A mysterious Twitter account is trying to stop ISIS's rise to power by spilling the terror group's secrets online.

For more than six months a series of tweets have detailed the alleged covert alliances and conspiratorial machinations behind the ascension of The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Islamist group taking over large parts of Iraq.

Taken together, the tweets form a slanted but valuable picture of ISIS and one of the only portraits of its leaders. Read