Australian ISIS terrorist is believed to have died after message confirming he is a ‘martyr’ is shared by extremists online
Unconfirmed reports are claiming that an Australian born terrorist dubbed ‘Dr Jihad’ may be dead.
A message was sent out via an encrypted messaging application ‘confirming the martyr’ of ‘Abu Yousef al-Australi’, real name Tareq Kamleh, on Friday afternoon Australian time, 9 News reported.
Kamleh, originally from Perth, is believed to have entered Syria in 2015.
A US-based counter-terror analyst told 9 News that a number of strange messages have been sent out via the encrypted messaging application but the reports have not yet been confirmed.
It was in July of 2017 when Kamleh appeared in an official ISIS propaganda video from the then ISIS held city of Raqqa.
In the six-minute propaganda video the Adelaide trained doctor encouraged Western Muslims to join the fight in Syria.
Kamleh, who reportedly has one English-speaking wife and a one-year-old son in the terror capital, was once also considered a ‘poster boy’ for IS after he appeared dressed in scrubs and tending medically to young children.
During the propaganda piece, the Perth born terrorist said: ‘We are dealing with countless numbers of burnt children that are coming in now from the continuous bombings that America is dropping on us.’
‘Is this really a war on terrorism? Is there no shame in those Muslims still in the West?’
Another video showed the terrorist recruiter dressed in combat gear as he sat in a narrow tunnel with a rifle in one hand.
One of Kamleh’s former colleagues once accused him of being a lazy worker during his time working at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide and the Mackay Base Hospital in Queensland.
His former colleagues also accused him of leading a lavish playboy style life who didn’t shy away from alcohol while he was in the country.
A diary believed to belong to the terrorist was found at a house in Raqqa
Kamleh once said he would rather die than return to Australia and if he ever had returned he would have faced 25 years in prison.
‘Do as you please, I no longer consider myself an Australian,’ he wrote on Facebook in 2015 after hearing the Australian Federal Police issued a warrant for his arrest.
‘I have no concern if you cancel my passport … I knew where I was coming … I intend to stay here.’
Source: Daily Mail
