British jihadis fighting for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq have pledged to send militants to fight police in the riot-hit American city of Ferguson, Missouri - providing the protesters embrace Islam. The city has seen widespread disorder after a police officer escaped punishment for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager, and now the Islamic extremists are attempting to take advantage of the anti-authoritarian feeling to convince those involved to adopt ISIS' radical ideology. Using the slogan 'From #IS 2 Ferguson', Birmingham-born jihadi Junaid Hussain, 20 - who has adopted the nom de guerre Abu Hussain al-Britani - this morning tweeted a photograph of a hand-written letter urging the Ferguson rioters to 'reject corrupt man-made laws like democracy' and declare their allegiance to ISIS' leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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ISIS fighters in Syria post tweets declaring support for Ferguson rioters
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Urge protesters to embrace Islam and carry out acts of extreme violence
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Uploaded hand-written note vowing to send militants to the Missouri city
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But said rioters must first declare their allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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It is understood the men in the photograph are militants based in @placeholder-held areas of Syria and Iraq, and that one of the men is 20-year-old Hussain.
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It is understood the men in the photograph are militants based in ISIS-held areas of Syria and Iraq, and that one of the men is 20-year-old @placeholder.
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'Chilling': The links between Ferguson and ISIS go right back to the first protests in August, when a CNN news report appeared to show a man holding a placard reading '@placeholder is here'
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Firstly the militants seem to believe that @placeholder allows them to portray the US as promising black people fair treatment and equality, but treating them with violence and oppression.