It’s ‘sweet relief’ to be home, says US boy forced to threaten Trump in IS video

(BBC) An American boy who was made to threaten President Donald Trump in an Islamic State group video says it was “sweet relief” to return to the US.

Matthew, taken to Syria by his mother and stepfather, was 10 when he was filmed telling Mr Trump to prepare for a battle on US soil.

Now 13, he has been living with his father for a year, after being flown home by the US military in 2018.

“It’s happened and it’s done. It’s all behind me now,” he told the BBC.

“I was so young I did not really understand any of it.”

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