‘The best Muslim ever known” went to Yemen and got smoked by a drone. Allah wanted him dead, thats it. Allahu akbar!
Killed militant linked to mosque
AN Australian killed in Yemen in a US drone strike late last year who went by the nom de guerre “Muslim bin John’’, was in fact Daryl Jones, a New Zealand dual national and former Âhabitué of Sydney’s Lakemba mosque.
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Jones, along with Christopher Havard, were the first Australians to die as a result of the US drone warfare program, which has targeted al-Qa’ida militants in Yemen and along the Afghan and Pakistan Âborder.
The two were travelling in a convoy of cars in Hadramout, in Yemen’s east, when the drone struck on November 19.
Five people were killed, including the two Australians, as was senior militant Abu Habib al-Yemeni, apparently the target of the strike. Jones, who was married with children, had lived in Sydney and was a regular at the Lakemba mosque, according to those who knew him.
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