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From ABC News
With U.S.-backed forces closing in on ISIS in Syria, young mother Hoda Muthana is pleading for a second chance and the opportunity to return home to her family in Alabama.
"I realized I've made a big mistake and I know I've ruined my future and my son's future and I deeply, deeply regret it," she said in an interview with The Guardian newspaper.
Muthana is one of 1,500 foreign women and children living in a Kurdish-run refugee camp in northern Syria.
Muthana's family lawyer, Hassan Shibly, told ABC News the young mother was "brainwashed" by ISIS and now feels "tremendous remorse."
COMMENT:-
Somehow I have a lot of difficulty in working up a HUGE amount of sympathy for someone whose position is essentially "Now that there is next to ZERO chance that the people I backed will get away with what I wanted them to get away with, I am really sorry that I backed them and don't want to face the consequences of my own actions.".
Was she stupid - yes. Was she young - yes. Was she naive - yes. Did she voluntarily support terrorists - yes. Should she face the full weight of the law for the acts that she voluntarily committed - your call.
Alabama mother begs to return to US, says moving to Syria and marrying ISIS fighters was 'a big mistake'
With U.S.-backed forces closing in on ISIS in Syria, young mother Hoda Muthana is pleading for a second chance and the opportunity to return home to her family in Alabama.
"I realized I've made a big mistake and I know I've ruined my future and my son's future and I deeply, deeply regret it," she said in an interview with The Guardian newspaper.
Muthana is one of 1,500 foreign women and children living in a Kurdish-run refugee camp in northern Syria.
Muthana's family lawyer, Hassan Shibly, told ABC News the young mother was "brainwashed" by ISIS and now feels "tremendous remorse."
COMMENT:-
Somehow I have a lot of difficulty in working up a HUGE amount of sympathy for someone whose position is essentially "Now that there is next to ZERO chance that the people I backed will get away with what I wanted them to get away with, I am really sorry that I backed them and don't want to face the consequences of my own actions.".
Was she stupid - yes. Was she young - yes. Was she naive - yes. Did she voluntarily support terrorists - yes. Should she face the full weight of the law for the acts that she voluntarily committed - your call.