Teenager Captured With ISIS Fighters Is From Trinidad, Not the U.S., Officials SayBy Rukmini Callimachi and Eric Schmitt
Jan. 11, 2019
A 16-year-old boy who was captured on the battlefield in Syria this week with fighters for the Islamic State is not American, but is instead from Trinidad and Tobago, according to American officials and the boy’s sister.
The teenager was taken from the Caribbean nation to the war zone when he was 12 by his mother, who converted to Islam after becoming romantically involved with a radicalized man, Sarah Lee Su, the boy’s older sister, said in a phone interview. ...
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