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Aussie police raid house of Lankan ‘doctor’ seen in ISIL video
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Unais Mohomed Ameen
Police have raided two Melbourne homes reportedly linked to a Sri Lankan born Australian man who appeared in a propaganda video for ISIL’s health services in Syria, Australian media said.
Australia’s 9News (ninemsn) in a report said:
Search warrants were executed at Meadow Heights and Craigieburn by counter-terrorism police searching for information about 41-year-old Sri Lankan-born Mohomed Unais Mohomed Ameen, the ABC reports.
The homes are believed to be those of his two ex-wives.
The Australian Federal Police confirmed it had “conducted operational activity” in Meadow Heights and Craigieburn but did not elaborate.
Last year Ameen appeared in an ISIL video promoting a hospital in Raqqa and urging others with medical training to join him in Syria.
April 25, 2015: A man with an Australian accent claiming to be a doctor appears in a IS propaganda video urging other western doctors to move to Syria to help the Islamic State Health Service.
The Sri Lankan-born ISIL supporter said he worked in the physiotherapy department of a ISIL hospital, treating up to 500 patients a week.
“We have staff from many other countries, physiotherapy doctors from Russia, physiotherapy doctors from Sham, physiotherapy doctors from Australia, from Sri Lanka, Tunisia, and that a few countries to be named,” Ameen says in the video.
“We have female physiotherapy doctors separately for physiotherapy for females, and for the children.”I would like to take this opportunity, call my brothers and sisters who have the medical background, medical knowledge, who [are] qualified or semi-qualified.”
Reports on the widely publicised video initially focused on Australian doctor Tareq Kamleh, who also put out the call for recruits with medical training.
However, despite portraying himself as a doctor in the video, Ameen reportedly has no medical training. Instead he appears to have studied for a diploma of sports coaching in Melbourne before he left for Syria in May 2014.
Ameen was believe to have frequented the notorious Al Furqan bookshop in the Melbourne suburb of Springvale, which has links to a number of Australians that have left the country to fight with ISIL in Syria.
Ameen is believed to have come to Australia as a student in 2001 and later obtained citizenship by marrying an Australian woman.