edit to add Axios coverage:

How Salim Rashid, a top student turned into Isis butcher

By Nation Africa via TheCitizen.co.tz, Sept. 8

Nairobi. Salim Rashid Mohamed, an exemplary student, has shocked many after security agents identified him as one of the leaders of the international terror outfit Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis).

Hopes for the second-born to become an icon in the family were dashed after he was recruited into terrorism about two years ago. Salim, 27, who was identified as a leader of Isis in a recent video, is being sought in Kenya after he jumped bail last year in a terror-related case.

Salim’s father, Mr Mohamed Rashid, has for the first time opened up about his son, saying,  he was shocked to hear the news.

“I don’t know where my son is and what he is doing. I really feel bad about it,” said the anguished parent. Mr Rashid expressed his disappointment in his son.

“He was a bright boy. But what is the importance of his stellar performance? How is it helping anyone? It is like I don’t have any child by that name,” he said.

Armed with machetes

“We don’t know what he did. What I am aware of is the terrorism case facing him in court. He got good grades in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education [KCSE] exam, but look at him now and his life,” the distraught father added during an interview with the Nation.

The family says they do not know Salim’s whereabouts. His friends, neighbours and former schoolmates are shocked after seeing him in an undated video showing a person suspected to be Salim beheading an alleged Isis traitor. In the almost five-minutes-long video, the terrorists are seen with a machete shouting in Swahili and Arabic that traitors must be killed. They are all wearing military fatigues and armed with machetes and rifles.

Those who know him have little hope of ever seeing him again. His family is not only concerned about his whereabouts but also what could happen to him should he show up.

According to Mr Rashid, he was ready to educate his son to whatever level he wanted but he chose a different path, one that has now put the family under the watchful eye of the Anti-Terror Police Unit officers and security agencies.

“I sent him to Turkey to study computer engineering after scoring an A minus in the 2014 KCSE, but that did not work. Here we are today, with no information of his whereabouts,” he said. Those who knew him did not want to talk about him for fear of being tracked down by the police [....]

She wants to be a famous stoolie too, now, it's the new thing for those in UK who tried ISIS and have tired of it? And Syria, now there's the pits. She didn't behead or torture anyone, tho, thinking more like Mata Hari?