Experts speculated at the time that he could have been North American or Canadian and they turned out to be correct. A Canadian man of Ethiopian descent who immigrated to the North American nation as a child turned out to be the narrator behind numerous Daesh propaganda videos, including those that depict prisoner executions, according to a report by The New York Times. One of the most notorious Daesh propaganda video shows Syrian prisoners digging their own graves, before allegedly being shot in the back of the head by Daesh. The perfect English spoken in Daesh videos attracted the attention of intelligence experts. "If he is a North American, this is quite extraordinary, because it would be the first time a North American [Daesh] fighter has committed a war crime on camera," Paul Cruickshank, a terrorism analyst told CNN at the time.

Source: Ethiopian News February 17, 2019 23:03 UTC