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An American In ISIS: Meet Doug McCain, One Dead Jihadist

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Perhaps the only question emerging from this profile of the first document US citizen casualty fighting for the Islamic State, whose name earlier was revealed as Douglas McAuthur McCain, is whether he and John are related.

From NBC:

The battle in itself seemed tragically normal. Two Syrian opposition groups fought and there were heavy casualties on both sides. Then victorious rebels rifled through the pockets of the dead. One contained about $800 in cash -- and an American passport.

 

Douglas McAuthur McCain, of San Diego, California, was killed over the weekend fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), according to the Free Syrian Army. Photos of McCain's passport and of his body -- which feature a distinctive neck tattoo -- have been seen by NBC News. According to an activist linked to the Free Syrian Army who also saw the body and travel document, McCain was among three foreign jihadis fighting with ISIS who died during the battle.

 

Senior administration officials told NBC News they were aware that McCain was killed in Syria, adding that they believe dozens of Americans have gone there to fight with extremist groups - including, but not limited to, ISIS.

Actually, on second thought it appears there is no relation.

The spin cycle has already been engaged: McCain may be dead, but the treat that countless others like him have returned to the US to perpetrate, gasp, acts of terrorism on US soil is very much alive:

"The threat we are most concerned about to the homeland is that of fighters like this returning to the U.S. and committing acts of terrorism," a senior administration official told NBC News.

 

NBC News has contacted several members of McCain’s family and dozens of friends – including his mother, sister, aunts and cousins. A woman who said she was McCain's aunt confirmed that he had "passed" and referred calls to McCain’s mother.

 

McCain, 33, called himself "Duale ThaslaveofAllah" on Facebook and his Twitter bio reads: "It's Islam over everything."

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After he graduated, McCain stuck around the Twin Cities for at least a while. Public records searches show several run-ins with the law. One mugshot of a Douglas McAuthur McCain details an arrest in 2000 at the age of 19 in New Hope on charges of disorderly conduct. Another arrest record – also from New Hope - shows the same man was arrested again in 2006 and booked on charges of obstruction. The mugshot from that arrest also clearly appears to be McCain – and has the same neck tattoo that is seen in Facebook photos of McCain on his "Duale ThaslaveofAllah" account - and the body found on the Syrian battlefield. NBC News confirmed on Tuesday that he was convicted of both charges.

Gradually the profile shifts to religion: "Around 2004, McCain "reverted" to Islam, according to his Twitter feed. "

McCain’s online life also painted the picture of a devout Muslim who deeply loved his family – along with Pizza Hut and hip-hop. His likes on Facebook ranged from “Quaran and Hadith” to “The Khilafah in Universe,” “A Way to Paradise” to “Craziest Street Fights,” “The American Comedy Co.” to “The Black Flag.”

 

“Allah keeps me going day and night. Without Allah, I am no one,” read one photo post. Others took a darker turn – posts featured the black flag of ISIS and other militant propaganda photos. In September 2010, he posted an ominous image: “They are coming back soldiers of Allah.”

 

A MySpace profile linked to Duale – and with the same images as elsewhere on social media – contains similar messages, with pictures of the sometime rapper striking poses. In one photo, he clutches a Quran. “The quran is all I need in this life of sin,” reads another caption.

We also learn about his exciting crusade to reach the promised Islamic land:

On April 3, McCain retweeted the full English translation of the speech of Abu Muhammad al-Adnani – the spokesman for ISIS.

 

Soon after, it appears that McCain’s travels took him to Turkey, a common jihadi route into Syria. Three people told NBC News that they met McCain – who they referred to as Duale – three months ago in in the Istanbul neighborhood of Sultanahmet. Two said they met him at the Burger King, where they ate and talked about the NBA.

