Islamic State baby killers: Father had contacted Australian government in bid to escape war

EXCLUSIVE: Islamic State butchers have murdered an Australian baby in what intelligence agencies suspect was cold-blooded revenge on the child’s deserter dad who was attempting to flee the death cult’s clutches.

Mohamed Elomar is believed to have been the father of Ayesha Sharrouf.

• Trump analysts in Australia to discuss returning IS fighters
• Sharrouf stripped of Australian citizenship

AN Australian baby has been killed in cold blood by Islamic State terrorists in a Middle Eastern war zone.

Intelligence agencies suspect the baby was killed by Islamic State terrorists in retribution for its father, an Australian foreign fighter, attempting to flee the bloody conflict.

The Daily Telegraph understands the baby’s father had made contact with Australian authorities, seeking assistance to escape the heart of the Islamic State battle in Syria and Iraq.

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Attorney-General George Brandis said he condemned any parent who put his or her family in danger in Islamic State territory.

“The government has consistently said going to the conflict zone puts yourself and others in danger,” Mr Brandis’s spokesman said.

“We condemn any parent who takes their family to the conflict zone.”

The Turnbull government refused to confirm the age of the baby, an Australian citizen, its gender, or how it was killed, refusing to comment on specific security or intelligence matters.

When radicalised young Australian men first made their way to Syria and Iraq, they were encouraged to marry and have children to help establish an Islamic caliphate with the terror army.

A child of Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf in Syria. Picture: ABC

Mohamed Elomar. Picture: Facebook

Islamic State has confiscated the passports and controls the financial resources of its fighters to stop them from trying to leave the conflict zone.

However, the Turnbull government has been expecting a surge of foreign fighters attempting to return home to Australia as the terrorist organisation loses its grip on power in its Iraq stronghold of Mosul and its Syrian counterpart, Raqqa.

Some have been trying to leave after becoming disillusioned with the reality of the death cult, which is a far cry from the image sold to them by terror recruiters.

Islamic State, also known as the death cult, has been known to use brutal execution techniques of boiling or beheading and even has filmed child fighters killing prisoners for its propaganda videos.

Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf’s Australian citizenship has been revoked.

Other Australian fighters are expected to try to make their way to Europe to continue on their mission to carry out terror attacks.

There are 100 Australians fighting with terrorist organisations in the Middle East.

But the total figure of the number of Australians in Syria and Iraq’s hot spots, including children who have been born to the terrorists, is not publicly known.

However, one child believed to have been born from Australian foreign fighters is Ayesha Sharrouf, the product of a marriage between now-slain jihadist Mohamed Elomar and the eldest teenage daughter of Khaled Sharrouf.

It was revealed last month that notorious Australian terrorist Sharrouf became the first dual national to be stripped of his citizenship under the federal government’s recent anti-terror laws.

In terms of captured Australian extremists, former Melbourne man and top Islamic State recruiter Neil Prakash remains in a Turkish prison after he was arrested at the border late last year after fleeing Mosul ahead of Iraqi forces’ offensive on the city.

The battle for the militants’ biggest stronghold in Iraq is ongoing.

Australian authorities are continuing efforts to extradite the 25-year-old back to Melbourne, where a warrant for his arrest was issued in 2015.

It is difficult for Australia’s intelligence agencies and consular officials in the region to obtain accurate and specific information from the conflict zone and ASIO often relies on US ­intelligence.

Australia has been working closely with the US to combat the threat of terrorism.

A high-level United States Department of Homeland Security delegation last week flew to Canberra to meet with ASIO to specifically discuss the threat of returning foreign fighters.

As Australia braces for a return of foreign fighters, the Trump administration is preparing to introduce a travel suspension on nationals from six Muslim-majority countries.