Tracking The Islamist Tweets

"I did not see in their actions anything but the utmost of respect for me as a sister."
"God bless those who live on His path and who die on His path."
'L.A.', Toronto ISIS sympathizer, tracked by cellphone messaging in Syria

"Female migrants are not just rejecting the culture and foreign policy of the West; they are also embracing a new vision for society. They hope to contribute to this society, governed by a strict interpretation of Shariah law."
Perhaps the most important risk is that the female migrants can inspire others, both men and women, to carry out attacks in Western countries or to travel to Syria and Iraq."
"While in Aleppo she spends all of her time in territory controlled by ISIS's enemies. Given her previous trip to Mosul and her attendance directly in Aleppo, a reasonable inference would be that L.A. may have again been facilitating surveillance for ISIS during her time in Aleppo."
Institute for Strategic Dialogue, London, report

Every time a Toronto woman who Tweeted sympathetically about ISIS posted a Tweet, she was 

inadvertently giving away her location.  National Post

"If you don't turn that off [cellphone locator] then every time you Tweet, it basically broadcasts your location at the same time, and with some of the fighters that are over there in Syria and Iraq you can actually follow them from that."
"One of the speculations is she's either shacked up with or is kind of being escorted by somebody that would be relatively high up in ISIS, just for the amount of travel and the types of areas that she's getting to."
Jeff Weyers, iBRABO senior research analyst

Tweeting in Arabic from the various sites she visited late last year, the Toronto woman was tracked by researchers using geocoding to follow her movements. Unknown to herself, her own Tweets were signalling her location enabling the researchers to map her progress in travel from Raqqa, Syria to Kobani and Mosul. Because the locator on her cellphone had remained in the on position she left an electronic trail to incriminate herself.

This woman represents a disturbing trend among Muslim Canadian women who are becoming increasingly involved in the support of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham's jihad in the interest of a world-wide caliphate. ISIS does not accept women as fighters in their campaign of conquest, but it does encourage Muslim women to join their brigades as "jihadi brides", and women are responding to that invitation with surprising alacrity.

On Wednesday a report by the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue stated that about 550 of the 3,000 Western citizens relocated within ISIS territory are Muslim women. The study focused on the profiles appearing on social media sites of several women, one of hem the Muslim woman from Toronto.

The extremist ideology that Muslims are victims of oppression, and that countries of the West like Canada are sinful, and that religious duty calls Muslims to join the "pure" Islamic state is proving irresistible to some Muslim women just as it does to their male counterparts. The Toronto woman, like her male counterparts who travel to Syria to fight alongside Islamic State support the ISIS mission and with it the atrocities they commit, by default.

The Toronto woman's Twitter page has an image of an ISIS beheading as her banner photo. The Waterloo, Ontario-based intelligence research company iBRABO, identified her. They had earlier in January pinpointed a New Zealander in ISIS. She and he were both tracked with the use of geocoding. The Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium (TRAC) notes that the woman identified as "L.A." had quite remarkable access to all major control centres of ISIS.

In Toronto on November 23, she suddenly appeared in Raqqa, Syria, the headquarters for ISIS on December 8, and two weeks later she was tracked to Kobani. And then, between the second and the sixth of January she was located in Dier Ezzor, another stronghold of the Islamic State, before turning up on January 9th in Mosul. After which from January 11 to 16 she was in Aleppo, controlled by the Syrian government, the rebel opposition and Kurdish forces, all enemies of ISIL.

Illustration by Jonathon Rivait/National Post   Waterloo, Ont.-based intelligence research company iBRABO tracked the whereabouts of a Toronto woman — identified only as L.A. — using geocoding.

The woman is under investigation by the RCMP. "No doubt L.A. represents a good example of that threat [jihadis -- including women -- returning from conflict zones, prepared to mount terror attacks in the West] and will fill yet another spot on the High Risk Travellers list that the RCMP and CSIS continually monitor", stated the report.

No doubt whatever. And how many more just like her are there out there?