BangladeshI famIly from uk found to have joIned ‘IslamIc state’

LONDON: A Bangladeshi family of 12 from England, who went missing on the way back from a holiday in Dhaka, have confirmed in a statement issued by ISIS terrorists that they are in the “Islamic State”. The statement from the Mannan family, obtained from Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) sources by The Times, came with accompanying photographs showing Muhammed Abdul Mannan, the head of the family, smiling and pointing to the sky and his wife in a niqab. The 500-word “press release” is an effort to use the arrival of the family — including a one-year-old baby — as a propaganda tool, the newspaper reported. “We release this statement to confirm that indeed we are in the Islamic State. A land that is free from the corruption and oppression of manmade law and is governed by the shariah, the perfect and just laws of Allah,” the statement reads. “Yes, all 12 of us, and why should this number be shocking when there are thousands and thousands of Muslims from all corners of the world that are crossing over land and sea every day to come to the Islamic State?” the statement states. The words and photographs come after family sources indicated that they had received confirmation that all 12 had arrived in Syria.