An Australian doctor has appeared in an ISIS propaganda video urging other medical professionals to join the jihad against the west.

THE Australian doctor appearing in a video on behalf of ISIS was a “fraud”, “sleazeball” and a “creep” who had slept with nurses, doctors and even patients — one of them a sex worker — former colleagues claim.

Tareq Kamleh, who referred to himself as Abu Yusuf in a stylised IS propaganda video, said he was a doctor who had travelled to the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa from Australia to offer his medical services as part of his “jihad for Islam”.

The former Adelaide University medical student was previously referred to as a “womaniser” and a drinker; however, according to The Australian, Kamleh was also a “sexually manipulative fraud” whose “immorality” led him to exploit patients and girlfriends in the name of sexual gratification.

His Facebook site shows photos of him surfing and hunting but does not list his crude party trick — sneaking up behind seated women and placing his exposed penis on their shoulder.

According to the Adelaide Advertiser, Kamleh was a hard drinking, promiscuous party boy who one time employed the trick during an official function to farewell overseas doctors leaving a secretary in shock.

He was pretty drunk at the time, but when I rang him the next day to tell him the woman was quite upset he thought it was just one big joke,” a former colleague who was at the function recalls.

“That was typical of him — impulsive, reckless, immature, absorbed with himself and with a total lack of concern about social consequences for his actions.”

Another colleague — who declined to be named — said Kamleh claimed to have had sex with a Mannum District Hospital patient — a former sex worker — after first checking her medical records from Royal Adelaide Hospital.

“I feel reluctant to speak ill of a former colleague, but as he is now portraying himself as a jihadist and calling others to join the so-called caliphate, I feel I should,” the colleague said.

“At the time, he was one of the most immoral people I knew, in terms of promiscuity at least.”

The former colleague said Kamleh operated a second Facebook page under the name “Adam Kamlah” to pursue women while hiding his indiscretions from girlfriends. The page has since been deleted.

The colleague said Kamleh admitted to being forced out of a shared house following “improper conducts” towards a female housemate.

“I could tell he was a bit conflicted and confused about himself. Whenever his parents would visit, he would take them to the university mosque and pretend he was a regular attendee.’’

Previous information about the doctor revealed he had settled down and was dating a nurse from the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

But other colleagues have called Kamleh a “very good and caring doctor who related well to patients and other staff”, saying he was “friendly and affable and practised a good standard of medicine.”

Director of child and adolescent health at the Mackay Base Hospital Dr Michael Williams told News Corp that Kamleh had created shock waves when he appeared in the ISIS video, in which he urged other doctors and medical professionals to join the medical team while treating babies in incubators.

“We need the brothers and sisters to come and help us from all around the world. We just need the manpower ... to help us grow this.

“After being here it’s disappointing to think how many fellow Muslim brothers and sisters who are in the medical field; doctors and nurses, physios and dentists are still living in the west and unfortunately here the Muslims are really suffering from not lack of equipment or medicine but lack of qualified medical care.

“I’ll see you soon”.



Kamleh worked as a registrar in paediatric medicine at Adelaide’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital from February 2011 until January 2013. He later worked at the Mackay Base Hospital in Queensland, before returning to Perth, working briefly as a registrar at Perth’s children’s hospital, the Princess Margaret Hospital.

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency shows that Kamleh was registered as a medical practitioner in Subiaco, WA, in 2010. His registration is due to expire on September 30.