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This British family of 8 disappeared into ISIS territory in October 2015 and have never been found

Boing Boing·Ellsworth Toohey·about 1 month ago
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A week before Farzana Ameen disappeared from Bradford, England in October 2015, she flew to Pakistan, left her bedridden mother with relatives there, and came back. Then she boarded a one-way flight to Turkey with her husband Imran and their five children, including five-year-old Mohammed, and was never seen again. The Ameens are believed to have crossed into Syria, where authorities suspected they joined ISIS, which had declared a caliphate the year before. Imran's brother Rehan, 30, had made the trip four months earlier. None of the eight have ever returned. According to a Wikipedia entry on the family , the Ameens were one of two Bradford families that disappeared into ISIL territory that year. They had no criminal record and didn't appear on any watchlists. Multiple relatives lived nearby: Imran's father next door, a cousin opposite. Their three youngest were students at St. Matthew's, the local Church of England primary school.…

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