[QUOTE]BAGHDAD — Kurdish special forces rescued a teenage Swedish girl from Islamic State-controlled territory near the city of Mosul, officials said on Tuesday.
The raid, according to a statement released by the Kurdistan Regional Security Council, was conducted on Feb. 17. The statement misspelled the name of the Swedish girl, who had apparently left her hometown last summer to travel to Syria. She was identified in Swedish news reports as Marilyn Nevalainen, 16, from the Swedish city of Boras.
“She was misled by an ISIL member in Sweden to travel to Syria and later to Mosul,” the statement by Kurdish officials said, referring to an acronym for the Islamic State extremist group, also known as ISIS.
Kurdish officials said they had worked with the Swedish authorities and the girl’s family to find her, and that she was being provided with medical care and undergoing a debriefing by Iraqi Kurdish authorities.
“She will be transferred to Swedish authorities to return home once necessary arrangements are put in place,” the statement said.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Ms. Nevalainen’s case has been chronicled in the Swedish news media, although there are conflicting accounts about the events that led to her arrival in Mosul and when she was actually rescued.
One report, by Swedish Radio, said the girl and her boyfriend left Sweden last June and wound up in Syria, where the boyfriend trained with another militant group before the pair were captured by the Islamic State in August. According to Swedish press accounts, Ms. Nevalainen was pregnant when she left Sweden and gave birth after arriving in Syria.
Another report said she might have been freed by Kurdish forces much earlier than Feb. 17. Kurdish officials declined further comment.[/QUOTE]
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She also allegedly described life under ISIS as 'really hard'
To the best of my understanding she wasn't a Muslim, but her boyfriend was. After dropping out of school he convinced her to join the Islamic State with him.
I don't think it's known at this time if she is injured or pregnant.
Damn, there are some stupid people in the world. Not much different than those two Austrian (?) girls who ended up in Syria and went on to be baby factories.
It eludes me to how someone could be so stupid as to fall for this.
Well. with any luck, she'll spread the word of her awful experience to other naive teenaged women who are being fooled into leaving for the middle east. I'm glad that the Kurdish forces where able to rescue her.
[QUOTE=download;49875989]Damn, there are some stupid people in the world. Not much different than those two Austrian (?) girls who ended up in Syria and went on to be baby factories.
It eludes me to how someone could be so stupid as to fall for this.[/QUOTE]
Well not anymore, one was reportedly killed in fighting and the other was reportedly beaten to death attempting to flee.
[QUOTE=Ta16;49876192]Well not anymore, one was reportedly killed in fighting and the other was reportedly beaten to death attempting to flee.[/QUOTE]
Darwin Award pending?
I really hope the Kurds come out of this conflict with a small nation or something to show for it. They've earned that much.
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