The word “islamist” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2015. Today the opening carries none. 2 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
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Junaid Hussain is a British black hat hacker and propagandist under the nom de guerre of Abu Hussain al-Britani who supports the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant .1 Hussain was jailed in 2012 for hacking Tony Blair 's accounts and posting his personal information online. Hussain left the UK around 2013 for Syria. Hussain was known as TriCk from the disbanded hacking group TeaMp0isoN . He is a key figure in a group of Islamist computer hackers who call themselves the Cyber Caliphate . The Islamist hackers have been involved in defacing French websites during the 2015 Île-de-France attacks and the Twitter feeds of the U.S. Central Command , Newsweek and the International Business Times . The group is believed to be behind the use of a spearfishing attack that exposed identities of rebel media groups. Hussain was in online contact with one of the gunmen behind the Curtis Culwell Center attack of May 2015. Before the incident, an attacker posted online statements on Twitter , in which he requested others to follow Hussain's account. After the shooting occurred, Hussain wrote: " Allahu Akbar !!!! 2 of our brothers just opened fire." Russell Myers (13 January 2015).2 "British hacker suspected of cyber attack on US Central Command Twitter account" . mirror . "Could Isis's 'cyber caliphate' unleash a deadly attack on key targets?" . the Guardian .3CNN . : |author= has generic name ( help )4
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Junaid Hussain ( c. 1994 – 25 August 2015) was a British Pakistani black hat hacker and propagandist under the nom de guerre of Abu Hussain al-Britani who supported the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).Hussain, who was raised in Birmingham in a family originally from Pakistan , was jailed in 2012 for hacking Tony Blair 's accounts and posting his personal information online. Hussain left the UK around 2013 for Syria. "British hacker suspected of cyber attack on US Central Command Twitter account" . mirror . "Could Isis's 'cyber caliphate' unleash a deadly attack on key targets?" . the Guardian .
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ISIL propagandist and hacker (1994–2015) Junaid Hussain ( c. 1994 – 25 August 2015) was a British black hat hacker and propagandist under the nom de guerre of Abu Hussain al-Britani who supported the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Hussain, who was raised in Birmingham in a family originally from Pakistan , was jailed in 2012 for hacking Tony Blair 's accounts and posting his personal information online. Hussain left the UK around 2013 for Syria. Hussain was killed in 2015 via airstrike . "British hacker suspected of cyber attack on US Central Command Twitter account" . mirror .
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ISIL propagandist and hacker (1994–2015) Junaid Hussain ( c. 1994 – 25 August 2015) was a British black hat hacker and propagandist under the nom de guerre of Abu Hussain al-Britani who supported the Islamic State (IS). Hussain, who was raised in Birmingham in a family originally from Pakistan , was jailed in 2012 for hacking Tony Blair 's accounts and posting his personal information online. Hussain left the UK around 2013 for Syria. Hussain was killed in 2015 via airstrike . "British hacker suspected of cyber attack on US Central Command Twitter account" . mirror .
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