A playboy Australian doctor who joined Islamic State in 2015 has surfaced in a new propaganda video that shows him working in a hospital, holding a machinegun and telling Muslims who don't join Islamic State that they have "no self-respect".
Paediatric doctor Tareq Kamleh first appeared in an IS propaganda video in 2015, spruiking its health services and urging other Muslim health professionals to join him in the IS stronghold of Raqqa, Syria.
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Tareq Kamleh who joined the Islamic State in 2015, has surfaced in a new propaganda video with a stern warning for fellow Muslims.
His sudden departure from Australia shocked colleagues at hospitals in South Australia and Queensland, who said he was a lazy doctor who would flirt with his patients and use his charm and good looks to get nurses to do his work.
On Tuesday, a fresh video surfaced online suggesting Kamleh has survived more than two years of fighting in the region and sustained air strikes by coalition forces.
The video focuses on civilian victims of the air strikes and spruiks the heroics of Raqqa's fighters.
With a long beard and his Australian accent noticeable, Kamleh is filmed inside a tunnel under Raqqa attacking Muslims who haven't joined the terrorist group.
"It really surprises me how the Muslim nation is acting at the moment and how stagnant you have all become," Kamleh says.
"We are under continuous bombing here and we are fighting hard to try and hold the lands of Islam. What more will it take for it to be a justified cause for you to come here to fight for Allah's sake?
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"You are living in the countries that are sending us rockets. You are living in the countries that are killing Muslimeen here and you are paying taxes still to them. You have no honour, you have no self-respect, you have no love for fellow Muslims."
In another scene, he stands at a young girl's hospital bed and says: "We're dealing with the countless numbers of burnt children that are coming in at the moment from the continuous bombings that America is dropping on us … Is this one of the terrorists that America's wanting to hit? This girl lost her mother, father and four siblings last night."
![Tareq Kamleh first appeared in a propaganda video in early 2015.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170706133440im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/1/m/t/1/k/b/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gx41gs.png/1499140409063.jpg)
Kamleh, who goes by the nom-de-guerre Abu Yousef Al-Australi, grew up in Perth to a Palestinian father and German mother and spent his career working in hospitals in Adelaide, Mackay and Alice Springs.
A colleague previously told Fairfax Media that Kamleh suddenly morphed from a partying "playboy" doctor to a strict Muslim after a mysterious camping trip during his time at Mackay Base Hospital in 2013.
![In the new video, Australian doctor Tareq Kamleh attacks Muslims who haven't joined the terrorist group.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170706133440im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/x/4/1/v/n/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gx41gs.png/1499140409063.jpg)
Another colleague said he "seemed like a bit of a lost soul [and] superficially was a happy guy, but you got the feeling that underneath it all, he wanted something else".
"He was a pretty normal bloke but he definitely had an ego," the colleague said. "I could never imagine him chopping off heads, but I could easily imagine him wanting to be the star of the show."
![Former colleagues described Tareq Kamleh as a playboy doctor who was lazy.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170706133440im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/1/m/u/h/h/8/image.related.articleLeadNarrow.300x0.gx41gs.png/1499140409063.jpg)
Kamleh's passport and medical registration have been cancelled, and the AFP issued a warrant for his arrest in June 2015.
After the warrant was issued, he wrote a post on Facebook saying he had no intention of returning.
"I anticipated an arrest warrant, hence why I left in secret," he posted.
"Do as you please, I no longer consider myself an Australian."
He said he once loved Australia but the "continuous bombing of civilian targets here by the coalition has done nothing but disappoint me [in] the country I once loved so much".