WATCH: (Scroll Down For Video) A distraught jihadist suicide bomber was filmed breaking down in tears before being sent to his death in war-torn Syria.
The frightened fighter, named as Jafar al-Tayyar, from Uzbekistan, can be seen comforted by his fellow militants moments before he launches his deadly attack on Shi’ite town of Fua in Idlib Province – an Assad regime stronghold.
After he climbs into the explosives-packed armoured personnel carrier, the young man starts sobbing.
An fellow militant says: “Jafar, my brother, don’t be afraid. When you are scared, remember Allah,” the militant says.
The video’s narrator says he is the “first volunteer mujahid (jihad fighter) of Mawarannahr,” a term used by some jihadists to refer to an area of Central Asia corresponding approximately with modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, southern Kyrgyzstan and southwest Kazakhstan.
He was a fighter for the Imam Bukhari Jamaat, an Uzbek-led faction fighting alongside the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front, reports Radio Liberty.
Terror groups, including ISIS, frequently use foreign-born fighters in suicide bomb attacks.
