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   The photograph of a young boy holding the decapitated head of a   
   slain Syrian soldier and published in Australian media today   
   underscored the barbarity of Islamist State militants,   
   Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said.   
      
   The image was posted on Twitter and showed the boy, believed to   
   be the son of Sydney jihadist Khaled Sharrouf, The Australian   
   newspaper said, adding that the boy was aged seven.   
      
   The image was taken in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa and was   
   posted last week on the Twitter account of Sharrouf, Australia’s   
   most wanted terrorist who fled to Syria last year and is now an   
   Islamist State fighter.   
      
   Mr Abbott said the photograph was “more evidence of just how   
   barbaric this entity is”.   
      
   The photo was “pretty graphic evidence of the real threat that   
   Isil represents”, said US defence secretary Chuck Hagel, in   
   Sydney ahead of annual Australia-United States Ministerial   
   Consultations .   
      
   The Australian government believes at least 150 of its citizens   
   are involved in fighting or actively supporting the Islamic   
   State (Isil) in Syria and Iraq.   
      
   It said last month it was putting Islamic State on its list of   
   banned terrorist organisations.   
      
   The United States is exploring options to evacuate thousands of   
   Iraqi civilians trapped by Islamic militants on a barren   
   mountain in northern Iraq, after four nights of humanitarian   
   relief airdrops, US officials said yesterday.   
      
   While the airdrops appear to have provided urgently needed aid,   
   the harsh conditions of the Sinjar mountain range in mid-summer   
   have taken scores of lives among Iraq’s Yazidi minority, who are   
   threatened by hardline militants from the Islamic State.   
      
   Australia, along with France and Britain, has offered assistance   
   to provide aid to the trapped people.   
      
   http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/photo-of-boy-   
   holding-decapitated-head-barbaric-australia-pm-1.1893572   
      
        
      
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