Isis documents leak: 64 people with British connections named
Investigators are looking into the possibility some Britons may have been sent home to to carry out attacks in the UK
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Your support makes all the difference.Up to 64 Britons or people with links to the UK have been identified in a huge cache of stolen Isis documents.
The names of some 1,700 people in 22,000 documents taken on "entrance questionnaires" by the Isis border authority in 2013 have been obtained by Sky News.
The dossier also contains the details of around 500 "graduates" from two training camps in Syria which train fighters for missions abroad.
Of 371 militants who successfully completed their training in the first camp, four came from the UK.
In the second camp, among the 110 who passed was a Briton - known as Abu Dujana al-Britani - from Manchester. He was listed as dead by the SITE Intelligence Group.
The documents reveal his sponsor was Abu al Qaqaa al-Britani, real name Raphael Hostey, a married father born in 1992 who travelled to Syria from Manchester in 2013.
Another Britain reportedly mentioned in the files is Khalil Raoufi, who also left Manchester to travel to Syria in 2013.
Also included are Britons Abdel Bary, Junaid Hussain and Reyaad Khan.
Bary was a former rapper from London, Hussain, is thought to have been Isis's head of media before he was killed in a US drone strike in August, and Khan previously appeared in a high-profile Isis propaganda video before he was killed by an RAF-led drone strike.
Investigators are looking into the possibility some Britons may have been sent home to to carry out attacks in the UK.
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