Captive tells of Islamic State threat

islamic state threat

13:48 01 September 2014

The first Islamic State suicide bomber caught in Iraq said that he joined the group after his family was killed.

 

A 22-year-old Islamic State suicide bomber has been captured and is now confined in Sulaymaniah’s military hospital, as reported by Sky News. Horr Jaffer’s capture has been a secret until now.

 

According to reports, he had attempted to destroy a Kurd checkpoint by driving a bomb-laden car into their midst where he was captured as the tried to escape.

 

Four people and many others were injured in the attack.

 

Under questioning, he said that he decided to join the IS in Syria after his family members were killed there.

"I want to be a martyr. I decided after they killed my family," he says in barely audible Russian.

"They didn't tell me anything about what I was doing or where I was. I just had to press the button."

He revealed that several foreign fighters are going to Syria including Britons.

"There are nations from all over the world there. There is British amongst them. They are from Asian countries, Europe and America. From everywhere,"

Just like other government and security services, Britain is growing concern about IS.

"It is almost like super-terrorism and this is the frontline," Bafle Talabani, the British-born founder of the Kurds' elite Counter Terrorism Group, told me in the grounds of his father's house, which happens to be the Presidential Palace.

"It is more aggressive, more merciless more brutal. This is the front of the war on terror," he says.

 

"If we don't stop this here they will come for the West, for England, for Europe or the United States. They need to be stopped."