A British suicide bomber blew himself up as part of an attack on the Iraqi city of Ramadi which led to Islamic State seizing the main government buildings and raising their black flag.
The insurgents began the attack on Ramadi last night with six suicide car bombs – which killed at least 10 police officers and wounded seven others – to reach the city centre before they captured the main Anbar government compound.
Islamic State announced today that it had carried out several attacks on army positions east of Ramadi – including one by a British suicide bomber it named as Abu Musa al-Britani.
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This picture purporting to be Abu Musal al-Britani, an alleged ISIS suicide bomber, is being circulated on Twitter by pro-ISIS supporters following the attack on Ramadi overnight
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Sunni tribal fighters and Iraqi police carry weapons as they guard against attacks from ISIS militants in Ramadi (pictured today)
The terror group named him and branded him ‘a martyr’ during their daily radio broadcast.
ISIS also claimed to have killed 13 Iraqi soldiers and said it had executed 14 Sunni tribal fighters when it took over the central neighbourhood of Jamiya.
Iraqi security sources and IS said the town of Jubbah, about 180 kilometres (110 miles) northwest of Baghdad, had also been seized by jihadists…
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One Response
That’s one that will never be coming back.
One less for MI5 to worry about. Scratch his name off the long, long and ever-lengthening list.