[h=1]Names and family details of 22,000 jihadis revealed in huge cache of leaked ISIS HR forms[/h]
PUBLISHED: 21:23, 9 March 2016 | UPDATED: 01:50, 10 March 2016
A priceless cache of documents containing the personal information of 22,000 Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq has been seized, it has been revealed.
The treasure trove of data for Western security services battling the terror group contains the names, addresses, telephone numbers and family contacts of recruits – and includes potentially hundreds of British fighters.
Former UK intelligence chiefs described the documents as the ‘biggest breakthrough in years’ in counter-terrorism. It is believed to be the biggest IS intelligence haul uncovered.
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A memory stick packed with the names, addresses, telephone numbers and family contacts of recruits has been discovered, and may include details of hundreds of British fighters
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The memory stick reveals recruits had to fill in the 23-question registration card to be allowed into the group, also known as Daesh, including details like next of kin, and previous employment
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- Recruits have to fill in 23-question registration card before they can join ISIS
- Included date of birth, marital status, previous jobs, and even next of kin
- Forms found on memory stick stolen from ISIS leader by a disgruntled recruit
- Former MI6 director said files could be the ‘biggest breakthrough in years’
- For more of the latest Islamic State news visit www.dailymail.co.uk/isis
PUBLISHED: 21:23, 9 March 2016 | UPDATED: 01:50, 10 March 2016
A priceless cache of documents containing the personal information of 22,000 Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq has been seized, it has been revealed.
The treasure trove of data for Western security services battling the terror group contains the names, addresses, telephone numbers and family contacts of recruits – and includes potentially hundreds of British fighters.
Former UK intelligence chiefs described the documents as the ‘biggest breakthrough in years’ in counter-terrorism. It is believed to be the biggest IS intelligence haul uncovered.
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A memory stick packed with the names, addresses, telephone numbers and family contacts of recruits has been discovered, and may include details of hundreds of British fighters
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The memory stick reveals recruits had to fill in the 23-question registration card to be allowed into the group, also known as Daesh, including details like next of kin, and previous employment
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Experts believe the files could be invaluable in tackling jihadists who have sneaked back into Europe intent on bringing bloodshed to the streets in ‘enormous and spectacular’ attacks.
In a major coup for the West, a memory stick stolen from an IS leader by a disgruntled recruit was obtained by Sky News. The details it contains are understood to be authentic.
Recruits from at least 51 countries, including the UK, who travelled to the region to join the murderous terror organisation – notorious for its brutality, including beheadings, crucifixions and massacres – were ordered to give up their most sensitive information.
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Details were logged on an extraordinary induction form.
Only when a recruit had filled in the 23-question registration card were they allowed into the group, also known as Daesh.
Questions on the form included date of birth, marital status, previous jobs, who recommended them, if they had fought before, what role they would take – for instance, ‘fighter’ – and any ‘specialist skills’.
The forms even includes contact details for next of kin. Many of the names on the registration cards are well known.
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Many of the names on the registration cards are well known - including a number of British fighters
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In a major coup for the West, a memory stick stolen from an IS leader by a disgruntled recruit was obtained by Sky News. The details it contains are understood to be authentic.
Recruits from at least 51 countries, including the UK, who travelled to the region to join the murderous terror organisation – notorious for its brutality, including beheadings, crucifixions and massacres – were ordered to give up their most sensitive information.
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Details were logged on an extraordinary induction form.
Only when a recruit had filled in the 23-question registration card were they allowed into the group, also known as Daesh.
Questions on the form included date of birth, marital status, previous jobs, who recommended them, if they had fought before, what role they would take – for instance, ‘fighter’ – and any ‘specialist skills’.
The forms even includes contact details for next of kin. Many of the names on the registration cards are well known.
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Many of the names on the registration cards are well known - including a number of British fighters
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[h=3]JUNAID HUSSAIN: THE COMPUTER HACKER MARRIED TO 'MRS TERROR'[/h]The computer hacker fled his home in Birmingham to Syria in 2013 and quickly rose to prominence within Islamic State.
He ran the information and recruitment arm of the terror group and was ranked third on the Pentagon’s ‘kill list’.
Last year Hussain helped plan an attack on the VJ Day celebrations in London using a pressure cooker bomb. The plot failed after Hussain unwittingly recruited an undercover journalist.
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Junaid Hussian travelled to Syria in 2013, and was married to 'Mrs Terror' Sally Jones
Describing the plan, he wrote: ‘It will be big. We will hit the kuffar (unbelievers) hard. Hit their soldiers in their own land. Soldiers that served in Iraq and Afghanistan will be present. Jump in the crowd and detonate the bomb.
