Suspected Abdeslam accomplice who died in Brussels raid 'signed up as an IS suicide attacker'
The Algerian gunman killed in a shootout with Belgian police on Tuesday wanted to die as an Islamic State suicide bomber, according to an ISIS document published exclusively by ITV News.
Mohamed Belkaid fired at Brussels police officers while his suspected accomplices fled.
Salah Abdeslam, the Paris attacker who was captured alive by police yesterday, is thought to have been one of them.
Belkaid was previously unknown to Belgian authorities. His Kalashnikov assault rifle was found near to his body, alongside an IS flag and a jihadist manual following the deadly raid.
The newly-released document forms part of a file of IS registration forms which lists militants who were willing to die in suicide missions. In it, Belkaid provides a telephone number for a relative in Algeria and declares that he has no experience as a jihadist fighter.
The document was handed to ITV News by the Syrian opposition news website Zaman Al Wasl.
Editor Fathi Bayoud said: “This document is one of around 80 new files about ISIS suicide jihadists which have been obtained by Zaman Al Wasl in the last few days from our source in Raqqa.”