A security report revealed that Turkey confiscated a valuable ISIS database, which includes names and information on 9,952 "lone wolves" of the organization's members operating around the world, after a successful months-long operation by Istanbul police.

The "Sabah" newspaper, close to the Turkish government, said that the terrorism division of the Istanbul police managed, in a successful operation carried out in Istanbul in recent months, to obtain a list containing names and detailed information about these elements.

The Iranian intelligence wanted to get him for 9 million dollars
The article stated that the operation started from a cafe in Istanbul and ended with the arrest of a suspect who carried the database that the Western intelligence services were looking for, while the negotiations also led to a group working for Iranian intelligence to obtain it for more than 9 million dollars.

The database includes, according to the report, prepared by the Director of the Anti-Terrorism Division at the Istanbul Security Directorate, Abd al-Rahman Sewaksu, information on the biographies of the 'lone wolves', from their skills to their locations, place of residence and information on their identity.

The report shows that the existence of the database was known to most of the intelligence agencies, from the British intelligence service "MI6" through the CIA to the Israeli Mossad. Intelligence agencies have assigned 40 agents to Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan to locate a database known to contain information about ISIS members in those countries.

The database was in the possession of the organization's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in an American raid in 2019, before American intelligence discovered that the "data base" was in the possession of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashmi al-Qureshi.

The Turkish intelligence agencies discovered suspicious conversations between people subject to their eavesdropping, and the conversations were related to the delivery of "goods" belonging to the organization without the agencies knowing their content, and the conversations that took place between a foreign ISIS fighter and local collaborators led to the tightening of surveillance.

The newspaper quoted Savakso as saying that the conversations took place between five people connected to Iranian intelligence who met in a cafe in Istanbul and talked about stealing the "goods", and that the thieves belonging to the organization negotiating with the five for sale, without knowing that it would eventually go to Iran, for 8.5 million euros ($9.33 million).

The newspaper added that both parties agreed to complete the sale transaction in Istanbul, and when the ISIS seller arrived in Istanbul, the city's police launched an operation, and the ISIS man was arrested in the arrivals hall at the Istanbul airport and the cache was found with him.

10,000 lone wolves
The police also arrested the five, among them an Azerbaijani of Iranian origin who works secretly in the development of drones in Iran, an Iranian who runs a company for transporting goods between Turkey and countries in Central Asia, and two businessmen who supply spare parts for Iranian defense projects. The newspaper did not specify their nationality, but their names appear Because they are Turkish.

The newspaper stated that al-Qurashi sent the database with an ISIS person to deliver it to a country other than Syria, where al-Qurashi lived, and he committed suicide during an American raid on the building where he was staying last year. 

Morsel knew what was in the database and decided to sell it and after he disappeared for a while the organization found him and then he claimed that the database was lost, his captors tortured him and cut off his legs, but he insisted on not revealing, and the organization also executed three people suspected of assisting the robbery. It was not clear from the newspaper's report if the messenger is the same ISIS terrorist who was arrested at the airport in Istanbul.

The newspaper added that the organization's leadership did not believe that the stockpile was simply lost, pursued potential suspects who they believed had stolen the stockpile, and finally executed an ISIS member in Uzbekistan and two others in Syria on suspicion of involvement in the theft, but the leadership failed to locate the valuable list of the terrorist lone wolves.

The newspaper stated that the Lone Wolves are among the most dangerous fighters of ISIS, as they killed hundreds in operations that included attacks on a nightclub in the US state of Florida in 2016, in the city of Nice in France in the same year and a Turkish nightclub in 2017. The number of ISIS victims in Turkey alone is estimated at more than - 300 dead and hundreds more injured in 10 suicide attacks, seven attacks with explosives and four attacks with guns.