‘They think they can kill Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan then come back to the UK and be safe. We’ll hit them hard.’
Hussain was on police bail on charges of violent disorder during an English Defence League rally, but fled just before his trial.
He was jailed for six months in 2012 for hacking into the email account of an assistant to former Prime Minister Tony Blair and leaking confidential information about him on the web.
He was also convicted of bombarding the Metropolitan Police anti-terrorism hotline with bogus calls.
Hussain, who helped bring down the Pentagon’s official Twitter page, was killed by a US drone strike on his car near Raqqa in August last year.
His wife Sally Jones, a 45-year-old mother-of-two and former punk rocker from Chatham, in Kent, is believed to still live in Syria.
The pair were dubbed ‘Mr and Mrs Terror’ after they fled to Syria.
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He ran the information and recruitment arm of the terror group and was ranked third on the Pentagon’s ‘kill list’.
Last year Hussain helped plan an attack on the VJ Day celebrations in London using a pressure cooker bomb. The plot failed after Hussain unwittingly recruited an undercover journalist.
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Junaid Hussian travelled to Syria in 2013, and was married to 'Mrs Terror' Sally Jones
Describing the plan, he wrote: ‘It will be big. We will hit the kuffar (unbelievers) hard. Hit their soldiers in their own land. Soldiers that served in Iraq and Afghanistan will be present. Jump in the crowd and detonate the bomb.
‘They think they can kill Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan then come back to the UK and be safe. We’ll hit them hard.’
Hussain was on police bail on charges of violent disorder during an English Defence League rally, but fled just before his trial.
He was jailed for six months in 2012 for hacking into the email account of an assistant to former Prime Minister Tony Blair and leaking confidential information about him on the web.
He was also convicted of bombarding the Metropolitan Police anti-terrorism hotline with bogus calls.
Hussain, who helped bring down the Pentagon’s official Twitter page, was killed by a US drone strike on his car near Raqqa in August last year.
His wife Sally Jones, a 45-year-old mother-of-two and former punk rocker from Chatham, in Kent, is believed to still live in Syria.
The pair were dubbed ‘Mr and Mrs Terror’ after they fled to Syria.
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They include Abdel Bary, a 26-year-old from London who joined IS in 2013 after visiting Libya, Egypt and Turkey. He is designated as a fighter but is better known in the UK as a rap artist.
The son of convicted terrorist Adel Abdul Bary, he was pictured in August last year holding the severed head of a captured Syrian army soldier who had been executed.
Another jihadi named in the documents is Junaid Hussain, a computer hacker from Birmingham who was head of Islamic State’s media wing. Along with his wife, former punk Sally-Anne Jones, he plotted attacks against the UK.
He was killed after being targeted in a drone strike last August. His jihadi widow, known as ‘Mrs Terror’, has been put on a government list of the most dangerous British recruiters for Islamic State.
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Some 700 British Muslims have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join IS and around half have returned to the UK, according to British spies, and may be plotting atrocities on the streets.
But the major breakthrough from the documents is the revealing of the identities of a number of previously unknown jihadis in the UK, northern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, the United States and Canada.
Their whereabouts are crucial to breaking the organisation and preventing further terror attacks.
Richard Barrett, a former MI6 global terrorism operations director, said the files could prove to be the ‘biggest breakthrough in years’ in the counter-terror fight.
Many of the recruits passed through jihadi ‘hotspots’ such as Yemen, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
One of the files is marked ‘Martyrs’ and details a brigade manned entirely by fighters who wanted – and were trained – to carry out suicide attacks.
Some of the telephone numbers on the list are still active and it is believed that although many will be family members, a significant number are used by the jihadis themselves.
The files were passed to Sky News on a memory stick stolen from the head of Islamic State’s internal security police, an organisation described by insiders as the group’s SS.
He had been entrusted to protect the organisation’s core secrets and he rarely parted with the drive. The man who stole it was a former Free Syrian Army convert to Islamic State who calls himself Abu Hamed.
Disillusioned with the Islamic State leadership, he says it has now been taken over by former soldiers from the Iraqi Baath party of Saddam Hussein.
He claims the Islamic rules he believed in have totally collapsed inside the organisation, prompting him to quit.
He told Sky News that IS was giving up on its headquarters in Raqqa and moving into the central deserts of Syria and ultimately Iraq, the group’s birthplace.
Asked if the IS files could bring the network down he nodded and said simply: ‘God willing’.
Experts believe that IS is refocusing its base of operations abroad and is intent on carrying out high-profile attacks in Western countries, instead of radicalising vulnerable and mentally-ill people to carry out ‘lone wolf’ strikes against soldiers and police officers.
