Jamal Udeen Al-Harith

Jamal Udeen Al-Harith, born Ronald Fiddler (20 November 1966 – 21 February 2017) also known as Abu-Zakariya al-Britani,

Prior to being in Iraq, Jamal had been held in extrajudicial detention as a suspected enemy combatant in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba for more than two years.

Early life and conversion He was born Ronald Fiddler in 1966 in Manchester, England, to parents who had migrated from Jamaica. He has a sister, Maxine Fiddler. Fiddler attended local schools. He became a web designer, working in Manchester. The day after they were freed from Guantanamo Bay, all were released by British authorities without charge.

IS and death In 2014, al-Harith travelled to Syria to enlist in the Islamic State. His wife, Shukee Begum, with their five children, joined him for some months in 2015 before fleeing from the IS-controlled territory.

In February 2017, IS announced that al-Harith had been killed when he carried out a suicide car bombing at an Iraqi army base in Tal Gaysum, southwest of Mosul. The film also showed other IS foreign fighters, such as the American citizen, Zulfi Hoxha.