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In end, when German officials in Baghdad stand before her, re is nothing but relief from Linda W. The three officials of Federal Criminal Office and an Islamic scientist have to work on 17-year-old Germans and saviors – in doing so y are envoys of that German state, which Linda W. had temporarily despised.
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They meet Linda in a special prison of anti-terrorist Unit of Iraqi army of Baghdad. There are five beds in room where Linda is staying. There are guards from Iraqi army outside door. She wants to be familiar, says Linda. And she wants to tell her story.
What follows is story of a young girl who ran away from home, because it felt no longer understood by his mor, who had heard of Islam without understanding him, and was taken up a year later in Mosul, in decaying realm of “Islamic State “. Tired, exhausted and injured, it is only slightly outward, but even more inwardly. The story that Linda tells German officials at detention center of Baghdad is an aberration with brutal, potentially lethal consequences.
Fellow runners or convicts?
For German state, it is also story of an unusual case of law: in Iraq, Linda and three or German women, who are currently in prison toger in Baghdad, are threatened with high prison sentences. In Germany, question arises as to how much state should or must endeavour to bring back its citizens. How much mildness did Linda and or three women deserve, given a more or less open sympathy for terror regime of IS?
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The young girl is arrested in norrn Iraq in mid-July, and in Mosul Iraqi army is in process of freeing millions of cities that have been occupied for years. In a tunnel vault, an Iraqi Special Unit discovers a group of women, including Linda. Fatima M., 30, from Detmold and Lamia K., 50, as well as ir adult daughter Nadja, 20, from Mannheim are also arrested. They all are considered women of IS, who are anything between insurgents on side of IS fighter and ir serfs.
In summer of 2016, Linda ran away, a girl with red hair and innocent tracing cheeks, who lives in a Saxon district town near Meissen. It flies from Dresden to Istanbul on July 2, 2016. Linda is just 15 years old. She suffers from separation of her parents, she feels misunderstood and neglected, so two of her sisters later tell police. When subject comes to Islam at school, Linda asks. Buys books, reads, discusses. Via Facebook, she is in contact with or young women who call mselves devout Muslims and send ir material. In a conference call with or girls, Linda converts her own information to Islam.
“Everything is better here”
When investigators later Browse Linda’s room, y find a prayer rug, a Koran, and a tablet with jihadist videos showing armed women and executions. On one of videos Germans are threatened to detonate bombs in Federal Republic, says a spokesman. Apparently, Linda got infected with jihad virus. Once in realm of IS, Linda is euphoric at first. When she pleads with a friend from Germany by chat that she should come back home, she responds coolly: “I have more important things to do than listen to a Rumgheule of you. Come back. I won’t and I don’t want to!!! Everything is better here. “
In Baghdad, during interrogation, investigators ask you about Islam, what is hot? What term means exactly, she does not know, replies Linda. She calls five pillars, “Creed so Shahada, Sellah, Haj and um, fasting, so Ramadan.” The people of BKA want to know who prophets are. “Well, re are such a few,” replies Linda, “The one is called Muhammed. Ah, ors are messengers of God. ” Obviously, girl does not understand much of Islam.
In Saxony, before her escape, she has read texts by radical pretenders such as Sven Lau or Pierre Vogel, she has heard that upright Muslims are supposed to move to a country where Sharia law applies. When she contacts a foreign man on Facebook and asks to buy a plane ticket to Istanbul, she falsifies her mor’s signature, goes to a travel agency and posts a ticket.
