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Islamic State propagandist, a Muslim from Boston, killed in Iraqi airstrike

Jun 1, 2015 7:07 pm By Robert Spencer

Abousamra“Abousamra was born in France and raised in the upscale Boston suburb of Stoughton. He attended the exclusive Xaverian Brothers Catholic high school and made the Dean’s List at Northeastern University and his father is a prominent endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.” You know: poverty and lack of education causes terrorism.

“Two US jihadis who made ISIS propaganda videos – including one on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list – ‘are killed in Iraqi air strike,'” by John Hall, MailOnline, June 1, 2015:

Two American nationals – including a jihadi featured on the FBI’s ‘Most Wanted Terrorists’ list – are believed to have been killed fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq.

Ahmad Abousamra, 33, and Abu Osama al-Amriki are understood to have died as a result of an airstrike by Iraqi warplanes in the west of the largely ISIS-held province of Anbar.

A number of other senior ISIS commanders – including the jihadi in charge of local suicide bombing operations – were also killed in the airstrikes.

The Americans are said to have been heavily involved in the production of ISIS’ propaganda videos, and have even been linked to the sickening filmed beheadings of two Britons and three U.S. nationals in a series of videos released by the terror group last summer.

The deaths of the two America nationals were released by the the Iraqi military to the Al Arabiya news service following the successful airstrike.

They are said to have been killed alongside a number of senior ISIS figures of Middle East and North African origin, including explosives expert Abu Aicha al-Ansari, charity supervisor Abu Hussein al-Sulaimani and suicide bomb coordinator Abdullatif Jumaa al-Mohammedi.

The two Americans were expressly identified as having a senior role within ISIS’ production and distribution of sickening propaganda videos – potentially including those featuring the murder of Western hostages James Foley, Steven Sotloff, David Haines, Alan Henning and Peter Kassig.

France-born Abousamra has long been known to American authorities, having been questioned in 2006 on suspicion of having travelled to Iraq to join a fledgling ISIS in their fight against U.S. troops two years earlier.

Later that year Abousamra is believed to have slipped out of the country and headed to Syria.

In 2009, he was charged with federal terrorism offenses relating to a would-be attack in Boston. In 2013 he was placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, with a $50,000 reward for his capture.

Abousamra has been widely speculated as the man behind ISIS’ hugely successful manipulation of social media to spread the group’s propaganda and to recruit new members to the organisation.

It has been suggested he led the team responsible for the distribution of ISIS propaganda videos, including the simultaneous posting of sickening videos showing the murder of Western hostages.

Abousamra was born in France and raised in the upscale Boston suburb of Stoughton. He attended the exclusive Xaverian Brothers Catholic high school and made the Dean’s List at Northeastern University and his father is a prominent endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

He graduated with a degree in a technology field then took a job at a telecommunications company but by his early 20s is understood to have become radicalised, according to ABC News.

In 2004, federal authorities say, Abousamra left his American life behind and traveled to fight U.S. soldiers as part of Al-Qaeda in Iraq – the group that later became known as Islamic State or ISIS.

Instead, he was recruited to the groups ‘media wing’ – a role is believed to have held until his death….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Abu Osama al-Amriki, Ahmad Abousamra


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  1. Angemon says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 7:14 pm

    Two American nationals – including a jihadi featured on the FBI’s ‘Most Wanted Terrorists’ list – are believed to have been killed fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq.

    Ahmad Abousamra, 33, and Abu Osama al-Amriki are understood to have died as a result of an airstrike by Iraqi warplanes in the west of the largely ISIS-held province of Anbar.

    If it turns out to be true, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer couple of guys. Go team Iraq!

    • Huck Folder says

      Jun 2, 2015 at 1:45 am

      Mass demonstrations against ‘extra-judicial killings’ by bleeding-heart liberals, islam-appeasers, socialist fellow-travelers, dhimmicrat enablers, peace-and-justiceniks… in 3…2…1.

      • particolor says

        Jun 2, 2015 at 10:02 am

        Sounds like “Most Wanted” has a different meaning to American Government ??

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 7:35 pm

    ********* OFF TOPIC BUT IMPORTANT *********

    The Supreme Court decided 8 to 1 (Justice Thomas dissenting) on a case of faith-related clothing worn in places of employment. SO — A WARNING TO ALL *** ISLAMOPHOBIC *** READERS HERE :

    If you talk to Muslims in your neighborhood or at work about this “victory” — be very careful to not mention that under Sharia Christians / Jews / Other Faiths are subjugated and killed.

    THOSE PERSONS DO NOT HAVE EQUAL STATUS — Muhammad made certain of this . . .

  3. mortimer says

    Jun 2, 2015 at 12:53 am

    Education & Socioeconomic Level of Jihadists

    The Economist reported in 2010:

    “Social scientists have collected a large amount of data on the socioeconomic background of terrorists. According to a 2008 survey of such studies by Alan Krueger of Princeton University, they have found little evidence that the typical terrorist is unusually poor or badly schooled.

    In the same vein, CNS News noted in September 2013:

    “According to a Rand Corporation report on counterterrorism, prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2009, “Terrorists are not particularly impoverished, uneducated, or afflicted by mental disease. Demographically, their most important characteristic is normalcy (within their environment). Terrorist leaders actually tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds.” One of the authors of the RAND report, Darcy Noricks, also found that according to a number of academic studies, “Terrorists turn out to be more rather than less educated than the general population.”

