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ISIS cyber-hacker Junaid Hussain has left behind a legacy of hate that spans the globe and continues to haunt the online world after his death.

The first full analysis of the terror propagandist’s activities shows that he incited mass-murder in the farthest reaches of the world through more than THIRTY plots.

His evil web, still unravelling after his death in a drone strike, emphasises the need for social networks and content providers to crack down on extremist material.

This week a report into four terror attacks released recommended increased co-operation with the private sector, and in particular companies like Google, to monitor terrorist activity.

David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, also found that Westminster attacker Khalid Masood carried out online reconnaissance and research before carrying out the atrocity on March 22.

Hussain has been one of the architects behind a wave of plots and attacks under the ISIS banner, stretching back to 2014 and plans to steal millions of pounds through cyber attacks on British banks.

The recruiter, from Kings Heath, targeted financial institutions as he groomed would-be mass-murderers in the UK, US, Australia and far east.

At present an ISIS member said to have had close links to Hussain is being held in a Turkish prison, with the latest UK court case bearing the Brummie’s fingerprints being heard only weeks ago.

An American organisation fighting extremism has warned that the 21-year-old has left behind an “army” of hackers who continue his work.

His hacking activities go back before his time with ISIS when he was jailed for hacking Tony Blair’s personal accounts.

Hussain then joined the terror group in Syria, operating from its former de-facto capital Raqqa before his death on August 24, 2015.

Hussain’s ‘wife’ Sally Jones, known as the White Widow, followed him to the grave in a similar airstrike this summer.

David Ibsen, director of the Counter Extremism Project, a US-based group combating terrorism and radicalisation, said: “Former British computer hacker Junaid Hussain was one of the most skilled and persuasive of ISIS’s recruiters, and propagandists.

“The number of attacks Hussain can be directly associated with by law enforcement officials likely pales when compared to the actual number he encouraged and engineered. Hussain also trained other ISIS operatives in the computer hacking skills.

“Despite the fact that Hussain was targeted and killed in 2015, a whole army of ISIS hackers continues, as do the ISIS propagandists and recruiters he trained.”

Hussain’s ability to manipulate social media, including Twitter and anonymous messaging app Kik Messenger, shows the need to stop extremist groups being able to operate online.

Though he was traced and killed through a compromised internet link, online platforms have been criticised for being slow to clamp down on extremist material.

Criminologist Dr Imran Awan, of Birmingham City University, said: “Hussain was certainly ISIS’ main instigator in terms of motivating people to carry out terror attacks.

“He went online with the intention of inspiring people to carry out acts of violence and he has left behind a legacy of evil. He tried to inspire his followers, promising to take them to a place which was a romanticised caliphate.

“In fact it was the total opposite and his followers who went to the region were surrounded by death. Many lost their lives or their freedom.”

Social media and messaging companies have been criticised for not doing enough to counter material originating from extremist groups, even as dedicated units set up by UK government and police trace and remove such content.

Dr Awan said: “Hussain’s poisonous ideology and his modus operandi are still out there.

“There is a digital footprint that he will have left behind in the online space which will pop up again somewhere, allowing him to continue to transmit his message after death.

“In particular YouTube has been poor in its responses to requests to remove material. It’s all because they say it doesn’t breach their guidelines.

“If someone doesn’t report it does it mean the video remains?

“The big issue is that social media companies need to be more pro-active.

“Government and content providers also need to work across borders to establish and take action over what is tolerated and what is not tolerated.

“The perpetrators themselves need to be charged and sentenced for longer periods if they are found to be sending out this material.”

YouTube has hired a 10,000-strong moderating team in a content crackdown and has previously declared a ‘zero tolerance’ stance on offending material.

However the sheer range of apps and social media used by Hussain suggests only a joined-up, international approach will come close to tackling the issue.

