(Telegraph - UK) Josie Ensor - A British-trained navy officer who joined ISIL has turned into an informant after being arrested by Kuwaiti authorities, becoming one of the most senior figures to hand over intelligence on the terrorist group. Ali Omar Mohammad Alosaimi, 27, of Kuwaiti descent, was picked up on the Iraq-Syria border. He said he was put in charge of oil fields in ISIL-held territory around Raqqa, the group's de facto capital in north-east Syria, where he managed exports including to the Assad regime. Alosaimi, who used the nom de guerre Abu Turab al-Kuwaiti, revealed to interrogators how ISIL smuggles oil and sells it in the black market to regional buyers as well as international traders.
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