Video Release: TTP shows its slain US, UK fighters

It identifies the American by the name of Inaam and the Briton as Abbas.


Afp February 13, 2013

ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have included a Briton and an American in a slideshow of fighters killed in battle that also eulogises al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden.

According to the US monitoring service SITE, the 12-minute, 56-second video was posted on jihadist websites on February 6 and was prepared by Umar Studio, the media wing of Pakistan’s umbrella Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) faction.

It identifies the American by the name of Inaam and the Briton as Abbas, whom SITE said had been identified by the TTP in a prior video as Omar al-Britani and who gave a speech in English.

No date or location was listed for their deaths.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 13th, 2013.

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