Posted on 03/22/2015 5:42:16 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
ISTANBUL: A group of foreign medical students, including seven Britons, an American and a Canadian, are thought to have traveled to Syria to work in hospitals controlled by ISIS, a Turkish member of parliament in the border region said Sunday.
Ten of the group, aged between 19-25, flew from the Sudanese capital Khartoum to Istanbul on March 12, according to Mehmet Ali Ediboglu, an opposition MP in the Hatay border region who is trying to help their parents find the men and women.
An 11th member of the group - which also includes two Sudanese - flew to Istanbul from Toronto before they crossed together illegally into Syria, Ediboglu told Reuters.
"Their families came here to look for them after they went missing. The families found us and asked for our help," he said by telephone from Hatay.
A Turkish government official said the British, Turkish and Sudanese security services were jointly investigating but gave no further details.
Britain's security services estimate that some 600 Britons have gone to Syria or Iraq to join militant groups, including the man known as "Jihadi John," who has appeared in several ISIS beheading videos.
ISIS' attempt to create a theocratic Sunni Muslim 'caliphate' by violent means has attracted thousands of recruits from Europe and elsewhere.
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So, what are the names? Smith, Miller, Jones...??
Idiot kids. Falling for that Muslim vision of heaven. They deserve what they get.
Britain’s Observer newspaper said the group all had Sudanese roots but were born and brought up in Britain. It said they had been enrolled in medical school in Khartoum.
HHmmmm. Sudanese roots.....
Ten of the group, aged between 19-25, flew from the Sudanese capital Khartoum to Istanbul on March 12, according to Mehmet Ali Ediboglu, an opposition MP in the Hatay border region who is trying to help their parents find the men and women. An 11th member of the group -- which also includes two Sudanese -- flew to Istanbul from Toronto before they crossed together illegally into Syria...
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