
Ahmad Abousamra (19 September 1981-January 2017) was the head of the Islamic State's social media operations.
Biography[]
Ahmed Abousamra was born on 19 September 1981 in Paris, France to a family of Sunni Muslim Syrians, and he grew up in an area near Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Abousamra had dual Syrian and US citizenship, but he hated his new home, and during the War on Terror he attempted to receive training in Pakistan and Yemen to help him in his quest to kill US Army soldiers. He was indicted in 2009 for this, but he later headed to Syria, where he lived with his wife and child. In September 2014 it was reported that he was in charge of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)' social media campaign, which attracted thousands of foreign fighters. In January 2017, Abousamra was killed in a US drone strike on a house in al-Thawra, Syria.