A British teenager killed as he fought ‘jihad’ in Syria with his two brothers, 16 and 20

A British teenager whose uncle was held at Guantanamo Bay has died while fighting in Syria.

Abdullah Deghayes, 18, from Brighton was killed during conflict according to a source.

His family said that they did not know he had travelled to the country.

His uncle, Omar Deghayes, 44, was a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay.

An 18-year-old British national operating alongside militants against the Syrian government has been killed.

Abdullah Deghayes went to Syria via Turkey in February despite Abubaker Deghayes, who learned of his son’s death on Monday via Facebook, said Amer suffered a bullet wound to his stomach in the battle in which his brother was killed.

Abubaker, 45, a trustee of a local mosque, is also a controversial figure who once said a suicide attack on Tony Blair could be morally justified.

He was secretly recorded at a mosque in 2006 branding the then prime minister and US president George W Bush ‘legitimate targets’.

Abdullah infiltrated into Syria with his 16-year-old brother, Jaffer, in order to join their older brother Amer, who was operating with militants against the Syrian army.

Britain’s police said the boy from Sussex has been killed “in recent weeks.”

Hundreds of Britons are reportedly operating alongside militant groups inside Syria.

Western intelligence agencies have warned that the foreign militants pose a potential security threat when they return home.

In a report to a UK Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry on counter-terrorism earlier this month, security experts raised alarm that a terror attack on British soil is “inevitable.”

The report added that the foreign militants in Syria are gaining “combat experience and forging connections with extremists” and as a result they could “return radicalized” and “seek to carry out attacks against the West.”

European Union counter-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove has called for coordinated action by European countries to prevent possible attacks in the future.

He warned that the threat posed by militants returning from Syria is “unprecedented.”

“National budgets devoted to counter-terrorism are declining across the EU. Yet the threat that we face is becoming more diverse, more diffuse, and more unpredictable.”

Source: dailymail.com

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