[An Nahar] A German former rapper who joined jihadists fighting in Syria has been killed in a suicide kaboom carried out by rival fighters, jihadist sources and a monitor said Tuesday.Denis Mamadou Cuspert, who rapped under the name Deso Dogg but took on the name Abu Talha al-Almani in Syria, was reported to have been killed in a suicide kaboom Sunday in an eastern province.
He was a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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(ISIL) and was reportedly killed in a double suicide kaboom carried out by Al-Nusra Front, a rival jihadist group that is Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate.
Messages posted on jihadist Internet forums announced his death.
"The Islamic nation is bleeding with the news of the martyrdom of the jihadist fighter, brother Abu Talha al-Almani. May he be accepted by God," one message read.
"His death is the result of a suicide kaboom carried out by the traitorous soldiers of (Nusra chief Abu Mohammed al-) Jolani against a house in which a number of ISIL brothers were staying," it added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group, also reported the suicide attack carried out on Sunday.
"Two members of Al-Nusra Front blew themselves up the day before yesterday, killing 16 ISIL fighters," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
Abdel Rahman said a fighter known as Abu Talha was among those killed in the attack in Deir Ezzor province near the boundary with Hasakeh province.