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‘British-born jihadists fighting Assad in Syria’ – captured photographer

Monday, July 30, 2012

‘British-born jihadists fighting Assad in Syria’ – captured photographer


Radical Islamists with “British accents” are among the coalition forces looking to topple Bashar Assad, says Jeroen Oerlemans, a photographer who was held hostage in Syria for a week. The UK Foreign Office has launched an investigation.

Oerlemans, a famous Dutch photo journalist, and John Cantlie, another photographer from the UK, were captured by a group of between 30 and 100 anti-Assad fighters when crossing the Syrian border from Turkey last week. They were then blindfolded.

"One of the black jihadists freaked out and shouted: 'These are journalists and now they will see we are preparing an international jihad in this place.'" Oerlemans told NRC Handelsblatt newspaper. He said that none of the fighters was Syrian..... MORE

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URL: http://www.rt.com/news/british-jihadists-fighting-syria-360/

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