Denis Mamadou Gerhard Cuspert ( German: Denis Mamadou Gerhard Cuspert ), known by the stage name Deso Dogg ( October 18, 1975 , West Berlin - January 17, 2018 , Deir ez-Zor , Syria ) - German rapper, then a participant in the civil war in Syria , fighter and propagandist of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant [1] . After the adoption of Islam, he took the Muslim name Abu Malik , and then Abu Talha al-Almani .
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| Birth name | Denis Mamadou Gerhard Cuspert |
| Date of Birth | October 18, 1975 |
| Place of Birth | Berlin , Germany |
| Date of death | January 17, 2018 (42 years old) |
| Place of death | Garanidzh , Deir ez-Zor , Syria |
| A country |  Germany  Islamic state |
| Professions | Rapper |
| Years of activity | 1995—2010 |
| Genres | Hip Hop |
| Aliases | Deso dogg |
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Biography
Cuspert was born in 1975 in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. Father is Ghanaian , mother is German . The father abandoned the family when Cuspert was still a child [2] . His mother married a U.S. Army officer with whom Cusperpt had ongoing conflicts. Denis Kuspert spent some time in a juvenile detention center [3] . In a 2011 interview, he said that he had grown up in an atmosphere of racism: “Although my mother was German, some teachers called me“ black ”and treated the Muslim children badly” [4] . For about five years, Cuspert spent in an orphanage for difficult children; he also lived on a farm in Namibia, where he was sent by German social workers for rehabilitation purposes [4] .
According to him, in the early 1990s, he participated in protests against the Gulf War : “We walked the streets, shouted and burned the American flag” [4] . The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a new source of conflict with the stepfather [4] . Cuspert joined a youth gang; According to him, he was in search of identity and found it among children of Arab and Turkish immigrants [4] .
In 1995, Denis Cuspert began his career as a rapper [4] . After signing with Streetlife Entertainment, three of Cuspert's albums were released: Schwarzer Engel (2006), Geeni'z in collaboration with Jasha (2008) and Alle Augen auf mich (2009).
In 2010, he nearly died in a car accident, suffering a clinical death [3] . After the adoption of Islam in the same year, Cuspert suspended his musical career and took the Muslim name Abu Malik [5] . Denis was a member of the German Salafi organization Millatu Ibrahim [6] . He later moved to Egypt , and from there to Syria , where he took part in the civil war on the side of anti-government forces. In September 2013, during the fighting in the city of Aazaz in northern Syria , Denis Cuspert was injured in a Syrian air raid [3] .
In 2014, Cuspert took the oath of allegiance ( bai ) to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). Denis appeared in the propaganda videos of the group, in one of which he had in his hands a severed head of a person [7] ; He was also the performer of a number of ISIS Nashids in German. According to experts, the former rapper occupied a prominent position in ISIS as a German-speaking propagandist of the ideals of this organization [8] . According to several media reports, he was killed on April 20, 2014 in Syria as a result of the conflict between ISIS and the Al-Nusra Front [9] . However, according to the German newspaper Die Welt , another ISIS member was killed that day, who, like Kuspert, bore the pseudonym Abu Talha al-Almani [10] .
In February 2015, the US Department of State Kuspert on the [11] . In the same month, the German newspaper Bild reported that at least 3 German women had children from Cuspert. One of his cohabitants, being with him in Syria, regularly transmitted information about Kuspert to special services. When ISIS members began to suspect her of espionage, the woman fled to Turkey [12] . In April 2015, Denis called on his like-minded people to commit crimes in Germany [13] . In July 2015, he released a video appeal to the Muslims of the Caucasus, shot in Syria [14] .
According to American media, on October 29, 2015, Cuspert was destroyed by airstrike in the US Air Force in Syria [15] . On November 18, 2015, there were reports that the terrorists themselves confirmed his death. However, in August 2016, the U.S. military said they were not sure of the death of Cuspert [16] .
The death of Cuspert on January 18, 2018 was reported by media loyal to IG, publishing photos of his body: according to the statement of the IG, Cuspert died in battles against the Free Syrian Army [17] .
