'Taliban Terry' self-destructs for the caliphate
07 November 2016 - 09:43
An Irish Islamist once arrested for threatening to kill President Barack Obama during a trip to Dublin has blown himself up in a suicide attack for Islamic State near Mosul. Terence Kelly, a Dubliner known as "Taliban Terry" or "Khalid Kelly", was killed after he drove an armoured truck laden with explosives at an Iraqi militia group at the weekend, said IS, which referred to him by the nom de guerre Abu Osama Irelandi.
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