Britain's 'shoddy' security under fire after militant slips away to Islamic State

Britain's 'shoddy' aegis beneath blaze afterwards active block away to Islamic State, Six weeks afterwards a British active who is doubtable of getting an Islamic State apache slipped out of the country, badge beatific a letter allurement him to abandonment his passport, a aegis boggle that has fatigued criticism from action lawmakers.

Though the masked active who was apparent administering the killing of 5 men in an IS advertising video has not been clearly identified, media including the BBC and the Daily Telegraph accept alleged him as Siddhartha Dhar, a Londoner who already awash inflatable animated alcazar toys.

Dhar, 32, larboard Britain for Syria in September 2014 while on badge bond afterwards his arrest on suspicion of acceptance to a banned accumulation and auspicious terrorism.

"The arrangement has bootless because it accustomed him to abscond to Syria," Andy Burnham, the home diplomacy agent for the action Labour Party, said in assembly on Tuesday.

"Even if the actual procedures were followed, I accept affirmation that they were far too weak," he said.

Britain's absolute analyst of agitation laws said the capital declining in the Dhar case was not allurement him to duke over his biking affidavit immediately.

Burnham cited a badge letter to Dhar anachronous Nov. 7, 2014 ambience out bond conditions, including surrendering his passport, that was beatific six weeks afterwards the active had larboard Britain. In the letter, Dhar, who was said to accept fled with his abundant wife and four children, was apprenticed to acquaintance police.

Dhar angry up in Syria two weeks afterwards the letter was beatific brandishing a gun and a babyish and cheeky Britain for its "shoddy" aegis that accustomed him to "breeze" into Syria.

Concerns over the affluence with which a man doubtable of agitation offences could abscond Britain add to worries about the abundantly biking aural Europe of the militants abaft the Nov. 13 Paris attacks which dead 130 people.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, doubtable administrator abaft the Paris attacks, had aswell mocked European borderland controls and boasted how simple it was for him to move amid Syria to his Belgian citizenry and the blow of Europe.

BORDERLESS EUROPE?

Since the Paris attacks, the European Union has stepped up checks on its citizens travelling away and is gluttonous added abstracts on commuter travel.

Still, the breeze of adopted fighters to Syria has so far apparent no assurance of abbreviating and the United States has alleged for bigger cross-Atlantic advice administration to anticipate attacks.

The character of the active in the Islamic State blur has stoked acute belief because it active memories of "Jihadi John", addition British active who was apparent in IS videos beheading U.S. and British hostages.

Jihadi John, apparent as Londoner Mohammed Emwazi, was dead by a collective U.S.-British missile bang in November.

British Home Secretary (interior minister) Theresa May, who banned to animadversion on belief about the character of the English-accented active in the Islamic State video, said Britain had anchored avenue controls.

"They are now demography abode at the assorted ports of avenue and in a array of ways, according to how the advice about someone's avenue is getting held," she said.

She added that the accommodation on whether to abode a doubtable on badge bond was an operational matter.

Syria has become the pre-eminent all-around incubator for a new bearing of militants afterwards Islamist groups added than angled their application of adopted fighters to as abounding as 31,000 over the accomplished 18 months, above chief British intelligence official Richard Barrett said endure month.

SYRIA'S INCUBATOR

In the anarchy of Syria's civilian war, a lot of adopted fighters end up in active groups including Islamic State, which uses an acute estimation of Islam to absolve attacks on its foes and appoint backbreaking aphorism in swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq that it has captured.

According to Barrett, now chief carnality admiral of the Soufan Group, a New York intelligence consultancy, adopted fighters appear from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and the above Soviet Union, while about 5,000 accept travelled from the European Union.

Britain says about 800 UK citizens accept travelled to Syria and about bisected accept returned, admitting some accept aswell asleep in the war, putting a ache on the badge and aegis armament who are tasked with ecology the militants.

British media, citation articulation experts, say the articulation on the IS video sounds like recordings of Abu Rumaysah, built-in Siddharta Dhar to a London Hindu family, who for abounding years gave speeches and interviews as a arresting amount in the accumulation al-Muhajiroun.

His sister told media the articulation of the active in the video sounds like her brother although she was not abiding it was him.

The accumulation was founded by Syrian-born Islamist apostolic Omar Bakri in the backward 1990s and alleged for Sharia law in Britain. It was banned beneath anti-terrorist laws in 2010.

The capital declining in Dhar's case was not anon ambitious his passport, according to David Anderson, a advocate and Britain's absolute analyst of agitation laws.

"Where it seems to accept torn down is aboriginal of all in not ensuring that the authorization was handed over," Anderson told the BBC. He said bags of humans were subjected to surveillance but he doubtable Dhar would not accept been abreast the top of the list.
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