Cash offered to UK youth to join ISIS

Cash offered to UK youth to join ISIS

London, December 19

British extremists with links to the Islamic State (IS) are offering cash payments to teenagers in the UK to travel to join terrorists and fight for the militant group that has seized swathes of land in Iraq and Syria.

A three-month undercover operation by ‘The Times’ involved reporters posing as two schoolgirls and unearthed evidence of a cell to groom and recruit British Muslims as young as 17 to fight in foreign countries.

“The discoveries offer a rare insight into a rampant online world in which extremists effortlessly sidestep social media companies’ attempts to block and censor them,” the paper said, adding that Britain’s counter-terrorism officers were using its findings as part of their investigations. — PTI