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ISIL supporters are complaining that reporting by friendly media networks on the capture of a Canadian who was the terror group’s propagandist has hurt their morale because it is being celebrated on social media with tags to the CIA and Mossad.

The National Post reported Sunday that an ISIL-linked media outlet confirmed one of their fighters captured in Syria is a Canadian who “waged jihad with his voice and weapon” as the narrator of ISIL’s English-language news and propaganda.

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The Al-Muhajireen Foundation, an outlet with known links to ISIL, distributed a poster praising the man as a “hero” on Sunday.

It showed a photograph of a man who identified himself as Mohammad Abdullah Mohammad, a Canadian from Toronto who was captured by Kurdish forces on Jan. 13 after a firefight with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-supported coalition of militias.

An English-language version of the Al-Muhajireen poster was later distributed, saying the Canadian’s capture was “sad news for all mujahideen of the Islamic State.” It dubbed him “our media mujahid.” (Mujahid and mujahideen are the singular and plural form of the Arabic word for someone involved in jihad.)