You have to feel sorry for these parents who are losing their children to ISIS.
A Kosovo father recounts harrowing trip to retrieve sons from Syria
BY JONATHAN S. LANDAY
McClatchy Washington BureauMay 6, 2015 Updated 4 hours ago
Faik Uksmajli repeatedly asked the Kosovo Police to prohibit his sons, daughter-in-law and grand children from leaving the country and traveling to Syria -- his eldest wanted to fight with ISIS. The police, however, failed to stop them. So he went after them himself. Uksmajli was unable to retrieve his sons, one of whom was killed and the other badly wounded in airstrikes in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo in August 2014. The family is from a small village called Naradinja. JONATHAN LANDAY — McClatchy
So when Uksmajli’s son Arbnor telephoned one day last July to say that he, his wife, two children and younger brother, Albert, were in Syria, Uksmajli took matters into his own hands. He went after them himself.
“I saw that no one would help me, and I decided to go to Syria,” he recalled recently, sitting on the back porch of his modest home in the farming village of Naradinja, in southern Kosovo. “I knew all the dangers and the risks. But the only thing I could think about at that moment was finding my sons.”
Uksmajli’s account – impossible to confirm – of the odyssey that took him into the murderous heart of the Islamic State’s “caliphate” is a chilling tale of official ineptitude, alleged collusion between police and Islamist recruiters, amateur detective work, luck, scrapes with death and a harrowing search that he ultimately was forced to abandon or lose his own life.
It’s also a story of a father’s love and determination to reunite a family sundered by the Islamic radicalism that’s been growing in Muslim-dominated Kosovo since the 1999 U.S.-led military intervention put Europe’s newest country on the road to independence from Serbia. As many as 300 men, some with wives and children, have left Kosovo to fight in the Middle East, most of them for the Islamic State, according to officials.
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A Kosovo father recounts harrowing trip to retrieve sons from Syria
BY JONATHAN S. LANDAY
McClatchy Washington BureauMay 6, 2015 Updated 4 hours ago
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Faik Uksmajli repeatedly asked the Kosovo Police to prohibit his sons, daughter-in-law and grand children from leaving the country and traveling to Syria -- his eldest wanted to fight with ISIS. The police, however, failed to stop them. So he went after them himself. Uksmajli was unable to retrieve his sons, one of whom was killed and the other badly wounded in airstrikes in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo in August 2014. The family is from a small village called Naradinja. JONATHAN LANDAY — McClatchy
So when Uksmajli’s son Arbnor telephoned one day last July to say that he, his wife, two children and younger brother, Albert, were in Syria, Uksmajli took matters into his own hands. He went after them himself.
“I saw that no one would help me, and I decided to go to Syria,” he recalled recently, sitting on the back porch of his modest home in the farming village of Naradinja, in southern Kosovo. “I knew all the dangers and the risks. But the only thing I could think about at that moment was finding my sons.”
Uksmajli’s account – impossible to confirm – of the odyssey that took him into the murderous heart of the Islamic State’s “caliphate” is a chilling tale of official ineptitude, alleged collusion between police and Islamist recruiters, amateur detective work, luck, scrapes with death and a harrowing search that he ultimately was forced to abandon or lose his own life.
It’s also a story of a father’s love and determination to reunite a family sundered by the Islamic radicalism that’s been growing in Muslim-dominated Kosovo since the 1999 U.S.-led military intervention put Europe’s newest country on the road to independence from Serbia. As many as 300 men, some with wives and children, have left Kosovo to fight in the Middle East, most of them for the Islamic State, according to officials.
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