Greene secretly travelled to Syria to marry an ISIS operative she was investigating

FBI translator says ISIS marriage a mistake

Washington, May 2: An FBI translator traveled to Syria in 2014 and married an ISIS fighter she had been assigned to investigate, CNN has revealed.

Daniela Greene, 38, secretly fled the US to marry Denis Cuspert, a German rapper who had appeared in ISIS recruitment videos threatening Barack Obama and holding a freshly-severed human head. She warned her new husband he was under investigation, according to federal records.

Cuspert — known as Deso Dogg in Germany and as Abu Talha alAlmani in Syria — quit the rap world in 2010 after a near-fatal car crash and converted to Islam.

However, within weeks of marrying Cuspert, Greene realised she had made a mistake. In an email to a friend she wrote: “I was weak and didn’t know how to handle anything anymore. I really made a mess of things this time.

“I am gone and I can’t come back. I wouldn’t even know how to make it through, if I tried to come back ... I don’t know how long I will last here, but it doesn't matter, it’s all a little too late...”

After about a month in Syria, Greene somehow was able to leave the wartorn country and returned to the US. She was arrested on August 8, 2014 and she agreed to cooperate with authorities, the CNN report said. She pleaded guilty to making false statements involving international terrorism and was sentenced to two years in federal prison. She was released in August 2016.

The incident exposes an embarrassing breach of national security at the FBI. Former state department official John Kirby told CNN it was a “stunning embarrassment” for the FBI.

Cuspert was thought to have been killed in an airstrike in 2015 but the US later said they believe he is still alive, CNN reported.