Gangster Jihad

He shocked the world by tweeting pictures of himself - and his child - holding the severed heads of executed Syrians in the service of IS. Yet Khaled Sharrouf was born and grew up in Australia. After a life of petty crime, a fervour bred in the suburbs of Sydney led this criminal thug into religious extremism and alarming brutality. His transition to terrorism reveals IS's disquieting attractiveness to a strange new breed - the gangster jihadi.