Tuesday, September 30, 2014

15-year-old girl from Bristol goes to Syria to join the jihadists


When a 15-year-old girl, a would-be dentist from Bristol, leaves her roots and wants to go to Syria to join the jihadists, it is a matter of concern news.sky.com. It seems, this girl along with another 17-year-old girl had travelled from London to Turkey from where they wanted to cross over into Syria.
The 17-year-old London teenager, from Lambeth, is of Somali descent and was last seen leaving home at 7am on September 24.
According to friends of the 15-year-old was a studious student but, she wanted to join militants in Syria and might have been radicalized online. This is what others have surmised because she had, of late, become tied to her mobile phone and computer probably being influenced after viewing extremist material on chat rooms and forums.
She studied in The City Academy in Bristol but, she was not in school when her father went to pick her up last week and she has not been heard of from that day.
The girl's family are also Somali and, as per officers who are investigating, they are trying to ascertain whether the two girls travelled together from Heathrow Airport to Istanbul, Turkey.
Obviously, the social media is to blame since its reach is growing with every passing day and, in order to access the internet, one need not go to any cafĂ© but can do it from one’s mobile phone.

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