If anything this saga has been ultimate proof that a lot of self-proclaimed ITKs know fuck all. I'm not on about journalists, I'm on about your professional Twitter users who seem to get off on drip-feeding information they don't have, based on posts and articles made by other people.
Who out of the usual suspects was mentioning Marmoush, Khusanov, etc. before last week? Absolutely none of them. Never mind a month ago. Now it's all cryptic Egyptian flag emojis on Twitter and "my sources tell me", this and that. A load of nonsense but I guess you have to commend their cunning.