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Citizenship
Jihadi Jack’s parents brand Sajid Javid a ‘coward’ over revoked citizenship
(BBC) The parents of a UK-Canadian man who joined the Islamic State group have said former Home Secretary Sajid Javid is a “coward” for revoking his British citizenship. Jack Letts — dubbed Jihadi Jack — was 18 when he left his Oxfordshire […]
Children & Teens
Philly criminal lawyer reveals teen terror suspect is his son 'I didn’t see it coming at all. At all,' the lawyer, whose 17-year-old son was arrested in an FBI raid on charges of plotting a national terrorist attack, told the Daily Beast.
(Daily Beast) A prominent Philadelphia criminal defense attorney has confirmed that the terror suspect arrested by the FBI in an armed raid on his suburban home [Friday] is his 17-year-old son. Qawi Abdul-Rahman, 50, told the Daily Beast that he was “shocked […]
Children & Teens
U.S. seeks to repatriate family of 10 Americans from camps in Syria A Kurdish-led militia that is battling the Islamic State has been holding a mother and nine of her children for several years.
(NY Times) The State Department is working to repatriate a family of 10 American citizens stranded in Syria, where they are among the tens of thousands of people effectively imprisoned in desert camps and detention centers from the war against the Islamic […]