| | | ISIS fighter, former Gitmo detainee detonates suicide bomb in Iraq
By Mark Moore
February 21, 2017 | 1:05pm | Updated
A British terror suspect released from Guantanamo Bay died when he detonated explosives during a suicide bombing in Iraq, a report on Tuesday said.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack and praised Abu-Zakariya al-Britani, a British suicide bomber, for exploding a vehicle full of explosives near Mosul, where Iraqi forces are battling IS fighters for control of the city.
A report on BBC.com identified al-Britani as Ronald Fiddler, a Brit who was seized by US forces in Afghanistan and taken to Guantanamo Bay in 2002. He was released from Gitmo in 2004.
The report said Fiddler, 50, of Manchester, England, became Jamal al-Harith when he converted to Islam in his early 20s. He later took the name Abu-Zakariya al-Britani
He crossed into Syria in 2014, the BBC reported.
The IS statement did not say when the bombing took place or whether there were any casualties.
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