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17 Mar, 8 tweets, 6 min read
1/ Guilty or not? I discuss the arrest in France of Islam Alloush, ex-spokesman of Syrian rebel group Jaish al-Islam, accused of human rights violations. His brother @DrNehma says he is innocent. @Aous_Al_mubarak +Anas Al Khawli insist he is guilty. Thread
2/ Context: Islam Alloush was spokesman of Jaish al Islam, Islamist opposition group in Ghouta. After group lost Ghouta to Syrian gov, Alloush got French visa to study there. Opposition activists recognized him in France & said he is guilty of human rights violations in Ghouta.
3/ Although in a French jail now for over a year, the twitter account of Islam Alloush (whose real name is Majdi Nehma) still functions. It is: @MajdiNema. His family uses the account @Majdifamily to campaign for his release.
4/ Pic left is Islam Alloush as spokesman for Jaish al-Islam in Syria. Pic right after his arrest in France. Brother @DrNehma, who is in Turkey, claims he was tortured in France. Activists @Aous_Al_mubarak +@anasalkhole say torture not true, happened when Alloush resisted arrest.
5/ I asked @Aous_Al_mubarak if he personally witnessed human rights violations in Ghouta? "In 2013 I saw how Jaish al Islam lashed a person 100x." @DrNehma asks: "Did my brother lash? "Your brother was commander, u cant separate him from group's actions."

6/ Acc to activists, Islam Alloush - as a leader in Jaish al Islam - is a suspect in disappearance of 4 opposition activists in 2013. Also Jaish al Islam put Alawite citizens in cages. @anasalkhole gave his testimony to french authorities in this case:
7/ Thanks to @DrNehma for joining the discussion from Turkey. Also thanks to @anasalkhole and @Aous_Al_mubarak for participating from France.

The full 45 min episode of @akhbar's The Debate about the case of Islam Alloush can be found here:
8/ Face-off btwn @DrNehma, brother of Jaish al Islam ex-spokesman Islam Alloush who is now in French jail & activist @anasalkhole who was imprisoned by Jaish al Islam.

"Ur brother made up charges against me."
"If my brother did that why were u released?"

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19 Nov 20
1/ I again traced ISIS files in Syria.

800 docs mainly on AlFateheen unit.

100s of forms with jihadi names, position in ISIS etc.

5 Germans, Aussies, Turks, 100s of Syrians.

As there is no tribunal, I put all files online so world has access.

@akhbar

akhbaralaan.net/jenan/isisfiles
2/ Here my report for @akhbar on the new ISIS files I discovered in Syria.

It gives information on Al-Fateheen unit. 800+ documents with many Jihadi names of ISIS members. Also in which battle they participated, how much salary & war spoils they got.
3/ These new ISIS files were left behind by ISIS when they fled. They were saved by citizens. I held originals in my hand and photographed them. Docs were filled out by ISIS fighters from Germany, Australia, France, Indonesia, Russia, Turkey etc, incl 100s of Syrian ISIS members.
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2 Oct 20
1/This story has come to an end.

In 2018 I got Syria phone of German #ISIS woman Omaima Abdi. By then, she quietly had returned to Hamburg &picked up her life.

But pics on phone were used by German authorities to start a trial. Today she received 3,5 yrs jail sentence.

@akhbar
2/ To recap:

ISIS woman Omaima Abdi was sentenced today in Hamburg to 3 years and 6 months in jail on 4 counts:

1- Membership of a terrorist organization.
2- Neglecting her duties as a parent.
3- Possessing illegal firearms
4- Aiding and abetting the slavery of a Yazidi girl.
3/ While inside the Hamburg courtroom #ISIS woman Omaima Abdi was sentenced to 3.5 years, outside a handful of anti-ISIS demonstrators carried posters. On it slogans such as: "Women also can be culprits" and "Protect the victims".

@akhbar
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2 Oct 20
1/ Big day in Hamburg, Germany.

Trial of #ISIS woman Omaima Abdi, whose phone content I found in Syria, ends today. The verdict is expected this morning. The trial started after I broke the story.

This is the court building in Hamburg where it's all happening today.

@akhbar
2/ Just to recap:

I published the story on the telephone content of #ISIS female Omaima Abdi in April 2019.

She then was arrested by German authorities in September.

Trial against Abdi started in May 2020.

The prosecutor asks for 4 yrs 10 months. Today verdict.

@akhbar
3/ On this last day of the trial of ISIS woman Omaima Abdi in Hamburg, there is a lot of media attention for the story. In the courtroom ZDF, DPA etc.

I will be updating you today step by step.

@akhbar
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17 Sep 20
1/ Huge: Interrogation files shared with me by @CTCWP show that ISIS leader, Amir al Mawla, betrayed at least 19 of his comrades to American interrogaters in 2008 after his arrest.

Files reveal that Al Mawla gave detailed information on ISI, AlQaeda etc.
2/ This is a painful report for ISIS leader, Amir al Mawla.

Because "tactical interrogation reports" show that the current head of ISIS betrayed at least nineteen Islamic State comrades to U.S. interrogators after he was captured by American troops in Mosul back in 2008.
3/ On top of that, the current ISIS chief Amir al Mawla, back in 2008, told the Americans the full structure of the Islamic State of Iraq in Mosul, the structure of the Sharia organization in Mosul &the structure of the admin organizations. Names, telephone numbers, everything.
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17 Sep 20
1/ Exclusive: Head of ISIS, Amir al Mawla, was in 2008 arrested by U.S. troops. During interrogation Al Mawla said he was a Sufi, which is surprising

Files shared with me by @CTCWP show all details. Sources in Iraq confirmed story to me. Check my report:
2/ That the current leader of ISIS, Amir al Mawla, has a Sufi background, comes as a surprise. Sufis generally are not part of Jihadi circles.

But in the 2008 al-Mawla files, which @CTCWP shared with me, the current ISIS chief clearly states he is a Sufi.

@akhbar
3/ In one of the "tactical interrogation reports" from 2008, al Mawla (the current ISIS chief) explains that he, as a Sufi, did not even swear allegiance or “bayat” to the Islamic State of Iraq because he was scared for them.

Check yourself what the U.S. interrogators wrote: Image
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17 Sep 20
1/ EXCLUSIVE: I worked for last 3 weeks on this story about ISIS leader Amir al Mawla.

Until now not much is known about him but files shared with me by @CTCWP are a treasure trove.

Here is Al Mawla's identity card. And he isn't a Turkmen but an Arab.
2/ Already 12 yrs ago, in Jan 2008, U.S. forces in Iraq captured Amir Al Mawla in Mosul. Back then, Al Mawla worked with the ISI – the Islamic State of Iraq. The US army interrogated him extensively & wrote everything down in “tactical interrogation reports.”

@akhbar @CTCWP
3/ I now have 3 of these "tactical interrogation reports". The reports were first obtained by @CTCWP, who then shared them exclusively with me.

Because Al Mawla became 12 yrs later the head of ISIS, the interrogations with him from 2008 are now extremely relevant.

@akhbar
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