Horr Jaffer, a 23-year-old from Chechnya is an ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) suicide bomber who is currently under captivity. After being captured after an attempted suicide bombing when his deterrent only partially detonated, Jaffer stated that there are currently many foreigners fighting with ISIS militants in Iraq and Syria.
Sky News reported that Horr Jaffer is currently being held and treated at a wing of Sulaymaniah’s military hospital in Iraq. It is reported that he is under 24-hour security. "There are nations from all over the world there. There is British amongst them. They are from Asian countries, Europe and America. From everywhere," the captured militant told Sky News.
Jaffer was arrested in a southern Kurdish town called Jalula in Iraq. He was attempting to drive a car loaded with explosives into a Kurdish military checkpoint. However, his bomb exploded early killing several people and wounding even more. Jaffer tried to escape but was captured on the spot. After he was brought to the hospital in Iraq for treatment, he explained to the world how he got to join ISIS.
Jaffer explained to Sky News that he joined the Islamic State after the deaths of his father, mother and six family members. However, Kurdistan forces explained that they believed Jaffer’s father and brothers were at one point professional Jihadists. On the contrary Jaffer is under the belief that his family members were killed by Iraqi government forces.
"I want to be a martyr. I decided after they killed my family," Jaffer explained. "They didn't tell me anything about what I was doing or where I was. I just had to press the button." Jaffer had said he wanted nothing more than to die when he was first arrested but now he explained he did not mean it and just wanted to live a normal life.
Because of the number of European and American citizens who are fighting as active members of ISIS, a Kurdish military spokesperson said that all western countries should be concerned over a global ISIS terrorist attack in Europe or America. "It is almost like super-terrorism and this is the frontline. It is more aggressive, more merciless, more brutal. This is the front of the war on terror. If we don't stop this here they will come for the West, for England, for Europe or the United States. They need to be stopped." a spokesperson told Sky News.
Flavia Pansieri, the United Nations Deputy Human Rights Commissioner stated that ISIS jihadists have committed "serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law," including targeted killings, forced conversions, abductions, slavery, sexual and physical abuse and torture.
