The name of a British jihadi who quit his job at Morrisons to join ISIS in Syria has been found etched on the wall of a Raqqa prison, suggesting he may have been killed there.
Omar Hussain, 30, from High Wycombe, was a prolific recruiter and a frequent user of social media while fighting for ISIS in Raqqa.
However, Hussain, who called himself Abu Saeed al-Britani, has been silent online for months, the longest time he has done so since 2013.
ISIS fighter Omar Hussain, 30, from High Wycombe has been silent online for months, the longest time he has done so since he joined the terror group in Syria in 2013
Now a report from Sky News has found his name and the date 24 February 2016 scratched on the wall of a prison, a former football stadium, in Raqqa
It was earlier reported he had been moaning about his fellow jihadis and about how much he missed his mum’s cooking
And now a report from Sky News has found his name and the date 24 February 2016 scratched on the wall of a prison, a former football stadium, in Raqqa.
It was earlier reported he had been moaning about his fellow jihadis and about how much he missed his mum’s cooking.
After being suspended from Twitter and Tumblr, Hussain used Telegram, a secure encrypted messaging service popular among ISIS terrorists.
But his profile fell silent on last year and he has not logged on since – a previously unheard-of time offline for the radical.
One UK-based reporter who has been speaking to Hussain online for close to two years revealed: ‘The longest he’s ever been off online in the past is a week or so and that’s when he had been fighting on the frontline.
‘A gap of more than two months leads you to suspect that he’s either dead, injured or been taken prisoner.’
Terrorist: Hussain’s last rant before going silent was announcing he did not care if his family in Britain died in a terror attack
Hussain, a former security guard at Morrisons, uses the profile Repunzel on Telegram and has the same log-on details for around 18 months.
In one of his most recent outpourings he revealed to the same reporter that he didn’t care if his own loved ones were killed or injured in terror attacks.
Speaking on Telegram, Hussain said if his relatives were killed it is the price they must pay for not making hijrah – pilgrimage from persecution – to the Middle East.
‘Let all my relatives die along with the disbelievers for all I care.
‘Their own fault for living amongst the disbelievers and not doing hijrah away from the disbelievers.
‘Anyone who loves with the disbelievers has only himself to blame for being collateral damage in an attack.
‘But of course, these lone wolf’s do not intentionally target these so called ‘Muslims’ but if they happen 2 come in the middle, no problem.’
And he revelled in attacks in London and Manchester – saying the terrorists were ‘carrying out God’s command’.
Hussain left Britain in December 2013, flying to Turkey via Gatwick, despite being a known extremist who was stopped at Heathrow airport six months earlier.
Once in Syria, he began making threats against the UK on the internet using the alias Abu Saeed Al-Britani.
He warned how he would like to return to bomb Britain, and in one IS video described David Cameron as a ‘despicable swine’.
Last August he appeared on BBC2’s Newsnight, saying: ‘I hate the UK, the only reason why I would intend to return to the UK is when I want to come and plant a bomb somewhere.’
In July, he moaned about Muslims’ lack of support for the terror group, while complaining of air strikes on ISIS territory
He added: ‘Why is it that when your own daughter, or your own son is feeling ill or troubled you get worried?
‘Yet when it is the son or the daughter of someone else, your Muslim brother, it doesn’t hit you?
‘Especially a mujahid… Someone who has left everything, left to come to Syria.’