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ISIS Tells Supporters to Quit Messaging Apps for Fear of US Bombs

ISIS has told its members to stop using internet-based communication apps like WhatsApp and Telegram on smartphones, suspecting they are being used by the US-led coalition to track and kill its commanders.
Until recently, the hardline group used such apps to chat with members and supporters outside its main areas of control in Syria, Iraq and Libya - including, say French officials, the assailants who staged attacks across Paris a year ago, killing at least 130 people.
A US-led military coalition has been bombing ISIS positions since 2014, when the group proclaimed a caliphate in Syria and Iraq. Twenty commanders of the group were killed this year, including spokesman Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani.

"If you get onto the programs like WhatsApp and Telegram or others from Mosul, and get in touch with a person being tracked, the crusaders will start thinking about you ... assessing your importance and identifying the locations of the (ISIS) centres by following you," said an article in the group's weekly newspaper, Al-Naba, published online.
The new instructions came as the group tries to fight off a US-backed offensive on Mosul, its last major stronghold in Iraq, by far the biggest city it controls.ISIS members already avoid communicating directly with each other on Twitter, which they used 2-3 years ago to spread their ideology and attract new followers.
The group has used Telegram, a messaging service, but its account has become a lot less active. While Telegram offers private messaging, its main use to Islamic militants has been as a distribution tool to share propaganda with backers to repost on Twitter for the wider world.
Pro-IS sites on Telegram frequently remind readers that Telegram is for sharing messages only among supporters, and "not a media platform for (preaching) to all Muslims and the West", in other words for recruiting sympathisers to join their cause.

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