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Identities of 22,000 IS militants revealed by UK media

Xinhua, March 10, 2016 Adjust font size:

Britain's Sky News Wednesday reported that it had obtained tens of thousands of documents, containing 22,000 names, addresses, telephone numbers and family contacts of Islamic State (IS) militants.

Nationals from at least 51 countries, including the UK, had to give up their most personal information as they joined the organization, according to the media report by Sky News.

The documents reveal the identities of a number of previously unknown jihadists in the UK, across northern Europe, much of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as in the United States and Canada, according to the report.

One of the files marked "Martyrs" detailed a brigade manned entirely by fighters who wanted to carry out suicide attacks and were trained to do so, the report also said.

Some of the telephone numbers on the list are still active and it is believed that although many will be family members, a significant number of them are used by the jihadists themselves, according to the report.

Sky News said the files were passed to it on a memory stick stolen from the head of IS internal security police. Endit