 In September 2014, he released a video stating that the beheadings of American journalists, Steven Sotloff and James Foley, were a form of "retaliation" and were not "unprovoked" and that Western claims that Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) had massacred the Yazidi were unfounded.In 2014, he was arrested after two other men were apprehended at Dover with false documents, and appeared in court at the Old Bailey on 15 June 2015 charged with planning to go to Syria to fight with Islamic State after spreading terrorist material online.He was found not guilty.