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Islamic State health minister
Issam Abuanza is the former Islamic State health minister of the Islamic State Health Service.[1] A Palestinian with British citizenship,[2] he is the first practicing National Health Service doctor known to have joined the Islamic State group.[3] Concerning the death of Jordanian pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh, he stated:[4]
I would've liked for them to burn him extremely slowly and I could treat him so we could torch him once more
Abuanza, then living in Sheffield with a wife and two children, travelled to Syria alone in July 2014.[5]
References
- ^ Skinner, Elizabeth; Robinson, Elizabeth; Baho, Sally (2021). "CTX, Version 11". CTX. 11 (2): 19. ISSN 2162-6421 – via Naval Postgraduate School.
- ^ Perraudin, Frances (2016-05-25). "Sheffield doctor who joined Isis sparks call for stronger border checks". The Guardian. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
- ^ "Meet the British doctor who left his hospital job to join the Islamic State". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
- ^ Hamilton, Fiona. "NHS doctor is revealed as an Isis fighter". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
- ^ Steve Swann, Daniel Sandford & Riam Dalati, BBC News Islamic State group recruited practising NHS doctor