Inside ISIS: Salman Ahsrafi's photo found in documents revealing underbelly of extremist group

Inside ISIS: Salman Ahsrafi's photo found in documents revealing underbelly of extremist group

By Nazim Baksh, CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/inside-isis-salman-ahsrafi-s-photo-found-in-documents-revealing-underbelly-of-extremist-group-1.2835453

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Coalition forces obtained the documents, videos and 160 USB keys after Iraqi special forces hunted and killed the group's top commander, Abu Abdul-Rahman al-Bilawi, in early June.

Ever since, much has been said about the intelligence value of the information, but the documents have never been viewed before.

German broadcasters WDR and NDR and the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung spent months negotiating with the Iraqi government — making four trips to Baghdad — and were eventually given exclusive access to a small sample that they have now shared with the CBC, the only North American broadcaster to have seen them.

The documents the CBC has seen and independently translated from Arabic to English show monthly expense accounts prepared by ISIS’s accountants for its leadership.





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