ISIS Defector Doxes 22,000 Terrorists

Tens of thousands of extremists are named in files that were passed on to Sky News in a memory stick. The data was stolen from the head of Islamic State's internal security police, an organization described by insiders as the group's SS.

The head had been entrusted to protect the organization’s core secrets and rarely parted with the drive.

The renegade who stole it is a Free Syrian Army convert to the Islamic State who calls himself Abu Hamed.

He claims the Islamic rules he believed in have totally collapsed inside the terrorist organization, prompting him to quit.

A Sky News reporter met him in a secret location in Turkey. Asked if the stolen files could bring the network down he nodded and said simply: "God willing.”

The documents, which are registration forms to join ISIS, cite names addresses, phone numbers and family contacts of jihadists.

Many names on the forms already are well-known to the public.

But the key revelation is the identification of a number of previously unknown members in the UK, across northern Europe, much of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as in the United States and Canada.

"One of the files marked 'Martyrs' detailed a brigade manned entirely by fighters who wanted to carryout suicide attacks and were trained to do so," Sky News reports.

Some of the telephone numbers on the list are still active, and, while many might belong to family members, a significant number likely are used by the jihadists themselves.

More than a dozen Britons and a handful of Americans are among the fighters reportedly named in 22,000 documents obtained by German intelligence, according to the Guardian. 

The forms, thought to be from a border crossing into Syria, ask for 23 pieces of information, including names, date and place of birth, hometown, telephone number, education and blood type.

The files seem to date back to the end of 2013.