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Dozens of IT experts, media workers desert ISIS in Mosul(a majority are Americans)
ARA News ^ | April 30, 2016 | Sarbaz Yousef

Posted on 04/29/2016 4:15:23 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Dozens of IT experts, media workers desert ISIS in Mosul

April 30, 2016 Middle East & World

ARA News

ERBIL – Dozens of foreign IT experts from the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) have deserted the group’s ranks in Iraq’s northwestern city of Mosul over the past few days, leaving a remarkable vacuum in the ISIS-linked media centers in the region, local sources reported on Wednesday.

Local sources confirmed that hundreds of foreign jihadis have recently left ISIS ranks and returned to their home countries, including technical support experts. This has put a pressure on the group’s media centers, which used to broadcast the pro-ISIS propaganda in support of the group’s self-declared Caliphate.

The new wave of dissidence also included a number of American nationals who used to serve as professional film makers on behalf of the extremist group in Mosul and other parts of Iraq.

Speaking to ARA News in Mosul, head of the Nineveh media center Raafat al-Zarari said that pro-ISIS sources admitted that the group has been suffering a shortage of media workers and IT experts “because many of them have left their areas, especially after the US-led coalition forces intensified airstrikes on media and command centers in northern Iraq and Syria.”

The US-led coalition forces have killed hundreds of ISIS top jihadis during the past few months, destroying dozens of media and command centers, as well as tactical units and weapons storage centers for the extremist group.

The source pointed out that the ordinary militants have no technical ability to observe electronic devices for civilians, including laptops, computers, hard drives and smart phones confiscated by the group’s Hisba police forces in the northern city of Mosul.

Al-Zarari explained that the majority of the fleeing technical experts hold the American citizenship. They were serving in media departments along with the group’s security centers in a bid to observe smart devices and computers confiscated from locals in Mosul.

“A number of American technicians have fled Mosul and crossed into Turkey through Syria earlier this week, while the remaining media workers do not have adequate technical expertise to do the same job of those technicians,” a source close to ISIS told ARA News, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

“Locals in Mosul should celebrate by now; their special files in the smartphones will no longer be retrieved,” the source sarcastically concluded.

“Some of those experts used to prepare multimedia reports in order to boost the group’s propaganda in a sophisticated manner,” Zarari told ARA News. “They were also delivering the materials to a large-scale audience on the social media. “These experts have attracted thousands of new followers, washing their minds, inciting them to involve in the bloody terror group across Syria, Iraq and even Europe.”

Many ISIS foreign members have left the city of Mosul after the US-led coalition forces stepped up airstrikes on the group’s media and communication centers. The crucial impact of ISIS propaganda films has dramatically reduced in the last few months, according to observers.

Reporting by: Sarbaz Yousef


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; mosul
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Soon to be invited to a welcome party at WH upon their return from "heroic" Jihad.
1 posted on 04/29/2016 4:15:23 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The jihad media workers are soon to be out in our neighborhoods scouting out another venue for a shoot.


2 posted on 04/29/2016 4:19:57 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I remember, i think Comey, saying there was NO LAW that prevented them from coming back.


3 posted on 04/29/2016 4:23:26 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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Here’s an idea. MAKE ONE!!


4 posted on 04/29/2016 4:23:49 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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“I remember, i think Comey, saying there was NO LAW that prevented them from coming back.”

Prior to WW2 the Germans put out a call for all people with German names who lived overseas to return and become full fledged NAZI party members. 100’s if not 1000’s did go from the US. Were they allowed to return?


5 posted on 04/29/2016 4:26:35 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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After the war, I have no idea. This war ain’t over yet.

not sure of your point, though, to be honest.


6 posted on 04/29/2016 4:27:49 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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Disagree. Welcome them back with open arms handcuffs.

Try them, convict them, and hang them as the traitors they are.

7 posted on 04/29/2016 4:28:26 PM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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do we have to do the first two?


8 posted on 04/29/2016 4:29:14 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

In a rational world, that headline would say “... were Americans”.


9 posted on 04/29/2016 4:29:24 PM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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Uh...they’re not “Americans”.


10 posted on 04/29/2016 4:29:58 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump. I never knew, until this day, that it was Romney all along.)
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The point is that in the war they were treated as enemy combatants. We don’t need a law to prevent enemy combatants from entering the US


11 posted on 04/29/2016 4:31:43 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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Yeah. The dad of one of my high school buddies (named Ritter) captured a German officer named von Ritter.

This mutt noticed his name tag and started in on him about being a race traitor and being on the wrong side.

He kept it up until a .45 pressed firmly to his forehead with a mild suggestion that if he wanted to live long enough to get to the POW camp, it might be a really good idea to shut the heck up, shut him the heck up...

12 posted on 04/29/2016 4:34:54 PM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

American IT experts working for ISIS? Who are these people?


13 posted on 04/29/2016 4:35:42 PM PDT by theoilpainter
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To: dp0622
Only if they come back. Harder to hang them there, but there's always C-4 in situ.
14 posted on 04/29/2016 4:36:21 PM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: theoilpainter

google.


15 posted on 04/29/2016 4:37:04 PM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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They will likely be getting their FaceBook jobs back along with Medals.


16 posted on 04/29/2016 4:39:31 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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I doubt it. The H-1Bs are cheaper...


17 posted on 04/29/2016 4:45:09 PM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

IT workers for ISIS? Hunt them down and assassinate them all.


18 posted on 04/29/2016 4:47:26 PM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

1. ISIS just admitted that their average fighter has the intelligence level of a rock.

2. if we had a real POTUS, he’d have US Customs pay extra special attention to anyone coming to the US through Turkey, Syria etc. If they cannot account for their whereabouts, lock them up and charge them with treason.


19 posted on 04/29/2016 4:48:19 PM PDT by cyclotic (Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.)
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ISIS just admitted that their average fighter has the intelligence level of a rock.

A majority of ISIS members are still from Mid-East, which has high level of illiteracy. Dumb illiterate ones are easy marks for Jihad ops to recruit for suicide bombing and cannon fodders with the promise of living in Heaven with 72 virgins.

20 posted on 04/29/2016 4:53:35 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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