Runaway Australian teen Abdullah Elmir is back on YouTube, this time no longer threatening Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and other heads of state who dare to cross paths with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

In the second video that runs for six minutes posted on Tuesday, the 17-year-old former resident of Bankstown in western Sydney shows his new life as a jihadist as he and fellow Islam followers eat, pray and chant from the Qu'ran. In the video, they are inside a popular tourist park by the banks of the Tigris River in Nineveh Province, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.

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The second video appears to become viral, too, like the first video since in a matter of hours, it had logged more than 1,000 hits. The first video got more than 37,000 views in 5 days.

Besides Elmir, also seen in the background are young males, while surrounding the Australian teen are older fighters who brandish high-powered assault weapons the IS uses to gain more territories in Syria and Iraq.

While Elmir's recruitment may be considered a sort of coup for the extremist militants, an Australian expert in battling extremism believes giving the Aussie teen too much video exposure could work against the group.

"I think it's a big mistake for them because he's so young and fresh-faced..." The Australian quoted Curtin University research fellow Dr. Anne Aly. "After a while people looking at him will see nothing more than a little boy who is pretending to be a big man, but who is being used and lost."

Even the kid's family thinks Abdullah's actions are a big mistake, while one family member who declined to be identified described the juvenile as "a stupid idiot" brainwashed by ISIS.

Aly agreed with the relative's assessment that Elmir was brainwashed and manipulated. The main message it should send to young people in search of direction in life is "this is what ISIS does to you; it sucks you in, this boy's life will never ever, ever be the same," she lamented.

Another political expert, Michael Wesley, the director of Australian National University's School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, observed that the Islamic State is a "sophisticated organization" that is successful in sending its message to Muslims in various parts of the world and getting them to respond to the call for arms.

Wesley underscored the need to make counter measures against the ISIS propaganda arm.

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