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Aussie teen jihadist in second IS video

AVA BENNY-MORRISON Oct 28, 2014. updated: 06:55am

'We have Allah' ... Abdullah Elmir, from Bankstown in Sydney, appears in the first Islamic State video under the nom de guerre 'Abu Khaled from Australia'. - The Age

A teenage jihadist who ran away from his family in Australia to join the Islamic State terror group in Syria, has reportedly appeared in a new video.

Abdullah Elmir, from Bankstown in western Sydney, appeared in a YouTube clip last week alongside IS fighters, threatening Prime Minister Tony Abbott and any nation that stands in the way of IS.

The 17-year-old has now appeared in a second video, which was shot on the banks of the River Tigris in Mosul in Iraq, News Corp Australia reports.

The six-minute clip, entitled "An evening on the banks of the Tigris River in the Province of Nineveh in the Islamic State", shows the teenager surrounded by black-clad jihadis gathering to eat, pray and then recite religious texts.

The video features several speakers who say they will "strike the necks of the infidel and Arab countries".

Elmir, is pictured next to one of the speakers holding an AK-47 rifle, News Corp said.

The teenager went missing in June, saying he was going fishing, but told his family shortly afterwards he was in Turkey and about to "cross the border".

Condell Park High school parents alarmed over IS teen

When Khal Mourad's son told him a fellow student at Condell Park High had left the country to fight in Syria, he was understandably alarmed.

"At home I keep telling him to keep away from any religious conversations with friends at school," Mr Mourad said on Friday while picking up his boy from the school near Bankstown in Sydney's west.

"I just say to him, 'Tell them you are a normal guy and not interested'."

The school has been thrust into the spotlight this week after student Abdullah Elmir emerged as the new face of the Islamic State (IS).

The militant group has cut a swathe across territory in Syria and Iraq and has been the target of air strikes by the US and its allies.

In a video posted on YouTube, the speaker believed to be 17-year-old Emir, who would be in year 11 this year, warns world leaders of the jihadist group's resolve.

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Using the name Abu Khaled, holding a rifle and dressed in military garb, he is surrounded by dozens of other young jihadists as he addresses the camera.

Abdullah went missing in June, saying he was going fishing, but told his family shortly afterwards he was in Turkey and about to "cross the border".

The classmates he left behind are shocked by the quiet video game enthusiast's chosen path and saddened by the possibility he may never come home.

"There is shock but mostly it is sadness," a student said.

"It's like the elephant in the room."

Parents who saw the video of Elmir called it pathetic, stupid and silly.

A mother of a boy in year 7 at Condell Park High said Elmir did not reflect Muslim beliefs.

"That is not our religion," she said.

The mother said she had also told her son to ignore the debate about Elmir's involvement with IS and said it was better left not spoken about at school.

In the video, Elmir warns Prime Minister Tony Abbott that IS soldiers will not stop fighting.

"Bring every nation that you want to come and fight us," he says in the video.

"Whether it's 50 nations or 50,000 nations, it means nothing to us. Bring your planes. Bring everything you want to us. Because it will not harm us. Why? Because we have Allah. This is something you do not have."

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