Draft:Deso Dogg
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| Name | Denis Mamudo Gerhard Cuspert |
| Other Names | Abu Talha al-Almani |
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| Birth Place | Germany |
| Death Place | Syria |
Denis Mamudo Gerhard Cuspert (known by the stage name Deso Dogg and the alias Abu Talha al-Almani), (18 October 1975 – 17 January 2018) was a former German rap music singer who became a member of ISIS. Denis Mamudo Cuspert was born in Berlin to a Ghanaian father and a German mother and was a rap music singer with the stage name "Deso Dogg". After converting to Islam, he left music and went first to Egypt and then to Syria to join the so-called jihadist forces in the war against the Syrian government. He was referred to in Syria by the kunya "Abu Talha al-Almani". It is said that he was killed in an airstrike in October. Abu Talha was injured in an airstrike by Syrian government forces in the city of Azaz in northern Syria. He pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2014 AD. "Deso Dogg", after traveling to Syria, in addition to taking command of the Ibrahim Nation Unit in ISIS, continued to sing songs. However, this time the content of his songs was encouraging young people in the West to travel to Syria for Jihad and war and to carry out suicide operations. He sang in these songs that the reward for Jihad and suicide operations is heaven [1].
Membership in ISIS
In late 2013, Cuspert left Jund al-Sham and joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). It is said that he participated in the first battle of the Shaer gas field in July 2014 with ISIS forces against the Syrian Armed Forces.
In the summer of 2014, Daniela Green, an FBI translator who had investigated Cuspert, traveled to Syria to marry Cuspert. This happened without the knowledge or permission of his superiors. She returned to the United States a few months later, confessed, and cooperated with authorities in exchange for a two-year prison sentence.
In November 2014, a video was released by ISIS showing ISIS members killing and beheading a number of unarmed men with gunfire, and Cuspert holding a severed head. It is said that this film relates to the month of August; and this film relates to the 2014 massacre against prisoners of the Sunni Arab al-Shaitat tribe who had fought against ISIS[2].
Death
In April 2014, following a suicide attack by Al-Nusra Front, a number of international media published incorrect reports based on online sources of Islamists regarding his death on 20 April 2014 in fighting between jihadist groups (who are fighting in Syria). However, the German newspaper Die Welt, quoting other foreign fighters, denied Cuspert's death and attributed this confusion to the death of another ISIS member who also used the alias Abu Talha al-Almani[3].
On 16 October 2015, the United States Department of Defense informed the media that Cuspert was killed by a United States airstrike near Raqqa, Syria[4]. In August 2016, the Pentagon stated that it was a mistake: Cuspert survived the strike near the city of Raqqa[5].
In January 2018, the Al-Wafa Media Foundation, affiliated with ISIS, announced his death along with their report with photos of Cuspert's bloody corpse. It is said that he was killed in an airstrike in Deir ez-Zor in the city of Gharanij in Deir ez-Zor province in an airstrike.
Family
It is claimed that Cuspert fathered three children with three different women. One of his wives, a German-Tunisian named Omaima Abdi, who was born in Hamburg in 1984, went to Syria in 2015 with her three children and her first husband Nader Hadra, who was killed while fighting in Kobani. She later married Cuspert and lived with him in Raqqa, Syria, then returned to Germany and gave birth to her fourth child. Her phone was recovered by Lebanese journalist Jinan Musa, which led to an investigation into her relations with ISIS[6].