Syrian Democratic Forces furl an Islamic State flag recovered in Raqqa, Syria, October 4, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Erik De Castro
Alexander Smith and Vladimir Banic, NBC: What Should the West Do With Fighters Returning From Syria and Iraq?
PRISTINA, Kosovo — Albert Berisha is both a paradox and a dilemma.
His lilac shirt, soft features and neatly trimmed beard could belong to any office worker in the world.
He certainly doesn't look like someone who swapped his life in Europe to go fight in Syria alongside ISIS militants he openly describes as murderous psychopaths.
But Berisha is also the embodiment of some crucial questions perplexing Western security officials.
Is it possible for a jihadi who traveled to fight in Iraq or Syria to be peacefully reintegrated into society? And how can any government be certain such returnees won't kill in the name of Islam?
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Leave them where found.
Brings to mind the old saying about a higher being having far superior sorting skills than mortal men...
My first thought IS EXECUTE THEM!! With that said ISIS when it was at its height was stronger than than America's conventional forces ever could have hoped to be.
Perhaps keeping tnem alive and studying them has utility. I think itnis to risky. As such, EXECUTE THEM!!
The fight with radical Islam is not only on the ground but also, mostly, in the mind. As long as we not win in the philosophy field we shall have this problem.
Send them directly to paradise..
It always depends on what their role was and whet they did and why and if they can say that they've changed for the better. If someone can convince me he/she was just caught up in this, maybe really young still and naive, I don't think we should execute them, or course not. But for all others, especially those where we can prove the've committed horrible crimes - punish them as severely as possible and let everyone see it. I love being European- we do many things right-but we have to send a clear message about Isis - it's not the same as a refuge coming ashore. The refugee who didn't do anything wrong should be embraced. The isis fighter who claims to be a refuge should be punished to the extreme, ideally sent back or even executed if there's no doubt about his/her crimes. Absolutely bring back death penalty for those guys. It's a different league of humans and we should make clear that if you go this direction you will not get a nice rehabilitating package, a financial cushion and someone to talk to. If you go and fight for isis you end your life among civilians and you can't come back for a minimum of 20 years prison sentence (children etc to be treated differently of course)
Jac that's correct. We need to get better and smarter.
Letting back people who have shown by their actions that they were not an integral part of society, hoping they will now integrate is pie in the sky and dangerous thinking. If allowed back they should be "chipped" so they can be located if they "get lost again" and with a chip that can be detonated if need be, or of course automatically detonated if an attempt is made to remove it.
The problem of course is how do you keep them from preaching their gospel and inciting others.
Probably it would be best and safer to just eliminate them now. Imagine having someone in your family killed by one of these re-treads in a new uprising.
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