Islamic State challenges Prince Harry to a fight
ISIS has so many of its own people in the UK, Harry won’t really need to go to Iraq or Syria to find them.
“Isis challenges Prince Harry to a fight in latest propaganda video,” by Ludovica Iaccino, IB Times, September 25, 2017:
The Islamic State terror group (Isis) has challenged Prince Harry to fight the terrorists threatening it would send him and his Apache helicopters to “hellfire”.
A Singaporean fighter made the threats in a video the group released at the weekend.
“Why don’t you come here and fight us if you’re man enough, so that we can send you and your Apaches to hellfire, biidhnillah [Allah permitting]?” the fighter said in the video, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors terrorists’ activities.
The warning came three months after Prince Harry went on a two-day official visit to Singapore.
During the visit, the prince delivered a speech to pay homage to the victims of the London Bridge terrorist attack, in which seven people were killed in June. Isis claimed responsibility for this and other attacks occurred on British soil in the past few months.
“To Harry, you come to Singapore and tell such stories to gain sympathy for the London terror attacks?” the Isis fighter is also heard saying in the video, according to local newspaper The Straits Times.
Prince Harry served in the military for ten years. Among other duties, he served with the British Army in Helmand, Afghanistan for more than two months in 2008.
It is believed this is the first time that an Isis video features a Singaporean fighter.
Singapore’s interior ministry identified the man as 39-year-old Meghat Shahdan bin Abdul Samad. It is believed the man travelled to Syria to join Isis after he became radicalised while working in the Middle East.
The Isis fighter also urged Muslims to travel to East Asia and join their fight there, SITE said….