Posted on Feb 24, 2016
Swedish teen rescued from ISIS: 'It was ... a hard life'
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This is one very lucky young lady.
"Life under ISIS was "totally different" from her life in Sweden, where she had "everything," she said "It was really a hard life." She had contacted her mother in Sweden by phone and told her she wanted to come home, and her mother had contacted Swedish officials, she said.
Sweden then notified Kurdish authorities, who carried out the rescue mission, according to the statement by the Kurdistan Region Security Council.
At the end of the interview, the teen smiles as she expresses her thanks to Kurdish authorities in Iraq. "I want to thank them to send me back to Sweden and meet my family again and have a happy life," she said."
Iraqi Kurdish authorities said in a statement Tuesday that Nivarlain had been "misled by an ISIL member in Sweden to travel to Syria and later to Mosul." ISIL is another acronym for ISIS.
"Life under ISIS was "totally different" from her life in Sweden, where she had "everything," she said "It was really a hard life." She had contacted her mother in Sweden by phone and told her she wanted to come home, and her mother had contacted Swedish officials, she said.
Sweden then notified Kurdish authorities, who carried out the rescue mission, according to the statement by the Kurdistan Region Security Council.
At the end of the interview, the teen smiles as she expresses her thanks to Kurdish authorities in Iraq. "I want to thank them to send me back to Sweden and meet my family again and have a happy life," she said."
Iraqi Kurdish authorities said in a statement Tuesday that Nivarlain had been "misled by an ISIL member in Sweden to travel to Syria and later to Mosul." ISIL is another acronym for ISIS.
Swedish teen rescued from ISIS: 'It was ... a hard life'
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I honestly don't know how I feel about situations like this. Part of me feels like "so what" you made the concious decision to serve ISIS and now you want the public to feel sorry about your hardship. She's lucky to be alive.
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MAJ Bryan Zeski
I don't know if she's trying to get people to feel sorry for her. I feel more like its almost a public service announcements for other stupid kids.
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A few thoughts:
- Responsibility. Democracies and freedom are great in that individuals get to make their own beds. Responsibility is the other side of the equation where individuals then have to lie in the beds that they made.
- Consequences. I do not believe it is the responsibility of governments to save individuals from the consequences of the bad decisions that they have made. It is the responsibility of the individual to either 1: not make bad decisions or 2. get themselves out of the consequences of the bad decisions that they made.
- Parents. Parents need to grow and raise their children to make age appropriate decisions. My guess is that the parents in this case either coddled this young lady or overly sheltered her when she was younger. Children who have to live with the consequences of their age appropriate decisions generally grow into adults who make better life decisions.
- Responsibility. Democracies and freedom are great in that individuals get to make their own beds. Responsibility is the other side of the equation where individuals then have to lie in the beds that they made.
- Consequences. I do not believe it is the responsibility of governments to save individuals from the consequences of the bad decisions that they have made. It is the responsibility of the individual to either 1: not make bad decisions or 2. get themselves out of the consequences of the bad decisions that they made.
- Parents. Parents need to grow and raise their children to make age appropriate decisions. My guess is that the parents in this case either coddled this young lady or overly sheltered her when she was younger. Children who have to live with the consequences of their age appropriate decisions generally grow into adults who make better life decisions.
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COL Jason Smallfield, PMP, CFM, CM
Do you think possibly something else is going on here? A teen with access to a cell phone, calls Mom, Mom gets gov't to intervene, Kurdish SF takes over, the teen was able to relay information as to her location precisely enough to have herself extracted. I'm just thinking that's a lot and there are many others publicized to have left their home from Western countries being looked for.
If it is as it reads, I agree completely with your assessment about consequences, responsibility, parents.
Do you think possibly something else is going on here? A teen with access to a cell phone, calls Mom, Mom gets gov't to intervene, Kurdish SF takes over, the teen was able to relay information as to her location precisely enough to have herself extracted. I'm just thinking that's a lot and there are many others publicized to have left their home from Western countries being looked for.
If it is as it reads, I agree completely with your assessment about consequences, responsibility, parents.
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COL Jason Smallfield, PMP, CFM, CM
Absolutely agree that there is more going on here than what has been reported. It is a known and reported fact that ISIL wants to infiltrate into western countries. Ways to do that include but are not limited to: organic (Middle Eastern) fighters in with refugees, recruited (western) fighters who want to "return home", and supporters/non fighters (both middle eastern and western). In other words, was this young lady an escapee or a plant? Is she really against ISIL now or can she better support ISIL from her home country? Not enough information to know but worth asking the question.
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