The parents of Britain's youngest
suspected suicide bomber described
on Monday as a 'tupical"teenager"
have accused Islamic State leaders
of being "too cowardly to do their
own dirty work
Talha Asmal is believed to have
travelled to Syria in April with
friends Hassan Munshi also 17 and IS
announced on Saturday that he was
the driver of one of four explosive
ladened vehicles in an attack on
an oil refinery in northern Iraq,
Parents Ibrahim 42 and Noorjaha ,38,
said the group had preyed upon his
innocence and vulnerability "
"It appears that Talha fell under the
spell of individuals who continued to
prey on his innocence and vulnerability
to the point where if the press reports
are accurate he was ordered to his death
by so called ISIS handlers and leaders
too cowardly to do their own work"they
said in a statement
Asmal was taking his final exams but is
believed to have boarded to flight from
Manchester to Dalaman in southwest
Turkey on March.
Both youths hailed from the northern
English town of Dewsbury as did Mohamad
Sidique Khan the ringleader of four home
grown suicide bombers who carried out
the July 7 2005 bombing which killed 52
people on three Underground trains and
a bus in London
"He was very quiet caring and loving child
he'd never been in trouble with police,at
school you never heard of him being in
trouble"Ahmed told BBC Radio 4
"He was just a typical teenager"
Hundred of Britons are believed to have join
the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq AFP
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