Earlier this week, the British government was reported to have refused to take back a 40-year-old NHS doctor, who is suspected of ties to Daesh and is currently being held in captivity by Kurdish fighters in Syria.
During a two-hour interview with The Telegraph, Muhammad Saqib Raza, who's among the UK citizens detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and accused of being a member of Daesh*, has claimed that he is the victim of a sophisticated kidnapping plot, which duped him into the self-proclaimed caliphate.
“Maybe you will believe me, maybe you won't. As a doctor I was very moved by what was happening in Syria, but I never wanted to go over there. To be honest, I was not brave enough,” The Telegraph cited him as saying, emphasizing that the man speaks English without accent and never takes his eyes off the camera.
The Pakistan-born man told the media outlet that back in 2016, he left the UK for Turkey to escape paying a tidy sum for a broken marriage – he should have owed a £200,000 dowry payment to his wife's family in the event of a divorce.
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He claimed that he traveled to Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, to purchase a property, and while he was out for dinner one night, he was approached by a man, who eventually turned out to be a Daesh recruiter.
“We started chatting and he found out about me and he said: ‘Wow, I'm a recruiter…
