Syrian militant who sent daughter on suicide mission in Damascus, killed

A militant who sent his nine year old daughter on a suicide mission in Damascus earlier this month was killed in his home on Sunday.

Abdurrahman Shadad, otherwise known as Abu Nimr al-Souri, was killed by an assassin linked to the former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham (JFS), reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

The monitor initially reported that Nimr had been killed by "unknown militiamen" but later confirmed that someone from Fateh al-Sham had killed the militant in the Syrian neighbourhood of Tishreen, located on the outskirts of Damascus.

Nimr was known to have been a member of the Al-Qaeda affiliate and working under its protection. 

He had reportedly also joined the Islamic State group for a brief period of time before returning to JFS, sources told the Observatory.

It remains a mystery why Nimr who is believed to have come from the Damascus suburb of Ghouta was killed by militants close to JFS. 

Photos showing Nimr in a traditional Islamic funeral shroud were posted online by RT correspondent Lizzie Phelan. 

Nimr came to fame after a video was released online showing the militant sitting next to his two daughters encouraging them to carry out suicide attacks. 

In a video that went viral and horrified millions around the world, Nimr asked his nine and 10-year-old daughters: "You want to surrender so that you're raped and killed by the infidels?"

"You want to kill them, no? We're a glorious religion, not a religion of humiliation, isn't that so darling?"

The video was verified by sources close to Al-Arabiya news and released to coincide with a suicide bombing that took place outside a police station in a Damascus suburb on 16 December. 

Syrian state television confirmed that a young girl who had blown herself in the Midan neighbourhood of Damascus was responsible for the blast.

 

In a suicide note released online after the incident, the suicide bomber identified as Fatima, asked her father, mother, sister and husband to follow in her footsteps, reported Al-Arabiya news on 26 December.