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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 07:59 AM Sep 2014

British jihadists in Syria are sorry, want to come home

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-crisis-british-jihadists-becoming-disillusioned-at-fighting-rival-rebels-and-not-assad-regime-9713279.html

Many other articles online, but few mention that those jihadists joined a militia that allied with ISIS and turned against other anti-Assad-militias. That connection to ISIS, that was established without their consent, would get them 30 years of jail.

On the one hand, I am sorry for those guys, because they were betrayed and are now used against those rebels that they really share goals with. On the other hand, I think going abroad and joining a random militia to fight in a war that doesn't affect you is so blatantly stupid, that they deserve anything that comes out.
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British jihadists in Syria are sorry, want to come home (Original Post) DetlefK Sep 2014 OP
George Orwell and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade were blatently stupid AngryAmish Sep 2014 #1
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