    The Times Online reported the following as far back as April 2005:

    “Three-quarters of the Al-Qaeda members were from upper middle-class homes and many were married with children; 60% were college educated, often in Europe or the United States.

    There are innumerable examples of affluent Muslims becoming jihad terrorists. One was Maher “Mike” Hawash of Portland, Oregon, a well-regarded Intel executive who made $360,000 a year at the crest of a highly successful career. Around the year 2000, Hawash began to become more religious, growing his beard long, rejecting the nickname “Mike,” and attending the supremacist Islamic Center of Portland. Ultimately he served a seven-year prison term for conspiring to aid the Taliban….

    • Huck Folder says

      Jun 2, 2015 at 1:53 am

      Absolutely mortimer. There is also a negative proof of this popular (among idiots) fallacy. There are maybe a billion people living on this planet in real poverty, in favellas and slums, in maybe twenty or more countries who DON”T go in for terrorism. Almost 100% of those who do decide that raping, torturing and murdering are fun pastimes are rabid zombie worshipers of bastard mo.

      • Huck Folder says

        Jun 2, 2015 at 1:56 am

        And if the leftard Economist reported that, IT MUST BE BAD.

        And if that was five years ago, how much worse is it today?

  4. sahani says

    Jun 2, 2015 at 7:59 am

    WW 1 And WW 2 is over but islamic war of Arabs in on. Cleaver plan They use local Mullahs and masjid and our local foolish and poor citizen as their soldiers .Mullahs as local war commanders to keep feedingvhem hate and war games .
    How USA will fight this war as per muslim writer when from each street corner their own local convert to islam will be call for ALLAH O AKBAR .
    Can US fight this war in his own streets on own local converts to islam .
    USA now doomed Under OBAMA>

  5. revereridesagain says

    Jun 2, 2015 at 12:52 pm

    I wonder if there is any connection to the slap-down of this ISIS wannabe in a Boston suburb CVS parking lot this morning.

    http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/06/02/boston-police-officer-shoots-man-in-roslindale/

    Speaking to the “it’s poverty” fallacy, you should see the fancy gated condo community he lived in.

  6. David says

    Jun 2, 2015 at 1:18 pm

    Nice that they are dead. Now they can “enjoy” hell with their god, Satan. Where are those 72 virgins, again?

  7. Jack Diamond says

    Jun 2, 2015 at 6:01 pm

    From the MailOnline article:
    “Last September investigative journalist Paul Sperry wrote a report in the New York Post claiming Abousamra had attended the same notorious mosque as the Boston bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as well as other convicted terrorists.

    ‘Abousamra’s father, a prominent doctor, even sat on the board of directors of the Muslim organization that runs the [Islamic Society of Boston] mosque. He stepped down after the FBI began questioning his son,’ Sperry said.

    ‘As mosque president, internal documents show, Dr. Abousamra hired Hafiz Masood, brother of a known Pakistani terrorist, to be the imam of a mosque in Sharon, Mass., which his son also attended,’ the article added.”

    The mild-mannered Hafiz Masood’s brother being the foaming at the mouth Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, founder of Lashkar-i-Taiba, Army of the Pious, which killed 166 people (and 6 Americans) in Mumbai among other atrocities. Lashkar, supposedly abolished and Saeed exonerated by Pakistan’s Supreme Court (it blamed the India-lobby, big surprise considering Lashkar’s ties to the ISI), now runs Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Party of Truth, and his brother Hafiz Masood is a spokesman in Lahore– Masood having been kicked out of the U.S. for visa violations. In his mosque Saeed gives a sermon:

    “The ultimate end of the United States and the West is near, and Islam will completely dominate the lands of the world…

    He denounced the U.S. “trick of interfaith harmony.”

    And he said: “We know that the Jews are behind all these conspiracies.”
    ”http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pakistani-brothers-reflect-their-countrys-contradictions/2012/10/28/f29af3ea-1c52-11e2-8817-41b9a7aaabc7_story.html

    Investigate the father, the esteemed doctor, and all his nefarious associates. Investigate the whole family. Obviously there is more, a lot more. Just how many enemy soldiers will it take to shut down the Islamic Society of Boston mosque?

  8. Vic Buzak says

    Jun 2, 2015 at 9:50 pm

    Why do muzzies go to Catholic/Christian schools? I could never comprehend that…

    • Jack Diamond says

      Jun 3, 2015 at 2:55 am

      Pragmatic reasons, they aren’t public schools, they have a higher graduation rate and rate of those who go on to 4 year universities. This Dean’s lister needed the best education possible in (kaffir) technology to put it to good use for the Caliphate. Like using our airplanes as weapons against us, they are just being resourceful while behind enemy lines. And hey maybe you can get one of those Christian girls to convert (jihad of the wombs). The father seems to have used his prestigious position in this society as a doctor, to promote Islam as a board member (and vice president) of the Muslim American Society, a chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood, which runs the Islamic Society of Boston and its notorious mosque. He was educated in Syria, by the way, at the University of Aleppo. He moved from Boston to the Muslim enclave of Detroit. He has now, apparently, relocated to Qatar since his son became a fugitive, so much for investigating him.

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