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Did my taunt push the new ‘Jihadi John’ to join Isis?

I offered to get Abu Rumaysah a one-way ticket to Syria only weeks before he fled

9 January 2016

9:00 AM

9 January 2016

9:00 AM

Even if Abu Rumaysah does turn out to be the new ‘Jihadi John’, shown on video this week presiding over the murder of five innocent men, I’m not sorry I encouraged him to go to Syria and join Isis.

The last time I saw the 32-year-old Briton (born to a UK Hindu family as Siddhartha Dhar) was at a BBC studio in London.

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