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British fighter in Syria: 'No plans for UK attacks'

ITV News has spoke to a British Muslim fighting Jihad in support of the Syrian rebels against the regime of President Assad. He says he has no intention of attacking other countries or coming back to the UK to plot terror attacks.

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British fighters in Syria 'not planning UK attacks'

A British man fighting with the Syrian rebels against President Assad has told ITV News that he has no intention of coming home to launch attacks against the UK.

He says he is one of an estimated 300 Brits fighting in the civil war that has devastated the country.

Intelligence agencies here fear that the fighters, many of who are just young men, will return to the UK and plan atrocities on British soil, but the fighter, who calls himself Abu Summayah al Britani, said that was not his intention.

He spoke to UK Editor Lucy Manning from an unknown location inside Syria.

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