NIGERIAN BASED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM SEEKS HELP TO RETIEVE HIS GRANDSON FROM ISIS IN SYRIA

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A cab driver Henry Sunday Dare, 59 years, from Nigeria but based in the UK who identified the boy used in the most recent ISIS propaganda video as his four year old grandson named Isa Dare has appealed for help worldwide to ensure that his grandson is recovered from ISIS and reunited with him.

The British born Isa now dubbed "Jihadi Junior" by the Islamist extremist is said by his grandfather to have been taken to Syria by his mother Grace Dare, 24, also known as Khadija about three years ago.


In the ISIS video the boy is putting on a military camouflage uniform and an ISIS headwear. He is also heard saying "we are going to kill the 'kaffir' which translates to 'unbelievers'. However, his grandfather says this is only propaganda as Isa had in the past sought his help to return home on phone.

The grandfather said he believed that Isa was only speaking the words in the video on the instruction of the ISIS extremist as at the age of four he would not know the import of what he was saying. He says they are just using him for a shield and he called on his daughter, Grace to return to the UK. He said she had initially told him that she was going to Egypt to study only to call and inform him later that she was in Syria.

He said Grace who was born in London in 1992, was raised as a christian and only later decided to become a Muslim after attending a mosque. He said she moved to Syria in 2012 and got married to a Swiss national, Abu Bakr, now late.

 Mr. Dare ended by expressing disappointment in his daughter's behavior.