– FARAH MOHAMMAD SHIRDON & SALMAN ASHRAFI

Published March 11, 2015

* Farah Mohammad Shirdon, who seems to be in his early 20s, a Canadian militant who joined I.S.I.S in Iraq and Syria has appeared in a video in late 09/2014 in an interview with Vice News.

Farah Mohammad Shirdon claimed in the interview with the media outlet Vice News that he joined ISIS of his own free will and that more 10,000 fighters have come from the West to join ISIS in Iraq. “No one spoke a single word to me. I opened the newspaper, I read the Quraan – very easy,” said Shirdon, in a Skype interview from Mosul.

Social media posts emerged in 08/2014 suggested that Farah Mohammad Shirdon had been killed in Iraq. But Vice News tracked him after coming across reports that he may be alive, reported CBC.

Shirdon spoke about ISIS’s ambitions to expand its territory and added that it is “mobilizing” for an attack on New York and aims to fly its flag over the White House. “A lot of brothers are mobilizing there right now, in the West,” he claimed.

Farah Mohammad Shirdon, who is also known with the nickname Abu Usamah Somali, is from Calgary, according to Huffington Post Canada. He was reportedly a former student at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and is also the nephew of an ex-prime minister of Somalia, according to the news site.

He came to public attention in 06/2014 when he appeared in a video surrounded by ISIS militants as he tore up his passport while also threatening Canada.

Another Calgarian believed to be killed in Syria or Iraq is Salman Ashrafi, a student leader who’d attended the University of Lethbridge and helped to organize anti-racism rallies and Muslim awareness weeks, he had graduated into a promising career in Calgary’s oil patch, working with Exxon and Talisman. “We can confirm that an individual named Salman Ashrafi worked in Talisman’s Calgary office from summer 2011 until his resignation in October 2012,” said Talisman Energy, in a written statement.

Salman Ashrafi blew himself up in 11/2013r in a double suicide bombing at an Iraq military base, reportedly killing 46 people on behalf of I.S.S.I in Iraq .

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and Damaian Clairmont, 22, a Catholic high-school dropout, and convert, who traveled to Syria in early 2013, a member of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group Jabhat al-Nusra who was killed in Syria.

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