‘He’s not somebody previously known to us or seen written about in ISIL materials or Canadian,’ said an official from a group which monitors terrorist communications
An Islamic State-linked media outlet has published a fond eulogy for an ISIL fighter who appears to be a previously unknown Canadian who traveled from Alberta to the so-called caliphate where he died in a coalition airstrike.
His name is rendered as Abu Abd Al-Aziz Al-Kanadi. Communiqués from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant use fighters’ kunya — a nom de guerre or nickname — rather than their actual birth names. Al-Kanadi means “the Canadian” in Arabic and several ISIL fighters from Canada have used it as part of their kunya.
There, the notice says, he witnessed huge crowds of fellow Muslims who seemed oblivious to the grievances being committed against Muslims in “Palestine, Iraq, and Syria.” In response, he began searching for a true Muslim country. “ISIL is a recruiting outfit, almost first and foremost,” Zweig said. “Having someone with fluency in three languages would be seen as helpful to them.”
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