Deso Dogg
| Denis Cuspert | |
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| Born |
Denis Mamadou Gerhard Cuspert October 18, 1975 Kreuzberg, West Berlin, Germany |
| Died | October 16, 2015 Raqqa, Syria |
| Nationality | German Ghanaian |
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Denis Mamadou Gerhard Cuspert (born October 18, 1975, Kreuzberg, Berlin,died October 16, 2015, Raqqa, Syria), also known by his stage name, Deso Dogg and his nome de guerre Abu Talha al-Almani, was an Afro-German member of the Islamic State and former rapper. Cuspert had ended his rap career after converting to Islam and taking the name Abou Maleeq.
Cuspert left Germany for Egypt and eventually Syria, where he fought with jihadist anti-government forces in the Syrian Civil War, under the nom de guerre of Abu Talha Al-Almani (meaning Abu Talha the German). He was wounded during the fighting in the northern-Syrian town of Azaz in an air-strike conducted by the Syrian Army. In 2014 he gave his oath of allegiance to Islamist-Jihadi group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
The United States Department of State added Cuspert to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists on 9 February 2015, and the United Nations Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee designated him on 11 February 2015.
Cuspert was born in Kreuzberg, Berlin on October 18, 1975. His biological father, a man named Richard Luc-Giffard, was a Ghanaian national who abandoned the family when Cuspert was still a small child. He was deported soon after. His mother, Sigrid Cuspert, was a white German. He was later raised in Charlottenburg, Moabit and Schöneberg. His mother remarried an African-American U.S. Army officer with whom Cuspert had ongoing conflicts. He had a troubled youth and spent some time in juvenile detention center. In 1995 he began a rapping career with varying success, as he got increasingly involved in street trouble and eventually in crime.
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