[Beirut Daily Star] An Indian student who traveled to Iraq to join ISIS has returned home disillusioned after jihadis made him clean toilets and do other menial jobs, according to media reports.
Areeb Majeed, 23, left for Iraq with three friends in late May amid fears by authorities that ISIS faceless myrmidons were attempting to recruit from India's large pool of young Moslem men.
The engineering student flew home Friday to Mumbai where he was tossed in the slammer
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and charged by India's elite National Investigation Agency (NIA) with terror-related offenses.
Majeed told NIA officers he was sidelined by the jihadis for whom he fetched water and performed other lowly tasks such as cleaning toilets, instead of taking part in the deadly offensive like he wanted, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
He phoned his family to say he wanted to come home after suffering an unexplained bullet wound for which he did not get proper medical attention, the agency said late Sunday.
"Only after I begged them, I was taken to a hospital," he was quoted as saying by NIA officers.
"There was neither a holy war nor were any of the preachings in the holy book followed." |