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ISIS lifts veil on American at heart of its propaganda machine
CNN ^ | March 7, 2017 | By Paul Cruickshank

Posted on 04/07/2017 4:34:22 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

(CNN)ISIS has revealed the chief editor of its online propaganda magazine was an American computer scientist. The group named the media operative as Sheikh Abu Sulayman ash Shami in the eighth edition of its online magazine Rumiyah, which was released early Thursday. It said he was killed in a coalition airstrike near Tabqa, Syria, just to the southwest of Raqqa, during the second week of January.

His picture and his biography have striking similarities with Ahmad Abousamra, a 35-year-old Syrian-American who grew up in the leafy Boston suburb of Stoughton, Massachusetts, and who was first placed on the FBI most wanted list in 2013 and made the subject of a $50,000 reward because of his connections to a Massachusetts terrorism investigation centering on his alleged close associate Tarek Mehanna, who was arrested in 2009 and convicted of terrorism-related charges in a Boston court in late 2011.

US law enforcement official told CNN's Evan Perez Friday that US counterterrorism agencies believe Abousamra was playing a leading role in ISIS' propaganda operations in Syria and is the same person featured in the ISIS magazine's eulogy. The FBI has not yet confirmed that Abousamra was killed, the U.S. official said. The official noted ISIS operatives have in the past faked their own deaths in attempts to "take the heat" off themselves, so US officials are working to corroborate whether he was killed. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: isis; isispropaganda; michaelmoore

1 posted on 04/07/2017 4:34:22 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Boston, figures. No doubt a loyal democrat


2 posted on 04/07/2017 4:40:01 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The Covert Origins of ISIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjXbuj7BPI


3 posted on 04/07/2017 4:41:15 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Bkmrk.


4 posted on 04/07/2017 4:47:51 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Very good report on the islams and the recent US Government support of their carnage and filthy islamic nonsense.

islam evil will die when we neuter the teachers of that filthy and disgusting cult.


5 posted on 04/07/2017 4:58:51 PM PDT by soycd
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Are you aware the CIA pushed a coup d’état in Syria in 1949 that pushed out the democratically-elected Hashim al-Atassi?

The reason for the coup? To run the Trans-Arabian Pipeline through Syria which Atassi did not want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1949_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashim_al-Atassi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Arabian_Pipeline

And why are the US, Europe, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel involved covertly and overtly in the overthrow of Assad? Because they want to run a natural gas pipeline from Qatar to Europe which would run right through Syria.

Is the fight over a gas pipeline fuelling the world’s bloodiest conflict?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3542167/posts

Think about that for a sec. WW3 will be over a natural gas pipeline that Assad does not want in his back yard.


6 posted on 04/07/2017 5:22:58 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Immediate loss of citizenship.


7 posted on 04/07/2017 5:35:37 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam mandates warfare against unbelievers and is absolutely incompatible with Western society.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

>Is the fight over a gas pipeline fuelling the world’s bloodiest conflict?

Certainly for some it likely is.

My desire is to eliminate or reduce to prison the filth like islam and leftist retards trying to convert America to the lost causes of fail nations.


8 posted on 04/07/2017 7:35:22 PM PDT by soycd
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and, to undertand Israel’s support for the overthrow of Assad, don’t forget this pipeline:

October 2016: BBC: Gas pipeline hope heals rupture in Israel-Turkey ties
By Selin Girit
The visit signalled a significant turning-point in relations as they agreed to deepen co-operation and discussed the possibility of building a natural gas pipeline from Israel to Turkey...
Ever since Israeli made significant finds of natural gas in 2009, there have been dreams of transferring it from offshore fields such as Leviathan and Tamar.
Energy Minister Steinitz said Israel had so far discovered around 900bn cubic metres of natural gas, with a potential further 2,200bn to be explored...

Experts say there are two possible routes that a pipeline could take from Israel to Turkey: one through Lebanese and Syrian waters, and the other through Cyprus’s waters...
“Israel needs to supply international markets and monetise the gas as soon as possible. It is very important that the pipeline is constructed quickly,” says Dr Han...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37692753


9 posted on 04/07/2017 8:02:54 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

Rule number 1, BBC lies for the sake of leftism.

There is one main problem in the world...islam and its attraction to fighting age, horny males willing to abuse women, children and animals.

They must and will be eliminated before humankind moves beyond tribalism and gonadal desires.

The intelligent must be humble and ignite the way if needed and ride out the storm that leads the way ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ3bJN1zLKw&index=3&list=RDJZzf_wGQAac


10 posted on 04/07/2017 8:10:58 PM PDT by soycd
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