		<div class="wpcnt">
			<div class="wpa">
				<span class="wpa-about">Advertisements</span>
				<div class="u top_amp">
							<amp-ad width="300" height="265"
		 type="pubmine"
		 data-siteid="111265417"
		 data-section="2">
		</amp-ad>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div><p>Reports that a Australian terrorist, notorious for holding up the severed heads of Syrian victims, has been killed fighting in Iraq are being investigated by intelligence agencies.</p>
<p>The claims have raised the potential for his young family to be repatriated from the Middle East, Australia&#8217;s foreign minister Julie Bishop said.</p>
<p>She said the authorities were attempting to verify the recent deaths of Australians Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar in the Islamic State-held city of Mosul in Iraq.</p>
<p>Both men were seen in photographs posted on social media holding heads of Syrians.</p>
<p>Fairfax Media newspapers reported last month that the Australian family of Sharrouf&#8217;s Muslim-convert wife, Tara Nettleton, was trying to help her bring her three young boys and two teenage daughters from Syria home to Sydney.</p>
<p>Sharrouf&#8217;s seven-year-old son horrified the world a year ago when he was photographed holding the severed head of a Syrian soldier by the hair.</p>
<p>US secretary of state John Kerry described it as &#8220;one of the most disturbing, stomach-turning, grotesque photographs ever displayed&#8221;.</p>
<p>Ms Bishop said that Sharrouf&#8217;s death would have to be verified before Australia considers repatriating the family.</p>
<p>&#8220;We understand that there are family members in Syria or Iraq and should these reports be verified, then we will try to be in contact with them,&#8221; she told Australian Broadcasting Corporation.</p>
<p>But the government will not guarantee that the family can return.</p>
<p>&#8220;It would depend very much on the circumstances and the advice that we receive from our intelligence agencies at the time,&#8221; Ms Bishop said.</p>
<p>Sydney-born Sharrouf, who was also a Lebanese national, was a prime target of legislation to be introduced to Parliament this week that would allow terrorists who are dual nationals to be stripped of their Australian citizenship.</p>
<p>The government estimates that up to half the Australians who have travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight for Islamic State are dual citizens.</p>
<p>The government has also passed contentious new laws that make it a criminal offence to even visit Mosul or the IS stronghold of al-Raqqa province in Syria, where the Sharrouf family was thought to be based.</p>
<p>Sharrouf was among nine Muslim men accused in 2007 of stockpiling bomb-making materials and plotting terrorist attacks in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia&#8217;s largest cities. He pleaded guilty to terrorism offences in 2009 and served less than four years in prison.</p>
<p>Sharrouf slipped out of Australia in late 2013 using his brother&#8217;s passport because his own had been cancelled. Ms Nettleton later took their children to Syria to reunite with her husband.</p>
<p>Her father, Peter Nettleton, said his son-in-law&#8217;s reported death filled him with joy.</p>
			<div style="padding-bottom:15px;" class="wordads-tag" data-slot-type="belowpost">
				<div id="atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed30f9de868">
					<script type="text/javascript">
						window.getAdSnippetCallback = function () {
							if ( false === ( window.isWatlV1 ?? false ) ) {
								// Use Aditude scripts.
								window.tudeMappings = window.tudeMappings || [];
								window.tudeMappings.push( {
									divId: 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed30f9de868',
									format: 'belowpost',
								} );
							}
						}

						if ( document.readyState === 'loading' ) {
							document.addEventListener( 'DOMContentLoaded', window.getAdSnippetCallback );
						} else {
							window.getAdSnippetCallback();
						}
					</script>
				</div>
			</div>
Discover more from London Glossy Post
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
