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Syria Kurds repatriate 148 Uzbek ISIS women and children
2019-05-31
The Uzbek side of the story can be read here.
[Rudaw] Uzbekistan on Wednesday took back 148 women and kiddies linked to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group (ISIS) who had been living in the overcrowded al-Hol camp since the jihadists were territorially defeated in March.

The 66 women and 88 children were handed over to Uzbek authorities in the presence of Uzbekistan’s Consul General to Dubai Alisher Salomov, a delegation of Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), and women’s rights activists in al-Jazeera canton, northern Syria, Hawar reports.

Their repatriation came at the official request of the Uzbek government, according to Kammal Akif, the Kurdish-led authority’s foreign affairs spokesperson.

The women had asked for their children to be removed from the turban environment, Akif added.

The Uzbek Consul General thanked the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) for safely extracting the women and kiddies from the last ISIS holdout of Baghouz, Deir ez-Zor province.

Earlier on Wednesday, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor....
also took back 188 of its own children with suspected ties to ISIS from Iraq.

Uzbekistan and Turkey are not the only countries to repatriate nationals born to ISIS members.

La Belle France and Germany, Sweden, Tajikistan, Chechnya, Kosovo, and Russia, have all taken back some of their women and kiddies.

Britannia and the United States have refused to take back their nationals.
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