Former ISIS Hostage: ‘Jihadi John’ Forced Me to Dance With Him

According to a former hostage of ISIS, the famous onscreen executioner known as Jihadi John has a thing for the danse macabre.

26-year-old Danish photographer Daniel Rye, who was held captive by the Islamic State in Syria from May 2013 to June 2014, told an incredibly odd and disturbing story about the terrorist, whose was previously identified as British national Mohammed Emwazi.

“He picked me up and I had to dance the tango, John and I,” Rye told a Danish news agency.

“My head was down and afraid of being beaten. He led me around the prison,” he continued. “Suddenly, he changed and just pushed me down. They kicked and hit me. They finished by threatening to cut my nose off with pliers and things like that.”

According to author Michael Weiss, described Emwazi as having an “almost Clockwork Orange sense of sinister humor about torturing” his victims. Online supporters have also “reacted with glee” to Rye’s account of the dance — despite the fact that Emwazi “has apparently fled” since being identified by Western journalists in February.

Rye was reportedly freed by his captors in return for a large ransom paid by his family just two months before the beheading of American journalist James Foley.

Check out the clip above, via CNN.

[h/t CNN]
[Image via screengrab]

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