London: A Yazidi teenager, Nihad Barakat, held as a sex slave by terror group Islamic State has revealed that she was kidnapped and trafficked by Indian-origin ISIS terrorist Siddhartha Dhar, who is now dubbed as the ‘new Jihadi John’.
In an interview for a new documentary series for UK-based British Muslim TV about life on the frontline in Iraq, Barakat said Siddhartha was among the foreign fighters who enslaved her.
"When I was captured near Kirkuk, they took me to another leader from Mosul. His name was Abu Dhar. He also took Yazidi girls for himself. Every day he would tell me that I had to marry another man," she said.
The newspaper admits that while it is difficult to verify whether Abu Dhar is the same man as the most-wanted British terror suspect, the documentary's presenter said he was very confident Barakat was referring to Siddhartha.
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"From the information I have, Siddhartha is deemed a leader in Mosul now, and she was very insistent on that name. When we showed her pictures of Siddhartha she recognised them but went very cold. She didn't want to go further and got very agitated," presenter Joseph Hayat said.
Londoner Siddhartha is believed to have replaced Mohammed Emwazi, known as 'Jihadi John' before he was killed in a drone strike, as the masked apparent executioner of western hostages in ISIS propaganda videos.
Siddhartha is a British Hindu who converted to Islam and now goes by the name Abu Rumaysah. He now stays in ISIS stronghold Mosul. He had skipped police bail in the UK in 2014 to travel to Syria with his wife and young children.
