By Brittany Chain and Alex Chapman For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 14:40 GMT, 4 March 2019 | Updated: 20:40 GMT, 4 March 2019
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A jihadi who fled his home in New Zealand to fight with Islamic State says his biggest regret about joining the caliphate is having never been able to afford a slave.
Mark Taylor, also known as the 'Bumbling Jihadi' after he accidentally alerted authorities to the location of fighters by enabling geo-tagging on a social media post, travelled to Syria in 2014.
But he now claims he never fought for ISIS, and instead acted as a guard during his five-year tenure with the terror group on the border between the Islamic State and the Syrian Government.
However, during his time overseas, Taylor said he regretted never purchasing a Yazidi slave, lamenting the costs associated with a 'decent one', the ABC.
Taylor (pictured) left New Zealand with the intention of being a 'martyr', entering Syria in 2014
'To buy a slave, you're looking at least $4000 American to buy an older woman, at least past 50-years-old,' he told ABC.
'And to buy a decent one, at least (USD) $10,000 or $20,000.'
ISIS reportedly took thousands of Yazidi women and girls hostage as sex slaves during their reign of terror.
Taylor told the publication he
