Words fail me:
A group of Australian women detained at a Syrian camp over their ties to ISIS have issued an ultimatum to the Albanese Government.
An ultimatum? WTF makes them think they can issue ultimatums?
‘Save the children’: ISIS brides break silence with ultimatum for Albanese Government
Eleven women linked to the Islamic caliphate have made a desperate plea amid fierce debate over whether they should be allowed back to Australia.
A group of Australian women detained at a Syrian camp with their families over ties to Islamic State have offered an ultimatum to the Albanese Government amid fierce debate over whether they should be repatriated.
Nothing makes them Australian. Fuck the bleeding hearts who support importing this vermin.
The 11 women and 23 children have lived at the Kurdish-controlled al-Roj camp near Damascus, in northeast Syria, since the territorial defeat of the Islamic caliphate in 2019.
Last Monday, the group attempted to return to Australia, only to be sent back to the camp. Though Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that “Australian citizens have rights”, his government has insisted it will not assist the cohort.
“I’ve said this before, but my mum had a saying, ‘If you make your bed, you lie in it’,” Mr Albanese said in an interview with Karl Stefanovic on Tuesday.
“And as far as I’m concerned, I have nothing but contempt for these people.”
Some of the women have now said they want the federal government to repatriate their children, some of whom are just six years-old, at any cost – even if it means being separated from them.
In an interview with The Guardian, Melbourne mother-of-three Zahra Ahmad said she has “continuously asked for my children to be saved from this camp and from this continuous fear”.
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US Intelligence: 15,000+ Were Let Free From ISIS Detention Camp After Collapse
Another ‘win’ for America’s disastrous Syria policy, long predicated on overthrowing the Assad government and installing a ‘moderate’ Sunni regime – though it turns out Jolani’s bearded Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militants are anything but…
“U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that 15,000 to 20,000 people, including Islamic State affiliates are now at large in Syria, after an exodus from a camp that held jihadists’ families, U.S. officials familiar with the estimate said,” The Wall Street Journal reports Friday.
Who could have predicted that chaos, instability, and terrorism would come out of the CIA’s Operation Timber Sycamore? Well, we did, and every rational observer of the Syria situation.
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A billion plus dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives after the decade-long proxy war, and this is all Washington has to show for it:
Security experts have long warned that the wives of Islamic State fighters were effectively raising the next generation of militants at the sprawling Al-Hol facility. Security at the camp fell apart in recent weeks after Syria’s government routed the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which had guarded Al-Hol for years, raising concerns about the release of people who might have become radicalized during the years held behind the razor wire.
The size of a small city, the camp in Syria’s eastern desert at one point held more than 70,000 people after U.S.-backed forces destroyed what remained of Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria in 2019. At the end of 2025, more than 23,000 people were there, according to a report this week from the Pentagon’s Inspector General.
The US military is rapidly backing out of this region after the years-long occupation, effectively throwing the Kurds (SDF) under the bus, as HTS radicals move in and take control.
Given many analysts have pointed to HTS being ‘ISIS-lite’ to begin with, the following WSJ note is no surprise: “The vast majority have left Al-Hol after the Syrian government took control last month. Western diplomats in Damascus assessed that more than 20,000 people fled the camp in a matter of days earlier amid rioting and a surge of escape attempts.”
There were even reports that the ISIS prisoners greeted the government HTS troops rolling in as ‘liberators’. The new government is certainly not “fighting” Islamic State cells… quite the contrary:
And now the Washington blob is simply moving on to the next regime change operation, this time a little further east in Iran, which it turns out was a key Assad ally.
So in place of the secular nationalist Baath party (under the Assad family), the West has the literal founder of Syrian al-Qaeda as president of Damascus, letting ISIS prisoners and affiliates walk free.
Italy: ‘ISIS Bride’ Says ISIS Not Idyllic, Big Mistake
Wanted to come home says woman arrested, brought back with kids
(ANSA) — MILAN, SEP 30 — An Italian ‘ISIS bride’ said a day after her return to Italy Wednesday that she had made a big mistake and had not found the Islamic State in Syria to be the idyllic place she had expected.
