(National-UAE) Children of British men and women who went to Syria to fight for ISIS could become “serious terrorists,” the chairman of an independent counter-terrorism commission has claimed.
With up to 40 children of UK citizens trapped in Syria, the British government had to take the responsibility for repatriating and re-educating them, said Sir Declan Morgan, a retired judge who led work on the report on the UK adopting a different approach to terrorism.
He said the Syrian state had chosen not to accept responsibility for the group. “That means they are effectively stateless and the danger is that these children are actually going to turn out to be serious terrorists,” he said, speaking at the Royal United Services Institute think tank in London.
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