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Israel Seized Nearly 200 Binance Accounts Believed To Be Linked To ISIS and Hamas
Israeli authorities have reportedly seized 190 Binance accounts with ties to terrorist groups since 2021, according to Reuters. Reuters reported…
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The New York Post: Senior ISIS leader Hamza al-Homsi killed in U.S.-led raid late Thursday in Syria, says U.S. Central Command
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ISIS leader killed during battle in Syria & terror cell announces name of new boss
THE leader of ISIS has been killed in battle, the terror group has said.
The extremists have revealed a new commander after Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi died fighting in Syria.
Islamic state fighters pose on the border between Syria and Iraq[/caption]
The terror group have confirmed a their leader[/caption]
Al-Quraishi had been selected to lead the IS militants in March before being killed in an operation carried out by the rebel Free Syrian Army in mid-October, the US military said.
No American troops were involved in the operation, the county’s military spokesman said.
ISIS spokesman Abu Omar al-Muhajer confirmed the leader’s death in an audio message on Wednesday.
He said al-Quraishi was killed while “fighting enemies of God”, without elaborating.
Al-Quraishi had been appointed in March after Joe Biden announced the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in Syria.
The US President said the leader blew himself and his family up after using his own children as human shields during a bloody raid by US special forces.
He was put in charge after former head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a similar raid by US forces in 2019 in the nearby town of Barisha.
The jihadis have announced their latest leader as Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi.
ISIS’ spokesman did not much detail on the new head, but said he was a “veteran” jihadist and urged all groups loyal to the IS to pledge allegiance.
Hassan Hassan, author of a book on Islamic State, said the group has diminished.
He said: “This doesn’t mean the group is finished, but for now it is a shadow of its former self, they are hollowed out in terms of their leadership and their ability to carry out attacks.
“They don’t have iconic, charismatic leaders any more, and they haven’t carried out any major attacks recently.”
The White House welcomed the news that al-Quraishi had been killed, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters.
Islamic State emerged from the chaos of the civil war in neighbouring Iraq and took over vast swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014.
Former IS caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared an Islamic caliphate from a mosque in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul that year and proclaimed himself caliph of all Muslims.
Islamic State’s brutal rule, during which it killed and executed thousands of people in the name of its narrow interpretation of Islam, came to an end in Mosul when Iraqi and international forces defeated the group there in 2017.
Since the peak of its power seven years ago, when it ruled millions of people in the Middle East and frightened the world with deadly bombings and shootings, Islamic State has slipped back into the shadows.
Its remaining thousands of militants have in recent years mostly hid out in remote hinterlands of fractured Iraq and Syria, though they are still capable of carrying out significant insurgent-style attacks.
London barber claimed thousands through Covid scheme then sent cash to fund sick terror group ISIS, court hears
A BARBER shop owner sent £25,000 to IS fighters in Syria after claiming thousands of pounds in Covid Bounce Back loans, a court heard.
Tarek Namouz, 43, is accused of sending at least seven payments between November 2020 and April 2021 to fund the terrorists.
Namouz had received grant relief from his local council — Hammersmith and Fulham in West London.
When police raided his Boss Crew Barbers shop in Olympia, West London, in May last year they found £3,000 cash and a hidden phone containing messages to a contact in Syria, an IS bomb-making video and footage showing how to kill with a knife.
In the months before his arrest, he made seven transfers totalling £11,280 to a man named Yahya Ahmed Alia in Syria, where Namouz had lived until he was 14.
Kingston crown court heard that during a bugged conversation with a friend who was visiting him in prison, Namouz told him he had sent £25,000 to Syria.
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The jury were told he sent cash to a former IS member who used it to buy sniper rifles and said he wanted to establish a base for 30 fighters.
Namouz said the £3,000 found by police was “from the government and from work money”.
Prosecutor John McGuinness KC told the jury: “He was in receipt of Covid loans and said he mixed the two together.’’
Namouz denies funding IS and possessing terrorist videos.
The trial continues.
