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1. Good morning everyone, today and a few days ago, @ivorprickett and I drove into the Syrian desert to the spot in a rocky field where suspected ISIS members, their wives & children are surrendering to Coalition-backed forces. Follow along:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/world/middleeast/isis-baghuz.html …
2. The frontline is roughly 10 km away in a village called Baghuz, where ISIS now controls an area the size of Central Park. For the last two weeks, thousands of people have been streaming out of this last slice of the caliphate in Syria, arriving at the place marked below:pic.twitter.com/x6pxyvtT7j
3. We were at the arrival point and saw pickup trucks arrive with the escapees in the back. We’ve seen between 150 and 200 people be processed. What’s striking is we couldn’t find a single person that is actually from Baghuz. They are nearly all from somewhere else.pic.twitter.com/IjNyKHrELd
4. Kurdish forces told us that this is a sign that the escapees are nearly all linked to ISIS. Why would you move from say Turkey or Iraq into the crosshairs of a town controlled by the Islamic State and face Coalition bombings, unless you are a willing citizen of the caliphate?
5. When the trucks arrive, the American-backed Kurdish militia separates men from women. Next they’re made to sit in separate areas, based on nationality. American troops arrive by mid-morning and begin screening the men first. We were not allowed to photograph US troops.pic.twitter.com/8fDANmRnPi
6. But watching from a distance, we saw that the men are told to approach US forces single file, arms in the air. Jackets come off. Turbans are searched. One day there was a sniffer dog. They’re fingerprinted, photographed, questioned. Some are taken to prison. Most go to a camp
7. The number of overseas recruits to ISIS coming out of this pocket is stunning. This 28-year old woman, mom of two toddlers, said she was from the Lawrence Heights area of Toronto. She said her name was Dure Ahmed. She came out with a 34-year old Canadian woman from Alberta:pic.twitter.com/9QQnEsfvOU
I don’t know how you do this line of work, but you are one badass reporter
Will you get to interview them? Will there be a Last of the Caliphate podcast?
Also, thank you for what you do! It's enlightening and necessary but it's not for the weak of heart.
One day I’d like to read your psych work up …there’s something impressive in there
European governments had exported their #Islamic extremist problem to #Syria. EU had failed to secure its own borders and sent their #jihadists with weapons and on watchlisted passports. Now it's time to get their #ISIS terrorists back home.https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/25/turkish-officials-europe-wanted-to-export-extremists-to-syria …
ISIS women are equally culpable and they should rot in jail. Their children should be taken under protection
Are you suggesting that #ISIS militants are escaping to different parts of the world, posing as innocent localities?
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