Posted on 01/05/2015 1:04:15 PM PST by lowbridge
New-Zealand English teacher-turned-terrorist Mark Taylor, who shot into the public eye last year after publicly burning his Kiwi passport and then asking for a new one has blundered again by apparently forgetting to turn off geo-location services on his smartphone while tweeting from Islamic State safe houses in Syria.
The terrorist, who changed his name to the more appropriate-sounding ‘Abu Abdul-Rahman’ uploaded a series of tweets during his travels across the Islamic State, updating his twitter following on his progress with ISIS. The Daily Mail reports a Canadian jihad-monitoring group recorded 45 of these tweets containing geo-location data and passed the information on to intelligence agencies.
Describing the blunder, Canadian monitoring group IBRABO said: “It’s a rookie social media mistake and one that intelligence and law enforcement agencies pray for when tracking criminals. This week one of New Zealand’s well known jihadists, Mark Taylor removed 45 tweets after he discovered that he was broadcasting his twitter location to every intelligence agency… Unfortunately for him we captured all of them prior to him removing the tweets”.
“Taylor isn’t the first jihadist to broadcast his whereabouts via social media and in fact looking at the battlefield in Syria we see fighters from Canada, France, and other western countries making the same mistake”.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Oh, well, heck, it’s just another merry mix-up. I’m sure the boys at ISIS are having a good chuckle about it while they’re using the guy’s head for a ventriloquist dummy.
OOPS somebody have Steve Ukrel moment in ISIS LOL!
Or soccer ball.
if you like your head you can keep it
on a shelf
Hajji Bob go boom!
:)
“Not very smart for a teacher”
If you can’t work, teach. If you can’t teach, teach gym.
LOL! Why do they always have red beards and look like idiots? No offense to redheads, but in the Middle Ages, Judas was traditionally depicted with a patchy red beard...
Target rich environment!!!
Shouldn’t we have read about 45 drone strikes BEFORE this story came out?
Yep
Why blow up the guy giving you such good intel for free?
Maybe now that he has clammed up, but not before that :)
That's the point. "we" likely did nothing, except alert the media, so they can alert their jihadi friends.
Hopefully the missiles are destroying these as we read. Otherwise, it’s just a head’s up.
Just ad him to the list of the many the people who have gotten in trouble for tweeting.
“Abu Abdul-Rahman Noodle”
Good, now JDAM his ass.
If you can't teach gym join ISIS.
Mark Taylor is a loyal officer for the New Zealand Intelligence Services and I applaud him for his service to his country and I hope he doesn’t get beheaded by the people he’s spying on when they read my post.
They should publish stories like this about all of the western recruits on a regular basis.
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