American Reportedly Killed In Syria Fighting With Militants

In this photo taken during a Syrian government-led media tour, a man operates a bulldozer to clear debris created during battles between Syrian troops and rebels off a street in Mleiha, some 10 kilometers (6 miles) s... In this photo taken during a Syrian government-led media tour, a man operates a bulldozer to clear debris created during battles between Syrian troops and rebels off a street in Mleiha, some 10 kilometers (6 miles) southeast of downtown Damascus, Syria, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. Syrian government troops captured the fiercely contested suburb of the capital Thursday after five months of heavy fighting, flushing rebels from their last hideouts and quickly moving to crush pockets of resistance in the surrounding countryside, activists and state media said. (AP Photo) MORE LESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says an American man reported to have been killed in Syria was there to fight alongside a terrorist group, most likely the Islamic State.

The official said Tuesday that investigators were aware that Douglas McArthur McCain of San Diego had traveled to the country to join a militant group.

A relative, Kenneth McCain, said the State Department had called his family to report that Douglas McCain had been killed in Syria.

The official said investigators did not yet have McCain’s body and were still trying to verify information about his death.

The official was not authorized to discuss by name an ongoing investigation and spoke only on condition of anonymity.

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  1. The Greenwald cultists will be here any minute to complain that this poor American citizen has been deprived of his Constitutional Rights. OBUMMERRRRRRRMURDERRRRERRRRLIARRRRRRR!!!onw!!111

  2. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Hello?!?!!? Media wags??? Anybody home??? Douglas McArthur McCain does terror?!?!? Joe, Mikka, Wolf, Tweety, anybody?
    Bet if the misdirected kid was named Lyndon Baines Carter we’d have heard a nasty joke or two by now…

  3. Avatar for chammy chammy says:

    I can just imagine what Fox News will do with this story!!

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