NEW DELHI: Britain’s Channel 4 has revealed the mysterious Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) twitter account could be operated from India.
According to TV channel, the person who is allegedly running the twitter account is identified as ‘Mehdi’.
He has been working with an ‘Indian conglomerate’ in Bangalore. The report also reveals that Mehdi ran the Twitter account @ShamiWitness which has over 17,000 followers.
His tweets were seen by over two million times making the handle the most influential Twitter account for the Islamic State. The channel has kept the full name in secret because his life would be in danger if his name was revealed.
The boy spends most of his time in sending tweets in favor or militant group and acting as a channel between jihadis and recruits, further in report.
About two third of the Islamic State foreign fighters on Twitter followed him. He has been speaking to British jihadis before they left to join the terror group.
After being contacted Channel 4, Mehdi shut down his Twitter account.
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