The ISIS Emni: The Origins and Inner Workings of ISIS's Intelligence Apparatus

This article, relying primarily on first person accounts of actual ISIS defectors, expands upon the work ofinvestigative journalist Christoph Reuter of Der Spiegel (Hamburg, GFR) who first reported on the discovery ofthe files of Haji Bakr, one of the Iraqi organizers of the ISIS’s Emni in the years when preparations for the IslamicState were made. Bakr’s files make clear that ISIS is not just a terrorist organization, but was set up by formerBaathist state intel operators with the intent to build a new state. Our interviews also confirm data collected byNew York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi. Together, these three sources utilized and analyzed here shed lighton the highly subversive activities undertaken by the Emni on behalf of the ‘Islamic State’, also outlining ISIS’saspirations to attack the West.


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