TruthaboutIsis: Mystery site fighting Isis run by British ex-jihadi too scared to go public

As multi-media campaigns go, it is slick, professional – and  above all – secretive. With a glossy website, Twitter feed and Facebook page, TruthaboutIsis has for the past few months been turning fire on Isis using the same sophisticated video and social  media techniques used by the group itself. Every day, it highlights evidence of starvation, brutality and setbacks in Isis-controlled Iraq and Syria – with weekly videos unflinchingly showing the horrors of conflict and the use of rape, execution and child soldiers as the group’s preferred weapon of war.  The site has no email contact, phone number or address, and is registered anonymously using a proxy server based in Dayton, Ohio. It is, however, unmistakably English in origin. Among the 89 people TruthaboutIsis follows on Twitter are a series of high-profile British Muslims including Mo Farah, the boxer Amir Khan and Mishal Husain, the BBC presenter. The Independent can reveal that the campaign is being run by a former British Islamic jihadi fighter as part of a personal attempt to use Isis-style propaganda to stem the flow of Western support for the group. He is attempting to keep his identity secret for fear that he could be targeted should his involvement become known to Isis sympathisers in the UK.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/truthaboutisis-mystery-site-fighting-isis-run-by-british-exjihadi-too-scared-to-go-public-10473656.html