'Dead' read-beard jihadi could be 'LEADING savage Islamic State assault in Libya'
A RED-BEARDED terrorist who recruited Jihadi John is said to be leading the Islamic State charge in Libya despite being reported to have been killed in air strikes.
Abu Omar Al-Shishani was believed to have been killed in 2014
Chechen commander Abu Omar al-Shishini recruited British jihadi executioner Mohammed Emwazi, and is now believed to be one of world’s most wanted terrorists.
According to local intelligence, the ginger Georgian arrived in the ISIS stronghold of Sirte in a 14 armed vehicle convoy on Monday night.
Abu Omar is believed to be fronting the evil ISIS charge in Libya
Despite being reported to be dead in a US air strike or captured by forces, it appears the twisted terror cell leader is still at large.
ISIS commanders have been moving away from Syria to the African country as they front up to a barrage of airstrikes.
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British ISIS fighters are thought to be streaming into Libya as the US and Russia ramps up its assault on Syria.
Omar Hussain, nicknamed the Supermarket Jihadi because he was once a security guard at Morrisons in High Wycombe, is believed to have travelled to Libya.
He wrote a message to his followers calling on them to join him in Libya and “be part of those who build the Khilafah [caliphate] with skulls, bones and blood”
Abu Omar recruited Jihadi John
Al-Shishini is renowned for leading a brutal regime in northern Syria and the depraved group is continuing its trail of destruction in the Libyan city.
Grisly punishments were handed out to two people in Sirte with one facing execution and the other to have his limbs chopped off, according to a local news source who also claimed were also made that two of the commanders reading out the names had “red-beards”.
A number of suspected spies were arrested and then publicly crucified in recent weeks by ISIS.
Jihadi John was killed in an air strike
In November 2014, the leader of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, posted an image what was alleged to be the body of Tarkhan Batirashvili (who branded himself Omar al-Shishani or Omar the Chechen) on Instagram.
According to the Russian news agency Itar-Tass, the image was captioned: "Tarkhan Batirashvili, the enemy of Islam who called himself Omar al-Shishani, was killed.
He said in 2014: ”The same fate awaits anyone who even thinks about threatening Russia and the Chechen people."
Al-Shishini was jailed in 2010 for illegally harbouring weapons in Georgia.
He was reportedly released in 2012 after serving 16 months, when he immediately left the country.