Mogadishu (Sunatimes) Al-Qaeda has announced that a British teenager leading a unit of Al-Qaeda fighters on a terror mission in Somalia has been killed.

According to the Sunday Mirror, the message which was posted on a password-protected website, said the Brit and other Jihadists who died had a “one-way ticket to the promised paradise”.

Al-Qaeda says the leader of its unit in Somalia, was a teenager who left the opportunity of ­enjoying his youthful pleasures in the United Kingdom.

The Sunday Mirror reported that the person who posted the message on the internet Al- Qaeda warlord, Abu Yaser al-Maqdishy, boasted on how a father-of-three from the US was among their army.

The announcement is thought to be the first time Al-Qaeda has admitted that UK recruits are fighting in the lawless African country.

Somalia has become the world’s biggest breeding ground for terrorists – and experts estimate that there are 100 Brits training and fighting inside Somalia, says the tabloid newspaper.

By Faduma Farah