The devastated grandmother of a young boy filmed being coached to kill Australians has lashed out at his terrorist father for using him as a “media tool.”
Footage surfaced in Australia on Sunday of Australian Khaled Sharrouf grilling his six-year-old son Hamze in Syria about how to murder opponents.
It reportedly showed the boy holding guns and a knife and making threats as a voice off-camera asked him, “How do you kill an Australian?”
Sharrouf — the first Australian to be stripped of his citizenship under anti-terrorism laws — made international headlines in 2014 when he posted an image on Twitter of another son holding a severed head.
The children’s grandmother Karen Nettleton, whose daughter left Australia for Syria in 2013 with her young family to join Sharrouf but has since reportedly died, said she was disgusted to see the latest images.
“Everybody out there is going to see it and think he’s a little terrorist. I don’t know how his father could have done it to him. I really don’t understand that,” she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Monday evening.
“He (Hamze) was the baby out of all of them. I rocked him to sleep, I sang him songs, I took him swimming.
“It kills me because I know he’s just a six-year-old little boy. I know what’s he’s like. He’s just being used, I think as some sort of media tool.”

Source: Arab News