Bangladeshi jihadi hacked Mehdi’s blogs

Were Indian Intelligence agencies reportedly in the know of things till the lid on the cross-country espionage into ISIS was lifted by UK’s Channel 4 in a ‘suspicious’ undercover operation?

While the City police have confirmed that Mehdi the 24-year-old fanboy of the brutal global jehadi organisation Islamic State of Iraq & Syria (ISIS) was allegedly behind his inciting tweets; he may not have been the author of his blogs, said a top Intelligence officer after days of interacting with him.

Mehdi was arrested in the City on December 13 after he was outed by UK’s Channel 4 for writing inciting tweets on @ShamiWitness, which converted many young Islamic youth to join the ISIS violent brigade.

Mehdi’s blog was reportedly ‘poached’ by a Bangladeshi Islamist fundamentalist, who was tracking Mehdi’s growing popularity in the Arab and Western world through his tweets.

The blog,  had caught the fancy of several vulnerable Islamic youth in the West, including 23-year-old Iftikhar Jaman from Portsmouth, who went to Syria to fight for ISIS and was killed in December 2013. 

"Mehdi is intense and indoctrinated enough to believe that the rule of Sharia should be established across the world. He hates Shia Muslims more than non Muslims but he is neither very intelligent nor well read enough to write such intense blogs on the Syrian crisis," the source said.

"There's a huge difference between his tweets, which are inciting by pedestrian and his blogs, which are graphic writings, as though, by an inside researcher, who knew and wrote in real time on the Syrian crisis, the dynamics within Syrian and Iraqi jihadist groups and the violent conflict between Jabat al-Nusra, the Syrian Al Qaeda affiliate and the ISIS that developed in 2013," the insider said.

"His blogs were loaded with detailed information and were of immense interest to western terrorism an lysts, researchers and journalists. In fact many a times Mehdi's blogs gave breaking news. 

About ISIS he wrote that it was 'no longer Al Qaeda' some four months before it became official," the officer added. His arrest has also shocked his readers, who find it difficult to connect the man with his blogs.