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ISIS releases video showing Indian terrorist as poster boy?

| | May 02, 2016, at 03:37 am
New Delhi, May 1 (IBNS): Militant group ISIS has released a video showcasing an Indian fighter as the new poster boy for the terror outfit.

The man, who was identified as Anwar Hussain , had reportedly died in Afghanistan while fighting for the group in 2014.

India Today reported by quoting media group Aaj Tak which got the video showed the Indian militant as saying: " Jihad is our duty. For this we (jihadists) have come from several parts of the world. Despite this, Allah ensured good food for all of us. We got best of best food and friends here. In this fight Allah has given us all those things, which one cannot get, even being rich."

The militant was a resident of Karnataka.

He was a van driver.

The YouTube video features a man purported to be Hussain speaking on his reasons for migrating from India to Dubai and thereon to Afghanistan for the cause of jihad and carries statements of men said to be his fellow commanders who recall how he died fighting but not before killing seven men of the 'enemy', India Today reported.

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