Mysterious Twitter account leaks ISIS secrets

As the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) continues to wage its war on Iraq and Syria, it also continues an aggressive social media campaign to promote its message and recruit new members. But one mysterious Twitter account is trying to get in their way.

The @wikibaghdady account is leaking information about ISIS (Twitter)

Someone tweeting under the Twitter handle @wikibaghdady is leaking insider information to its 39,000 followers about the inner workings of ISIS.

In one of its initial posts, the account revealed the identity of the group’s current leader in Iraq who goes by the fake name Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The account has also tweeted that members of ISIS in Iraq were also members of Saddam Hussein’s Baathist army.

It has also leaked information about the group’s financing, history and key members.

Though @wikibaghdady is written in Arabic, some of its tweets have been translated to English.

The identity behind the account is unknown, but the person is thought to have close ties with ISIS.