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The woman claims she tried to escape the camp a year after her arrival. She said she was captured, imprisoned, interrogated and raped.
Hamilton immigration lawyer Howard Eisenberg says Polman's journey back to Canada could be a very lengthy one and it would begin by the Canadian government either revoking her Canadian passport or denying her application for a new one.
Kimberly Gwen Polman, who possess dual citizenship of the United States and Canadian. Both women, interviewed by The New York Times at the camp, said they were trying to figure out how to have their passports reissued, and how to win the sympathy of the two nations they scorned.
Kimberly, like many of the others, had push factors as well as the online seduction. One of her rapists was put on trial and it was featured in the news, causing her massive post-traumatic flashbacks and suicidal feelings. Instead of committing suicide she decided to believe her online ISIS husband when he told her, 'Come where you are loved. Your children don't even see you. You have skills. You shouldn't be alone.' She now states that it wasn't just ISIS propaganda that pulled individuals into the group, but real online intimacies that made them abandon them homes and travel across continents. 'It was not propaganda that worked on us. Many of us didn't even see the videos.'
Kimberly Polman - Single mom of three children is currently a student at Douglas College working on her Legal Administration Diploma. Her ultimate goal is to work as a child advocate.
A dual citizen of the US and Canada, who left the Great White North four years ago to join ISIS, is holed up in a refugee camp in Syria with the Alabama "ISIS bride" — and pleading to return home, according to a report.
Ms. Muthana and Ms. Polman acknowledged in the interview here that many Americans would question whether they deserved to be brought back home after joining one of the world's deadliest terrorist groups.
She then got to the camp and she started hearing stories of Canadians who has been in limbo for a long time. She learned that Americans are at least repatriating their citizens even though most of them are being repatriated directly to jail. So I think she had a change of heart and decided to identify through her other nationality in the hope that she can get out of there.
The New York Times reported that Kimberly Gwen Polman, 46, married an Islamic State fighter whom she met online.
Kimberly Gwen Polman, 46, surrendered last month to coalition forces fighting ISIL and is detained in a camp in northeastern Syria, along with an Alabama woman, Hodan Muthana.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Polman told The Times she wasn't interested in the violent crimes ISIS participated in, and didn't know what to believe was real.
All were taken into custody. Muthana may be the first American spouse or partner of an Islamic State fighter who has sought to return home. The New York Times has reported that another woman, dual U.S.-Canadian national Kimberly Gwen Polman, 46, is also in the al-hawl refugee camp in Syria. She left Canada in 2015.
A dual citizen of the US and Canada, who left the Great White North four years ago to join ISIS, is holed up in a refugee camp in Syria with the Alabama "ISIS bride" — and pleading to return home, according to a report.
The woman claims she tried to escape the camp a year after her arrival. She said she was captured, imprisoned, interrogated and raped.
Polman told The Times she wasn't interested in the violent crimes ISIS participated in, and didn't know what to believe was real.
Kimberly Gwen Polman, who possess dual citizenship of the United States and Canadian. Both women, interviewed by The New York Times at the camp, said they were trying to figure out how to have their passports reissued, and how to win the sympathy of the two nations they scorned.
The New York Times reported that Kimberly Gwen Polman, 46, married an Islamic State fighter whom she met online.
Kimberly Polman - Single mom of three children is currently a student at Douglas College working on her Legal Administration Diploma. Her ultimate goal is to work as a child advocate.
All were taken into custody. Muthana may be the first American spouse or partner of an Islamic State fighter who has sought to return home. The New York Times has reported that another woman, dual U.S.-Canadian national Kimberly Gwen Polman, 46, is also in the al-hawl refugee camp in Syria. She left Canada in 2015.
Ms. Muthana and Ms. Polman acknowledged in the interview here that many Americans would question whether they deserved to be brought back home after joining one of the world's deadliest terrorist groups.
Kimberly Gwen Polman, 46, surrendered last month to coalition forces fighting ISIL and is detained in a camp in northeastern Syria, along with an Alabama woman, Hodan Muthana.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Hamilton immigration lawyer Howard Eisenberg says Polman's journey back to Canada could be a very lengthy one and it would begin by the Canadian government either revoking her Canadian passport or denying her application for a new one.
She then got to the camp and she started hearing stories of Canadians who has been in limbo for a long time. She learned that Americans are at least repatriating their citizens even though most of them are being repatriated directly to jail. So I think she had a change of heart and decided to identify through her other nationality in the hope that she can get out of there.