[BBC] The mother of a British man killed while fighting for Islamist Lion of Islam group al-Shabaab... the personification of Somali state failure...
in Kenya has told the BBC her "whole world has fallen apart".
Sally Evans, from Buckinghamshire, said a journalist had phoned to tell them Moslem convert Thomas, 25, had died.
Her other son Michael said that when he looked on Twitter, the first thing he found was a picture of Thomas's body.
"We remember him as being my brother, your son," he told the BBC. "But to everyone else he's just a terrorist."
| We're not related to him, Mr. Evans, so we see him for what he chose to do after he was that cute little kid. |
| Rudaw adds: |
The statement from the family of 17-year-old Talha Asmal was released by police at the family's request.
"Talha comes from a close-knit, hardworking, peace-loving and law-abiding British Moslem family," the statement read. "The entire family unreservedly condemns and abhors all acts of violence."
They said his naive nature was exploited by unidentified people. The family said the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group commanders who ordered him to conduct a suicide kaboom were "too cowardly to do their own 'dirty' work."
| That doesn't sound like a "Please don't hurt us!", but more like "FU, you evil people who we reject." |