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Source: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-isis-intel-20170908-story,amp.html
Vast New Intelligence Haul Fuels Next Phase of Fight Against Islamic State
(Los Angeles Times) W.J. Hennigan - U.S. intelligence analysts have added thousands of names of Islamic State operatives to an international watch list over the last two months as a result of a vast cache of digital data recovered from recently liberated areas of Iraq and Syria. Analysts at the National Media Exploitation Center in Bethesda, Md., an arm of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, are scrutinizing handwritten ledgers, computer spreadsheets, thumb drives, and mobile phone memory cards for clues to terrorist cells or plots in Europe or elsewhere. The material came from Mosul and Tal Afar in Iraq, and from Raqqa in Syria.