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Personal Account of National Security Correspondent @VOANews Ex @WTOP/@FederalNewsNet, @SyracuseU @NewhouseSU (RTs ≠ endorsement) / DM for Signal

Oct 1, 2020, 7 tweets

All 27 Americans who joined #ISIS in #Syria & #Iraq - and survived - are back in the US according to @TheJusticeDept

10 adults have been charged with crimes

2 others -children when they were taken to #ISIS- face no charges

The other 15 are kids...
voanews.com/middle-east/la…

NEW: @SecPompeo commends #Italy for repatriating an Italian ISIS supporter from #Syria, along with 4 children

These are the 10 Americans, per @TheJusticeDept, repatriated by the US to face charges in connection with their support for #ISIS...

But they are not the only Americans facing charges for working with ISIS & the group's self-declared caliphate

As @gwupoe's @SeamusHughes has noted, the situation is complicated

Per @gwupoe, these American #ISIS have been charged after coming home on their own

1 Bilal Abood
2 Aws Mohammed Younis Aljayab
3 Haris Harcevic
4 Eric Harroun
5 Mohamad Saeed Kodaimati
6 Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud
7 Ibrahim Musaibli
8 Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen
9 Mohimanul Alam Bhuiya

Also, @TheJusticeDept, while saying it has now repatriated all "Americans held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (#SDF) against whom criminal charges have been lodged" it is not ruling out there could be more American #ISIS...

"The Department of Justice will review the facts and circumstances relating to any future detainees and, where warranted, bring additional charges against others" per @TheJusticeDept statement

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