At 9, He Was Taken by ISIS—Now He’s Warning Australia About the Returned ‘Brides’

At 9, He Was Taken by ISIS—Now He’s Warning Australia About the Returned ‘Brides’

Sameer Dakhil Alazeez was just nine years old when he was kidnapped by the ISIS terrorist group—ripped away from his family and farming community in Iraq. It was not his first encounter with terrorism. Two years earlier, Alazeez survived a car bombing that left his legs so badly burned he was unable to walk for a year. In 2014, he remembers being a child who understood little of politics or religion. But as ISIS swept into his hometown, he was f…

Fit the Bill: ISIS brides, Immigration and AUKUS

I encourage readers to try to Google or get a copy of the cartoon (on ISIS Brides) in The Weekend Australian of 9/10 May if they have not seen it already. It’s a brilliant bit of black comedy. Why the Australian government went to so much trouble to bring these terrorists back to Australia and their poor (no doubt, in many cases, seriously radicalised) children is beyond me. Also, what’s the point when 3 out of 4 of the women were arrested as so…