QAMISHLI, Syria: An Islamic State fighter detained in Syria urged Italy on Saturday (Mar 9) to let him come home to start a new life, saying said ...
QAMISHLI, Syria: An Islamic State fighter detained in Syria urged Italy on Saturday to let him come home to start a new life, saying said he had abandoned the self-styled jihadist"caliphate" after growing disillusioned with its rulers.
But he said Islamic State was also planning for the next phase, smuggling out hundreds of men to set up sleeper cells across Iraq and eastern Syria:"They said 'We must get revenge'." The SDF wants them sent back to where they came from. But foreign governments generally do not want to receive citizens who may be hard to legally prosecute, and who pledged allegiance to a caliphate that left behind of a trail of butchery.
Then he began immersing himself in Islamic State videos on YouTube and speaking to recruiters on Facebook. It took him only a month to decide to move to Syria with a friend four years ago. He wound up in Baghouz, where he said the jihadists were split between wanting to give up or fight to the death. Mkhayar said he could not sleep thinking about his wife and two daughters in a camp for displaced people in another part of northeast Syria. His wife is due to give birth in a month.
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