Operation Jihadi bride : my covert mission to rescue young women from ISIS

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Label

Operation Jihadi bride : my covert mission to rescue young women from ISIS

Title remainder

my covert mission to rescue young women from ISIS

Statement of responsibility

John Carney with Clifford Thurlow

Creator

• Carney, John

Contributor

• Thurlow, Clifford

Author

• Carney, John
• Thurlow, Clifford

Subject

• trueJihad
• Muslim women -- Violence against -- Middle East
• trueTerrorism -- Prevention
• Carney, John
• trueWomen radicals
• trueWomen terrorists
• Women -- Violence against -- Middle East
• IS (Organisation)
• trueIslamic fundamentalism

Language

eng

Summary

'Jihad isn't a war. It's an objective. An aberration. If there are young women with children, lost boys. If they are trapped in that hell and we can get them out, don't we have a duty to do so? Every person we can bring back is living proof that Islamic State is a failure.' Ex-British Army soldier John Carney was running a close protection operation for oil executives in Iraq when the family of a young Dutch woman asked him to extract her from the collapsing 'Islamic State' in Syria. Hearing first-hand about the naive young girls, many from the West, who'd been tricked, sexually abused and enslaved by ISIS, he knew only one thing - he had to get them out of that living hell. This is the incredible true story of how - armed with AK-47s and 9mm Glocks - Carney launched a daring, dangerous and deadly operation to free as many of them as he could. From 2016 to 2019, he led his small band of committed Kurdish freedom fighters into the heart of the Syrian lead storm. Backed by humanitarian NGOs, and feeding intel to MI6, Carney and his men went behind enemy lines to deliver the women and their children to the authorities, to deradicalization programmes and fair trials. Carney, a born soldier, was moved to action by the women's terrifying stories. He and his men risked their lives daily, not always making it safely home

Cataloging source

UKMGB

Dewey number

362.88

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Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction