Sunday, November 1, 2015

Rapper turned IS fighter killed by US strike in Syria

Denis 'Deso Dogg' Cuspert, a former German Rapper was killed in the US strike in Syria.  The US State Department had labeled Cuspert a global terrorist after he had threatened President Obama.  He was a German Rapper that converted to Islam back in 2010.  He was recruiting both westerners and and youths, especially those of German decent, to IS.  Cuspert was said to have been killed back in April of 2014, but that was later retracted. In Germany, Cuspert was famous for singing nasheeds- Islamic Devotion music- in German.

Ashley Karling

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34683873

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