Yesterday [Wed] the British head of the EU’s crime fighting organisation warned that the chance of a Paris-style terror atrocity on the streets of Britain was growing.
Rob Wainwright, the director of Europol, said the continent was facing its biggest security crisis in ten years – and has previously warned almost 5,000 Islamist jihadi fanatics could be at large in the European Union.
Radicalised Europeans who have gained conflict experience in Syria are now returning to the continent, he said.
He said: ‘We are working of course around the clock to prevent that from happening but this is a very, very serious threat.’
Meanwhile, a chemical weapons expert from IS’s operations in Iraq has been captured by US special forces and is being questioned.
The man was once a specialist in chemical and biological weapons for Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader overthrown by the US invasion in 2003, Iraqi and US sources told US media.
Named as Sleiman Daoud al-Afari, he was reportedly seized last month. The Pentagon would not confirm his capture.
But the man has already told interrogators how IS loaded mustard gas into shells, according to the New York Times.
Last month it was claimed that sulphur mustard had been used last year in an IS attack on Kurdish forces.
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Some 700 British Muslims have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS and around half have returned to the UK, according to British spies
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The son of convicted terrorist Adel Abdul Bary, he was pictured in August last year holding the severed head of a captured Syrian army soldier who had been executed.
Another jihadi named in the documents is Junaid Hussain, a computer hacker from Birmingham who was head of Islamic State’s media wing. Along with his wife, former punk Sally-Anne Jones, he plotted attacks against the UK.
He was killed after being targeted in a drone strike last August. His jihadi widow, known as ‘Mrs Terror’, has been put on a government list of the most dangerous British recruiters for Islamic State.
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Some 700 British Muslims have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join IS and around half have returned to the UK, according to British spies, and may be plotting atrocities on the streets.
But the major breakthrough from the documents is the revealing of the identities of a number of previously unknown jihadis in the UK, northern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, the United States and Canada.
Their whereabouts are crucial to breaking the organisation and preventing further terror attacks.
Richard Barrett, a former MI6 global terrorism operations director, said the files could prove to be the ‘biggest breakthrough in years’ in the counter-terror fight.
Many of the recruits passed through jihadi ‘hotspots’ such as Yemen, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
One of the files is marked ‘Martyrs’ and details a brigade manned entirely by fighters who wanted – and were trained – to carry out suicide attacks.
Some of the telephone numbers on the list are still active and it is believed that although many will be family members, a significant number are used by the jihadis themselves.
The files were passed to Sky News on a memory stick stolen from the head of Islamic State’s internal security police, an organisation described by insiders as the group’s SS.
He had been entrusted to protect the organisation’s core secrets and he rarely parted with the drive. The man who stole it was a former Free Syrian Army convert to Islamic State who calls himself Abu Hamed.
Disillusioned with the Islamic State leadership, he says it has now been taken over by former soldiers from the Iraqi Baath party of Saddam Hussein.
He claims the Islamic rules he believed in have totally collapsed inside the organisation, prompting him to quit.
He told Sky News that IS was giving up on its headquarters in Raqqa and moving into the central deserts of Syria and ultimately Iraq, the group’s birthplace.
Asked if the IS files could bring the network down he nodded and said simply: ‘God willing’.
Experts believe that IS is refocusing its base of operations abroad and is intent on carrying out high-profile attacks in Western countries, instead of radicalising vulnerable and mentally-ill people to carry out ‘lone wolf’ strikes against soldiers and police officers.
Yesterday [Wed] the British head of the EU’s crime fighting organisation warned that the chance of a Paris-style terror atrocity on the streets of Britain was growing.
Rob Wainwright, the director of Europol, said the continent was facing its biggest security crisis in ten years – and has previously warned almost 5,000 Islamist jihadi fanatics could be at large in the European Union.
Radicalised Europeans who have gained conflict experience in Syria are now returning to the continent, he said.
He said: ‘We are working of course around the clock to prevent that from happening but this is a very, very serious threat.’
Meanwhile, a chemical weapons expert from IS’s operations in Iraq has been captured by US special forces and is being questioned.
The man was once a specialist in chemical and biological weapons for Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader overthrown by the US invasion in 2003, Iraqi and US sources told US media.
Named as Sleiman Daoud al-Afari, he was reportedly seized last month. The Pentagon would not confirm his capture.
But the man has already told interrogators how IS loaded mustard gas into shells, according to the New York Times.
Last month it was claimed that sulphur mustard had been used last year in an IS attack on Kurdish forces.
