"Don't Follow In My Son's Footsteps" - Mother Of Teenager Killed In Syria

With his lopsided smirk, the above pic is the British jihadi killed this week in Syria when he was a cheeky schoolboy. Shocked friends in Brighton remembered their Manchester United-supporting classmate, Ibrahim Kamara as a happy, bright teenager who made people laugh and was confident with the ladies. Kamara became radicalised in the seaside city, and in January this year he quit his studies and sneaked off to wage holy war in Syria. Now, the 19-year-old and four others have become the first British fighters to be killed by a U.S. air strike.

Yesterday his mother Khadijah Kamara urged other teenagers not to follow in her ‘brainwashed’ son’s footsteps. She also demanded to know why airport officials had not stopped him, given that his passport had expired and he had stolen his 15-year-old brother’s. She said: ‘They look nothing like each other.’
Mrs Kamara, 35, said her eldest son had been a diligent GCSE student in the East Sussex city until he fell under the spell of the Deghayes Brothers – three nephews of former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Deghayes and the four boys had all travelled to Syria together.

She said: ‘No one should think what he did was right, and no one should follow him,’ she said. ‘These are the boys that he listens to. He ddidn'tlisten to his mother or his brothers. He must have been brainwashed.‘They all went off together in January.

‘His passport was expired so he went up into my room and got the passport of his 15-year-old brother. ‘It makes me wonder about the border control people because they look nothing like each other. Why they got away with that, I don’t know.’

Mrs Kamara said: ‘I was very angry and disappointed when he told me he was in Syria. I hate the idea of war. I’m upset that he would listen to these people and not to his mother or his brothers who care for him. War is the answer to nothing. No religion tells anyone to fight. I pray that God forgives him. I forgive him - he’s only human and we all make mistakes.’

Source: DailyMail