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Horrific ISIS video shows British child – dubbed Abu Abdullah al-Britani – ‘shooting prisoner in the head’ in Syria
This is thought to be the first time terror group has used a kid from a western country
A SICKENING new ISIS video purporting to show a young British boy killing a hostage has been released.
The slickly edited video shows five children, including one said to be from the UK, standing behind kneeling prisoners clad in orange jump suits.
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One of the youths shouts out in Arabic before raising their handguns and killing the men in front of them.
The lads, who look no older than ten or eleven years old, are dressed in camouflage gear and black gloves but with their faces clearly on display.
The child who is thought to be British has blue eyes and can be seen staring ahead before pulling out a pistol, raising it in the air and aiming it at the hostage's head.
The identity of the British lad in the video is not yet known but he is being called Abu Abdullah Al-Britani, an Islamist name which has previously been used by other Brit jihadis.
He shares the same name with another Brit who fought for ISIS.
The other Al-Britani was the Islamic name of Assad Uzzaman, originally from Portsmouth, who was 25 when he was killed in Syria last year.
Included with the British child are kids believed to be of Egyptian, Kurdish, Tunisian and Uzbek background.
The inclusion of children from many backgrounds is a common theme in ISIS propaganda, as the group likes to point out its international presence in an apparent attempt to gain legitimacy.
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ISIS has encouraged the training of “Cubs of the Caliphate” since it began its rise in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
It's understood children as young as ten are put through rigorous military training and indoctrination.
Propaganda videos depicting the training show the children learning how to take hostages, operate as snipers and engage in ambushes.
One particularly horrific video released in July last year depicted children executing 25 Syrian soldiers.
While the deplorable act of using child soldiers is hardly a new concept in the ISIS ranks, it's believed this may be the first time a child from a Western country has been featured.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond admitted in January that around 1,500 British people have attempted to join ISIS and other terrorist organisations in Syria.
The cubs copy the actions of five adult jihadis who can be seen in the same footage butchering five further hostages with knives.
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The sick nine-minute video also shows scenes of destruction across ISIS-controlled territory in Raqqa, Syria including dead bodies and war-torn buildings.
The propaganda video by the murderous Islamic extremists shows civilians who purportedly were killed in airstrikes.
The group also threatens world leaders including Barack Obama and Bashar Al -Assad.
At least 50 British children are thought to be living in ISIS-controlled territories and are being brainwashed and trained up to become the next generation of executioners and suicide bombers.
According to an investigation carried by the Quilliam Foundation this year, some 50 children from the UK are "growing up on jihad" and are being encouraged to become ISIS fighters.
Among these kids is thought to be be eleven-year-old JoJo Jones, who is the son of IS convert Sally Jones, from Chatham Kent.
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JoJo is thought to have travelled to Syria with his mum in 2013.
Schoolgirl Sharmeena Begum was the first the flee to Syria in 2014, aged 15.
She managed to convince pals Shamima Begum, Amira Abade and Kadiza Sultana to join her.
The girls are thought to be living in Raqqa apart from Kadiza who is believed to be dead after an airstrike earlier this month.
Other children believed to be living alongside IS fighters are Yusra Hussien who left her family home in Bristol in 2014, when she was just 15-years-old.
Samya Dirie, 17, from Stockwell, south London also joined Yusra in travelling to Syria.
Three children aged between one and 11 are among a family of 12 from Luton who are thought to have travelled to Syria in June last year.
Also in the family are five brothers - Mohammed Zayd Hussain, 25, Mohammed Toufique Hussain, 19, Mohammed Abil Kashem Saker, 31, Mohammed Saleh Hussain, 26, and the fifth’s name is not known.
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