Stoughton Man Suspected of Working for ISIS
A Stoughton man already on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list may be a key component to Middle East terrorist group ISIS’s social media propaganda machine.
ABC News reported Ahmed Abousarma attended both Xavarian Brothers Catholic School and later Stoughton High School before later attending Northeastern University.
ABC News reports:
…Abousamra’s life changed drastically in 2004 when prosecutors say he and co-conspirators traveled to the Middle East with the goal of fighting and killing Americans in Iraq.
Once abroad, two alleged co-conspirators of Abousamra’s, Tarek Mehanna and another unidentified individual, worked as effectively the “media wing’’ of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), a 2009 indictment against Abousamra and Mehanna says. AQI later would evolve into the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Both eventually returned to the U.S., where Mehanna was arrested and later convicted. But after Abousamra was questioned by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in 2006, he fled the country for Syria. He was charged with terrorism-related offenses in 2009, and in 2013 the FBI added Abousamra to its Most Wanted Terrorists list.
Abousarma may have taken a similar social media role for ISIS, according to the report.
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