A family who thought he was "on holiday in Europe," and our American intelligence agency, had no idea that Mohamad Khweis had joined ISIS. Khweis did turn himself in to the custody of Kurdish forces this week, and is now going to have an intense unknown time of interrogation from numerous intelligence agencies, looking to gain knowledge from this American ISIS defector.
Khweis described himself leaving Virginia to join ISIS with an unnamed woman whose sister is married to an ISIS member. Once he reached the city of Mosul, life wasn't what he thought it would be saying that, "it was pretty hard to live in Mosul...It's not like Western Countries...there's no smoking". His day was spent praying, learning Sharia and the Islamic religion for eight hours a day. Once reality set in for Khweis he wanted to get out of Mosul and back to the US. Khweis is quoted as saying "I made a bad decision to go with the girl and go to Mosul. At the time I made a decision to go because I wasn't thinking straight, and on the way there I regretted- I wanted to go back."
In all honesty this sounds to me like he had numerous opportunities to return back home to Virginia; between all of the bus rides, overnight stays and plane rides. He wasn't thinking straight probably because he became infatuated with this woman whose sister was married to an ISIS member. He probably thought he was going to be "rewarded" from this woman by joining ISIS. When he wasn't able to do what he wanted, which had to involve smoking, he had what I can only imagine to be a hissy-fit and wanted to go home.
What will happen to him once he comes back to America? Naturally I would like to see this American, who wasn't on the USA's intelligence watch list, put on trial. He most assuredly had to have thought that what ISIS could provide was tangible enough to leave the safety of American borders. He left knowing what the organization stood for. Everyone knows this is a terrorist group. He wanted to be a hailed terrorist. Now let's put him in jail to remember for the rest of his days just what a group like that will lead to.... and that no random person is worth betraying your country.
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