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2023-01-10 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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US Citizen Demands Be Repatriated From Camps In NE Syria
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A US citizen, who is detained in Roj Camp, in northeast Syria, with other Islamic State Organization (ISIS) family members, said on Sunday she had been “brainwashed” before joining ISIS.
The 28-year-old Hoda Muthana told the News Movement, in an interview in Roj camp, that she still hopes to return to the US even if she will serve prison time, and then advocate against the extremist ISIS.
Roj camp, the second dangerous camp after Hawl Camp, is run by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), it is a house for 806 families, including 2.800 individuals of Arabs and foreigners, mostly women and children of ISIS members who hail from 62 countries, according to previous a report published by North Press.
Muthana, who was born in New Jersey to Yemeni immigrants, was raised in a conservative Muslim household in Hoover, Alabama.
| That’s proud dad Ahmed Ali Muthana, the former Yemeni diplomat who found America more congenial. In 2019 he sued the U.S. government to make them bring his little girl home. He was represented by the Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America (CLCMA), funded by the Muslim Legal Fund of America... |
Muthana said that she was brainwashed by online traffickers in order to join the group in 2014, as she was only 20 years old.
| She may have been, but 20 is fully adult, not a silly schoolgirl. And once she got there, she cooperated enthusiastically, tweeting hard to persuade others to join her in the paradise of the Caliphate. |
She regrets everything she did except for the child that she had with one of the three ISIS fighters that she got married to in Syria, according to her words.
| The Australian and the Tunisian were each killed in turn, then she divorced the third one. |
In 2014, she told her family she was going on a school trip, but instead, she flew to Turkey and crossed into Syria.
The US government stripped her from her citizenship in 2016.
| A President Obama initiative... |
She added that she cannot expose the atrocities that ISIS committed due to fear of reprisal inside the camp, but once she gets out, she will do.
Hassan Shibly, an attorney said, “She was brainwashed and taken advantage of.”
| Mr. Shibly, esq. is a colourful character: “civil rights” lawyer and head of CAIR in Florida, which isn’t colourful, but then there were allegations of wife abuse, secret marriages, bullying, sexual harassment. All that came out after he started handling public relations for the Muthana family in 2015. |
“She was absolutely misguided…she was a teenager who was the victim of a very sophisticated recruitment operation that focuses on taking advantage of the young, the vulnerable, and the disenfranchised,” he said.
| Not a teenager if she was 20... |
In November 2022, the US urged the repatriation of nationals of European countries from camps in northeast Syria, saying that it is “critical” to prevent the return of ISIS.
| Update at 9:50 a.m. ET: Fox News gets in on the story, too — Mr. Shibly, esq. must be working his little tootsies off for the former diplomat. The article adds: |
Once she arrived in Syria, Muthana says she was detained in a guest house reserved for unmarried women and children.
"I’ve never seen that kind of filthiness in my life, like there was 100 women and twice as much kids, running around, too much noise, filthy beds," she recalled.
She said the only way out was to marry an ISIS fighter, and she eventually married three, giving birth to a child.
The Islamic State at one time held swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and at the height of their power became famous for brutal executions and terrorist attacks that they frequently boasted about on social media. During that time Muthana appeared to be a vocal supporter of the group in interviews with Buzzfeed News and on social media. Posts from 2015 on her Twitter account showed her encouraging more Americans to join the extremist group and carry out attacks at home, including drive-by shootings, vehicle rammings and targeting large gatherings on national holidays.
Muthana had her citizenship revoked in 2016 by the Obama administration, which argued her birthright citizenship could be canceled because her father was an accredited Yemeni diplomat at the time of her birth. That decision was maintained throughout the Trump administration, which continued to ban her from returning to the United States.
Attorneys representing Muthana have claimed the move was in error, arguing that her diplomatic accreditation ended before she was born. But U.S. courts have upheld the position of the government, while the Supreme Court declined her appeal to hear the case last year.
Hassan Shibly, an attorney for Muthana’s family, argues it is "absolutely clear that she was brainwashed and taken advantage of." He added that the family believes she should be allowed back to repay her debt to society and help others from "falling into the dark path that she was led down."
| He has a Twitter account, where he posts things like this: |
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