London (IINA) – A cache of documents containing the personal information of 22,000 Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria and Iraq, leaked by an IS dissident, showed that recruits to the terrorist organization came from 51 countries, including Britain.
Tens of thousands of documents containing the names, addresses, phone numbers and even family contacts of extremists who joined Daesh have been given to the UK's Sky News by a disillusioned former member on a memory stick that had been stolen from the head of the group's internal security police, the broadcaster said on Wednesday.
The documents are forms that IS recruits had to fill out in order to be accepted into the organization, and contain information of nationals from 51 countries, Sky News reported.
Some of the documents reportedly contain the information of previously unknown extremists in northern Europe, the United States and Canada, as well as North Africa and the Middle East, the channel said.
Copies of the documents broadcast by Sky News showed that recruits would have to answer 23 questions including on their blood type, mother's maiden name, "level of Shariajh understanding" and previous experience.
The documents were obtained from a man who uses the name Abu Hamed, a former Free Syrian Army member who joined IS.
He stole the memory stick of documents and handed them over in Turkey to a journalist, explaining that he left because Islamic rules had collapsed inside the group.
Former UK intelligence chiefs described the documents as the ‘biggest breakthrough in years’ in counter-terrorism. It is also believed the files could be invaluable in tackling extremists who have sneaked back into Europe, intenting to carry out enormous terrorist attacks.
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