Tracking Syria fighters now main task for MI5

Tracking British jihadists fighting in Syria is now the top priority for MI5, the BBC has learned.

It comes after a video appeared to show UK jihadis in Syria trying to recruit people to join them there and in Iraq.

The Home Office said counter-terror police were working to get the video - posted by internet accounts linked to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) militants - taken off line.

The father of one of the men in the video said it made him "want to cry".

Nasser Muthana, 20, from the Cardiff area - who has been offered places to study medicine by four universities - appears in the footage using the name Abu Muthanna al-Yemen.

Isis has made rapid advances through Iraq in recent weeks.

Prime Minister David Cameron has said its fighters are plotting terror attacks on the UK.

BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said MI5 was having to prioritise the greatest amount of its casework on tracking British jihadists in Syria.

An estimated 400-500 UK fighters have been recruited by Isis, which has a presence in Syria and is engaged in fierce fighting with Iraqi government forces.

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-- BBC 2014-06-20

I hope they are suspending their welfare benefits since they seem to be employed.

I hope they all get blown to bits.

If they want to fight in the middle east, then let them stay there.

I bet if they were ever called up to fight for Queen and Country, they would refuse, so there is no place for them in the UK.

Edited June 21, 201412 yr by thumper101

Not just the Brits

AUSTRALIAN jihadists fighting with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham are carrying out massacres of captured Iraqi prisoners and participating in some of the most gruesome war crimes committed during the two-week-old Iraq insurgency.

Convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf is among a handful of Australian jihadists believed to have carried out bloody, battlefield executions, in what amounts to a serious escalation of Australian involvement in the Iraq-Syria conflict. As Australian troops prepare to deploy once more to Iraq, this time to protect Australia’s embassy in Baghdad, The Weekend Australian can reveal that several Australian Islamists fighting with ISIS have become enthusiastic participants in some of the worst excesses of the conflict.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/aussie-jihadi-in-iraqi-executions/story-e6frg6nf-1226961932553?from=public_rss&utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&net_sub_uid=6385596#