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Watch as Jihadi bride Shamima Begum meets ‘Canadian spy’ who smuggled her into Syria to join ISIS
THIS is the moment ISIS bride Shemima Begum meets a “Canadian spy” who allegedly smuggled her into Syria.
Footage shows Begum and the two other schoolgirls she fled the UK with before heading for Istanbul, Turkey.
Shamima Begum claims she was groomed and smuggled to Syria as a teenager[/caption]
The man who smuggled Shamima and her two friends in 2015 was allegedly a spy for Canada who smuggled Britons into Islamic-State controlled areas[/caption]
In the video, obtained by the BBC, the teens are seen transferring between cars at the city’s main bus station to continue on their journey to join up with ruthless jihadi fighters.
Mohammed Al Rasheed is accused of “trafficking” the teenage girls from Turkey into ISIS-controlled Syria in 2015.
However, it is also claimed that he was working as a spy for the Canadian government and had shared Shamima’s passport details with them while helping to smuggle her to ISIS territory, according to a book titled The Secret History of the Five Eyes.
Five Eyes is the name of an intelligence sharing alliance between the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The Times revealed double agent Al Rasheed was providing information to Canadian intelligence while smuggling people – including Britons – for ISIS.
In the book, journalist Richard Kerbaj alleges that Canada previously admitted to having Al Rasheed on its payroll while he was an agent for ISIS, before reportedly asking the UK to help cover up its role.
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A file obtained by the BBC included information gathered by law enforcement and intelligence, as well as material recovered from Al Rasheed’s hard drives.
In an incredible twist, Al Rasheed told authorities that he had been collecting information of the people he had helped smuggle into Syria because he was handing it over to the Canadian embassy in neighbouring Jordan.
In 2015, Al Rasheed met Shamima, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-old Amira Abase when they arrived at the main bus station in the Turkish capital, Istanbul, before taking them to IS-controlled Syria.
The smuggler was arrested two days after Shamima and her friends arrived in Syria.
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At the time, the BBC revealed that Al Rasheed had told Turkish authorities he had shared a copy of Shamima’s passport with Canada.
By the time Canada had received Shamima’s passport details from the Metropolitan Police who had launched its search, the teenager was already in the war-torn country.
Shamima was moved around Syria through ISIS’ network, run by the organisation’s de-facto capital, Raqqa.
It appears that Al Rasheed was part of the Turkish side of the network, and had been facilitating the smuggling of British men, women and children for eight months before he was caught.
“He organised the entire trip from Turkey to Syria… I don’t think anyone would have been able to make it to Syria without the help of smugglers,” Shamima will tell the BBC in an upcoming podcast.
“He had helped a lot of people come in… We were just doing everything he was telling us to do because he knew everything, we didn’t know anything.”
The BBC discovered Al Rasheed had taken photos of the passports and ID documents of people he was smuggling.
The man also secretly filmed them on his mobile phone, the BBC said. This information was allegedly shared with Canada.
Meanwhile, the smuggler also collected information about the Islamic State, including Western IS fighters’ houses, IP addresses and took screenshots of the discussions he was having with fighters, the BBC revealed.
When interrogated about his actions, Al Rasheed explained that he was recruited as an agent by Canada when he applied for asylum at its embassy in Jordan in 2013.
“They told me they were going to grant me my Canadian citizenship if I collect information about the activities of ISIS,” Al Rasheed is quoted as saying.
Canada and the UK have both declined to comment and have denied conspiring to cover up their role in the alleged scandal.
A Canadian Secret Intelligence Service spokesperson told the BBC he could not “publicly comment on or confirm or deny the specifics of CSIS investigations, operational interests, methodologies or activities”.
A British Government spokesman said: “It is our long-standing policy that we do not comment on operational intelligence or security matters.”
Shamima — whose British citizenship was stripped from her in 2019 — now lives at a Syrian refugee camp in Rojava.
The region is self-governed and not under the control of the Syrian regime.
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Friends said the former extremist has little faith in the justice system there — and remains desperate to return to Britain.
Begum tried to restore her British citizenship last year.
Shamima lost her British citizenship in 2019[/caption]