhar has posted photographs online showing him posing with a new born son and an automatic rifle.

Boy in new Isil execution video is son of Grace Dare, from Lewisham, who wants to be first woman to behead a hostage. 

When I grow up I want to be a jihadist like Uncle Dhar

The toddler, wearing camouflage and a black headscarf with an Isil logo on it, is Isa Dare, the son of jihadi bride Grace “Khadija” Dare from Lewisham, south-east London. Her father Henry Dare confirmed to The Telegraph that his grandson was the boy in the Isil video.

Last July Grace Dare posted a picture on social media of Isa, whose name is an Arabic form of Jesus, aiming an AK-47 automatic rifle that he seemed only just big enough to lift.

Dare, 22, who was brought up in a Christian family of Nigerian descent, is understood to have been radicalised online, then began attending the Lewisham Islamic Centre, where Drummer Rigby’s murderers Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale are reported to have worshipped.