Oxford
researcher Lydia Wilson discusses interviewing members of ISIS held prisoner at
a police station of Kirkuk, Iraq. "They are children of the occupation, many
with missing fathers at crucial periods (through jail, death from execution, or
fighting in the insurgency), filled with rage against America and their own
government," Wilson wrote in a recent piece for The Nation. "They are not fueled
by the idea of an Islamic caliphate without borders; rather, ISIS is the first
group since the crushed Al Qaeda to offer these humiliated and enraged young men
a way to defend their dignity, family, and tribe."
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