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Two British medics who joined Islamic State killed in Iraq - BBC

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LONDON (Reuters) - Two British medics who abandoned studies in Sudan to join Islamic State with a group of other students have been killed in fighting in Iraq, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

 

Ahmed Sami Khider and Hisham Fadlallah died at the weekend, the BBC said, with Khider believed to have been killed in a convoy as it left the city of Mosul, which U.S.-backed Iraqi forces are trying to retake from IS militants.

 

Britain's Foreign Office said it was unable to confirm the deaths.

 

The two men had been part of a group of nine mainly British-Sudanese medical students from Khartoum's University of Medical Sciences and Technology who had joined IS in 2015. Five other Britons from the institution joined them soon afterwards and at least four had now been killed, the BBC said.

 

Security services estimate some 850 Britons have travelled to Syria or Iraq, and a number of these are reported to have been killed, including two deliberately targeted in drone strikes because they were believed to be plotting attacks on Britain.

 

Last week, British citizen Abu-Zakariya al-Britani, who had been given compensation by Britain for his detention in the Guantanamo Bay military prison, blew himself up in a suicide bomb attack on Iraqi forces.

 

British Major General Rupert Jones, deputy commander for the Combined Joint Task Force coalition, said on Tuesday the number of foreign fighters travelling to join IS had dropped by between 75 and 90 percent, because it was harder to reach Iraq and Syria and the reality of going there had made it unappealing.

 

(Reporting by Michael Holden; editing by John Stonestreet)

 
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Brilliant news , want to hear this every day, kill every so called "english" guy fighting for this scum, don't let them back in to create havoc, they chose that path to travel, now let them reap the whirlwind.

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36 minutes ago, richusa said:

More likely they were africans.......who got a hold of British passports.....

Both born in the UK, one from London the other Nottingham.

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2 hours ago, exalll said:

It clearly says that they were British.  If you can't read, don't bother posting

I don't care what it says, in my eyes and many other other peoples eyes, he is not British. And don't tell me not to post, are you putting yourself in a moderators position?

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We all know there are many people who are British and who don't happen to be white - I have British friends from the Caribbean, India, Pakistan and Uganda - but when you leave Britain to join a fascist, extremist, sexist and anti-British cult, then in my view, you automatically lose the right to call yourself 'British'.  I'm sure these men also thought the same - they saw themselves as belonging to a caliphate and died alongside other easily-led fools.

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