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This is an archive article published on April 9, 2015
Jihadi Twitter accounts say third Indian ‘dies’ fighting for IS in Syria
Social media accounts linked to known supporters of Islamic State have claimed that another Indian has died fighting for the jihadi group in its stronghold of Raqqa in Syria.
A photo of the deceased circulated on Twitter.Social media accounts linked to known supporters of Islamic State have claimed that another Indian has died fighting for the jihadi group in its stronghold of Raqqa in Syria.
One such Twitter handle — @mukminSharia — identified the Indian on Tuesday night as Abdul Rahman. Another handle — @magnetgas16 — claimed that he was the third Indian to die fighting for the group. Security agencies believe that this handle is being operated by one of the four youths from Thane who went to Iraq last year to fight for IS — one of them, Areeb Majeed, returned last November.
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IS supporters have also posted a photograph, purportedly of Rahman standing alone on a rocky hillside.
“2 indian in IS Performed martyrdom operation 1 is abu Abdullah Al hindi and 2nd Abu Uthman al hindi. 3rd was killed. May ALLAH accept them # IS,” tweeted @magnetgas16, at 10.24 pm on Tuesday.
2 indian in IS Performed matrydom operation 1 is abu Abdullah Al hindi and 2nd Abu Uthman al hindi.3rd was killed.May ALLAH accept them #IS
— Magnet gas (@magnetgas16) April 7, 2015
At 12.04 pm on Wednesday, the Twitter handle @mukminSharia posted the photograph with this tweet: ‘#IS Raqqah – Martyrs – Brother Abdul Rahman Indian”.
An identical message and photograph was also tweeted by the handle @dijlahSharia. Both messages were re-tweeted by other pro-IS handles.
The Indian Express had first reported on the death on March 6 of Sultan Abdul Kadir Armar, alias Abu Abdullah Al Hindi, 39, from Bhatkal town in Karnataka, while fighting for the IS in Kobane on the Syria-Turkey border.
IS supporters had earlier posted messages on the death of Abu Uthman al Hindi, a reference to another of the four Thane youth, Saheem Tanki, a call centre employee, during a “suicide bombing” in the northeastern Syrian city of al-Hasakah in January.
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The IS holds sway over large areas in Iraq and Syria with their fighters last week launching an attack on the Yarmuk refugee south of Damascus.
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