Article contentShadowy Islamic State (ISIL) leader Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla is in fact a former supergrass informant used by the U.S. to gain intelligence on 88 jihadist fighters, new documents indicate. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or New ISIL leader al-Mawla is in fact U.S. informant who gave up secrets on 88 jihadists: documents Back to videoA new trove of previously classified documents, the Daily Mail reports, have been released by the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. military academy West Point. The documents come from interrogation reports at the time of al-Mawla’s capture in Mosul, Iraq, in January 2008. They show that the Iraq-born al-Mawla, if his own outline of events is to be believed, rose quickly within the Islamic State in Iraq (which later became ISIL) because of his knowledge of religious affairs.

Source: National Post September 18, 2020 14:03 UTC