Richard Barrett Quoted in The Christian Science Monitor: ISIS Excels at Recruiting American Teens: Here are Four Reasons Why

October 24, 2014

ISIS Excels at Recruiting American Teens: Here are Four Reasons Why

The Christian Science Monitor
Correspondent: Husna Haq

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Three Denver schoolgirls skipped class Friday to fly to Turkey to join ISIS.

A 19-year-old American nurse aid planned to travel to the Turkish border to marry an ISIS member she met on the Internet.

A suburban Chicago teen was arrested before boarding a flight to Turkey to join ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria.

These are just three recent examples of American teenagers lured from lives of relative comfort in the US to the frontlines of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, a terrorist group known for its brutality – and increasingly, for its sophisticated recruitment campaigns that are drawing more and more disaffected teens from Western countries…

“The general picture provided by foreign fighters of their lives in Syria suggests camaraderie, good morale and purposeful activity, all mixed in with a sense of understated heroism, designed to attract their friends as well as to boost their own self-esteem,” Richard Barrett of The Soufan Group wrote in a report called “Foreign fighters in Syria” this summer…

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To download a full copy of the “Foreign Fighters in Syria” report please click here.

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