The three types of people who fight for ISIS
September 12, 2014 15:27
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. Read
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. Read
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