[Fhios]

I would be suspicious of anybody who claimed to be embedded with ISIS. Journalist or otherwise.

[Carthego delenda est]

“I would be suspicious of anybody who claimed to be embedded with ISIS. Journalist or otherwise.”

Your logic being?

[Jack Black]

Well your suspicion is well grounded. Here is a the Wikipedia bio of the German reporter. He is obviously a Bush-hating lefty who blames everything ISIS is doing on Bush's failures in the past.

Jürgen Todenhöfer

But, having said that it appears he really did embed with ISIS, perhaps his previous criticism gave them comfort in allowing him this privilege.

Here is an Al Jezera inerview with him, after his return from the IS. It includes some pictures of him in country.

Al Jazeera: How did they impose censorship?

Todenhofer: In a sense there was censorship. Sometimes we weren't allowed to film. For example, in the car, they did not want us to film because they didn't want attention drawn to us. At the end they controlled all the photos. They took all 800 photos we took and deleted 9 for very valid reasons. One, for example, is that they say the families of the ISIL fighters in the photos could be in danger if the photo gets out and gets published.

So, if he has 800 pictures from IS he did apparently do what he said.

[ExSoldier]

I suggest you read this book: SCHMOOZING WITH TERRORISTS before you get so suspicious. This was an incredible book. I came across it just before I got my Master's Degree in Homeland Security and it taught me a lot.