New York Daily News

ISIS seduces fBI gal

Translator fell for ex-rapper terrorist, jailed 2 yrs.

- BY CHRISTOPHE­R BRENNAN

SHE WAS sleeping with the enemy — and she married him.

FBI translator Daniela Greene briefly wound up in a U.S. prison after authoritie­s discovered she flew to Syria and married an ISIS fighter she was supposed to be investigat­ing.

The 38-year-old Greene — who was still married to an American at the time of her wild dash overseas — said she gave in to temptation and returned to the Middle East in 2014 to marry a German rapper who was also a spokesman for the terrorist group.

But it didn’t take long for Greene to realize she’d made a horrible mistake. She hightailed it back to the U.S. a few weeks later, according to a federal criminal complaint.

The FBI operative quickly confessed to authoritie­s that she married “Individual A,” the man she was assigned to investigat­e.

“I was weak and didn’t know how to handle anything anymore. I really made a mess of things this time,” she emailed that July.

The complaint says Greene told supervisor­s she was traveling to Germany in 2014 for vacation, but instead went to Turkey and crossed its border with Syria to marry her ISIS boyfriend.

“Individual A” is Denis Cuspert (photo), also known by his rap name Deso Dogg and his Arabic moniker Abu Talha al-Almani, according to CNN, which first reported the story Monday.

The network said Cuspert was a small-time rapper whose biggest success was opening for DMX in 2006. He later turned his music toward songs that praised Osama Bin Laden. The government narrative of what happened to Greene, a fluent German speaker, is filled with sealed files and redacted paragraphs. But it mostly focuses on her false statements to the FBI rather than her conduct in the Middle East.

A sentencing document says Greene married “Individual A” and told him American authoritie­s were investigat­ing his terrorist activities. Cuspert was officially designated terrorist in February a 2015. A State Department release described Cuspert is a “willing pitchman for (ISIS) atrocities.”

The rapper was convicted of crimes in Germany before going to Iraq and Syria to “commit far worse crimes,” the document said. In one video he held the decapitate­d head of an ISIS victim.

Greene, who had top secret security clearance, said in an email she knew she would “probably go to prison for a long time” once she got back to the U.S.

Yet prosecutor­s advocated on her behalf, asking that she only be sentenced to two years in prison — despite the fact that Greene initially intended to join ISIS when she arrived in the Middle East.

Proseuctor­s cited her cooperatio­n and swift admission of guilt as the reasons they pushed for a comparativ­ely light sentence.

Greene was released in 2016 after serving two years, CNN said. She now works as a waitress in a hotel lounge, according to the network.

The FBI told CNN that after her trip it “took several steps in a variety of areas to identify and reduce security vulnerabil­ities.”

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