Beirut: Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate has released a video of a suicide bomber of United States origin who blew himself up at an army post in the northwest of the country.
Moner Mohammad Abu Salha, alias Abu Hurayra al-Amriki, was believed to be the first American national to carry out such an attack in Syria’s more than three-year-old war. “I want to rest in the afterlife, not in this world. My heart is not at peace here. Hopefully it will be in heaven,” Abu Hurayra says in broken Arabic in the 17-minute video posted on YouTube on Friday by Al-Nusra Front. The footage, released via Al-Nusra’s official channel Al-Manara Al-Baydaa, also shows Abu Hurayra saying: “I came to Syria without money to buy a rifle or a pouch.
“God gave me a rifle and a pouch and everything, and then he gave me even more.”
The American jihadist carried out a May 25 truck bomb attack on an army base in Jabal al-Arbaeen area of northwest Syria’s Idlib province. Six days, the state department confirmed that the US citizen, who newspapers said was from Florida and travelled to Syria in 2013, had carried out a suicide attack.
