Brit fanatic reveals paranoid ISIS warlords are holding 500 disillusioned fighters captive to stop them fleeing and spilling secrets
The claim was made in a message from a suspected British ISIS fighter to a rival Islamist faction
ISIS is reportedly holding over 500 disillusioned foreign fighters in jails to prevent them from fleeing and spilling secrets.
The claim was made in a message from a suspected British ISIS fighter to a rival Islamist faction.
A man calling himself Abu Muhawia Al-Britani gave an insight into brutal nature of life within the terror group, which has lost control of large swathes of territory in recent months.
Al-Britani said ISIS fighters are obsessed with women and its leaders have imposed a travel ban on foreign fighters to stop them escaping from Iraq and Syria.
He said they spend their time trawling Facebook looking for women to groom for marriage and are spied on constantly by their own leaders.
Al-Britani said: "Two years ago I joined ISIS thinking they ruled with the Qu’ran in hand.
"At that time I thought they were the only ones capable to defeat the West.
"Soon after I arrived in Raqqa, it became clear to me that ISIS is seperated [sic] from reality.
"The organisation is living in some kind of fantasy world.
"Wherever you go – on the streets or in restaurants – ISIS members keep on talking about getting married.
"Most of them end up marrying without approval of their parents and without a Wali [protector]...
"When I ask them how they met their future bride, they tell me that they found each other on Facebook."
He added: "Most ISIS members are only talking about women all the time. They don’t seem to be very occupied with defeating their enemies."
The message emerged as Iraqi forces, backed by the USA, are poised to launch a massive assault on the ISIS-held city of Mosul in Iraq.
A second attack in ISIS's HQ city of Raqqa in Syria is expected to follow soon after in an effort to completely eradicate the group.
Al-Britani said ISIS leaders are paranoid fanatics and are preventing fighters from fleeing ahead of what could be decisive battles.
He said: "There are more than 500 Muhajireen being imprisoned in cities like Raqqa and Mosul, only because they were planning to leave ISIS.
"ISIS is very suspicious of their fighters. For example, ISIS fighters are forbidden to travel from one city to another out of fear they will flee to territories liberated by Jabhat [Fatah Al-Sham].
"ISIS also has a militairy [sic] police who is spying on their fighters...everyone who opposes or critizises [sic] ISIS, is considered an enemy and is immediately labeled [sic] as a Kafir [non-Muslim]."
He added: "I’m very dissapointed [sic] that ISIS leadership is keeping brothers and sisters captive when they have decided to leave ISIS territory.
"I ask everyone to make Du’a [pray] for us, because we can’t keep on living like this any longer."
The message was published by a group called Fighting Journalists, which is believed to be run by Dutch fighters with the rebel group Jabhat Fatah Al-Sham.
The group used to be called Jabhat Al-Nusra but changed its name recently after it severed its links to the central leadership of al-Qaeda.
It emerged this week that a rebel group called Jaysh al-Tahrir is holding 300 former ISIS fighters at an internment camp close to the Syria-Turkey border.
Many of the detainees there are from European countries and include French, Dutch and Polish nationals.
It is said that ISIS fighters in Raqqa have been sending messages to rival rebel groups in an effort to find a way to escape with their families.
The internal disarray within ISIS can be measured by a large drop in its propaganda output.
A study by the US military's Combating Terrorism Center at West Point found that the number of ISIS media releases has dropped from 700 to 200 a month over the past year.
It comes after ISIS were today mocked on social media after losing a Syrian town to rebel forces – a place they believe will one day host their apocalyptic final battle against the ‘infidel hordes’.
The terror group were forced to withdraw from Dabiq this weekend as rebel forces pushed them out of the highly symbolic town situated in the north of the country.
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