ISIS "doctor" shows off "very good medical service"
One of nine British medical students believed to have traveled to Syria to join ISIS in the spring has appeared in a new propaganda video touting medical services offered by the extremist group in the Syrian city of Deir Ezzor.
As the video begins, a man who appears to be Tamer Ahmed Ebu Sebah sits behind an office desk with a stethoscope around his neck, but otherwise dressed normally. The video introduces him as "Doctor Abu Omar al-Muhajir," a professional title Sebah had yet to earn when he disappeared from his home in Britain.
Sebah says he represents the doctors of the medical council in Deir Ezzor, a city firmly within ISIS territory, between their de facto capital of Raqqa and the Iraqi border to the east.
The young man is the latest tool used by a terror group hell-bent on portraying normal life within the land it holds -- in spite of regular extrajudicial killings and humanitarian crises which drive a steady exodus of locals seeking safety in neighboring countries.
There are more refugees in the world now than there have been since the Holocaust, and the United Nations recently put Syria at the top of the list of countries behind that dire statistic, overtaking Afghanistan.
But "Doctor Muhajir" insists that, what he's found, by contrast is "actually very good medical service provided here."
He is shown tutoring a group of local medical workers (qualifications unknown) at an ISIS-run hospital. The young medic introduces the various departments in the hospital throughout the video, claiming they're equipped with the latest equipment.
He concludes with an appeal to Muslims from across the world to migrate to ISIS territory, urging them not to believe all the negative propaganda about the group spread about by western media.