{"id":3395,"date":"2014-02-15T07:40:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T07:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2014-02-15T07:40:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T07:40:51","slug":"uks-first-suicide-bomber-in-syria-sends-shockwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/02\/15\/3395\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s \u2018first suicide bomber\u2019 in Syria sends shockwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/abdulwahed-majid-pak.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>British media have reacted\u00a0 to the story of an alleged British suicide bomber thought to be behind last week\u2019s bombing by rebels on a prison in Syria\u2019s northern city of Aleppo, expressing shock as the man was reportedly a \u201cnormal family man.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The bombing of the wall of Aleppo\u2019s central prison earlier in February was followed by a group of rebels who stormed the compound and freed hundreds of inmates.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The suicide bomber, who drove a large truck clad with makeshift armor into the prison wall, was named as 41-year-old Abdul Waheed Majeed, known by al-Qaeda-linked rebel group the al-Nusra Front as Abu Suleiman al-Britani.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If the identity of the bomber is to be confirmed, Majeed would be the first suicide bomber from the UK to die in Syria \u2013 and the eighth UK citizen to have died since fighting began in the war-torn country three years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Police raid<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Britani, who was of Pakistani origin, is believed to have flown from the UK to take part in the conflict.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Earlier this week, police raided his home in the town of Crawley, in the county of Sussex.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abdul Waheed Majeed, pictured here, is believed to have been behind last week&#8217;s suicide bombing on Aleppo&#8217;s Central Prison. (Photo courtesy of Universal News and Pics)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cCrawley has very good community relations involving people of different faiths but it is particularly shocking if someone from the town is involved in radicalization,\u201d UK daily The Telegraph quoted Member of Parliament Henry Smith as saying.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cJihadists have posted eulogies to \u2018Britani\u2019 on social media websites, with one saying: \u201cAll British Muslims should be proud of him,\u201d the newspaper reported on Wednesday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Majeed was described by British newspaper The Daily Mail as a father of three and a \u201cdevout Muslim\u201dwho \u201cregularly spoke to his wife and children through the internet phone service, Skype,\u201d while in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u2018A very jovial chap\u2019<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI was shocked because he seemed like a normal guy, a family man. He was a very jovial chap, you\u2019d see him joking around with people,\u201d The Daily Mail quoted a neighbor as saying.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The house where Majeed lived in the UK with his family was coincidentally the childhood home of Roy Whiting, the killer of 7-year-old schoolgirl Sarah Payne in an prolific murder case that gripped UK media in 2000.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another newspaper, The London Evening Standard reported on Thursday that Majeed was \u201cthe driver and devoted student of banned hate cleric Omar Bakri.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In an interview with Bakri from the cleric\u2019s flat in Tripoli, the cleric said that Majeed was \u201ca very dear brother.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cHe was a funny guy and a family man, he would talk about his daughter a lot. But it doesn\u2019t surprise me that he did this.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Knowing him and his nature, he wanted to be of help, he wanted to help people, he wanted to help the, Muslim cause,\u201d Bakri told the newspaper.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Friday, British tabloid The Mirror revealed pictures of Majeed pictured next to children in Syria wearing \u201cMicky Mouse ears.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Britons travelling to Syria to help the rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad could be arrested on their return, a senior police chief warned on last month, saying they may pose a security risk to the UK.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Peter Fahy, head of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said there was \u201chuge concern\u201d about Britons, including a rising number of youngsters, fighting in Syria and becoming radicalized by hardline Islamists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>Alarabiya<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British media have reacted\u00a0 to the story of an alleged British suicide bomber thought to be behind last week\u2019s bombing by rebels on a prison in Syria\u2019s northern city of Aleppo, expressing shock as the man was reportedly a \u201cnormal family man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c54-reports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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