A 27-year-old German, publicly identified only as Sami J., is among six Europeans on a list 173 potential suicide bombers for the Islamic State apparently found by Iraqi troops who fought IS in Mosul earlier this year.  On Thursday, Germany's Die Welt newspaper, which had access to the document, reported that Sami - apparently from Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia - was No. 70 on the list.

The newspaper also published his photo and IS name, Abu Assid al-Almani. The list had been passed on to Interpol by US services.  The paper also reported that Sami had been a leading member of Millatu Ibrahim, a hard-line extremist organization based in Solingen that was founded in 2011 and banned by the German Interior Ministry in 2012, when it was said to have had about 50 members.

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