ISIS killer reveals cowardly British extremists shunned frontline so they could they could ‘torture and punish’ people in twisted death squads
Former extremist Abu Mutassim also revealed that he was placed in a brainwashing camp before joining the warped cult
A FORMER ISIS fighter claims British jihadists are among the cruellest extremists and favour torturing prisoners to death than battling on the frontline.
Ex-fanatic Abu Mutassim, 30, has fled the death cult and is currently in a ‘security zone’ in northern Syria carved out by the Turkish military.
In an interview with , the Aleppo-born soldier spoke about life inside the world’s most notorious terror group and how he was forced to join a brainwashing camp to make him more 'religious' before joining.
While discussing the violent acts he witnessed, including seeing two women accused of being ‘witches’ having their heads cut from their bodies, Mutassim revealed that foreign jihadists were the most sadistic members of the depraved group.
He said: “But do you know who are the most cruel in this? It is the foreign fighters.
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“They were always pretending they were more religious than us, they were informing on other fighters, on the people, Syrians.”
He spoke about the infamous London-born executioner Mohammed Emwazi, dubbed ‘Jihadi John’, and other Brits who were made jailers because they wanted to kill and torture hostages.
He said: “You never saw these people much in the frontline, they always tried to get into the amniyat [Isis’s ‘security service’] so they could torture and punish people.”
A grain trader from western Aleppo, Mutassim claims he joined ISIS to fight President Bashar al-Assad saying he wanted to join the rebel group with the “best weapons”.
He also says many jihadists like him joined the warped cult out of hatred for Britain, US and France.
And despite being a devout Muslim, Mutassim said the terror group made him attend a brainwashing camp before inducting him.
He said: “I am a Muslim, I pray. But Daesh (ISIS) did not think I was religious enough, so they sent me to a rehabilitation programme, but that was not very long because they needed men for operations.”
Meanwhile, the war in Syria has been halted thanks to a ceasefire between the government of Bashar al-Assad and opposition groups fighting to topple his regime.
The parties signed up to the deal have agreed to stop fighting from midnight on December 29.
Syrian state news said the army had declared “a comprehensive nationwide cessation of hostilities as of midnight”.
Turkey’s foreign ministry said in a statement: “With this agreement, parties have agreed to cease all armed attacks, including aerial, and have promised not to expand the areas they control against each other.”
Syrian state news said the deal followed “successes achieved by the armed forces” – an apparent reference to the recent seizure of rebel-held eastern Aleppo by forces backing the president.
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