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A New Zealand jihadi fighting for ISIS has been accidentally tweeting his location from within Syria as he updates his followers on his time in the warzone.

Mark Taylor, who is known on Twitter as @M_Taylor_Kiwi had forgotten to switch off the geo-location on his tweets as he travelled across Syria. Taylor, who changed his name to Abu Abdul-Rahman, made a series of 45 tweets which broadcast his ever-changing location.

The series of tweets was saved by the Canadian based social media jihad monitor Ibrabo. Taylor soon deleted his tweets, which gave vital intelligence information to various government agencies.
According to a blog post, Ibrabo claimed: 'Taylor isn’t the first jihadist to broadcast his whereabouts via social media and in fact looking at the battlefield in Syria we see fighters from Canada, France, and other western countries making the same mistake. The benefit of material like this when examining foreign fighters is it allows investigators to establish the extent to which an individual is tied to a terrorist group like Daesh (ISIS). In this manner they can better justify potential criminal charges against the individual and at the very least build grounds for their detention and investigation upon their return.'
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