young Jihadis want to go back to welfare state

[pismoe]

--- British jihadists want to come home say they made mistake Metro News --- let'em back in , they just made a little mistake !!

 

[Coyote]

Decades ago many young Americans and Europeans fell for the ideals of Communism. Sounded great on paper....but....after they went to the USSR they discovered the reality did not match the propaganda. Many were stuck behind the Iron Curtain unable to escape for years.

I suspect this is also the case with many would-be Jihadi's.

 

[Coyote]

Brooklyn Man Fights In Syria. Is He A Threat To The U.S. Parallels NPR

Fighting For Whom?

But people who know Moflihi say his decision to travel to Syria came because he didn't feel he could stand by and let the Syrian government kill innocent women and children. They said he thought it was his Muslim duty to help.

"Many who went to Syria are not radicals or even Islamists," says Andrew Tabler, a Syria expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "They have gone to help in hospitals, and even those who have gone to fight have joined nationalist brigades."

That's what the Omar al-Mukhtar Battalion is considered. It is a fairly well-known fighting force in Syria that is focused on toppling the Syrian regime, as opposed to setting up an Islamic State. The group has an Islamist tinge, but is not considered overly anti-American. Most of the videos Moflihi posted had the battalion's green and white insignia in the corner.

What caught the eye of NYPD investigators, and eventually the FBI as well, was that Ahmed al-Moflihi appeared to be more than just a regular recruit in some of the videos. In one, there is a bunch of young men training, rifles in hand, and Moflihi appears to be leading them.

Both investigators and Moflihi's friends agree that he didn't stay in Syria long. After less than two months of fighting, he met a Syrian refugee, married her and moved with her to Yemen. And that's where he is now

..."Who's a threat? That's the million-dollar question," says McBride. "As a matter of policy and a matter of criminal law enforcement, the U.S. government is just not going to stand for people going into Syria to take up arms and fight with these groups that are in almost every instance avowedly anti-American."

Complicated questions.