The Facebook page of an IS militant

The Facebook page of an IS militant

Muhammad Wanndy Mohamed Jedi, who is a high-profile target for law enforcement agencies worldwide, posts mostly on religion and martyrdom, report says.

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PETALING JAYA: Most people pepper their Facebook accounts with selfies, photos with family and friends or pictures of their pets; they post shots of what they had for dinner, where they holidayed or share the latest Marvel movie trailers.

But not Muhammad Wanndy Mohamed Jedi.

His Facebook page is one filled with blood and gore. It includes grotesque shots of severed heads, preachy posts on martyrdom and video clips on how to swiftly assemble a machine gun.

Wanndy, who uses the name Abu Hamzah Al-Fateh on Facebook, is reportedly wanted under the Specially Designated Global Terrorists list (SDGT) alongside the world’s most notorious terrorists.

A recent report in the New Straits Times said the 27-year-old from Malacca had been sourcing funding and providing operational support for the Islamist State, apart from recruiting fighters for the terror group.

Police singled him out as the man who issued orders to carry out the June 28 attack at the Movida pub last year that resulted in eight people getting injured.

A quick browse through his Facebook account seems to live up to his bloodthirsty image.

According to The Star, a picture posted on April 14 showed a smiling Wanndy, holding a severed head and pointing upwards with one finger. In the post, he referred to the dead man as a “dog” of the Kurdistan Workers Party.

“The most beautiful picture I ever had,” Wanndy was quoted as saying in the post.

“If you are saying that we are cruel, then you are wrong. They (the victims) are dead because they attacked Daulah Islamiyyah,” he added in one of the post’s comments, extracted by The Star.

The report added that Facebook had blocked the image due to its graphic content.

In another post, The Star said, Wanndy uploaded a video of himself assembling a machine gun, boasting that he had completed the task in under a minute.

He has also written many posts on religion and martyrdom, praising the bombers who attacked the Movida pub and saying their “good deeds” would be rewarded by God, the daily said.

“The blessings that God gives to those martyred while defending religion they will always be by God’s side and live in the belly of the green bird whose cage is made of gold,” he was quoted as saying in another post.

According to the daily, Wanndy’s Facebook page was later deactivated although it had initially been open to the public.

Despite his brutal image on social media, though, some reports claim Wanndy works as a guard in Syria and is not a fighter.

Earlier this month, a businessman whose daughter is also in Syria told Channel News Asia that according to his daughter, Wanndy’s online reputation is “much bigger than what he actually does”.

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