The American suicide bomber in Syria posed with a kitten before his death.
Here’s another photo of the American before his suicide mission.
American cirizen “Abu Hurayra al-Amriki” reportedly became the first American suicide bomber in Syria this week.
The Islamist bomber took pictures with fellow terrorists before his bombing.
NBC News reported:
American citizen carried out a suicide bombing in Syria on behalf of an al Qaeda-linked militant group on Sunday, apparently the first time a U.S. citizen has carried out such an attack in the Syrian civil war, U.S. law enforcement and counterterrorism officials tell NBC News.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the suicide bombing and said they have identified the American. They declined to release his identity or hometown.
Word of the American’s death in the suicide bombing first surfaced Tuesday in tweets from the al-Nusra Front, an al Qaeda-linked group fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The tweets identified the bomber only by his Arabic nom de guerre, “Abu Hurayra al-Amriki,” (Abu Hurayra the American) and said he carried out one of four suicide bombings of Syrian government sites in Jabal al-Arbaa’in in Idlib Province — the scene of heavy fighting in recent weeks and months.
“Abu Hurayra Al-Amriki performed a martrydom operation in Idlib, Jabal Al-Arba’een. May Allah accept him,” it said.
The tweet included an image of a young, bearded and smiling Caucasian man holding a cat, as well as images of the bombing it said he had carried out. Another tweet, this one in Arabic, included a photo showing the same light-skinned man sitting on the ground wearing what appeared to be a suicide vest.
See our take on the original photo (pic.twitter.com/F55d89TofK) of 4 #Idlib bombers here: http://t.co/fvjF0GBrcw #Syria
— Syria Direct (@SyriaDirect) May 28, 2014
The American also reportedly appears in this video:
The ADL says Abu Hurayra al-Amriki was the fourth US suicide bomber for Al-Qaeda.
