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WORLD NEWSMonday 5 October 2015

Jordanian MP says son joined IS, carried out suicide attack

HAMZA AL-SOUD barracks on the northern day. “He had become iso- and don’t fear God, and have been killed in fighting
Associated Press outskirts of Ramadi, the lated” and had grown a that I legislate against Islam in the two countries.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — capital of Anbar. large beard. in parliament. My efforts to This includes Omran al-
A Jordanian parliament Dalaeen said he recog- Dalaeen said he told his get him back failed.” Abadi, the son of Jorda-
member said he learned nized his son in one of the son in a heated argument On Aug. 20, Mohammed nian parliament member
from Islamic State-linked photos of the purported that he would cut ties with informed his father through Mohammed al-Abadi.
media that his son carried suicide attackers post- him if he didn’t drop his Facebook that it would be Omran, an Egyptian-
out a suicide attack in Iraq,
three months after drop- This image posted on a militant website on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting,
ping out of medical school purports to show Mohammed Dalaeen, a son of Jordanian parliament member Mazen Dalaeen.
and joining the extremist
group. Associated Press
The case highlights the
continued grassroots ap- ed on the IS sites, under support for the extremists. their last contact. He wrote trained physician, joined
peal of IS ideas in the re- the nom de guerre “Abu The next day, Mohammed that he had completed his the Nusra Front in Syria and
gion, including in staunch-
ly pro-Western Jordan, Baraa, the Jordanian.” left for Turkey without tell- Islamic studies and would was killed in January in a
a partner in the U.S.-led The legislator said he ing his father. head into battle as a vol- clash with the Syrian army.
military campaign against last saw Mohammed in Dalaeen tried to track him unteer for “martyrdom op- The legislator said Sunday
the group. IS militants have Ukraine in June and stayed down, eventually heading erations,” Dalaeen said. that he did not hold the
seized large parts of Syria with him and his Ukrainian to Turkey’s border with Syr- An estimated 2,000 Jor- traditional mourning cere-
and Iraq, both neighbors wife, a convert to Islam, for ia, but was unsuccessful. danians are fighting in the mony because he did not
of Jordan. a week. Mohammed was Mohammed later reached ranks of IS and its militant want to validate his son’s
“My son had everything, a third-year medical stu- out on Facebook, telling rival from the al-Qaida actions.
a family, money, and dent. his father he was in Syria network, the Syria-based “Those who fight in the
studying medicine, but he
was controlled by terrible “I noticed that his behav- and had joined IS. “He was Nusra Front, said Hassan ranks of such extremists
thoughts,” the legislator, ior had changed com- very cruel with me, as if he Abu Haniyeh, an expert mustn’t be mourned, even
Mazen Dalaeen told The pletely,” Dalaeen said in wasn’t my son,” Dalaeen on extremist groups. He by those closest to them,”
Associated Press. “He was a phone interview Satur- said. “He said I’m an infidel said about 350 Jordanians he said of his son’s death.q
deceived and tricked by
Islamic State. Islamic State
is in every home through
TVs and the Internet.”
On Sunday, the family
observed the last day of
the traditional three-day
mourning for 23-year-old
Mohammed Dalaeen. The
family is from the town of
Ai in southern Jordan that
was also home to a Jorda-
nian fighter pilot who was
captured by IS late last
year and burned alive in a
cage by the militants.
The legislator said in the
mourning tent that his son
had changed rapidly in a
short period and that at
the beginning of the year
he had taken part in a soli-
darity march for the pilot.
Dalaeen said he learned
of the death of his son last
week from IS-linked media
and a TV station in Iraq’s
Anbar province. One of
the sites, Dabiq, said sui-
cide attackers drove three
car bombs into Iraqi army