Reporter Jenan Moussa from Arabic Al Aan TV has a great thread up on Kurdish ISIS hunters who posed as girl from the UK who wanted to join ISIS and helped authorities arrest a known Dutch ISIS supporter when he showed up at an airport in Italy to marry the made-up love interest.
Enjoy!
1/ Kurdish online ISIS hunters set up twitter account pretending to be UK girl wishing 2join ISIS in Syria.
Dutch ISIS supporter fell for it. They shared DMs, naughty pics, got plane ticket. He revealed identity, got arrested.
I met ISIS hunter &saw DMs!pic.twitter.com/C3EzVVQyuo
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) January 30, 2019
2/ Plan of Kurdish online ISIS hunters was as follows:
– Create twitter account.
– Pretend to be female living in UK who hates West &wants to move to ISIS territory .
– Actively approach known jihadi accounts.
– Hope jihadists fall for trap &reveal identity.
– Call authorities.— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) January 30, 2019
3/ At least one jihadist fell for the honey trap. His name was Mohamed Ghorshid, notorious ISIS supporter from the Dutch city of Maastricht.
Ghorshid was convicted in 2013 for trying to travel to Syria. He was active on twitter under the name: Salahaddin al Kurdi.@akhbar
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) January 30, 2019
4/ As both ISIS supporter and ISIS hunters are of Kurdish descent, the ISIS hunters really took it personal.
"To us he's a traitor, a scum," said 1of the hunters to me, "He doesnt only want to commit crimes but also smear good name of Kurdish community. We had to do something."
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) January 30, 2019
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5/ First Ghorshid was reluctant to communicate via DM with the (fake) female ISIS-supporter.
She kept on saying how she hated UK &wanted to go to ISIS in Syria. After a while Ghorshid started to loosen up. Some trust was built. They "talked" via DM for several months.@akhbar
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) January 30, 2019
6/ After trust was established, the (fake) ISIS woman sent a picture of herself to Ghorshid.
Also pic of sexy dress she wanted to buy. Check this DM of their conversation. @akhbar pic.twitter.com/NKCjfzpEEP
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) January 30, 2019
7/ In a DM, Khorshid even sent a picture of himself to the (fake) ISIS-woman. He wrote: "Sorry for that face I slept only few hours…"@akhbar pic.twitter.com/y5WBnV99AJ
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) January 30, 2019
8/ Then Ghorshid and (fake) ISIS-woman decide to travel to ISIS territory in Syria/Iraq. They will meet in Rome, Italy. Plan is to marry.
Ghorshid buys plane ticket for Rome & shares it with her.
Kurds contact Dutch authorities. Ghorshid gets arrested.@akhbar pic.twitter.com/w4Z1ik5AvQ
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) January 30, 2019
So, how come this guy wasn’t still in jail in the first place?
9/ Ghorshid was in &out of jail in Holland.
2013 sentenced for attempt to travel to Syria.
2015-2017 imprisoned after he tried to join ISIS in Syria/Iraq.
2018 arrested after his name came up in investigation into double murder by jihadists in SAfrica.
He's currently in jail.
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) January 31, 2019
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