Türkiye is now in possession of a valued database of the Daesh terrorist group, containing names and information about 9,952 "lone wolf" terrorists after a successful operation carried out in the past months by police in Istanbul, APA reports citing Daily Sabah.
The existence of the database, which contains biographical information about lone wolf terrorists, from their skills to their residence and ID information, its existence was known to most intelligence agencies from the CIA and MI6 to Mossad. Intelligence agencies assigned 40 agents in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan to track down the database known to be in possession of Daesh members in those countries.
The database was first in possession of Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who was killed on Oct. 27, 2019. The U.S. agents scoured the area where al-Baghdadi was killed in Syria in an operation but discovered it was long gone and was now in possession of al-Baghdadi’s successor Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.
In the meantime, intelligence and counterterrorism units of Istanbul police, carrying out operations against Daesh, discovered a suspicious conversation among intelligence targets they were wiretapping. They found an imminent “exchange” of a “cargo” belonging to Daesh, though they were not aware of the contents. The conversation between a foreign fighter of Daesh and his local collaborators led to a further surveillance operation.
The database was the central piece of an international hunt for a long time as it contained all the information about lone wolf terrorists from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Spain who were members of Daesh sleeper cells across the world.
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