SkyNews: IS Registration Forms Identify 22,000 Jihadis

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IS Registration Forms Identify 22,000 Jihadis

Thousands of documents detailing phone numbers and family contacts are
handed to Sky News by a disillusioned convert to the group.

                                                             07:24, UK,
                                                 Thursday 10 March 2016
http://news.sky.com/story/1656777/is-registration-forms-identify-22000-jihadis


Video: Thousands Of IS Jihadis Identified

   By Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent
   
   Tens of thousands of documents, containing 22,000 names, addresses,
   telephone numbers and family contacts of Islamic State jihadis, have
   been obtained by Sky News.
   
   Nationals from at least 51 countries, including the UK, had to give up
   their most personal information as they joined the terror organisation.
   Only when the 23 question form was filled in were they inducted into IS.
   
   A lot of the names and their new Islamic State names on the
   registration forms are well known.
   
   Abdel Bary, a 26-year-old from London joined in 2013 after visiting
   Libya, Egypt and Turkey. He is designated as a fighter but is better
   known in the UK as a rap artist. His whereabouts are unknown.
   
   :: Who Are The Britons In The Islamic State Files?
   
   

   Video: The Impact Of The IS Cache
   
   Another jihadi named in the documents, now dead after being targeted in
   a drone strike, is Junaid Hussain, the head of Islamic State's media
   wing who along with his wife former punk Sally Jones, plotted attacks
   in the UK. Her whereabouts are unknown.
   
   Reyaad Khan from Cardiff, who also entered in 2013, is also among those
   found among the registration forms. He was well known for appearing in
   a highly produced Islamic State propaganda video. He was later killed.
   
   But the key breakthrough from the documents is the revealing of the
   identities of a number of previously unknown jihadis in the UK, across
   northern Europe, much of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as
   in the United States and Canada.
   
   Their whereabouts are crucial to breaking the organisation and
   preventing further terror attacks.
   
   Many of the men passed through a series of jihadi "hotspots" - such as
   Yemen, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Pakistan and Afghanistan - on multiple
   occasions, but were apparently unchecked, unmonitored and able to both
   enter Syria to fight and then to return home.
   
   One of the files marked "Martyrs" detailed a brigade manned entirely by
   fighters who wanted to carry out suicide attacks and were trained to do
   so.
   
   :: IS Files: A 'Goldmine Of Information' For Intelligence Agents
   
   Some of the telephone numbers on the list are still active and it is
   believed that although many will be family members, a significant
   number are used by the jihadis themselves.
   
   The files were passed to Sky News on a memory stick stolen from the
   head of Islamic State's internal security police, an organisation
   described by insiders as the group's SS. He had been entrusted to
   protect the organisation's core secrets and he rarely parted with the
   drive.
   
   The man who stole it was a former Free Syrian Army convert to Islamic
   State who calls himself Abu Hamed.
   
   Disillusioned with the Islamic State leadership, he says it has now
   been taken over by former soldiers from the Iraqi Baath party of Saddam
   Hussein.
   
   He claims the Islamic rules he believed have totally collapsed inside
   the organisation, prompting him to quit.
   
   I met him in a secret location in Turkey, and he said IS was giving up
   on its headquarters in Raqqa and moving into the central deserts of
   Syria and ultimately Iraq, the group's birthplace.
   
   He also claimed that in reality Islamic State, The Kurdish YPG and the
   Syrian government of Bashar al Assad, are working together against the
   moderate Syrian opposition.
   
   Asked if the IS files could bring the network down he nodded and said
   simply: "God willing".
   
   From the attacks in Tunisia and the Bataclan massacre in Paris it is
   clear that IS is refocusing its base of operations abroad and is intent
   on carrying out high profile attacks in Western countries, something
   that security chiefs across Europe are warning about right now.
   
   Sky News has informed the authorities about the haul. "