En förre detta MMA-fajter och rappare har efterlysts av amerikanska myndigheter som en medlem i terrororganisationen IS (islamiska staten). Den tyske medborgaren Denis Cuspert eller som han nu heter Abu Talha al-Almani medverkat i flertals videoklipp där IS-terrorister halshugger deras offer. I ett nylagt videoklipp ska den misstänkte tysken har hållit upp den halshuggne offrets huvud.
Detta skriver US State Department om Cuspert.
The Department of State has designated German citizen Denis Cuspert as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, which targets terrorists and those providing support to terrorists or acts of terrorism. As a result of the designation, all property subject to U.S. jurisdiction in which Cuspert has any interest is blocked and U.S. persons are prohibited from engaging in transactions with him or to his benefit.
Denis Cuspert is a foreign terrorist fighter and operative for ISIL, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Cuspert joined ISIL in 2012 and has appeared in numerous videos on its behalf, the most recent dating from early November, in which he appears holding a severed head he claims belongs to a man executed for opposing ISIL. Born in Berlin, the 39-year-old Cuspert spent time in jail for various offenses. Now calling himself Abu Talha al-Almani, Cuspert has pledged an oath of loyalty to ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and appears to serve as an ISIL recruiter with special emphasis on recruiting German speakers to ISIL. Cuspert is emblematic of the type of foreign recruit ISIL seeks for its ranks – individuals who have engaged in criminal activity in their home countries who then travel to Iraq and Syria to commit far worse crimes against the people of those countries. Foreign terrorist fighters are reported to have played significant roles in some of ISIL’s most egregious crimes, including the massacres of the Sh’aitat tribe in Syria and the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq, as well as the almost daily public executions in Raqqa. Cuspert has been a willing pitchman for ISIL atrocities. Cuspert is also wanted by the German government on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities in his home country.
Cubert som även gick under namnet ”Deso Dogg” ha anslutit sig till IS under 2012, och identifierades 2014 när han medverkade i ett videoklipp där en man avrättades genom halshuggning. Cubert är inte den förste MMA-utövaren som haft samröre med terrorsekten, Tadzjikistans nationella MMA-mästare dödades tidigare i år i ett flyganfall mot IS. En annan tysk MMA-fajter vid namn Valdet Gashi skrev på sin Facebook tidigare i år att han skulle åka till Syrien för att ansluta sig till IS.
Cusbert gick en proffsmatch i MMA och ett flertal matcher som amatör. Han var även med på den kände amerikanska rapparen DMX Europatour under 2005-2006.
