The FBI is looking for Ahmad Abousamra, 32, is a Syrian-American who is wanted on federal terrorism charges. He is suspected of running the ISIS social media campaign. He is seen here in a photograph taken in 2004.
A wanted terrorist and American college graduate has eluded capture by the FBI, but officials suspect he’s all over social media.
Ahmad Abousamra, 32, who graduated from Northeastern University in Boston and is suspected of joining the extremist Islamic State, is believed to be using his social media skills to run the terrifying group’s cyber operations, ABC News reported.
The dual American-Syrian citizen has been charged with terrorism-related offenses in 2009, and the FBI added him to its Most Wanted Terrorists list. According to the FBI, he has a “college degree related to computer technology and was previously employed at a telecommunications company.”
...Terrorism experts said the extremists are savvy at recruiting English-speaking supporters to spread their venomous messages on Twitter and Facebook.
“ISIS understands very well that in order for an act of terrorism to be effective, it needs to actually terrorize people,” said Peter Neumann, Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation. “The act of communication that follows the act of violence is almost as important as the act of violence itself.”
