IS Fighter Arrested in Spain Turns Out to be Former British Rapper. The IS terrorist arrested yesterday in AlmerÃa, southern Spain, is indeed Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary (29).
British media report this based on police sources.
One of the most wanted foreign fighters of the Islamic terrorist movement, the 20-year-old is originally from a residential area in West London.
He grew up in Maida Vale and had both British and Egyptian citizenship, but the former was deprived of him, according to The Guardian, for his ties to IS.
Abdel Bary is said to have had a Spanish girlfriend whom he met online in 2017. He entered Spain from Algeria, and a source told the newspaper.
