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Focus on Syria and terrorism (jihadism, PKK, etc.) Occasional history digressions, especially on the Cold War. Likes are just bookmarks. RTs are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton 5h5 hours ago

    Ashraf Mahmud, a British citizen, joined #IS but apparently realised this was a "mistake" and has now surrendered to the #PKK, which says it won't hold him indefinitely. https://www.itv.com/news/2018-10-26/the-isis-member-who-wants-to-come-home-and-the-letter-showing-britains-bid-to-stop-him/ …pic.twitter.com/YUKKqoztoF

    7:03 AM - 27 Oct 2018
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      2. Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton 5h5 hours ago

        It is one of the most bizarre predicaments that in #Syria that Western citizens who joined #IS are currently being held by our partner force, the #PKK, a post-Bolshevik group of gangsters and narco-barons that are, and have been for many years, on our own terrorism list.

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      3. Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton 5h5 hours ago

        Skipping over the legal oddity of our terrorists holding the #IS terrorists, it seems pretty clear that the #PKK is running out of patience holding Western jihadists. It is struggling with locals, though it has tried to use them as leverage in installing its governance structure.

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      4. Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton 5h5 hours ago

        Western governments, for understandable reasons, don't want their citizens who joined #IS back, and for a number of them there is an added complication: they can't let the Americans deal with it because the U.S. system has the death penalty.

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      5. Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton 5h5 hours ago

        It's difficult to imagine the #PKK actually releasing Western #IS members just because the political price would be so high, and they're currently doing so well (not many narco-terrorists get to create schisms in #NATO.) But there are plenty of other ways they could end up out.

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      2. Phil Gurski‏ @borealissaves 5h5 hours ago
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        some 'mistake'!

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      3. Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton 5h5 hours ago
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        The kind of thing that could happen to anyone ...

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      4. Phil Gurski‏ @borealissaves 4h4 hours ago
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        Of course!

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      1. Colin Ross‏ @2threepennybits 4h4 hours ago
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        Douze balles!

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      1. Arthur Pewbglount‏ @Tigzy_J 5h5 hours ago
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        Easy enough mistake to make. All those beheading videos, chucking gays of rooftops, relentless slaughter - yeah, he must have thought it'd be just like Disneyland or something.

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      1. ColonelPotter94‏ @col_potter94 5h5 hours ago
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        Sure.

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