Australia teen jihadist vows to fight
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A TEENAGER who ran away from Australia to join jihadists in Iraq and Syria has reappeared months later in a video of the Islamic State group, vowing to “not stop fighting,” reports said yesterday.
The 17-year-old, named in local media as Abdullah Elmir but who calls himself “Abu Khaled”, carried a rifle and addressed Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott in the video posted online, the Sydney Morning Herald said.
“To Tony Abbott, I say this. These weapons that we have, these soldiers, we will not stop fighting,” said Elmir, whose family is from the Sydney suburb of Bankstown.
“We will not put down our weapons until we reach your lands and until we take the head of every tyrant and until the black flag (of the Islamic State group) is flying high in every single land.”
A spokesman for Abbott said the video showed the threat posed by the group.
Last month, Australia raised its terror threat to “high.”
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