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Brit teen jihadist says IS has fighters 'just waiting for order to attack West'

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ANI London

A 19-year-old British grammar schoolboy turned Islamic State (IS) jihadist says that the terror group has fighters "just waiting for the order to do attacks on the West".

According to The Independent, Shabazz Suleman, a former pupil of Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe, disappeared in the summer of 2013 while carrying out voluntary work with a Turkish charity providing aid to Aleppo.

The boy claims that he was sent back to Syria by the Turkish authorities during prisoner exchanges with the IS last year.

Speaking to The Times newspaper, Suleman said that he was given the option to either be part of the exchanges or be deported back to Britain without being linked to the terror group.

 

He praised the attack on Charlie Hebdo's offices in Paris and revealed how he was among 200 IS captives who were later released during the exchange ran by MIT (Turkish intelligence agency).

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First Published: Jan 16 2015 | 5:37 PM IST

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