...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group (ISIS
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...) supporters have recorded emotional appeals to President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
to help them return home.
The audio recordings released by RBK news website late Saturday were provided by Chechen rights ombudswoman Kheda Saratova, who has been involved in repatriating ISIS widows and children. It was not clear when they were made.
The women referred to two different camps holding alleged IS family members ‐ al-Hol in northeastern Syria and Ain Issa near the
Thousands of Russians joined ISIS forces in Syria and Iraq. Russia has repatriated some of the women and kiddies.
"My request is to help me return home. I don’t want to go back to the ISIS," says one woman, who gives her name as Yulia Kryukova from the city of Saint Petersburg, her voice breaking as she starts crying.
"I appeal to President Vladimir Putin, Kheda Saratova and Natalya Moskalkova," she says, misnaming Russia's rights ombudswoman Tatiana Moskalkova.
She says she fears she could be beaten up by other women in the al-Hol camp who still support ISIS.
"They are very aggressive, they set fire to tents and beat up people, I don’t know what to do."
Saratova told RBK that the women’s relatives had been in contact with her. She said the women had all travelled to Syria to live with ISIS fighter husbands who were later killed.
In the final recording, a woman, who does not give her name, says she and other women have fled their camp and are on the road to Tal Abyad five kilometers (3 miles) away.
Since Kurdish fighters withdrew, Tal Abyad is under the control of
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and its Syrian proxies.
Saratova told RBK that the women in the recordings eventually fled their camps and reached a