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Original poster

AIBU to think that the IS bride would never have been allowed the freedoms she has, unless they have a grander plan?

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Sureyouwill · 17/02/2019 20:45

I just find it all a bit suspicious.
She looks dopey or doped.
Her interview was very rehearsed.
They want to get her back here for nefarious reasons.
They would not have allowed her to speak to press.
She is a willing accomplice in a grander plan?

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gamerwidow · 17/02/2019 20:47

IS is falling apart they barely have any power anywhere now. I doubt they have the resources to care about what she does.

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Sureyouwill · 17/02/2019 20:47

I can not imagine them saying 'Oh, you want to go back to Britain, with OUR child - sure! No bother'.

She has been allowed particular freedoms because they actually WANT her to go back to Britain.

Am I wrong?

And why would they want her to go back to Britain unless as a plant and to commit crimes for their benefit?

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TyrionsNextWife · 17/02/2019 20:48

I totally agree. It seems very strange that other women have been murdered for trying to escape from Isis, but she’s making no attempts to hide herself or keep a low profile - she doesn’t seem concerned at all. It’s all very suspicious.

Original poster
Sureyouwill · 17/02/2019 20:48

When she spoke about what evidence they don't have against her, she had been schooled in that.

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BrizzleMint · 17/02/2019 20:49

Maybe they don't see the child as theirs because none of the family are Syrian.

gamerwidow · 17/02/2019 20:49

am I wrong
Yes.

Original poster
Sureyouwill · 17/02/2019 20:50

Thank you Tyrion. I've watched the interview twice, and I would not believe one word out of her mouth.

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thenightsky · 17/02/2019 20:50

I was going to post the same thing on the other thread. I'm very suspicious. ISIS women have no freedom, yet we see this one talking openly to a man who is not a relative (the journalist)? Aye right.

bluetheskyis · 17/02/2019 20:50

She’s in a REFUGEE camp along with a other nationalities, IS have been driven into a corner. That’s why she’s there, that’s why the press can reach her,
Becuase it’s all falling apart

EssentialHummus · 17/02/2019 20:51

IS is falling apart they barely have any power anywhere now. I doubt they have the resources to care about what she does.

This. The remains of IS are fighting to the last man in a bombed-out town. They don’t have the resources to police things like this (and imo that’s why these “jihadi brides” want out - there’s nothing left of the caliphate and suddenly things like the NHS and running water look really appealing).

Forgotmycoat · 17/02/2019 20:51

I've thought this op. Isis must want her back in the UK for a good reason. I'm Muslim and I definitely don't want her back here. The fact she has shown no remorse over her actions while saying people should have sympathy for her is just vile.

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Sureyouwill · 17/02/2019 20:52

She’s in a REFUGEE camp along with a other nationalities Aye, because that fits with their story, to get her back.

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Sparklesocks · 17/02/2019 20:53

She’s in a refugee camp with other displaced people, she’s not actively in an IS facility. I don’t think there are that many organised groups of them about now, they’ve all been scattered about if they haven’t died.

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Sureyouwill · 17/02/2019 20:54

Also, she said in the interview with Sky News, I was looking after my husband and my children. I thought this was the first child?

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CheddarAndCrackers · 17/02/2019 20:54

She made her bed now she must lie in it.

Justanotherlurker · 17/02/2019 20:55

No one can say one way or another.

The defeat of ISIS is in territory only, and ISIS came about from Al-Qaida was defeated

It's for the government and secret service to monitor etc

werideatdawn · 17/02/2019 20:56

Confused What sort of crime do you have in mind? If you wanted to send someone back to the UK to commit some type of atrocity you'd pick someone a bit less...obvious wouldn't you? Plus as PP's have said IS is on it's knees. They've had their day.

werideatdawn · 17/02/2019 20:56

She apparently had two children before who have died.

glamorousgrandmother · 17/02/2019 20:57

She had two previous babies who died.

Sparklesocks · 17/02/2019 20:57

It’s her third child, I think one of them died though.

DrinkFeckArseGirls · 17/02/2019 20:58

She’s off her tits on something. The eyes closing down and the lips smacking (can’t think of a better word). She thinks people should feel sympathy for all she went through? I mean she chose, right, wasn’t kidnapped.

twattymctwatterson · 17/02/2019 20:58

He is in a POW camp as he's been captured along with many other rebel fighters. She's in a camp especially for the wives and family members of IS fighters. IS is finished.

Laska2Meryls · 17/02/2019 20:59

I thought this on watching the interview.. she is living in a strict sect which would have no compunction about slaughtering an uncovered woman who ventured out in public . (one she still believes in ,and she wants to be with her husband ) but her face was uncovered and she was talking to a male journo..
She may be in a camp at the moment , but if any IS fighters (inc her husband I assume) were to find her this would be a death sentence surely

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Sureyouwill · 17/02/2019 21:04

She’s off her tits on something. The eyes closing down and the lips smacking (can’t think of a better word).

100% believe that. Exactly what I thought too. Something just doesn't feel right about the whole thing.
She doesn't appear afraid, doesn't seem remotely scared. Maybe they have her on mental health meds, but she's definitely on something.

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Seline · 17/02/2019 21:05

I do feel a bit sorry for her. She did something really stupid but she was a child. At 15, people do all sorts of ridiculous things. She made a mistake and paid for that mistake by having two of her kids die and end up stranded in a refugee camp.

She's an idiot. Not a mastermind.