Texas truck of terror.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: Artifact - Ford pickup used by terrorists - Brief article

Mark Oberholtzer wasn't following the Syrian militant group Jabhat Ansar al-Din on Twitter. So when they tweeted a picture of a Ford pickup in December with an antiaircraft gun blazing from the truck bed, he probably missed it.

Until someone mentioned to him that it was his truck. Or rather, it was a truck previously owned by his plumbing company. The jihadists hadn't bothered to remove the decal from the door for Mark-I Plumbing, complete with his phone number, before sending out the action shot on social media.

Oberholtzer says he traded the truck in at a Texas dealership in 2013. From there, it went to an auction house and was bought and sold until it ended up with its Twitter-happy new owners near Aleppo.

Since then, the small plumbing...