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By Anne Speckhard,Ahmet S. Yayla

ISBN-10: 1935866710

ISBN-13: 9781935866718

The authors hadn’t meant to place themselves at risk yet that’s what occurred as they interviewed an extraordinary thirty-two battle-hardened defectors concerning the gritty information of lifestyles within ISIS. With remarkable breadth, intensity and entry, ISIS Defectors: inside of tales of the Terrorist Caliphate deals a compelling view of ISIS from males, girls and teenagers now in hiding, having escaped the main brutal terrorist workforce in contemporary background.

They have been opponents and commanders, other halves of fighters—living and lifeless, girl enforcers, and Cubs of the Caliphate, together with a baby who volunteered and nearly obtained despatched as a suicide bomber at age 13. They talk about motivations for becoming a member of and defecting, and delve into news-making themes: coercing young ones to turn into suicide bombers; brides of ISIS and the brutal girl morality police; Yazidi and Sunni intercourse slaves held in vast compounds the place combatants use them at will; privilege bestowed on overseas combatants; prisoners stored for the only objective of beheading via new inductees. The defectors shared a startling array of images and video clips from own mobile phones and lots of are integrated within the electronic model of this book.

An unforeseen subplot opened up whilst Dr. Yayla came across himself tailed by way of ISIS, and Dr. Speckhard slightly ignored suicide assaults. however the authors usually are not deterred. As counter-terrorism specialists with specialties in examine psychology and legislations enforcement, they see ISIS as greater than a terrorist team. ISIS is a model that falsely sells dignity and function, justice and the recovery of glory—to weak recruits—masterfully recruiting a few 30,000 participants on-line. It’s the largest inflow of international opponents to a terrorist haven in heritage.

Using the defectors personal phrases, the authors intend to wreck the ISIS model. they've got videotaped those interviews to edit them into brief clips, memes and tweets for a web counter-offensive. Speckhard and Yayla country that dissatisfied ISIS defectors are the main influential device for countering ISIS propaganda. The persuasive voices of those defectors and the ensuing video clips will quickly invade ISIS chat rooms the place their propaganda flourishes. With over a thousand energetic investigations within the U.S. throughout all 50 states, discrediting ISIS ideology is key to preventing it.

Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. is Adjunct affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown collage within the tuition of drugs and Director of the overseas heart for the learn of Violent Extremism (ICSVE). She is usually the writer of speaking to Terrorists, Bride of ISIS and coauthor of Undercover Jihadi and Warrior Princess. Dr. Speckhard has interviewed approximately 500 terrorists, their family and supporters in a variety of components of the area together with Gaza, West financial institution, Chechnya, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and plenty of international locations in Europe. In 2007, she was once accountable for designing the mental and Islamic problem elements of the Detainee Rehabilitation application in Iraq to be utilized to 20,000 + detainees and 800 juveniles.

Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. is the Deputy Director of the foreign middle for the learn of Violent Extremism (ICSVE). he's additionally Adj. Professor on the division of Criminology, legislation and Society at George Mason college and previously served as Professor and the Chair of the Sociology division at Harran college in Turkey. Dr. Yayla earned either his Master’s and Ph.D. levels in felony Justice and knowledge technology from the collage of North Texas within the usa. Dr. Yayla served because the leader of Counter-terrorism and Operations department for the Turkish nationwide Police.

Both are wanted counter-terrorism specialists and feature consulted to NATO, OSCE, international governments and to the U.S. Senate & residence, Departments of nation, protection, Justice, place of birth protection, overall healthiness & Human providers, CIA and FBI and CNN, BBC, NPR, Fox information, MSNBC, CTV, and in Time, the hot York Times,The Washington put up, London instances and lots of different publications.

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