Terror kids all alone

Morrison refuses calls to bring home ISIS killer’s children

PRIME Minister Scott Morrison is unmoved by calls to bring the three surviving children of Australia’s most notorious terrorist home from Syria.

Khaled Sharrouf’s three remaining children are in a refugee camp in northern Syria after surviving a fierce battle for Islamic State’s last stronghold in Baghouz.

Their grandmother, Karen Nettleton, has called on the Federal Government to help them return to Australia.

However, Mr Morrison has not been swayed by her pleas.

“I’m not going to put one Australian life at risk to try and extract people from these dangerous situations,” he said yesterday. “I think it’s appalling that Australians have gone and fought against our values and our way of life … I think it’s even more despicable that they put their children in the middle of it.”

Sharrouf and two of his sons were killed in a US air strike on Syria in 2017. The children’s mother is believed to have died of a medical condition in 2015, after following Sharrouf to Syria from Sydney.

His daughters Zaynab and Hoda and eight-year-old son Hamza are in the Kurdishcontrolled Al-Hawl camp, alongside eight other Australian women and their children.

Zaynab, 17, has two young children and is heavily pregnant with her third.

Meanwhile, a Sydney tradesman who also travelled to Syria to join IS in 2015 and is being held in a Kurdish-run camp has begged the Government to let him and his family come back.

Mohammed Noor Masri told the Sydney Morning Herald he wanted to get his Australian wife Shayma Assaad, who’s pregnant, and their three boys aged three, two and one, out of Syria.

“(I feel) remorseful, regretful. I mean, people make mistakes. And you have to pay the price for your mistake,” the 26year-old said.

Masri claims he didn’t fight but worked in a hospital.