Ahmad Abousamra is a Muslim from Boston who is believed to be the ISIS social media propaganda chief. Or at least one of them. Abousamra is no idiot. He graduated from Northeastern University with a degree from computer science and comes from a family where his father is a doctor. Ahmad Abousamra is believed to be responsible for posting the videos of Americans being beheaded.
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An American college graduate from Boston, who has been on the run from the FBI for years, is suspected of joining ISIS and leveraging his computer skills to spread the Iraqi terror group’s propaganda on social media, a senior law enforcement official told ABC News.
Ahmad Abousamra, a dual American-Syrian citizen, was born in France in 1981 but grew up in the upscale Boston suburb of Stoughton under the watchful eye of his father, who was a prominent endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. He attended the private Xaverian Brothers Catholic high school in Westwood up until his senior year when he transferred to Stoughton High. There he was on the honor roll, school officials said, and went on to make the Dean’s List at Northeastern University.
But Abousamra’s life changed drastically in 2004 when prosecutors say he and co-conspirators traveled to the Middle East with the goal of fighting and killing Americans in Iraq.
Once abroad, two alleged co-conspirators of Abousamra’s, Tarek Mehanna and another unidentified individual, worked as effectively the “media wing” of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), a 2009 indictment against Abousamra and Mehanna says. AQI later would evolve into the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).