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The three types of people who fight for ISIS
September 12, 2014
In February 2012, a young, beefy Egyptian named Islam Yaken took a shirtless selfie and posted it on a Facebook competitor called Vk.com.
The picture wouldnt have attracted much attention outside his circle of
Cairo friends, were it not for the photos of himself he tweeted two
years later. In that time, the Wahlberg wannabe with tidy, cropped hair
had transmogrified into a bushy-haired hipster with heavy-rimmed glasses
who
had gone to fight for ISIS.
The jihadi accessories in his new photos
included a Kalashnikov, a sword, and a bucket of Shia heads.
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