US intelligence agencies likely to question ISIS return Areeb Majeed

Areeb has told interrogators that even though he was a civil engineer, he was deployed to work in Mosul dam as a mason following instructions from some ISIS leaders. He was injured while working at the dam following an aerial attack, the sources said.

The dam is the largest in Iraq and located on the Tigris river. For several weeks in July and August, ISIS held Mosul dam. On August 17, the Kurdish and Iraqi military launched a successful operation to retake control of the dam from ISIS. The US air strikes assisted the Kurdish and Iraqi army.

After his stint at the Mosul dam, Areeb had moved to Rakka or ar-Raqqah, a Syrian town located on the north bank of the Euphrates river, which is now under the control of ISIS. At Rakka, Areeb was given an AK-47 rifle but soon he was injured for the second time due to splinter fire.

During interrogation, Areeb has said that apart from him and three other Mumbai youth, he had met one more Indian-origin youth who joined the ISIS. That youth had come from one of the Gulf countries, the sources said.