Kabir Ahmed, from Derby, has 'blown himself up on an ISIS suicide mission, according to reports on social media
A British ISIS suicide bomber who has killed eight people was previously jailed for saying gay people should be stoned and burned to death.
Former
care worker and father-of-three Kabir Ahmed, 30, said he was prepared
to sacrifice his own children 'a hundred times for Allah' in his last
known interview before driving an explosives-laden truck into an Iraqi
police convoy.
He reportedly killed eight people and injured 15 others after blowing himself up in Iraq on Friday.
Just
two and a half years earlier, he was the first person to be prosecuted
in Britain under laws introduced in March 2010 that ban stirring up
hatred due to sexual orientation.
Ahmed,
who was allegedly brainwashed while studying at the University of East
London, had been caught with two friends outside a mosque in Derby
handing out leaflets that called for homosexuals to face the death
penalty.
The
police received hundreds of complaints about the leaflets which locals
described as ‘terrifying’. Ahmed was jailed for 15 months, during which
time he was given a further conviction for targeting gay people during a
pride procession in Derby.
After
serving his sentence, Ahmed abandoned his wife Nashira Arif, 28, and
their three children 16 months ago to join Islamic group Jund al-Sham in
Syria before switching his allegiance to IS.
It
was also well known before he left the country that Ahmed had links to
Anjem Choudary and the banned British terrorist organisation
al-Muhajiroun.
In one interview available online, the jihadi said he was ‘craving martyrdom’.
‘This is more important that my family. I would sacrifice my children 100 times for the sake of Allah,' he said.
Yesterday,
Ahmed’s family told the Mail that authorities in the UK could have
stopped him murdering innocents by arresting him at the airport as he
left for Syria 16 months ago.
Despite being known to the authorities as an extremist, he had been allowed through airport security last year to join jihadis.
Ahmed,
who was known to have links to hate preacher Anjem Choudary, had been
calling for terrorist atrocities against the West on Twitter and was
being monitored by the US government.
Speaking from his brother Saghir Admed’s terraced house in Derby, one female family member said: ‘He died the day he left us.
‘We
are very, very sad that we lost him. But if they had stopped him at the
airport he would never have gone in the first place.’
His
family are said to be moderate Muslims who were ‘heartbroken’ when he
left. A woman at his brother’s house yesterday said they had no idea
where he went.
Ahmed, pictured with Iraqi children, was jailed in 2012 for handing out homophobic leaflets in Derby
‘He just left us and everybody knows we don’t have contact with him and we haven’t tried to contact him,’ she said.
Ahmed’s
mother Nasreen Akhtar, 53, is said to have ‘suffered a huge loss’.
Friends said she ‘had nothing to do with how Kabir turned out’.
Speaking
in an online interview, Ahmed said it was British and American foreign
policy in the Islamic world that had led him to extremism.
'It wasn't the videos, it wasn't the lectures, it wasn't the books that I was reading. What radicalised me was the Government.
'The American government, the British government ... and what they were doing to our people in Iraq and Afghanistan.'
On
Friday, Ahmed – also known as Abu Sumayyah al-Britani – killed eight
people in an IS suicide bomb attack. He is one of an estimated 500
British jihadis who have travelled to the Middle East to fight for the
barbaric terror group.
The
group said he drove eight tons of explosives into a group of Shi’ite
Muslims in Baiji, northern Iraq. Those murdered included a senior
military commander.
Ahmed changed his name to Abu Sumayah al-Britani and fights with ISIS (file picture of ISIS fighters in Syria)
An
internet message board shows Ahmed and Choudary had communicated online
as recently as March, with Ahmed referring to the hate preacher as ‘my
brother’.
Speaking
from an internet cafe near his terror training camp in Idlib, North
West Syria, this summer, he told an online radio show: ‘It’s really,
really fun. It’s better than that game Call of Duty. It’s like that but
it’s in 3D where everything is happening in front of you.’
A Foreign Office spokesman said: ‘We are aware of reports of the death of a British national in Iraq and are looking into them.’
The Home Office said it would not comment on why Ahmed was allowed out of the country.
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