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Israeli ISIS militant dreams of return to Tel Aviv
2020-01-26
How very sad for him. The heart bleeds. *urrrrp* S’cuse me!
[Rudaw] An Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) prisoner originally from Israel has said he regrets joining the caliphate in Syria and dreams of returning to Israel, he told Rudaw on Sunday.

Saif Dawood travelled from Tel Aviv to Syria via Istanbul in 2015, when the group had taken control of vast swaths of Iraq and Syria and declared it a caliphate.

Dawood claims he was a nurse in Raqqa, then the nerve center of Islamic State in Syria, working as a first aid trauma medic until 2017. He is now held in a north Syria prison run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

Dawood told Rudaw his only intention in coming to Syria was "helping the Syrian people from the dictator Bashir al-Assad."

However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
he then said he was also drawn in by then ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s promises that "this state would be on based on the Prophet Mohammed" ‐ a claim he said was misleading.

He said it was wrong for him to have joined the holy warrior group ‐ but does not regret it.

"I don’t regret joining ISIS, because I have learned a lot from this mistake, and I admit now that I took a wrong step."

Dawood had been in a Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) jail for four months until January 2018, when he said he fled towards Kurdish areas in northern Syria, where he was taken into custody by the SDF.

"I wish and dream that I could break out of prison and go back to Israel," Dawood told Rudaw. "Escaping from this prison is but a dream for me, as security here is tough."

Dawood is a native of Kafr Bara, a town 30 minutes away from the city of Tel Aviv. Israel should take him back because he is a citizen, he says -
Did he not give up his citizenship in human kingdoms when he joined the New Men of Allah’s kingdom on Earth? How, then, can Israel possibly take him back?
however, he would be unable to fight their refusal to do so as he is now too "fragile and weak."

ISIS exacted brutal rule over the territory it controlled, including the subjection of thousands of women and kiddies to capture and abuse.

With the support of the Global Coalition against ISIS, the SDF was able to take control of Baghouz, the holy warriors’ last bastion in Deir ez-Zor province, in March 2019.

The Kurdish-led forces captured thousands of ISIS fighters in the battle to retake the town. It currently holds an estimated 2,000 foreign ISIS fighters and 8,000 local ISIS gunnies in northeast Syrian detention centers.

An additional 70,000 women and kiddies affiliated with the group are held in camps across Syria, including al-Hol, in the northeast Syrian province of Hasaka.
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Posted by:trailing wife

#2  hostis humani generis... Sometimes the ye olde custom of hanging pirates from the nearest yardarm has a certain simple charm.
Posted by: magpie   2020-01-26 11:01  

#1  OK. Just come to the secret meeting point. Don't tell anybody why & where you're going.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-01-26 03:13  

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