Mohamed Karroum blames the government for his daughter’s death. Picture: Mike Batterham Source: News Corp Australia

Amira Karroum was killed in Syria. Source: Supplied

Mohamed Karroum wants to sue the government because he holds it responsible for the death of his daughter Amira.

The 22-year-old member of an al-Qaeda offshoot was killed in Syria in January after she travelled there to join the fight against the Assad regime.

“They could have stopped her,” Mr Karroum said.

“They sacrificed her by letting her go.”

Mr Karroum believes authorities let Amira leave because they wanted her to help them catch senior al-Qaeda figures, such as recruiter Mohammed Ali Baryalei, who is now believed to be dead.

Three weeks after Amira left Australia she was dead.

“The Australian Federal Police and ASIO are not doing their job,” he said

In an interview on Channel 9’s A Current Affair last night Mr Karroum said he wished Prime Minister Tony Abbott understood the depths of his pain. He said he prayed that Mr Abbott would “lose one of his daughters”.

“I’m praying to the Lord every day, Tony Abbott, please Lord, let him lose one of his daughters either in sickness or in accident or something, please Lord,” he said.

Mr Karroum said he feared more young Australians would be drawn to conflicts in the Middle East because many recruiters for jihadist groups were still active in Australia.

Amira Karroum left Australia with her partner Tyler Casey. Source: DailyTelegraph

Tyler Casey was also known as Yusaf Ali. Source: Supplied

“The recruiters are everywhere in this country,” he said.

“They’re in Sydney, they’re in Brisbane, they’re in Melbourne. They’re everywhere.”

While he blames the recruiters, Mr Karroum repeated that he blamed the government for allowing his daughter to travel to the Middle East and said he had no knowledge of her radical beliefs.

“Australian government is the mother and the father of her … they are the one who control everything in this country,” he said.

“I would be going to the federal government immediately to stop her, take her passport … because I know what they are ... al-Qaeda, they’re killers.

“I want an apology, that’s number one, for killing my daughter.”

Amira died when she was shot in the head by Syrian government forces on January 9.

Her partner Tyler Casey — who Mr Karroum said “poisoned her mind” — trained with al-Qaeda in Yemen and is believed to have been monitored by the federal government as a potential jihadi recruiter while he was still in Australia.

Mr Karroum said yesterday he was unable to move on from the death of his daughter, who he thought about “every moment of every day”.

“She was my life, she was my flower, she was my princess,” he said.

Mr Karroum said, too, that he had lost two daughters when Amira left for Syria.

He said he could not forgive his other daughter Rose for keeping Amira’s plans secret from him.