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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Belgian Man Killed Fighting in Syria
2013-06-11
[An Nahar] A young Belgian man has been killed in Syria while fighting for an Islamist group and his brother was placed in durance vile
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
on his return home from the war-stricken country, newspapers said Monday.

Belgian authorities and Islamic groups have become increasingly concerned about a growing number of young men leaving to fight in Syria against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
, some of whom are suspected of war crimes.

Tarik Taketloune, 20, a car mechanic from Vilvorde, a suburb of Brussels,
That's a good Walloon name...
was shot in the head and killed on Friday as he slept in a house near Aleppo, the Phlegmish newspaper Het Nieuwsbald said, quoting his father. He may have been shot by a fellow fighter after saying he wanted to go home, his father said.
Or maybe he said "Goddammit!" and paid the penalty...
The house was occupied by members of Sharia4Belgium, an Islamist group which has sent several young men to fight in Syria. Sharia4Belgium has formed its own brigade which is under the command of the al-Qaeda linked Al-Nusra front.

Taketloune's older brother Elias, 23, was arrested on his return to Belgium on June 3 and has been tossed in the calaboose
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
on suspicion of terrorist activities, their father said.

Taketloune is the third Belgian to be killed while fighting in Syria, while there are unconfirmed reports of a fourth death, Belgian newspapers said.

Separately Hussein Elouassaki, 22, who is regarded as the leader of the Belgian fighters in Syria, said in a conversation recorded by police that he had slit the throat of a Syrian soldier, according to the reports.

He may also be among a group of men speaking in Phlegmish and French who feature in a recent video of a man being decapitated with a knife, the newspapers said.

His younger brother Hakim Elouassaki, 21, meanwhile told his girlfriend that he had shot a prisoner in cold blood, the reports said.

Hakim was seriously maimed in March and returned to Belgium, where he was arrested in April during a series of raids by Belgian authorities aimed at cracking down on fighters travelling to Syria.
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