US Launches Probe on American Killed in Kobani

KABUL: (Middle East Press) U.S. government agencies are investigating on an American fighting with the ISIS terrorists group killed recently in the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani.

U.S. officials said law enforcement and intelligence agencies were trying to verify Internet postings by ISIS terrorists which last weekend reported the “martyrdom” of a fighter known as Abu Muhammad al-Amriki.

The nom-de-guerre indicated that the man considered himself an American. In a video posted on YouTube in February, a bearded man believed by U.S. authorities to be the same character is seen speaking English with a serious foreign accent.

The man in the video said he had lived in the United States for about 10 years before traveling to Syria to join ISIS terrorists.

U.S. officials say at least a handful of Americans -including a Michigan woman and men from Florida and Minnesota – have died in Syrian fighting over the last two years.

Flashpoint Partners, a firm which monitors terrorist Web traffic, said Abu Muhammad was reported to have been killed during recent clashes in Kobani.

Flashpoint said some message traffic suggested that Abu Muhammad was wounded, not killed.

In the video posted last winter, the man calling himself Abu Muhammad said when he originally arrived in Syria he was an al-Qaeda affiliate but he had defected to ISIS and fight alongside of Omar al Shishani one of most important leaders of ISIS in Syria.