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First White British Male to Join Daesh Identified - Reports

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British media reported on Sunday about the first identified white male from the United Kingdom, who has joined the ranks of the Daesh terrorist group.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the Independent newspaper, Jack Letts, a 20-year-old man, who has also been known as Ibrahim or Abu Muhammed after having converted to Islam, traveled from the British city of Oxford to Daesh-occupied part of Syria in 2014.

The newspaper added that Letts' school friends classified him as "the classroom clown," however several of schoolmates called him "Jihadi Jack."

Daesh is a terrorist group, outlawed in many countries including the United Kingdom, Russia and the United States. The group has seized large areas in Syria and Iraq, and declared a caliphate there under the rule of Sharia law.

According to UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, some 1,500 Britons have tried to enter Daesh-controlled parts of Syria, while about 800 of them succeeded.

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