A son of the Syrian-born radical cleric Omar Bakri has been killed in Iraq fighting alongside Isis, security sources said on Tuesday.
The Popular Mobilisation, a paramilitary group, said it and the security forces had killed Bilal Omar Bakri.
He was “leading a group that tried to attack one of our units”, in Salaheddin, north of Baghdad, according to a statement from the group, dominated by Tehran-backed Shia militias.
A Lebanese security source confirmed that Bilal Omar Bakri, who was in his late 20s, had been killed “fighting in the ranks of IS [Isis]” in Salaheddin province.
Another of the preacher’s sons, Mohammad Omar, who was in his late 30s, died fighting for Isis in Aleppo in Syria several months earlier, the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The brothers had travelled together from Britain to Iraq, the source added.
Omar Bakri, who holds Lebanese citizenship, became known in Britain for supporting al-Qaida.
A security source said he was sentenced in October to six years of hard labour for establishing an organisation affiliated with the jihadist al-Nusra Front in Syria and establishing training camps for it in Lebanon.
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