’ISIL’ UK Bomber Killed in Iraq

Local Editor

Reports said Britain's youngest bomber with the "ISIL" Takfiri terrorist group had blown himself up with a bomb in the Iraqi town of Baiji.

British media said Sunday that Talha Asmal, 17, who fled his Dewsbury home in West Yorkshire in March, joined "ISIL" after boarding a flight to Turkey with his friend , also 17, whose fate remained unknown.

This came after "ISIL" released pictures of a young male named as Abu Yusuf al-Britani who allegedly detonated explosives fitted to a vehicle in the Iraqi town of Baiji.

According to reports, four bombers in vehicles packed with explosives hit security forces and the local headquarters of Iraqi volunteer forces in the area of al-Hijjaj, 10 km to the south of Baiji town, near its oil refinery.

The person pictured in the photo released by "ISIL" is believed to be 17-year-old Talha Asmal.

Asmal's family released a statement to the state-run BBC, saying, "Talha's tender years and naivety were, it seems however, exploited by persons unknown who, hiding behind the anonymity of the world wide web, targeted and befriended Talha and engaged in a process of deliberate and calculated grooming of him."

The statement added that Talha was manipulated by ""ISIL" handlers and leaders" who are "too cowardly to do their own dirty work".

"We are all naturally utterly devastated and heartbroken by the unspeakable tragedy that now appears to have befallen us," it went on to say.

Henceforth, more than 600 Britons are thought to have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the Takfiri terrorists.

The UK's previous youngest bomber was Hasib Hussain, also from West Yorkshire, who was 18 when he took part in the 7/7 attacks in 2005, which killed 52 people and injured more than 770.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team