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TIMELINE OF TERROR

2014 - Hussain is believed to have been involved in an ISIS plot to steal millions of pounds through a series of cyber-attacks on British banks;

2014 - Reportedly sets up ISIS’s Anwar al-Awlaki battalion, a unit of foreign fighters whose female wing is run by his wife, Sally Jones;

2014 - Hussain’s ‘cyber caliphate’ hacked US and international media companies and threatened then First Lady Michelle Obama and the Obama children over Twitter;

2015- After Hussain’s death the ‘cyber caliphate’ takes over more than 54,000 Twitter accounts and post details including passwords online;

2015 - Communicated with Justin Nojan Sullivan, 21, who plotted a mass shooting on behalf of ISIS. Sullivan, from Morganton, North Carolina, received a life sentence in June 2017;

2015 - Prime suspect in hacking US Central Command Twitter and YouTube accounts. The command is the Pentagon arm conducting the war in Iraq and Syria;

2015 - Corresponded with Usaamah Abdullah Rahman, 26, killed by law enforcement in Boston while apparently hunting for police officers to decapitate;

2015 - Linked to a hitlist of four RAF bases in the UK which is placed on the internet for ‘lone wolf’ attacks;

2015 - Another data leak linked to Hussain allegedly shows the names, email addresses and passwords of Foreign Office diplomats;

2015 - Tells undercover reporters that a girl in Glasgow is planning to kill the Queen using an improvised explosive device;

2015 - Recruited Elton Simpson, who opened fire in Garland, Texas, in revenge for blogs written by ‘Jihad Watch’ organiser Pamela Geller;

2015 - Corresponded with former nightclub doorman Zahid Hussain, 29, who planned to set off a bomb on the Birmingham to London rail line. Hussain, who carried out reconnaissance of the line near his parents house in Alum Rock, was jailed for life in October this year;

2015 - American man Justin Nojan Sullivan, 21, from North Carolina, planned a mass casualty attack before being arrested in 2015 and sentenced to life this year. Federal officials said he made the promise to Hussain directly;

-- At least seven further Americans who had been in contact with Hussain were killed or arrested by law enforcement over the next two years

2015 - Joined forces with Reyaad Khan, 21, from Cardiff, to encourage terror attacks across the world. Khan is later killed in an airstrike;

2015 -- Recruited American Munir Abdulkader, 23, from Ohio, to behead a US soldier whose family home address had been hacked from military records;

2015 -- Taught an Australian teenager how to make a home-made bomb and encouraged him to use it in an attack on Melbourne;

2015 -- In contact with Ardit Ferizi, a 19-year-old in Malaysia who hacked the website of a major US retailer and stole personal details of more than 100,000 customers. The list was culled to 1,300 US military and government personnel and passed to Hussain. Ferizi was later sentenced to 20 years’ prison after being extradited to the US;

2016 - Revealed to have urged an undercover BBC reporter posing as a 17-year-old boy to carry out a terror attack on London Bridge;

2016 - The son of Hussain’s ‘wife’, fellow British jihadi Sally Jones, is thought to be shown in an ISIS video executing Kurdish prisoners;

2016-- A delivery driver who plotted to murder US troops living in British military bases with Hussain’s help is jailed for a minimum 12 years. Junead Ahmed Khan, 25, from Luton, had been in contact with Hussain over a plan to murder an airman outside a base;

2016 - Hussain is linked to ISIS member Neil Prakash, dubbed ‘Australia’s most wanted terror suspect’. The close friends were tracked by the FBI. Prakash is currently in prison in Turkey;

2016 – Hussain’s profile picture is used on social media by an ISIS recruiter targeting the Philippines, according to a court hearing;

2017 - Linked to a jihadist who fled Manchester for Syria. Raymond Matimba, 28, is believed to have left Britain in 2014 to become a sniper for the group in the region;

2017 - Indirectly linked to the Manchester Arena attack when 2014 footage emerges of Hussain with Matimba in Raqqa. Matimba was in contact with suicide bomber Salman Abedi in the run-up to the massacre, which claimed 22 lives at an Ariana Grande concert;

2017 - UK security services continue 5,000 live investigations. While it is not known if any are linked to Hussain, he is said to have left behind an “army” of hackers.