American ISIS fighter: 'I wasn't thinking straight'

[k98nights]

American ISIS fighter: 'I wasn't thinking straight'

 

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By Rebecca Kheel - 03/18/16 10:26 AM EDT

An American captured by Kurdish forces earlier this week said he “wasn’t thinking straight” when he joined the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

“At the time I made the decision to go because I wasn’t thinking straight,” Mohamad Jamal Khweis said in an interview with a Kurdish TV station that aired late Thursday. “On the way there, I regretted. I wanted to go back.”

 

 

Khweis, 26, of Virginia, was captured by the Kurdish Peshmerga on Monday near the town of Sinjar, which was retaken from ISIS late last year.

In the interview, he detailed a journey that started in December and took him from the United States to London to Amsterdam to Turkey to Syria to Iraq.

In Turkey, he said, he met an Iraqi woman whose sister was married to an ISIS fighter. The woman arranged his travel to Syria and later to Mosul, Iraq.

“I made a bad decision to go with the girl and go to Mosul,” he said.

In Syria, he said, he had to hand over his ID and passport, and was given the nickname “Abu Omar.”

In Mosul, he underwent daily religious training along with about 60 to 70 other foreign recruits from countries including Russia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, he said. He didn’t meet any other Americans, he added.

He said he decided to flee after about a month because he didn’t agree with ISIS's ideology.

“The situation, I found it hard,” he said. “It was pretty hard to live in Mosul. It’s not like the Western countries. It’s very strict. There’s no smoking. I found it hard for everyone there.”

He escaped Mosul with the help of a friend, he said, and walked to Kurdish territory.

“I wanted to go to the Kurdish side because I know they are good with the Americans,” he said.

The interview ended with a message to Americans: “My message to the American people is that life in Mosul is really, really bad. The people who are controlling Mosul don’t represent the religion. Daesh, ISIS, ISIL, they don’t represent the religion. I don’t see them as good Muslims.”

 

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/273541-american-isis-fighter-i-wasnt-thinking-straight?

[four wheel drift]

I feel bad for this guy. They should inject him with lead and see if that helps.

 

FWD

 

GO RV

[BJinMontreal]

WOW!!!

That's a great excuse right there !!!

Right up there with "the dog ate my homework"  This guy should get what he joined for - his 72 virgins ...

except with names like Bubba, and Loco I doubt they'd be very virginish ...

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

***///  Guantanamo for this evil little tool. 

"...a woman made me do it... waaahhh....!"  

Wow.... ....  okay, you can be the girl in Guantanamo when ya get there.

Just remember,

all you new boyfriends there are used to goats, so you'd better learn to bleat !

[siberian_shaddow]

No Mercy, if one is forgiven for there ignorance then all of them will have sad little sob stories when captured, kill the cockroaches for what they stand for and what there doing.

[10 YEARS LATER]

2 hours ago, four wheel drift said:

I feel bad for this guy. They should inject him with lead and see if that helps.

 

FWD

 

GO RV

Wish I'd said that - my sentiments exactly !!

[skeetdog]

Thanks k98...Kind of reminds me of ''Jake'' on Lonesome Dove...Right before he became a tree-swing...There's consequences for the choices we make and to make the choice to pick sides against the world issue of international terrorism...should take him to a place he's never been...    

[SnowGlobe7]

yea your feel bad now.....to bad for you....to the gallows!!!!

 

so does everyone who gets caught!!!!

Edited March 18, 2016 by SnowGlobe7
thought of something witty...lol

[davis411]

heard this on the radio today

a woman made me do it

well i hate to say

a woman has a lot of controll over a man if they and many do

know how to use it

trust me, i am still yes maam yes mmmm the kid did it or didn't do it

there is only one person in this world that scares me

my wife

right or wrong i can actually see how a woman could change you, right or wrong.

seen crime stories on this 

 

just my thoughts

 

[pontiyak]

I can see Paradise by the dashboard lights.....

 

Sorry.. It just popped into my noddle...

 

The best things in life RV

 

yak

[SnowGlobe7]

ahhhh I love meatloaf!!!

[gymrat76541]

Put his butt in general population when he goes to prison! See how long he last!

[chess]

 

.....per Clint's spaghetti western.........."Hang 'em High"

[sandfly]

I SAY, ALL AMERICANS THAT GOES THERE TO HELP THEM, TAKE THERE PASSPORT AND LEAVE THEM THERE

[DinarMillionaire]

"I wasn't thinking straight"?

Isn't that what every Demoncrap said after voting for Obuttho?  Nah, they were to stupid to come to that conclusion, Hitlery and Bernie are proof of that. Too bad they can't be jailed for persistant stupidity. 

 

[Officiallytook]

I take this as Isis is done for...

[psdon]

he's stupid and med's doesn't fix it