Family
Denis Cuspert was married to FBI employee Danielle Green, who was investigating terrorism cases [18] . Green was fluent in German, she had a master's degree in history. Since 2011, she worked as a translator at the FBI and had access to secret affairs related to national security. In the summer of 2014, Green, being married to the US military, through Turkey entered the war-torn Syria, where she married Kusperta and lived with him. Green warned her new husband that the FBI was watching him. About a month later, she freely returned to the United States, where she was arrested. The prosecutor asked to mitigate her punishment for cooperating with the investigation; Green was sentenced to two years in prison. Probably, the free border crossing of Syria took place with the permission of the top leadership of the Islamic state, since such travelers risked losing their heads [18] .
Discography
- 2006: Murda Cocctail Volume 1
- 2006: Schwarzer Engel
- 2008: Geeni'z (with Jasha)
- 2009: Alle Augen auf mich
Notes
- ↑ Souad Mekhennet. Osama's name flows in our blood: Ex-rapper (inaccessible link) . The Indian Express (September 2, 2011). Date accessed February 24, 2019. Archived February 24, 2019.
- ↑ Souad Mekhennet. Osama's name flows in our blood: Ex-rapper (inaccessible link) . The Indian Express (September 2, 2011). Date accessed February 24, 2019. Archived February 24, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Martin Armstrong . The Search for Deso Dogg, the German Rapper Turned Jihadi Poster Boy (english) , vice.com (September 20, 2013). Archived February 24, 2019. Date of treatment February 24, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Souad Mekhennet. German Officials Alarmed by Ex-Rapper's New Message: Jihad . The New York Times (August 31, 2011). Date of treatment February 24, 2019. Archived January 1, 2012.
- ↑ Patrick Saint-Paul . Deso Dogg, rappeur allemand devenu chantre du djihad (fr.) , Le Figaro (September 1, 2011). Archived on September 3, 2011. Date of treatment February 24, 2019.
- ↑ Jihad 2.0: The Impact of Social Media on the Salafist Scene and the Nature of Terrorism
- ↑ The German rapper became a “collective image” of ISIS foreign recruits . islamnews.ru (February 12, 2015). Date of treatment February 24, 2019. Archived February 23, 2015.
- ↑ A former German rapper, having become an IS fighter, poses with the hostage’s severed head . actualnews.org (November 6, 2014). Date of treatment February 24, 2019. Archived June 30, 2015.
- ↑ German rapper-turned-jihadist killed in Syria . rte.ie (April 22, 2014). Date of treatment February 24, 2019. Archived on October 8, 2014.
- ↑ Florian Flade. Verwirrung über "Deso Doggs" angeblichen Tod (German) . Die Welt (April 22, 2014). Date accessed May 20, 2019. Archived May 28, 2014.
- ↑ Terrorist Designation of Denis Cuspert (inaccessible link) . US Department of State (February 9, 2015). Date accessed February 24, 2019. Archived February 24, 2019.
- ↑ The ISIS rapper married an FBI agent . islamnews.ru (February 18, 2015). Date of treatment February 24, 2019. Archived February 23, 2015.
- ↑ Anne Losensky. Terror-Prozess gegen Deso-Dogg-Freund vertagt (German) . BZ-Berlin.de (June 15, 2015). Date of treatment February 24, 2019. Archived July 4, 2015.
- ↑ The Islamic State launched propaganda in Russian , the BBC Russian Service (October 20, 2015). Archived February 24, 2019. Date of treatment February 24, 2019.
- ↑ Media: a rapper from Germany who joined the IG was destroyed in Syria by US aviation , RIA Novosti (October 30, 2015). Archived February 24, 2019. Date of treatment February 24, 2019.
- ↑ Deutscher IS-Terrorist Cuspert möglicherweise noch am Leben (German) . Spiegel Online (November 18, 2015). Date accessed February 24, 2019. Archived February 24, 2019.
- ↑ German rapper-turned-jihadi Denis Cuspert reportedly killed in Syria . dw.com (January 18, 2018). Date accessed February 24, 2019. Archived February 24, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 Scott Glover. The FBI translator who went rogue and married an ISIS terrorist . CNN (May 1, 2017). Date accessed February 24, 2019. Archived February 24, 2019.
Links
- Abu Malik (Deso Dogg) - a former rapper reads adhan . YouTube (June 14, 2012). Date of treatment April 28, 2015.