(Global News) Surrounded in the shrinking territory of the Islamic State nine months ago, Safraz Ali fled with his wife, walking to a military checkpoint where soldiers asked their nationalities.
“I said, ‘Canadians,’” Ali told Global News at a military base in northern Syria, where he was being held at a prison for ISIS suspects.
In an interview, Ali revealed that ISIS had tried to recruit him to return to North America to conduct terrorist attacks. But he said he had refused.
“I don’t believe in foreign attacks,” he said.
For declining to participate in the plot, Ali said he was jailed and tortured by ISIS.
