Four Britons ‘killed fighting in Syria war with Al Qaeda rebels’
- Three of the men, thought to be radicalised Muslims from London, were killed as they attacked pro-Bashar al-Assad forces near Aleppo
- The men – one of whom has been named as Mohammed El-Araj, 23 – were killed in an explosion in August
By AMIE KEELEY
PUBLISHED: 02:02 GMT, 21 November 2013 | UPDATED: 03:58 GMT, 21 November 2013
Four Britons are believed to have died fighting alongside Al Qaeda in Syria.
Three of the men, thought to be radicalised Muslims from London, were killed as they attacked pro-Bashar al-Assad forces near Aleppo.
The men – one of whom has been named as Mohammed El-Araj, 23 – were killed in an explosion in August, the Times reported. The fourth was shot two weeks later while trying to ambush an enemy position.
Mohammed el-Araj, from West London, (left) was killed during an ambush on Assad forces. Another Briton, Abu Hujama al-Britani, right, was also killed. Centre is a former Dutch soldier who trained them
Amid fears that hundreds of radicalised British Muslims have gone to Syria to fight holy war, the death of El-Araj, from west London, was confirmed by his family.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah holds funeral for Iran Embassy bombing dead, pledges continued Syria fight
BEIRUT – Undeterred by a devastating suicide attack that rocked the Iranian Embassy in Beirut a day earlier, hundreds of Hezbollah supporters pumped their fists in the air Wednesday and vowed eternal allegiance to the Lebanese Shiite militant group as they buried victims from the bombing.
Hezbollah’s deputy leader Naim Kassem said the group will not be dissuaded from supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad in his country’s civil war, describing recurrent attacks on Shiite strongholds in Lebanon as “inevitable pains on the road to victory.”
The attack, by two suicide bombers who detonated their explosives outside the mission’s metal gates, killed 23 people, including an Iranian diplomat and embassy guards. More than 140 others were wounded, according to the Health Ministry.
Six dead as police clash with Qaeda suspects in Yemen
Aden (AFP) – Three police officers and at least three suspected Al-Qaeda militants were killed in clashes Wednesday in Yemen’s southeastern Hadramawt province, an extremist stronghold, police said.
Al-Qaeda suspects hiding in two houses in Hadramawt’s city of Shahr opened fire at police searching the area, an official said.
The clashes broke out around dawn Wednesday and continued intermittently for several hours before spreading to neighbouring parts of the city, the police official told AFP.
“The bodies of three Al-Qaeda fighters were taken by security forces to the Ibn Sina hospital in Mukalla,” Hadramawt’s capital that lies 35 kilometres (22 miles) from Shahr, said another security official, without giving a precise figure on the number of militants killed.
Dozens killed in Iraq violence
(CNN) — At least 60 people were killed and dozens more injured in Iraq on Wednesday during a wave of bombings and shootings, police told CNN.
Most of the deaths occurred in Baghdad, where eight car bombs and two roadside bombs detonated in mostly Shiite areas. At least 54 people in the Iraqi capital died in strikes at an outdoor market, outside a coffee shop, near a Shiite mosque, inside a bus station, and at other locations.
Isn’t it a good thing for infidels if the Muslims are busy slaughtering each other? Yes it is.