Meet Australian ‘model militant’

MELBOURNE: A professional model from Melbourne has left the runway to join Islamic State militants, according to the Australian media.
Pictures of Sharky Jama, described as a “budding male model,” have been published by his modeling agency, showing him walking down runways in smart-casual attire and posing in high-top sneakers on a beach, Daily Mail Australia reported.
Jama is now believed to have joined IS militants and is living in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, under the IS control for almost a year.
The former model is believed to have taken with him a friend, former La Trobe University student Yusuf Yusuf, The Australian reported.
Yusuf has reportedly fled for the IS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria.
“Mr. Jama’s former social media accounts — including one with the username “thelastkhliafat” — have been deleted, but he maintains a Facebook page under a different name in which he offers his perspectives on Islamic State and life under its banners,” according to the newspaper’s online portal.
On Jama’s modeling agency profile page, he is reportedly described as a “brown-eyed, black-haired man who stands at 5’11” and wears a size 38R suit.”