Wed, 06 Aug, 2014 04:04:46 PM FTimes-STT Report, August 6  Screenshot from the Youtube where Isis activist run propaganda. Photo Lehtikuva. The man in the propaganda video posted by the radical Islamist organisation Islamic State, formerly known as Isis, is a son of former Somali politician Faisal Ali Warabe, reported YLE.
Earlier, on August 4, the Finnish intelligence service Supo has confirmed that it knows the identity of the Finnish-speaking man who appears in a YouTube propaganda video hosted by the radical Islamist organisation Isis.
Warabe is a Somali politician who used to live in Espoo but currently is based in Somalia. He had contested in a presidential election in his native Somalia but his wife and some other members of his family still live in Finland, according to the YLE report.
In a telephone interview with YLE current affairs programme, Warabe confirmed that the man in the video is his son Sayid Hussein Feisal Ali. He also told the programme that his son together with his wife, also a Finn of Somali descent, had been living in Syria for over a year.
Warabe said his son started to become radicalised in 2010. He said he tried to get his son’s passport confiscated but his request was denied as his son did not have any criminal record.
Warabe also confirmed to YLE that the man from Espoo who died in Syria in the beginning of June was a cousin to his son. The Helsingi Sanomat, a Finnish language newspaper, reported in June that a Finn of Somali background had been killed in the fighting in Syria.
The Finnish speaking man is seen in a video posted on YouTube inviting all his brothers to come to the Isis caliphate.
The subtitle in the video indicates that the man is from Finland. Other people also appear in the video which was posted on Saturday.
More than 40 people have left Finland for the conflict region of Syria but not all to take part in the fighting, according to Supo.
Isis, which has captured large areas in Syria and Iraq, declared in the end of June a restoration of the Islamic caliphate.
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