A former British rapper turned Islamic State terrorist has been found dead in his prison cell in Madrid, Spain. The 32-year-old jihadi, Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, who was stripped of his UK citizenship for joining the ISIS in Iran and Syria, was being tried in a Spanish court for heading a terrorist cell after entering the country illegally in 2020.
“Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 32, had been tried earlier this month at a court in Madrid on suspicion of heading an itinerant jihadist cell he allegedly formed after leaving Syria, and was awaiting the verdict,” the Daily Mail reported.
Abdel Bary gave up his gangsta rapper-lifestyle to join Al Qaida in 2013, and later switched to the Syrian-based Islamic State. It was there that the Egyptian-born Muslim found his true calling. Abdel Bary “was alleged to have posted an image of himself holding a severed head on Twitter. He was accused of posing for a photo with the head in the Syrian city of Raqqa with the caption ‘Chillin’ with my homie or what’s left of him’ in August 2014,” the UK daily added.
Abdel Bary has been following in the footsteps of his terrorist father, an Al Qaida operative now serving a 25-year sentence in a U.S. prison for his role in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.
“Brit jihadist long believed to be one of the ISIS Beatles found dead in prison cell,” by Gerard Couzens and Douglas Patient, Mirror, July 27, 2023:
…Abdel-Majed Abdel Barr [sic], 32, was tried earlier this month at a court in Madrid on suspicion of heading an itinerant jihadist cell he allegedly formed after leaving Syria, and was awaiting the verdict. Barr was arrested with two men described as aides less than a week after they were smuggled onto a beach on Spain’s south-east coastline in April 2020.
London-schooled but Egyptian-born Barr [sic] was stripped of his British citizenship after allegedly joining ISIS, was charged after a long-running investigation sparked by his arrest at a hideaway rented flat in Almeria.
Investigating judge Maria Tardon concluded in her written ruling outlining her decision to charge him that he had been smuggled into Spain by boat with two Algerian men less than a week before he was located and held. He was warned before his trial at Madrid’s Audiencia Nacional court, which finished on July 14, he could face nine years in prison if convicted. (…)
Prosecutors said in a pre-trial indictment that the former British national, the son of Adel Abdel Bari who confessed to murdering more than 200 people in a series of Islamist bombings in Africa, used bitcoin to buy stolen or cloned bank cards on the Dark Web. (…)
He is understood to have been found dead at a prison in El Puerto de Santa Maria in Cadiz, south west Spain.
One unconfirmed local report said his body presented no obvious signs of any violence. An internal Spanish Prison service investigation will now take place and his family will be given the right to hold their own autopsy aside from the official post-mortem to establish the exact cause of death….
Eva says
Good!!! Great news!!!
One less on the planet!!!
Lyle says
So true.Started my morning on a positive note!
Eva says
Truly, a feel-good story!!
VictorMc says
Best news today so far. WHY are their sentences so short? “Natural life” would be top of my list and they would be sent to the toughest jails possible in every country.
Massive error for the so-called civilised West to do away with the death penalty.
Eva says
I favour the death penalty myself.
It’s cheap, as rope can be re-used again and again, it sends a message, and it’s justice, something we rarely see these days.
Emilie Green says
“British rapper turned Islamic State terrorist has been found dead in his prison cell”
Oh man, what a shame. I’d send flowers but he wouldn’t even notice them since he’ll be enraptured and busy with all his dark-eyed houris.
somehistory says
A lot of “rap music” is rife with rape, murder, “killing police,’ etc. The “transition” probably wasn’t all that difficult; and for him to follow in the footsteps of his father, criminals often have family who are.
Likely, he’ll not be missed….by his “homies” or otherwise..
gravenimage says
Spot on, Somehistory.
Transmaster says
I’ll send a bag of chicharrones to his funeral.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
As they say in islam, alhamdulillah, or praise be to allah!
Lyle says
My condolences to the Islamic state and terrorists worldwide (just kidding) it was just a matter of time better sooner than later!
Jayell1 says
‘UK rapper turned Islamic State jihadi found dead in Spanish prison’. Brilliant! Except he wasn’t ‘British’ anymore.
DazzleMe says
I shurre hate that….NOT