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Here is a video showing a Syrian boy escaped from ISIS by volunteering as a suicide bomber and then handing himself in at the mosque he was meant to blow up. Usaid Barho had a bomb vest strapped to his body before travelling to a Shi’ite mosque in Baghdad, Iraq where he was supposed to detonate the explosive device. But rather than killing himself and countless others, he took the brave decision to flout his orders by unzipping his jacket and handing himself in to guards standing nearby. Video footage shows the stressed moment an officer gently removes part of the deadly gear strapped to his body in front of stunned onlookers.
He had reportedly walked up to the gates of the mosque in the Bayaa district of Baghdad before telling guards he did not want to blow himself up. It is reported that Usaid had dreamed of becoming a doctor before he said he was recruited by Isis extremists in his hometown of Manbij, Syria. He united because he ’believed in Islam’ but soon became disheartened and was told that if he did not fight, Shi’ites would rape his mother. He describes how he was taken to a training camp before being given a choice of becoming a fighter or a suicide bomber.
He chose the latter hoping he could instantaneously surrender. The teenager reportedly said: ’I raised my hand to be a suicide bomber. ’If I were a fighter and tried to surrender to sanctuary forces they might kill me, with my gun in my hand.’ Usaid was reportedly transferred from one Isis operative to another as he made his journey towards the mosque before he was finally given his target and informed of his target. It is believed that the teenager is currently being held at an Iraqi intelligence site.
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