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Son of 'Tottenham Ayatollah' killed in Iraq: Sources
[AlAhram] A son of the Syrian-born radical holy man Omar Bakri has been killed in Iraq fighting alongside ISIS group, security sources said Tuesday.The Popular Mobilisation, a paramilitary group, said that it and the security forces had killed Bilal Omar Bakri. He was "leading a group that tried to attack one of our units," in Salaheddin north of Baghdad, according to a statement from the group, dominated by Tehran-backed Shiite militias. A Lebanese security source confirmed that Bilal Omar Bakri, who was in his late 20s, had been killed "fighting in the ranks of ISIS" in Salaheddin province. Another of the preacher's sons, Mohammad Omar, who was in his late 30s, died fighting for ISIS in Aleppo in Syria several months earlier, the source told AFP on condition of anonymity. The brothers had travelled together from Britannia to Iraq, the source added. Omar Bakri, who holds Lebanese citizenship, became known in Britannia for supporting Al-Qaeda. A security source said that he was sentenced in October to six years of hard labour for establishing an organization affiliated with the jihadist Al-Nusra Front in Syria and establishing training camps for it in Leb. When he was based in London, the Sunni firebrand ... firebrandsare noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... was known in the media as the "Tottenham Ayatollah" despite the term applying to a high rank in the Shiite clergy. Omar Bakri fled Britannia, where he lived for two decades, to Leb after praising the perpetrators of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the July 7, 2005 bombings in London. He was tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! and sentenced to life in prison in Leb on a number of charges but was freed on bail in 2010 pending a retrial, judicial sources said at the time. He had most recently been arrested in May 2014 for his involvement in unrest in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... He has denied any links to Al-Qaeda although he said he believed "in the same ideology". Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-30 |
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