British Olympic hope 'was Iraq suicide bomber'

British Olympic hope 'was Iraq suicide bomber'

Nick Pelham, Jordan Antony Barnett and Mark Townsend
Sunday November 16, 2003
The Observer

A 22-year-old martial arts expert from Sheffield who was hoping to fight with the British Olympic tae kwon do team is suspected of being one of the suicide bombers behind the recent spate of attacks in Iraq.

The Yemeni paper Al Ayyam has reported that the parents of a British-based Muslim, Wail al Dhaleai, were telephoned by Islamic fighters in Iraq telling them their son had killed himself in an attack on US troops earlier this month.

The death of Wail al Dhaleai, also known as Wail Abd-al-Rahman, has raised fears that groups of handpicked young British Muslims are heading to Iraq to fight Coalition forces.

Earlier this month the Archbishop of Canterbury's peace envoy Canon Andrew White met a group of British men in Jordan who claimed they were heading to Iraq 'to be part of the battle against the evil occupying forces'.

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