I wondered if Khaled Sharrouf was actually dead..found this online
At one stage we were told he was dead (and subsequently his wife died) and his children wanted to return back to Australia. The mother in law flew over to Syria with her lawyer but little was said after that. This is what I found online this morning.
"Khaled Sharrouf, the Islamic State terrorist who gained global infamy after posting pictures of his young son holding a severed head, has been imprisoned by the terror group he once served, according to a family member.
Sharrouf’s mother-in-law, Karen Nettleton, relayed the extraordinary claim to Australian counter-terrorism authorities last month after she returned from a trip to Turkey, the gateway to the Syrian battlefield.
Federal Attorney-General George Brandis confirmed yesterday that the government was aware of the claim Sharrouf had been locked up, but could not independently verify it. “Whatever the position, the Sharrouf case is the clearest possible example of the perils that people expose themselves to when they foolishly travel to the Middle East to fight with terrorists,” Senator Brandis said.
It is understood Ms Nettleton told officers from the Australian Federal Police and NSW Joint Counter-Terrorism Team that she had been told that Sharrouf, who fled Australia for Syria in 2013, had been locked up by Islamic State earlier this year.
Sharrouf was said to have been imprisoned after he tried to flee Syria, Ms Nettleton is understood to have told authorities.
Ms Nettleton’s lawyer, Charles Waterstreet, declined to confirm the claim. “Any information is deleterious to Ms Nettleton’s family,’’ he said last night.
Islamic State has in the past made a show of shooting defectors as a warning to other would-be deserters.
Sharrouf, who served nearly four years’ jail for his role in the 2005 Pendennis terror conspiracy to attack targets in Sydney and Melbourne, is a diagnosed schizophrenic. He has also suffered personal tragedy and a string of misadventures since arriving in Syria in early 2014.
In February, The Australian revealed exclusively that Sharrouf’s Australian wife, Tara Nettleton, who followed Sharrouf into Syria, died in Raqqa late last year, following complications from an infection. Prior to that, his car was destroyed after it was hit by a missile fired from a drone in Raqqa. Sharrouf was not in the vehicle at the time. It was later claimed the drone strike killed a doctor and his young family, who were said to have borrowed the car.
Like his wife, Sharrouf has also been beset by illness, at one point battling a serious infection from a wound or boil.
Ms Nettleton’s claim of Sharrouf’s incarceration deepens the mystery that has surrounded the Sydney terrorist since false reports of his death emerged last year.
If true, his incarceration marks an astonishing turn of fortune for the man who became one of the most reviled foreign fighters on the Syrian battlefield and a poster boy for Islamic State.
Sharrouf fled Australia in December 2013 using his brother’s passport. Along with his friend, Sydney man and former boxer Mohamed Elomar, Sharrouf joined Islamic State, where he quickly became one of the most recognisable Western fighters on the Syrian battlefield, thanks to a string of grisly images uploaded to social media."
source the Australian (behind pay wall) May this year.
It would not surprise me if within very few years Sharrouf and his family were back in Australia being supported by the Taxpayer.