Baby-faced British ISIS recruit from Coventry – nicknamed Osama bin Bieber when he fled to Syria aged 18 – ‘has been executed by terror group as a Western spy’
- Mohammed Ismail, then 18, have travelled to war-torn region to fight in 2014
- Former college student thought to have become radicalised by extremist clerics
- He became known as ‘Osama bin Bieber’ because of his youthful complexion
- Ismail reported missing in March 2014, but now thought to have been executed
A baby-faced British ISIS recruit from Coventry has become the first person to be executed by the terror group as a spy.
Mohammed Ismail, who was nicked nicknamed Osama bin Bieber, after the Canadian pop star because of his youthful appearance, fled to UK to join the terror cult when he was 18-years-old.
But Ismail, who was reported missing by his parents in March 2014, is thought to have been killed after giving away the movements of Nasser Muthana a noted ISIS propagandist, as reported by The Sunday Times.
Mohammed Ismail, (pictured) who was nicked nicknamed Osama bin Bieber, after the Canadian pop star because his youthful appearance, fled to UK to join the terror cult when he was 18-years-old
Muthana, an aspiring doctor from Cardiff, was killed by a drone strike in Mosul in 2016.
He travelled to Syria five months earlier and appeared in an ISIS recruitment video with Reyaad Khan, another Cardiff resident.
Nasser had taken £100 from his father to go on an Islamic seminar in Shrewsbury in November, but instead went to Syria.
Three months later his brother Aseel, 17, left the house saying he was going to a friend’s for the night, but the following evening it transpired that Aseel had obtained a second passport by lying about his age and was in Cyprus, travelling to Syria.
Khan is thought to have been killed by an RAF drone strike in August 2015.
According to one account, Ismail was killed in Raqqa, and the execution was filmed.
A source told the newspaper: ‘He (Ismail) got captured in Raqqa.
‘They did have an interrogation with him. He confessed everything and then they killed him.’
Recruitment: Isis posted a video showing British men urging others to take up arms and join them. Pictured centre Nasser Muthana and Reyaad Khan, pictured left
It is not clear how he was executed, but it was thought to have taken place in late 2016, a few months after Muthana was killed.
Ismail is of Iraqi Kurdish extraction and was said to have been radicalised by extremist clerics at a madrassa (religious school) in the city and travelled to the Middle east with three other men.
Ismail previously posted pictures of himself on Instagram holding guns, and posted tweets claiming to be in Syria with ‘Dawla’, another name for ISIS.
His parents are believed to have reported him missing to police back in March 2014.
The Sun On Sunday spoke to Mahir Hadi, 38, the father of the teenager when he went missing in 2014.
He said: ‘We can’t talk about it – I don’t know anything about it. The police know better than me.’
It comes not long after Shamima Begum, now 19, left East London’s with two friends to travel to Syria to join ISIS in 2015, and has now resurfaced at a refugee.