More than 20 widows of South African men who died in Syria fighting for international terrorist group Islamic State want to be repatriated with their children because “they aren’t coming back to plant bombs”.
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The women left the country to join their husbands who had joined the Islamic terrorist group fighting in Syria and other Islamic countries in the Middle East, according to senior government and security cluster sources. The Islamic State in Iraq and Levant , also known as Isis, or IS, is a well-known international terrorist group whose modus operandi includes suicide bombers, car bombs and other terrorist methods.Former South African ambassador to Syria Mohammed Dangor is believed to be the champion of this repatriation drive, having allegedly lobbied senior government officials to support it.
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