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Now-preggers teen Austrian IS poster girls want to come home; Officials say "Impossible"
The two Austrian teenage girls who became "poster girls" for jihad in Syria are now desperate to come home after getting completely disillusioned with their new lifestyles.The motivations of the two Bosnian girls are unclear but before leaving, they had contact with Chechen youths, and visited a mosque in Vienna's second district. Samra Kesinovic, 17, and her friend Sabina Selimovic, 15, who grew up in the Austrian capital Vienna, were persuaded to head to Syria and take part in the holy war in April. The girls had started lecturing schoolmates about their lifestyle and when they left Vienna in April they left behind a note telling their parents: "Don’t look for us. We will serve Allah – and we will die for him". Police in their homeland Austria say that the girls' social media accounts were taken over and manipulated to broadcast what they now think were fake messages about the life they were having, and using them as poster girls to encourage other young girls to head to Syria. Once they arrived it is believed they were married off to local fighters and both the girls are thought to be pregnant. Security service insiders have told Austrian media that the girls have managed to contact their families to say they have had enough, and want to come home. However they warn that there is almost now no chance that they will be able to leave their new lives after they became internationally famous and the images were shared all round the world. Spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Karl-Heinz Grundboeck, said however that decision may be too late. He said: "The main problem is about people coming back to Austria. Once they leave it is almost impossible." The news comes despite reports which surfaced last month that one of the girls may have been killed. However, these reports were never officially confirmed and the Interior Ministry could not ascertain if they were correct. Posted by: Pappy 2014-10-13 |
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