Shabazz Suleman joined Islamic State along with Hisham Folkard, right, as part of a prisoner swap with Turkey John SimpsonShabazz Suleman was a former grammar school pupil from Buckinghamshire who had recently secured a place at Keele University when he vanished on a family holiday to Turkey three years ago. Since then, he has been willingly traded into the hands of Islamic State by the Turkish secret service, imprisoned in Syria for going Awol and forced into hiding during the fall of Raqqa, the self-declared caliphate’s capital. Suleman ran away from his family during a holiday in Turkey in 2014Now, having escaped from northern Syria, Suleman says he is desperate to return to Britain and face justice. Throughout his time with Isis, during which he praised terror attacks and admits taking weapons training and carrying out sentry duty, the man from High Wycombe has risked his life to maintain contact with The Times via encrypted messaging…

Source: The Times October 26, 2017 23:02 UTC