Terrorist with gang-leader charisma

WASHINGTON, DC: A glimpse of the passionate loyalty inspired by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the insurgent group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), comes in a recent video made by a 20-year-old Muslim recruit from the British city of Cardiff, Wales.

“We understand no borders,” says the young man, identified as Nasser Muthana, a recruit who apparently joined ISIS about eight months ago. “We have participated in battles in [Syria] and in a few days we will go to Iraq and will fight them, and will even go to Lebanon and Jordan, wherever our sheik [Baghdadi] wants to send us.”