Current Events > Female teen who fled abroad to join ISIS begs authorites to return home.

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Linda Wenzel, 16, left for Turkey and was smuggled into Syria after the collapse of her parents' marriage. It's believed that during the difficult divorce process, the young teen was being groomed by a Chechen extremist, who convinced her to flee her small town in Germany.

The night of her disappearance, Linda told her mother and stepfather that she would be spending the night with a friend. By the time her parents found a copy of her plane ticket, she was already gone.

The airline ticket showed that she booked a return flight home, but she never reappeared. Her family had been unable to contact her and presumed her dead. Nearly a year after her disappearance, though, Linda was found alive in the rubble of a destroyed house in Mosul.

"I collapsed when I learned that Linda lives," said her stepfather Reiner, who heard the news on the radio while working on a construction site. "My colleagues came over to me. I had to leave and go and sit at a service station where I cried."

Linda is currently being questioned by American and Iraqi interrogators in Baghdad. She is believed to have suffered a gunshot wound to the thigh. She may also have had a baby with the Chechen extremist who convinced her to flee. The teen was found carrying an extremely malnourished boy.

"I don’t know for sure that it is her baby, but she keeps him with her always," said an unnamed Iraqi soldier familiar with the situation. He added that Linda has been seen breast-feeding the child, further indicating that he could be her son.

Speaking for the first time since her disappearance, Linda said that she desperately wants to return home to reunite with her family.

"I just want to get away from here," she told reporters from her cell in Baghdad. "I want to get away from the war, from the many weapons, from the noise.I just want to go home to my family."

If she returns to Germany, it's possible that she may face 10 years in jail for supporting a terrorist organization.

It's also possible that she may face trial in Iraq, in which case she could be sentenced to death for colluding with extremists. An officer in Iraq's elite counter-terrorism unit said that she was found holding a gun and admitted to killing a number of Iraqis in battle.

German authorities have begun talks with Baghdad to see if she can be safely returned home.

Full ARticle: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/world/german-teenager-who-fled-join-isis-iraq-begs-return-home



Jeez. One guy took that pretty little girl and turned her into a mass murderer inside of a year...
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Death penalty
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What a shame she had no idea how awful it is where she was planning on going

If only there was some way for her to know
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Let her back in.

Then hang her for treason.

Don't get me wrong, she is absolutely a victim of ISIS as much as anyone but what she did is literally unforgivable.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Let her back in.

Then hang her for treason..

Seems kinda pointless when Iraq wants to hang her
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Let her back in.

Then hang her for treason.

Don't get me wrong, she is absolutely a victim of ISIS as much as anyone but what she did is literally unforgivable.

Didn't Canada just give some guy millions of dollars for doing this.

And didn't Obama let some chick out of jail that did this?

Can only imagine what's going to happen to this girl.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Seems kinda pointless when Iraq wants to hang her

Which honestly is why I hope they keep her instead of letting her return.
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Didn't Canada just give some guy millions of dollars for doing this.

And didn't Obama let some chick out of jail that did this?

that doesn't sound right.
source?
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revoke her citizenship let her live with the consequences
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CADE FOSTER posted...

revoke her citizenship let her live with the consequences

In Germany citizenship doesn't mean shit.

ROBANN_88 posted...

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Didn't Canada just give some guy millions of dollars for doing this.

And didn't Obama let some chick out of jail that did this?

that doesn't sound right.
source?

http://www.dailywire.com/news/18254/canadian-government-pay-islamic-terrorist-105-robert-kraychik
don't know about the obama thing tho.
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how do we know this isn't a ploy so she can blow herself up?

to mods, we are literally talking ISIS fyi
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ROBANN_88 posted...

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Didn't Canada just give some guy millions of dollars for doing this.

And didn't Obama let some chick out of jail that did this?

that doesn't sound right.
source?

Dad went to become a terrorist and brought his under 18 son along.

The 16 year old Canadian Son allegelly threw a grenade that killed soldiers. Although there is little evidence he did this and what evidence there is (such as the eyewitness accounts of the soldiers) suggests he did not do this.

He was sent to Guantanamo and tortured at age 16 + incarcirated for years.

When he got out he sued the state who apologized and gave him a payoff after years of intense investigation in court found nothing that justified his violation of rights and torture.

Not really comparable to this girl
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hmm. i mean if she was just a groomed victim and never actually fought for them I'm inclined to let her back with close probation/monitoring.
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Didn't Canada just give some guy millions of dollars for doing this.

Not at all.
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Dont let her back. She made her bed, let her lie in it. She can be a sex slave for some 50year old creep who has an 8 year old wife
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E32005 posted...

hmm. i mean if she was just a groomed victim and never actually fought for them I'm inclined to let her back with close probation/monitoring.

Article says she admitted to killing Iraqis in battle. Dunno if that means Iraqi soldiers or Iraqi extremists, though.