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Samantha Marie Elhassani is an American woman who pled guilty to material support for terrorism.[1] She first fell under press scrutiny in Jatnuary 2018 when a Yazidi orphan boy was found to be speaking perfectly colloquial English in a refugee camp in Kurdistan.[2]
Early life
Samantha and her younger sister Lori were raised by strict Jehovah's Witness parents, in Arkansas.[3] Both Samantha and Lori rejected this strict religious upbringing, with Samantha running away from home with a man she met online, and Lori getting pregnant at 17 years old.
The sisters remained close, with Samantha's second and third husbands being Lori's brothers-in-law, from two different marriages.[3]
Samantha told Elle magazine that her first marriage, to the man she ran away from home, and her third marriage, to Moussa Elhassani, had abusive elements.[3] Her first husband beat her so badly she ended up being hospitalized on several occasions. She said he tried to kill her.
Samantha described her second husband, who fathered her oldest child, as a good man.
Her third husband, Moussa,
Time living under the Daesh regime
References
- ↑ "Former Indiana Resident Pleads Guilty to Concealing Terrorism Financing". US Department of Justice. 2019-11-26. Archived from the original on 2020-09-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20200920010635/https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-indiana-resident-pleads-guilty-concealing-terrorism-financing. Retrieved 2020-10-01. "In November 2014, Elhassani was informed by her husband that he and his brother wanted to travel to Syria to join ISIS, which she knew was a terrorist organization that engaged in terrorist activities."
- ↑ Salma Abdelaziz; Arwa Damon; Muwafaq Mohammad; Brice Laine (2018-01-23). "Kidnapped boy raised by American ISIS woman in Raqqa". CNN (Hokuk, Iraq). Archived from the original on 2018-01-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20180129151420/http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/23/middleeast/yazidi-boy-isis-american-wife-raqqa-intl/index.html. Retrieved 2020-10-01. "But this Iraqi child's love for the United States comes from one of the darkest places on earth: Raqqa, the former capital of the so-called Islamic State, where he was raised in captivity by an ISIS fighter and his American wife."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Jessica Roy (2019-08-27). "Two Sisters and the Terrorist Who Came Between Them". Elle magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20201001200559/https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a28485965/samantha-elhassani-isis-sisters-part-one/. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
- ↑ "American Isis family in limbo". CNN. 2018-04-20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgkBT0rNUps&feature=emb_logo. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
- ↑ Shane Bauer (July/August 2019). "Behind the Lines: An American in the Islamic State". Mother Jones magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20201001200453/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/06/behind-the-lines-syria-part-two/. Retrieved 2020-10-01. "Samantha Elhassani tells me she’s an American and a Christian and that she’d come from Indiana to Syria with her young son and daughter after her husband decided to join ISIS without telling her. “I was not aware we were coming to Syria,” she says. She lived under control of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria for three years in Raqqa, where she had two more children. She survived the American-led assault on the city, escaped ISIS, and now wants to go home."
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- http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/72f9c14b-03bb-419e-b72a-79e732a8625f https://web.archive.org/web/20180726201735/http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/72f9c14b-03bb-419e-b72a-79e732a8625f
- https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/feds-disclosure-of-classified-materials-at-issue-in-case-of/article_d5df7d2d-4fe4-5f4b-80db-58261142b49c.html https://web.archive.org/web/20201001200452/https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/feds-disclosure-of-classified-materials-at-issue-in-case-of/article_d5df7d2d-4fe4-5f4b-80db-58261142b49c.html
- https://www.goshennews.com/news/local_news/isis-fighter-s-widow-back-in-indiana-charged-with-federal/article_4918bcab-4fd1-59e7-bc14-d42e499d7122.html
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cafes-around-the-world/201807/mental-health-professionals-asked-help-terrorism
- https://www.rt.com/uk/434084-isis-women-children-terror-threat/
- https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/number-of-women-and-children-in-isis-significantly-underestimated-experts-say-1.753642
- https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/two-americans-captured-in-syria-returned-to-us https://web.archive.org/web/20201001200517/https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/two-americans-captured-in-syria-returned-to-us
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-man-charged-fighting-isis-overseas-n894276 https://web.archive.org/web/20201001200509/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-man-charged-fighting-isis-overseas-n894276
