Distraught father sees missing son in ISIS video executing Kurdish captives
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The British father of a young boy was distraught upon seeing his son with four other young boys in an Islamic State (ISIS) video released last week, showcasing the execution of five Kurdish captives in the militants' Raqqa stronghold in Syria.
The father hadn’t seen his son for three years, saying the boy was brainwashed by his mother, Sally Jones, who took him with her to Syria to join ISIS three years ago. He was 10-years old at the time.
The father, who remains unidentified, saw the video, released on Friday, and was sure that JoJo was one of the boys who shot the Kurdish captives in the back of the head.
In the nine-minute video the boys are dressed in military outfits and wear black bandanas and execute the five Kurdish captives with handguns.
Aside from the British boy suspected of being JoJo, the other four boys are Egyptian, Kurdish, Tunisian and Uzbek.
ISIS reportedly killed these Kurds to avenge their own recent losses at the hands of Kurdish-led forces in Syria.
Jones had split from JoJo’s father shortly after the boy was born in 2004 and then converted to Islam, married an Islamist and renamed JoJo Hamza.
The boy the father believes is JoJo in the video is referred to as Abu Abdullah al-Britani, a name used before by ISIS members from the UK.
Speaking to the Daily Mail the father said JoJo “was brilliant, just a normal boy – always chasing bugs, going down the park. I have had to block it out. It’s been hard, we just have to carry on. It’s disgusting he’s been brainwashed.”
The father hadn’t seen his son for three years, saying the boy was brainwashed by his mother, Sally Jones, who took him with her to Syria to join ISIS three years ago. He was 10-years old at the time.
The father, who remains unidentified, saw the video, released on Friday, and was sure that JoJo was one of the boys who shot the Kurdish captives in the back of the head.
In the nine-minute video the boys are dressed in military outfits and wear black bandanas and execute the five Kurdish captives with handguns.
Aside from the British boy suspected of being JoJo, the other four boys are Egyptian, Kurdish, Tunisian and Uzbek.
ISIS reportedly killed these Kurds to avenge their own recent losses at the hands of Kurdish-led forces in Syria.
Jones had split from JoJo’s father shortly after the boy was born in 2004 and then converted to Islam, married an Islamist and renamed JoJo Hamza.
The boy the father believes is JoJo in the video is referred to as Abu Abdullah al-Britani, a name used before by ISIS members from the UK.
Speaking to the Daily Mail the father said JoJo “was brilliant, just a normal boy – always chasing bugs, going down the park. I have had to block it out. It’s been hard, we just have to carry on. It’s disgusting he’s been brainwashed.”