Toronto Jane's Twitter trail through Syria

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CNN:

Sonia Moghe and Paula Newton

Fri February 13, 2015

 

(CNN)She has a picture of an ISIS beheading on her Twitter profile page, and tweets support for the terror group from Syria. But what worries researchers the most about this woman they call "Toronto Jane" or "LA" is that only a few months ago, she was tweeting from Toronto.

 

Jeff Weyers, a senior analyst with the Canadian counterterror research group iBRABO, has been tracking her movements through Syria with every tweet.

 

"I don't think she knew that she was broadcasting," Weyers said, while looking at a map of Syria with markers at every location where LA has tweeted. "What we're starting to see is -- with some particular types of cellphones -- they tend to broadcast, or be set up to default broadcast, more than others."

 

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