 

U.S. officials have said “a small handful” of Americans are believed to be fighting with ISIS. Earlier this month, a new ISIS propaganda video claimed to feature an American citizen. And in July, chilling video emerged purporting to show the first American to carry out a suicide attack in Syria burning his U.S. passport and issuing threats against the West. The video of Moner Mohammad Abusalha, who grew up in Florida, underscored concerns about the flow of foreign fighters to Syria.

Finally NBC goes through McCain's social networking habits which readers can uncover on their own here.

So the good news: unlike in the UK, so far there are no proposals to automatically assume that anyone traveling to Syria, or Iraq, or Turkey for that matter is a terrorist.

As for the bad news: prepare to be inundated with many more such profiles, because one never knows when the "converted US Muslims" who have returned from the Islamic State, and mingle among the broader population, decide to strike. Which is why it is best to let Uncle Sam handle all of your personal security, and while at it, let's all just put that NSA "spying on everyone" nonsense in the past: after all without the constant threat that the US-created ISIS "scourge" will come to the US and blow building up and/or hijack airplanes, it may be problematic for the NSA to continue defending its ongoing existence made so public in the aftermath of the Snowden whistleblowing revelations.

 

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Tue, 08/26/2014 - 20:00 | 5147193 hesk
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Reagan Mustafa Nixon III is will to do what it takes to get the pipelines for Israel! Zion Akbar!!

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 20:08 | 5147214 spanish inquisition
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Wait, I am confused. We are backing ISIS and various factions in Syria, that would make him a freedom fighter killed by friendly fire. If he was killed in Iraq, he would be a Jihadist killed because he hates our freedoms.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 20:13 | 5147236 Fred123
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One less black man on the welfare rolls. Good riddance. Yeah, I used the word black and all of you know it's true.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 20:21 | 5147251 novictim
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Yes, he was black.  Check. 

You're good to go.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 20:18 | 5147240 novictim
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Religion and Islam are both a brain disease.  I think of Mr. McCain as a untreated patient who finally lost his battle and died. 

The Islamic disease starts in both poor and rich communities when families feel they are "other" to the greater community or are faced with seeing hypocrisy by that community's actions and they come to feel an affinity with Islam's struggle for human dignity.  Sort of an underdog complex developes.   Only a bold confrontation with the heinousness of the Jihadi cause and their own hypocrisy can then save the victim. 

That requires society to have a mission, a creed that speaks to the needs of real people and not just hollow consumerism.  In America, the call to enlightenment ideas of liberte', egalite', and fraternite' give us a direction for healing the ills of our society. 

Libertarian and selfish policies of "I got mine so fuck you!" is just the kind of thing Jihadists need to spread the contagion they peddle.

So with poor, poor communities that provide crap educations in badly funded public schools and in communities where parents (especially those of color) have no hope for themselves or their children to obtain a dignified and comfortable life then slogans/spiritual notions of the solidarity of man must be met with real changes starting now.

Ferguson is just one of many many festering sores we ignore and leave untreated at our own peril.  Class issues of wealth inequality WILL be a recruiting theme by Jihadists of the poor if we don't start addressing the economics ourselves.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 20:29 | 5147276 Atomizer
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They forgot to add Soetoro, and Hussin. Our next buggy man will incorporate key Google trending words in scrambling key name fears. Axes of evil name combined over a likable name thumbs up response over social media douchebags. Oh, fuck me. My apologies, not suppose to talk about that new voting project. Social meandering of trying to get liked and rewarded by carrying the water for an ideology about to implode. Progressive failure have again reached 3 minutes to midnight 

You cunts will be pleading for your job. Actions are always louder than words. You fucked up for your own special interest gains. 

 

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 20:53 | 5147334 Lookout Mountain
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"Truth is the first casualty in any war." Said somebody.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 20:53 | 5147339 lakecity55
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Assad: "So, Backdoor, let me get this straight. You still want me to abdicate for TPTB, but for now you want me to help knock off the ISIS guys since they got out of control."

Backdoor Barry: "Yep. That sums it up. Look there is a property next to my future home in Palm Desert. You can buy it and we can play golf. You'll have plenty of money and your wife can still shop in Paris."