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Some 700 British Muslims have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS and around half have returned to the UK, according to British spies
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[h=3]ABDEL BARY: LONDON RAPPER TURNED VIOLENT JIHADI[/h]
Adel Abdul Bary was initially suspected by MI5 of being Jihadi John before being ruled out
The former rapper and son of convicted terrorist Adel Abdul Bary was initially suspected by MI5 of being Jihadi John before being ruled out.
In August last year, Bary was pictured holding the severed head of a captured Syrian army soldier who had been executed.
Underneath the image, posted on a social media account, Bary wrote: ‘Chillin with my other homie, or what’s left of him’.
The 26-year-old, from Maida Vale in West London, joined Islamic State in 2013 after visiting Libya, Egypt and Turkey. His whereabouts are currently unknown.
It is understood that he fell out of favour with IS last year and left Syrian for Turkey.
Bary is thought to have disguised himself as a refugee and escaped during the chaos of an IS retreat from Tal Abyad near the Turkey Syria border in June 2015.
His father, who is believed to be closely linked to Osama Bin Laden, admitted working for Al Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad after being extradited to the US from Britain.
Last February the 55-year-old was sentenced to 25 years in a US jail for conspiring to kill Americans in the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa which left 224 dead.
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Adel Abdul Bary was initially suspected by MI5 of being Jihadi John before being ruled out
The former rapper and son of convicted terrorist Adel Abdul Bary was initially suspected by MI5 of being Jihadi John before being ruled out.
In August last year, Bary was pictured holding the severed head of a captured Syrian army soldier who had been executed.
Underneath the image, posted on a social media account, Bary wrote: ‘Chillin with my other homie, or what’s left of him’.
The 26-year-old, from Maida Vale in West London, joined Islamic State in 2013 after visiting Libya, Egypt and Turkey. His whereabouts are currently unknown.
It is understood that he fell out of favour with IS last year and left Syrian for Turkey.
Bary is thought to have disguised himself as a refugee and escaped during the chaos of an IS retreat from Tal Abyad near the Turkey Syria border in June 2015.
His father, who is believed to be closely linked to Osama Bin Laden, admitted working for Al Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad after being extradited to the US from Britain.
Last February the 55-year-old was sentenced to 25 years in a US jail for conspiring to kill Americans in the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa which left 224 dead.
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REYAAD KHAN: THE EXTREMIST WHO DREAMED ON BEING PRIME MINISTER
The 21-year-old from Cardiff was killed in an RAF drone strike in July last year.
Wearing a headscarf and armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, Khan appeared in an IS video in June 2014 in which he called for Westerners to fight in Iraq and Syria.
He was targeted by the drone because he was said to be part of a jihadi internet warfare cell and presented a ‘clear and present danger’.
Khan, who wanted to be the first Asian prime minister, is believed to have travelled to Syria in late 2013 from his home in Cardiff.
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Reyaad Khan, 21, from Cardiff, was killed in an RAF drone strike last year
The extremist - who once posed at his youth club with former education secretary Ed Balls - had boasted on social media about taking part in brutal beheadings and executions after travelling to Syria with two friends.
In one sickening boasts, he wrote: ‘Executed many prisoners yesterday.’
He also made grim jokes about the beheading of American journalist James Foley who was killed in August 2014.
Khan wrote on Twitter: ‘The brother that executed James Foley should be the new Batman.’
He also glorified a raid by IS on the Al-Tabqa air base in Syria, which led to the cold-blooded execution of more than 200 soldiers belonging to the Assad regime, tweeting: ‘Heavy clashes in tabqa, fireworks on the agenda tonight!’
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The 21-year-old from Cardiff was killed in an RAF drone strike in July last year.
Wearing a headscarf and armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, Khan appeared in an IS video in June 2014 in which he called for Westerners to fight in Iraq and Syria.
He was targeted by the drone because he was said to be part of a jihadi internet warfare cell and presented a ‘clear and present danger’.
Khan, who wanted to be the first Asian prime minister, is believed to have travelled to Syria in late 2013 from his home in Cardiff.
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Reyaad Khan, 21, from Cardiff, was killed in an RAF drone strike last year
The extremist - who once posed at his youth club with former education secretary Ed Balls - had boasted on social media about taking part in brutal beheadings and executions after travelling to Syria with two friends.
In one sickening boasts, he wrote: ‘Executed many prisoners yesterday.’
He also made grim jokes about the beheading of American journalist James Foley who was killed in August 2014.
Khan wrote on Twitter: ‘The brother that executed James Foley should be the new Batman.’
He also glorified a raid by IS on the Al-Tabqa air base in Syria, which led to the cold-blooded execution of more than 200 soldiers belonging to the Assad regime, tweeting: ‘Heavy clashes in tabqa, fireworks on the agenda tonight!’
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