Islamic State Files: ‘Goldmine of Information

Sky News
By: Tom Cheshire

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The sheer scale of the Islamic State documents uncovered by Sky News is extraordinary.

But even more valuable is their detail.

Each of the approximately 22,000 documents has detailed information in 23 different categories.

Most interesting will be the entries for the ‘countries travelled through’, ‘previous fighting experience’, ‘who recommended him’ and ‘special skills’.

Speaking about the discovery of the files, former global terrorism operations director at MI6 Richard Barrett told Sky News: “It’s a fantastic coup.

“And it will be an absolute goldmine of information of enormous significance and interest to very many people, particularly the security and intelligence services…

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