"But Syria is MY country. I like it here."
"Kenya is MY country. Trust me, the US is better."
"Let me think about it."
"Say, can you give me the override codes for the S-400 System."
"No."

 

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 20:55 | 5147343 Lookout Mountain
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Just wonderin'-- Will his family get any veteran's benefits?

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 21:00 | 5147353 Flybyknight
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 I was going to say Doug and John McCain have something in  common. Shit for brains but reading  some of these posts I can see how the hatred of americans can build to the point where someone such as McCain chooses to  make such bad choices

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 21:05 | 5147362 Rough-Trader
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Its always a good thing when one jihadist dies!

Think Tony Wilson!

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 21:56 | 5147397 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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They are really laying it on thick.

facebook's trending reads

Douglas MacArthur American Extremist.....

killed fighting for ISIS Terrorists

The majority of facebook's users probably don't even know who Douglas MacArthur is let alone that Joe Biden is the vice president so it is pretty obvious who's nose you are rubbing there.

Stay classy there facebook.

You know what is going on here the grey alien needs the race war black/white divide intact at all costs. Even the liberals are questioning the police being armed like a military and their conduct as of late. They need to tie the blacks to the terrorists (ISIS in the ghettos and the blacks are also terrorists) to scare the white people into accepting a militarized PD and justifying in the public's eye their response in Ferguson after the black community acted up over the shooting of Michael Brown.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 21:40 | 5147469 tony wilson
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the day before the day before  yesterday or whenever

a foley artist sim act did sum sound dubs on a set near white sands nasa cia base in new mexico.

the scene was prepped crew on set.

mossad cia mi6 directors and action called.

later whenever

all you mutherfuckers got invited to a special rupert murdoch fox invitation to a beheading you tube screanin.

unless you was fag english then the cops said you watch it you under arrest.

bbc say call are show did you see? it tell us how you feel are you mad should we bomb bomb bomb

foley was faked yesterday gangs in ferguson fbi paid last sat this shit today .

if  f for fake foley was yesterday why not this shitstain sim today.

come on fucking knuckleheads the rabbi are plucking

and strumming fingering your strings better and quicker

than carlos santana or master 1960s  peter green.

 

 

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 21:53 | 5147493 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Foley_%28journalist%29

James Wright Foley (October 18, 1973 – August 19, 2014) was an American freelance journalist and photojournalist of the Syrian Civil War when he was abducted on November 22, 2012 in northwestern Syria. He is the first American citizen killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an al-Qaida spinoff, also referred to as the Islamic State, or ISIS.[1]

Foley was a teacher before he switched to journalism. In 2009 he worked on USAID-funded development projects in Iraq, and later became an embedded journalist with U.S. troops there. In 2011 he joined the U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes in Afghanistan. Later that year, working for GlobalPost in Libya, he was captured by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi and held for 44 days. When captured in Syria the following year, he was working for Agence France-Presse and GlobalPost.

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In 2009, Foley worked for USAID-funded development projects in Baghdad, Iraq. He helped organize conferences and training seminars for a program designed to rebuild Iraq’s civil service, crippled by decades of isolation and autocratic administration.

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You have to ask yourself why would USAID hire a photographer to organize conferences and training seminars especially one with no real experience or connections in the region/area. Doesn't seem like he would have the right skill sets for the job in the first place.

 

 

 

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 23:34 | 5147855 dsty
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Tue, 08/26/2014 - 21:41 | 5147473 Plato's Law
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The reasons people hate anyone or anything are irrelevant.  i.e. "They hate us for our freedom, and..., and.......(ad infinitum)."  

The reasons Muslims leave family and their lives behind to travel thousands of miles to kill Americans and Westerners in general are:

1. US military occupying the holiest holy land of Islam

2. US military supporting with glee, endless money, and endless military support the most brutal and evil dictators and haters of Islaem such as the Al Saud "Princes" (as if it's Camelot over there).

