Man Who Escaped ISIS: They Want to Plan an Attack ‘More Brutal’ than 9/11

Man Who Escaped ISIS: They Want to Plan an Attack ‘More Brutal’ than 9/11 (National Review Online)

The Islamic State is “happy” about the air strikes by the United States because it validates their efforts in emerging as a global threat, says a man who escaped after a month with the group.

Ahmad Rashidi was captured by the Islamic State when he went to Syria from London to retrieve the two daughters of a family friend; the teenage girls had fled England to marry Islamic State fighters. When Rashidi found one of the girls, her husband accused him of being a spy and he was taken as a prisoner and tortured. He later won the favor of his capturers by telling them he was a doctor; Rashidi is, in fact, a first-year medical student.