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Re: IS-TERRORISM: Jihadi John, Suspect in Beheading of James Foley, Found Dead in Pr
Brit Jihadist Long Believed to be One of The ISIS Beatles Found Dead in Prison Cell
UK Rapper Abdel Bary (Jihadi John), Suspect in Beheading of James Foley Found Dead in Prison
Abdel-Majed Abdel Barry 32, had been tried earlier this month at a court in Madrid on suspicion of heading an itinerant jihadist cell he allegedly formed after leaving Syria, and was awaiting the verdict
BBC 29 JULY 2023
He covers his face as he sits in the dock during the first hearing of his trial earlier this month
A former UK rapper once believed to be the ISIS killer ‘Jihadi’ John has been found dead in his prison cell in Spain....
Abdel-Majed Abdel Barr, 32, was tried earlier this month at a court in Madrid on suspicion of heading an itinerant jihadist cell he allegedly formed after leaving Syria, and was awaiting the verdict. Barr was arrested with two men described as aides less than a week after they were smuggled onto a beach on Spain’s south-east coastline in April 2020.
London-schooled but Egyptian-born Barr was stripped of his British citizenship after allegedly joining ISIS, was charged after a long-running investigation sparked by his arrest at a hideaway rented flat in Almeria.
Investigating judge Maria Tardon concluded in her written ruling outlining her decision to charge him that he had been smuggled into Spain by boat with two Algerian men less than a week before he was located and held. He was warned before his trial at Madrid’s Audiencia Nacional court, which finished on July 14, he could face nine years in prison if convicted.
On the opening day of his trial he denied all terrorism charges against him, insisting he had never been in the Syrian city of Raqqa before claiming he went to the country for humanitarian reasons.
Prosecutors said in a pre-trial indictment that the former British national, the son of Adel Abdel Bari who confessed to murdering more than 200 people in a series of Islamist bombings in Africa, used bitcoin to buy stolen or cloned bank cards on the Dark Web.
His alleged accomplices, named before the trial as Abderrazak Seddiki, 30, and Kossaila Chollouah, 27 were accused in a pre-trial indictment of playing other key roles in the fraud including carding which is a type of credit card scam in which a criminal steals or fraudulently uses credit card details to buy prepaid gift cards.
He is understood to have been found dead at a prison in El Puerto de Santa Maria in Cadiz, south west Spain.
One unconfirmed local report said his body presented no obvious signs of any violence. An internal Spanish Prison service investigation will now take place and his family will be given the right to hold their own autopsy aside from the official post-mortem to establish the exact cause of death.
HISTORY
Jihadist Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary appeared in a number of freestyle rap videos on YouTube as late as 2012 under the L. Jinny. His lyrics speak of the difficulties he, his five siblings and mother experienced since his father's arrest on suspicion of terrorism.
But that was then. Bary, now 24, had since quit music and joined Islamic State fighters in their violent quest to establish a Wahabist caliphate.
Bary is believed to have left his five siblings and mother in their London council flat and flown to Syria last year, aged 23. There, calling himself Abu Kalashnikov, he appeared in a gruesome photograph holding a man's severed head. Elsewhere he remarked he had “left everything for the sake of Allah.”
When he was 6, police came to his family’s home and arrested his father, Adel Abdul Bary. In 2012 the elder Abdul Bary was extradited to the U.S. for his alleged connections to Osama bin Laden and the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa. He is being held in New York awaiting trial.
In recent years Bary became hostile toward the the U.S. and his own government. Friends say Western involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan helped radicalize him, as did his contact with young followers of extremist British preacher Anjem Choudary.
Bary is one of around 500 homegrown jihadists the U.K.’s Foreign Office believes have travelled to Syria since the beginning of the war.
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