Tue Feb 23, 2016 18:42:12
An alleged ISIS hate preacher reported to have been the terror mastermind who recruited the Austrian terror 'poster girls' and more than 160 others was travelling Europe 'like a popstar on tour', a court heard.
Mirsad Omerovic, 34, known by the name of 'Ebu Tejma', was arrested in November last year at the council flat he shared with his pregnant wife and five children.
Authorities believe Omerovic, originally from Bosnia now on trial in Austria's southern city of Graz, recruited Samra Kesinovic, 17 and Sabina Selimovic, 16, who became the public face of terror.
He was also involved in a further 166 defections of European youngsters to fight in holy war.
Omerovic flat was stuffed with jewellery, cash and savings books worth a fortune when it was stormed by Austria's elite heavily-armed police special forces team WEGA. He had also been spotted driving top-of-the-range sport cars.
Opening his trial in Austria, the prosecutor told the court that Omerovic's 'main message was that Islam needed to be spread to the world through terror.'
He added that Ebu Tejma was travelling through Europe 'like a popstar on tour'.
And he added that the popstar analogy was particularly appropriate because Omerovic even had his own YouTube channel aimed at young Muslims aged between 14 and their late twenties.
He added it offered 'to carry out brainwashing on those that viewed it'.
The two Austrian teens became the terror organisation's latest PR coup when they turned out to be poster girls for the death cult, and featured on ISIS websites carrying AK-47s and surrounded by groups of armed men.
Neither however has been seen for almost a year, with a Tunisian ISIS returnee telling investigators that Samra had been forced to become a sex slave who was offered as a present to new fighters, and that she was later stoned to death when she tried to escape.
With regards to Sabina, a United Nations official revealed a girl 'of Bosnian origin from Austria' - believed to be Sabina - had died fighting in Syria.
Both had allegedly become radicalised by Omerovic. When they had left their homes, they left a note for their families which read: 'Don't look for us. We will serve Allah and we will die for him.'
As well as the two girls, Omerovic has also been linked in with the recruitment of more than 160 others who eventually joined ISIS, Daily Mail reported.
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