3. US blind and endless financial and military support of Israel.

4. Picking military and political winners in the ME: Mondays we pick Sunnis, Thursdays we pick Shiites.  The perfect method to insure every single Muslim in the ME wants to kill every last American.

5. Thinking money and military presence insures succesful transplant of 100 years of US religious and political secularism to Islamics who are about 500-1000 years behind Western thinking.  You know, stuff like: "Well here's a nice shiny new school and a nice new shiny hospital!  Here's $50B in US fresh cash bills.  Now it's time to give women and children equal rights Mr. Muslim!  Now it's time to bless abortion and equal rights for women, OK, Mr. Muslim?" 

I suggest you read Osama's 1996 Declaration of War, look at our financial misery and deficit, and tell me who's winning the war on terror.  Afghanistan well earned the nick name "The graveyard or empires."

You can kill as many Islamic military jihadist leaders as you like.  Until we change the numbered points above, count on endless war forever and ever.

You might think Osama was dumb (that is if he is/was a real Muslim entity and not purely a CIA operative).  He knew and stated all he had to do was trap us with full military presence in the ME, and it's game over.  

Osama: mission accomplished.   

Wed, 08/27/2014 - 04:54 | 5148247 Major Malfunction
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Wat?  "1. US military occupying the holiest holy land of Islam"

The United States is not in Mecca, is not occupying Mecca, so there goes that point..

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 21:43 | 5147481 himaroid
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Jackson! Sharpton! Where the hell y'all at?

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 21:49 | 5147502 yellowsub
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Is Obama gonna say he could have been Dougie?

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 22:30 | 5147643 alexcojones
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Never been a Black dude with THREE

White folks names.

What kind of parents did he have?

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 23:48 | 5147891 luckystars
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That's how you know he is fake.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 22:48 | 5147701 The Merovingian
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So many virgins, so little time .. oh wait, I have eternity, nevermind ...

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 23:39 | 5147874 fibonacci's claus
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We need to waterboard this MF right now !!!  Collect the drippings and bottle it in nice packaging and sell it to the american public.  They will buy it.  Even Trump had his own brand.  We can call it "what up G?" waterboarding water.  Americans will buy it out of patriotic ferver and drink it like Coke-a-cola! 

 

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 23:47 | 5147889 luckystars
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"Hey guys, this is Mika Brzezinski...her Dad started Al Qaeda."

one of my personal favorites..>)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4qGVzlEE5o

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 23:59 | 5147926 The Most Intere...
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If all of this terrorist stuff means the government is gonna start hiring hottie TSA agents to rub my ball sac on the way through airport security I'm all in.

Wed, 08/27/2014 - 04:58 | 5148250 Major Malfunction
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I'm in!

"..ah .. now just roll them around... hey, can I get your number?.."

Wed, 08/27/2014 - 00:18 | 5147967 Clowns on Acid
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Ya mean that midnight basketball didn't help this guy ...? Is it the white man's fault that this guy went rogue?

Isn't Eric Holder or Hussein Obama supposed to answer these questions? 

Wed, 08/27/2014 - 01:00 | 5148041 European American
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Has ISIS threatened "Israel"? I didn't think so. Imagine that. 

Wed, 08/27/2014 - 01:50 | 5148121 A Dollar Short
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"He looks like the son I never had"

 

HEY OBOZO, WHERE ARE YOU ON THIS ONE?  

 

This is muy importante!  Speak up for your son!

Sat, 08/30/2014 - 15:22 | 5148167 zebrasquid
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Wed, 08/27/2014 - 02:44 | 5148175 Dr. Bonzo
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Likes:

- NBA

- Pizza Hut

- Burger King

- modern air travel

- internet

- self-loading spring operated blowback rifles

Dislikes:

- whitey

 

SMFH

Wed, 08/27/2014 - 07:59 | 5148409 IndianaJohn
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Allah cadaver, he's gone!

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