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2018-04-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

The price of stupid: An American ISIS widow looks for a way home

For Samantha Sally, a vacation was all it took to flip her quiet middle-American world of muscle cars, cotton candy and an Indiana packing company, into the horror of the ritual beatings, serial rape, torture and propaganda videos of ISIS's so-called Caliphate.

A holiday is what her husband, Moussa Elhassani, promised her when she went to Hong Kong in 2014, she says. The couple was planning to move to Morocco to start a new, cheaper life, she says, and needed to go through Hong Kong to transfer money.

Days later, Sally says, she stood on the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish border with Syria, on the edge of ISIS territory, her husband holding her daughter, Sarah, while she held her son, Matthew, then 7, confronted with an impossible choice: Abandon her daughter to ISIS and save her son, or follow her husband into ISIS's so-called Caliphate. Following him was the only way to protect her daughter, she says.

"To stay there with my son or watch my daughter leave with my husband -- I had to make a decision," Sally, 32, tells CNN in northern Syria.

"Maybe I would never have seen my daughter again ever, and how can I live the rest of my life like that."

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#1 Kardashian starter set.
Rantburg Snark of The Day

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#2 Ref #1. Do I have a second for Snark of The Day ?

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#3 Any non Muslim woman that decides to marry a Muslim needs her head examined. These marriages routinely turn sour.

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#4 Second

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#5 Basic reading class and article on Canada!

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#6 Should have read the fine print of the marriage contract bu it was in Arabic.

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