Report: Lebanese Man Beheaded after Son Lures Him to IS-held Raqa

A Lebanese man has been beheaded after his jihadist son “lured” him to the Syrian city of Raqa, the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State group's “caliphate,” a media report said on Friday.

Mahmoud al-Hussein, who hails from the al-Mankoubine neighborhood of the northern city of Tripoli, headed to Raqa to seek the return of his two daughters, who were convinced by their brother, Yehia al-Hussein, to travel to the jihadist bastion, Mahmoud's brother told MTV.

The man fell into an IS “ambush” the moment he arrived in Raqa and his son told the jihadist group that his father had “cursed the Prophet Mohammed,” his brother added.

He said the son had returned to Lebanon after his family exerted efforts to convince him to leave the IS.

However, he later returned to Raqa along with his two sisters after telling the family that he was accompanying them for “tourism in Turkey.”

The father, who was “beheaded in the presence of his son and two daughters,” was also accused of “establishing ties with the Lebanese government and the Turkish consulate,” his brother told MTV.

The TV network noted that Omar Bakri Fustoq, an extermist Islamist preacher jailed in Lebanon, was married to one of Mahmoud's daughters, without specifying if it was referring to one of the two aforementioned women.

Y.R.