Posted on Jul 31, 2016
This Norwegian Mercenary Is Instagramming His Fight Against ISIS
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A veteran of the war in Afghanistan is using social media to document and fund his one-man fight against ISIS.
A millennial soldier of fortune who goes by the name ‘Mike’ is waging an independently funded war against the Islamic State.
While his real identity remains anonymous, the Norwegian fighter came to Norway as an Iraqi Kurdish refugee at a young age in the 1980s and after serving with Norwegian forces in Afghanistan, he decided to return home to his native Iraq, according to the Daily Caller.
“When we’ve run Islamic State out of Mosul, it will mark the death of Islamic terrorists in Iraq,” he told Dagbladet, a Norwegian news site, reports the Daily Caller. The city of Mosul in northern Iraq is currently under siege by anti-ISIS forces, as they try to route the militant group.
Fighting alongside the Peshmerga as a volunteer, the Afghanistan war veteran uses social media sites like Liveleak and Instagram to help raise money through his website to pay for equipment, travel, and living costs as he fights independently against the extremist group.
Mike is part of a growing number of military veterans who have travelled to Iraq and Syria to join the fight against ISIS.
Using the handle Peshmerganor, Mike’s Instagram page features daily uploads of photos ranging from pictures of the fighter posing next to captured ISIS militants, videos of combat, and numerous photos purportedly depicting dead Islamic State fighters.
The implications of an actual war being waged simultaneously online are far reaching. It is troubling to think that combat, and really, life and death, are now spectator sports for anyone with a smartphone and good cell reception. One Instagram page even claims to allow viewers to vote on whether or not captured ISIS fighters should be executed.
Related: This Controversial Instagram Account Lets You Decide Whether ‘ISIS Fighters’ Live Or Die »
More than anything else, social media has come to define the ongoing war against the Islamic State. The terror group has used it to recruit foreign fighters, sow fear and misinformation, and spread its ideology.
As the war against ISIS spreads from battlefields in Iraq and Syria, to a host of social media platforms, from Instagram, Twitter, to YouTube and Facebook, it’s no surprise that opponents of the extremist group have taken their fight online as well.
A millennial soldier of fortune who goes by the name ‘Mike’ is waging an independently funded war against the Islamic State.
While his real identity remains anonymous, the Norwegian fighter came to Norway as an Iraqi Kurdish refugee at a young age in the 1980s and after serving with Norwegian forces in Afghanistan, he decided to return home to his native Iraq, according to the Daily Caller.
“When we’ve run Islamic State out of Mosul, it will mark the death of Islamic terrorists in Iraq,” he told Dagbladet, a Norwegian news site, reports the Daily Caller. The city of Mosul in northern Iraq is currently under siege by anti-ISIS forces, as they try to route the militant group.
Fighting alongside the Peshmerga as a volunteer, the Afghanistan war veteran uses social media sites like Liveleak and Instagram to help raise money through his website to pay for equipment, travel, and living costs as he fights independently against the extremist group.
Mike is part of a growing number of military veterans who have travelled to Iraq and Syria to join the fight against ISIS.
Using the handle Peshmerganor, Mike’s Instagram page features daily uploads of photos ranging from pictures of the fighter posing next to captured ISIS militants, videos of combat, and numerous photos purportedly depicting dead Islamic State fighters.
The implications of an actual war being waged simultaneously online are far reaching. It is troubling to think that combat, and really, life and death, are now spectator sports for anyone with a smartphone and good cell reception. One Instagram page even claims to allow viewers to vote on whether or not captured ISIS fighters should be executed.
Related: This Controversial Instagram Account Lets You Decide Whether ‘ISIS Fighters’ Live Or Die »
More than anything else, social media has come to define the ongoing war against the Islamic State. The terror group has used it to recruit foreign fighters, sow fear and misinformation, and spread its ideology.
As the war against ISIS spreads from battlefields in Iraq and Syria, to a host of social media platforms, from Instagram, Twitter, to YouTube and Facebook, it’s no surprise that opponents of the extremist group have taken their fight online as well.
This Norwegian Mercenary Is Instagramming His Fight Against ISIS
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Canadian vet Dillon Hillier returns 'safely' from fighting ISIS, parents say
A Canadian veteran who travelled to northern Iraq in November to help the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has returned home safely, according to a statement from his parents.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
LTC (Join to see) roger that, I appreciate the read and share, whatever it takes to defeat ISIS, I am for it.
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TSgt Joe C. - Some Canadians have not come back. I could not find a story of a Canadian Infantryman who came back and snuck back an ISIL flag in his sleeping bag and Canadian Customs did not detect it. He was hoping to sell it to non-ISIL collectors and use the money earned from the flag to go back. They are told to have about $10 grand on hand to pay for travel, gear, weapons and misc. The Pesh Merga do pay them something and they do pay for their ticket back sometimes.
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