“It was a big mistake, the Islamic State in Syria was not the idyllic place we had expected when we left in 2015, responding to the call of al-Baghdadi, in fact we wanted to come back,” said Alice Brignoli, wife of the dead ISIS militant Mohamed Koraichi, after she was arrested in Syria and brought back home with her four children, who are to be placed in care.
Saying that she still believed in Islam, Brignoli told magistrates said she was no longer radicalised and said her children had not been trained.
The ROS special branch of Italy’s Carabinieri police said Tuesday that it had arrested Brignoli in Syria.
Brignoli was the wife of Koraichi, an Italian with Moroccan roots who became an ISIS militant.
The couple left Italy to join ISIS in 2015, taking their three children with them, according to investigators.
Koraichi, who is thought to have died, took part in ISIS military operations while the ROS said that Brugnoli had an “active role in teaching the children the cause of the jihad”.
She is accused of criminal association for terrorism.
The ROS unit tracked down Brignoli and her four children — she gave birth to her fourth child in Syria — and have brought them back to Italy.
Sources said that Brignoli was “extremely happy” to return to Italy, even though she knew she would go to jail and her children would be put into care.
“It’s a lovely Italian story,” Prosecutor Alberto Nobili, the head of Milan’s anti-terrorism pool, told ANSA.
“It highlights the great capacity of the Italian police forces and the strength of international cooperation”.
He added that the children and their mother “will have to be de-radicalised”.
Continued: Return of ISIL Sharmutas & Their Brood
“Please save the children; the children are innocent in all of his and they need to feel safe and grow up in a safe and healthy environment.
“Our children need to heal and put this nightmare behind them.”
One of the children at al-Roj, 11-year-old Baidaa, told The Guardian through tears that she didn’t understand why she had been returned to the camp last week.
“Why do I have to be in here? I don’t want to live in a tent, I don’t want to be in a camp, I don’t want to be in a prison,” she said.
“I just want to be free and live in houses and live a normal life, not like here.”
The conditions of camps in northeast Syria, including al-Roj, have been assessed by human rights organisations as inhumane and degrading, with the United Nations having called on all nations to repatriate their citizens to ensure the right to a fair judicial process.
In a statement on Monday, Save the Children Australia chief executive Mat Tinkler said the “innocent” children “should not be held responsible for their parents’ actions.”
The prospect of the women relinquishing their children so that they could be safe here would not be in their best interest, Mr Tinkler went on to tell The Guardian.
“For this group of children, they have known only their mums in these camps for seven years: imagine that person, the only source of support and comfort and nurturing, being taken away from them,” he said.
“That will have a traumatic and lifelong impact.”
Both Mr Albanese and Opposition Leader Angus Taylor have acknowledged that, as the latter said, it is “tragic that children are involved”. Yet both men have maintained Australia would not – and should not – help the families.
“I have contempt for their parents who have put these children in that situation,” the Prime Minister told ABC radio when pressed about the stranded children, who had no say over their parents travelling to join the Islamic caliphate.
“We have a firm position, which is that the mothers in this case who made this decision to travel overseas against Australia’s national interest are the responsible ones who’ve put their children in this position … We will do nothing to assist these people coming back to Australia.”
The Albanese Government has maintained it would not – and should not – help the families. Picture: AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad
Krystle Rosse-Emile – whose sister married an IS fighter and has been stuck in the camp with her two children for years – urged Australian leaders to be more sympathetic.
“Especially for the children. I think (the government) should have a long, hard look at themselves and think, what are they doing?” Ms Rosse-Emile told the ABC on Wednesday.
“The kids deserve to have a life, a normal life … Give them a chance. You give criminals a chance. If they haven’t done anything, give them a chance to come back.”
Sydney GP and respected Muslim leader Dr Jamal Rifi is organising a private repatriation mission, confirming on Monday night he is in the Middle East to try and get the women and children out of the camps and to Australia.
“The children shouldn’t suffer from the sins of fathers or mothers, and Australian children shouldn’t live in such an environment for any length of time,” Dr Rifi told The Age.
“And they’ve been there seven years.”
Fuck them!