Cradling his baby in one arm and brandishing an assault rifle in the other, this is the British jihadist who skipped bail to fight for Islamic State. Siddhartha Dhar posted the photograph online to taunt the police and security services whose blunders allowed him to flee the UK. The 31-year-old – one of hate preacher Anjem Choudary’s top henchmen – is apparently living in Syria almost a month after he went on the run with his pregnant wife and family while under investigation by Scotland Yard. The fugitive, also known as Abu Rumaysah, posted the image on his Twitter social media account which bears his Muslim name with the hashtag Generation Khilafah – a reference to the so-called caliphate.
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Siddhartha Dhar was arrested in September along with eight other men
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They were questioned on suspicion of encouraging terrorist offences
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Dhar was released on bail to reappear in December but fled the country
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Later posted tweets boasting about how he could 'breeze' across Europe to Syria to join ISIS fighters because of a 'shoddy security system'
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This morning uploaded a photograph of himself posing with newborn boy
As she spoke, a second woman, thought to be @placeholder’s mother, appeared cradling a baby.