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Worried...US President Barack Obama speaks about Iraq White House on June 19.Mr Obama said Washington was prepared to send up to 300 military advisors to train Iraqi forces. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
AN Australian citizen who was last year convicted of assaulting a fellow Muslim by giving him 40 lashes as punishment for drinking is believed to have appeared in a jihadist propganda video which urges others to join them in the fight in Iraq.
The Telegraph UK reports that Zakaryah Raad appears in the video for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) alongside Nasser Muthana, 20, a British medical student.
Five Islamist fighters identified as Australian and British nationals have called on Muslims to join the war in Syria in a new video released by the ISIS and believed to have been filmed in Syria.
Raad was found guilty for his part in an assault on a Sydney man in July 2011 when the man was held down and beaten 40 times with an electrical cord, leaving him bloodied and scarred.
The assault was a religious-inspired whipping and took place after the victim had been on an all night drinking bender.
Members of the Raad family were also involved in a plot to blow up the Melbourne Cricket Ground which was averted two months before the 20005 AFL Grand final.
Titled There is No Life Without Jihad, the 13-minute film shows the five in a field bragging about their plans to take over Iraq and other countries.
The Australians identified themselves as Abu Yahya al-Shami and Abu Nour al-Iraqi, both from Australia.
As previously reported by News Corp Australia, intelligence services confirmed they first identified at least 12 Australians as having joined the ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra terror groups back in about September last year.
In the video the man identified as Raad says: “I don’t see myself as any better than any of you.”
He says Allah has brought him to the country and “this is the message I want to send to youse (sic)”.
Raad goes on to speak haltingly about the occupation of Palestine and about women in Fallujah who are giving birth to “deformed babies”.
He urges othes to “wake up and see why this is happening”.
The father of the British Medical student Nasser Muthana and Muthana’s youngest brother Aseel Muthana, 17, a schoolboy with a promising academic career who has also left the UK to join the fight said he was devastated by his sons’ decision.
Ahmed Muthana said his sons had been “brainwashed” and that their trips had been organised by “terrorist masterminds”.
In the US President Barack Obama says he is “deeply concerned” about the terrorist threat Australian jihadists travelling to Syria pose on their return to Australia.
The president’s comments come as the militant group, the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL), also known as ISIS, extends its path of bloodshed in Iraq after crossing the border from war-torn Syria.
ISIL, through online recruitment videos, is enticing Australians and Muslims in other parts of the world to join their fight in Syria and Iraq.
The US is deploying up to 300 military advisers to asses the situation in Iraq and has been supporting moderate groups opposing ISIL and President Bashar Assad’s regime in the fractured Syrian conflict.
“There is no doubt the problem in Syria is one that we have been paying a lot of attention to over the last couple of years as you see jihadists coming in from Europe and as far as Australia to get trained and then going back into their home countries,” Mr Obama said in an interview with CNN.
“This is something we have been deeply concerned about.
“Part of the reason we have been supporting a moderate opposition effort in Syria is to make sure there are forces countering some of the gains some of these extremist organisations have made inside of Syria.”
There are reports of up to 300 Australians entering Syria to fight.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott warned on Friday that jihadists who were “trained killers” and who “hate our way of life” must be stopped from re-entering the country.
In his strongest words yet about Australians fighting in Iraq and Syria, Mr Abbott said the government had “absolute determination” to prevent “returning jihadis”.
“The important thing is to ensure that as far as is humanly possible, they don’t come back into our country,” he told Macquarie Radio.
“And if they do come back into our country, (that) they are taken into detention.”
IRAQI MILITIAMEN TAKE UP ARMS
Meanwhile, thousands of heavily-armed Shiite militiamen paraded through several Iraqi cities Saturday as Sunni militants seized two strategically located towns in what appeared to be a new offensive in western Anbar province.
The capture of the two towns - Qaim on the Syrian border Friday and Rawah along the Euphrates River on Saturday- dealt another blow to Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government, which has struggled to push back against Islamic extremists and allied militants who have seized large swaths of the country’s north, including the second-largest city of Mosul.
But while Mr Maliki has come under mounting pressure to reach out to disaffected Kurds and Sunnis, the display of heavy weapons by the Shiite fighters indicated that forces beyond Baghdad’s control may be pushing the conflict toward a sectarian showdown.
Sunni militants have controlled the city of Fallujah in Anbar and parts of the provincial capital of Ramadi since January.
The vast Anbar province stretches from the western edges of Baghdad all the way to Jordan and Syria to the northwest.
The fighting in Anbar has greatly disrupted use of the highway linking Baghdad to the Jordanian border, a key artery for goods and passengers.
In Baghdad, about 20,000 men, many in combat gear, marched through the Sadr City district with assault rifles, machine guns, multiple rocket launchers, field artillery and missiles.
Similar parades took place in the southern cities of Amarah and Basra.
The parades were staged by followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who once led a powerful militia that battled US troops and was blamed for some of the mass killing of Sunni civilians during the sectarian bloodletting that peaked in 2006 and 2007.
ISLAMISTS SEIZE QAIM AFTER CLASHES
Police and army officials said the al-Qaida breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, along with allied militants, seized Qaim and its crossing, about 320 kilometres west of Baghdad, after killing some 30 Iraqi troops in daylong clashes Friday.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to journalists, said people were now crossing back and forth freely.
Chief military spokesman Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi acknowledged Qaim’s fall, telling journalists that troops aided by local tribesmen sought to clear the city of “terrorists.”
The mayor of Rawah, Hussein AIi al-Aujail, said Sunni militants captured the town Saturday. The local army and police force pulled out when the militants took control, he said.
He said militants ransacked government offices in the town, along the Euphrates River some 275 kilometres northwest of Baghdad.
Troops...Members of Kurdish Peshmerga forces hold their position in the Iraqi village of Basheer, 15 kilometres south of the city of Kirkuk. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
Sunni militants have carved out a large fiefdom along the Iraqi-Syrian border and have long traveled back and forth with ease, but the control of crossings, like the one in Qaim, allows them to more easily move weapons and heavy equipment to different battlefields.
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