[h=1]British ISIS fighter who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Jihadi John in gruesome execution video has been 'killed in battle'[/h]
Death of Ikrima al-Nomani reported on Islamic State social media channels
Previously named as 20-year-old British medical student, Nasser Muthana
He featured in execution video of 16 Syrian soldiers and American aid worker
His father said he should be executed if he was involved in the beheadings
By JAY AKBAR FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 19:00, 6 May 2015 | UPDATED: 19:09, 6 May 2015
The British ISIS fighter who stood alongside Jihadi John in a gruesome video featuring the execution of an American aid worker and 16 Syrian soldiers has reportedly been killed in Syria. Islamic State's social media channels have been flooded with the news and chilling tributes to Ikrima al-Nomani who they say died in battle in the western region of Kalamoon. The tyrant who was among 16 ISIS militants seen beheading soldiers in the Syrian desert has previously been named as Nasser Muthana, a 20-year-old former medical student from Cardiff.
Killers: Nasser Muthana (left) - the ISIS fighter who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Jihadi John (right) in a gruesome execution video - has reportedly died in battle in Syria
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Chilling: Muthana (circled), who has been named on ISIS's social media channels as Ikrima al-Nomani, featured in the gruesome video in which 16 Syrian soldiers (pictured) and an American aid worker were killed
Released in November 2014, the harrowing video also featured a masked Mohammed Emwazi - notoriously known as Jihadi John - who issued a chilling threat to the West before severing the head of aid worker Peter Kassig. An earlier scene showed the graphic mass murder of Syrian Air Force personnel who were marched single file to a desert location by uniformed Jihadis. They forced their captives to kneel before they picked up sharp daggers and sawed off the heads of their victims. As militants stood in a row with their hostages kneeling in front of them, Jihadi John threatened U.S. President Barack Obama who he referred to as 'the dog of Rome'.
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Defector: Muthana (pictured in his home town Cardiff) was a British medical student before he travelled to Syria to joing Islamic State
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Cruel: He was one of 16 ISIS fighters (pictured) who marched Syrian soldiers into the desert before severing their heads
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Revenge: His father Ahmed has said that if he was involved in the beheadings of the soldiers and American aid worker Peter Kassig (pictured) - who was killed in the same video - then his soon should be beheaded too
He said: 'Today we are slaughtering the soldiers of Bashar [Al Assad, the Syrian President] and tomorrow we will be slaughtering your soldiers.' Muthana's father has previously said his son should be executed if he was involved in the beheadings. 57-year-old Ahmed Muthana said he had disowned his son Nasser, adding: 'I am like any other father. I am trying not to believe it is my boy but it looks like him. 'But I am not going to make excuses for him. He is a grown man and he must face up to what he has done.'
[h=1]ISIS leaders have $20million bounty placed on their heads by US government's 'Rewards for Justice' program[/h]
Four ISIS commanders accused of overseeing mass executions and rape
U.S. State Department offering bounties from $3m to $7m for each leader
Move comes days after ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack in Texas
By SIMON TOMLINSON FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 11:42, 6 May 2015 | UPDATED: 12:53, 6 May 2015
Bounties totalling $20million (£13m) have been placed on the heads of four Islamic State leaders by the U.S. government. The State Department accused the group of overseeing widespread human rights abuses including mass executions and rape across Iraq and Syria. They were added to the 'Rewards for Justice' program yesterday as America sought to ratchet up pressure on the terror group after it claimed responsibility for an attack in Texas on Sunday.
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Terror targets: ISIS leaders Abdel Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli (left) and Abu Mohammed al-Adnani (right) have bounties of $7million and $5million placed on their heads by the U.S. government
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Tarkhan Batirashvili (left), better known under his nom de guerre as Omar al-Shishani, is under a $5million reward, while there is a $3m bounty on the head of Tariq bin al-Tahar bin al-Falih al-Awni al-Harzi (right)
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The militant with the largest bounty – $7million (€6.25million) – is Abdel Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, who was designated a global terrorist for the purpose of U.S. Treasury sanctions in May last year. The State Department alleged that he had been a deputy to the late leader of Al-Qaeda's Iraqi faction, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and had travelled to Syria to join ISIS in 2012 after he was freed from an Iraqi jail.
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World most wanted terrorists: The U.S. State Department's 'Rewards for Justice' offers huge sums of money for information on terror leaders. Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri tops the list with a $25million reward
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Dozens of other terror leaders also feature on the list, with rewards ranging from $1million to $25million
Tarkhan Batirashvili, better known under his Arabic nom de guerre as Omar al-Shishani, is also under a $5million reward. The 29-year-old Georgian is accused of overseeing a prison outside the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa where several foreign hostages were held. There is a $3million bounty on the head of Tariq bin al-Tahar bin al-Falih al-Awni al-Harzi, a 33-year-old Tunisian. He is accused of acting as an ISIS fundraiser in the Gulf states and later as a field commander in Syria and as head of a unit of suicide bombers. The Iraqi leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was already the subject of a $10million reward under the program. Most wanted on the list – with a $25million bounty – is Ayman al-Zawahiri who became leader of Al Qaeda after Osama bin Laden was shot dead in 2011.
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Shot dead: Elton Simpson, pictured (top) and Nadir Soofi, (bottom), opened fire outside an anti-Islam event on Sunday evening in Texas. ISIS later called the men 'two soldiers of the caliphate'
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Attack: The bodies of two alleged ISIS gunmen are seen next to their vehicle after being shot dead while trying to storm a Prophet Mohammed cartoon event in Garland, Texas, at the weekend
ISIS has seized a wide stretch of eastern Syria and northern Iraq and declared it a caliphate, within which it has enslaved female captives, carried out sectarian massacres and murdered hostages. Iraqi and Kurdish security forces are fighting back, supported by Iranian advisers and a US-led air coalition. But ISIS is holding on in its heartland and allied groups have sprung up as far away as Libya and Nigeria. They also appear to have spread their influence to American soil. Two gunmen were killed and a police officer wounded after a shooting broke out at a Prophet Mohammed cartoon event in Garland, Texas, at the weekend. ISIS quickly moved to claim the attack as its own work – and has now issued a terrifying death threat at the organiser as well as claiming to have 71 'trained soldiers' operating within America. An audio statement on the extremist group's Al Bayan radio station called the men 'two soldiers of the caliphate'.
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Bosch Fawstin, not his real name unless he’s really really stupid, won the prize money in that draw Muhammad contest down in Garland Texas designed to provoke the shit out of jihadi crazies in the area. I have to give some credit to the American America Fuck Yeah America group that held the contest for going with a piece that sends a legitimate message on freedom of speech. As opposed to a picture of a fat Muhammad receiving a blumpkin from an underaged hooker taking a dump. I see now my entry never really stood a chance.
A former Muslim turned atheist, Fawstin’s regular comic work involves a superhero named Pigman who kills jihadists by cover of darkness, making it the sole comic book that will not be turned into a Hollywood tentpole film. After his cartoon contest win, the Southern Poverty Law Center named Fawstin a hate group on their upcoming 2016 list of hate groups on sale at Starbucks next to the James Blunt CDs.
“So they want to put a cartoonist on there who doesn’t act out violently? Go for it.” — Bosch Fawstin
Fawstin went on to talk about the importance of unfettered artistic expression and how he fears for his life which is probably a good idea since both hate groups and anti-hate groups kind of want him dead. His satirical message is pretty much on point with the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists who were mourned as martyrs after they were gunned down by Muslim terrorists in Paris. But that was five months ago when we all agreed that the cartoonists were the relatively good guys and the people who wanted to gun them down instead of just changing the channel were bad.
