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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The question for Weyers and other researchers is: What is LA’s plan in Syria? The choice between encouraging authorities to take down her Twitter feed for fear of radicalizing others is complicated by the need for her to keep tweeting so authorities and researchers can gather more intelligence on her and ISIS.
Despite Weyers’ best efforts to track LA unnoticed, her Twitter account no longer exists as of last week. Twitter would not comment on whether the account was taken down by the user or by Twitter.
