Daniele Raineri

Correction here: main source of the article is not the DGSI, but the court docs collected in the Lafarge case with quotes from French military intelligence DRM and from DGSIhttps://twitter.com/DanieleRaineri/status/1106217051344068608 …

I’m not the only one talking about this. I started noticing this behaviour when I wrote about the Absi brothers, years ago. Sometimes I know this kind of stuff because I spend time in places

By the way, those bios were circulating since months. I started the conversation about them because someone put the bios in a public pdf and I felt it was about time

In case you miss pieces of the stuff I’m tweeting, don’t worry. Kyle Orton will take them from here and will use them on his site without attribution to put some meat on his dissertations.

The French DGSI does not confirm the death of Abu Loqman in Hajin in April 2018. By the way his kunya now would be Abu Ayyoub al Ansari – his name as chief of Amniyat – in case someone of the Islamic State posts an eulogy

If you ask me the route of Abu Loqman to get from Raqqa to Libya, I don’t know. I just remember that Italian intelligence tracked down one of the top leaders in Libya, Moez Fezzani, in Khartoum, capital of Sudan, few months before in November 2016

After the visit of Abu Loqman, Islamic State suicide bombers targeted the offices of Libya’s electoral commission in Tripoli on May 2, 2018 – “one of the most brazen assaults on the Libyan capital in years”

You may remember the Islamic State in Libya in complete disarray after the loss of Sirte in December 2016 (a prolonged siege) and the carpet bombing against the remaining forces hidden in a desert camp in January 2018. Three months later they rose their heads again

Abu Loqman is appointed head of Amniyat, the intelligence of the Islamic State, in March 2017. and "one month later he is in Libya for a brief time to reorganize the Islamic State there"

One week later a targeted airstrike killed Abu Muhammad al Furqan. We still don’t understand what happened in 2016. It was like a dozen of Abbottabad operations compressed in one year. The doers don’t talk about them because it’s not over yet

Here the key points. Abu Loqman was wounded in the same targeted airstrike north of Aleppo that killed Abu Muhammad al Adnani in August 2016 – I find hard to process this big piece of info. They were touring together the frontline near al Bab

Imagine the estimates about the numbers of the Islamic State outside the "last pocket"https://twitter.com/leloveluck/status/1104362575175839747 …

I think that tribal marker “al Obeidi” brings us to an important part of the story of Abu Saleh Haifa of the Islamic State (real name: Iyad al Obeidi) but I’m not an expert in Iraqi tribes and I’d leave that to more informed people

The bio says Abu Saleh Haifa replaced Umar al Shishani in Iraq (Shishani died in July 2016) as أميرًا لهيئة الحرب, which is “a commander for the War Department” – this helps to determine the rank of Umar al Shishani (at last!). Different opinions most welcome

Previous tweet – Someone else is together with Abu Saleh Haifa in the original picture for sure, someday we’ll know. Probably the wizards of geolocation can find that place.