Photo: Twitter/@Charles_ListerWashington: The US has designated as global terrorist Indian-origin Islamic State (IS) militant from Britain Siddhartha Dhar who is considered to have replaced the dreaded group’s executioner Mohammad Emwazi, known as “Jihadi John”. He is believed to be the masked leader who appeared in a January 2016 ISIS video of the execution of several prisoners ISIS accused of spying for the UK, the state department said. A Belgian-Moroccan citizen, Abdelatif Gaini, was also designated as a global terrorist along with Dhar by the US. The latest state department designations seek to deny Dhar and Gaini the resources they need to plan and carry out further terrorist attacks, the spokesperson said. In late 2014, he left the UK to travel to Syria to join ISIS, it said.

Source: Mint January 24, 2018 15:45 UTC