2nd UK Extremist Believed to Carry out Suicide Blast in Syria, Iraq

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According to The Guardian on Sunday, "A married father of two is believed to have become the second British [extremist] to have killed himself while fighting in Syria and Iraq."

"The man, named in reports as Kabir Ahmed, a 32-year-old from Derby, is believed to have been involved in a suicide bomb attack in the town of Baiji, north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, two days ago.

If the reports are confirmed, it would make Ahmed the second British [extremist] suicide bomber. Abdul Waheed Majeed, a 41-year-old father of three from Crawley, West Sussex, blew himself up when he drove a lorry laden with explosives into a jail in the Syrian city of Aleppo in February," it added.

It further wrote, "Going under the name Abu Sumayyah, Ahmed is said not to have told his family that he was leaving Britain to fight for (so-called "Daesh ["ISIL"]). His identity was confirmed by Shiraz Maher, from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College in London, which monitors social media accounts of alleged [extremists]. He said Ahmed originally joined [so-called] Jund al-Sham in Syria and then moved to ["Daesh"]."

Source: The Guardian, Edited by website team