How Did an American Mom Go From Indiana to ISIS Territory?
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In November 2020, Sam Sally, also known as Sam Elhassani, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for financing terrorism making her the first American woman brought back from Syria or Iraq and convicted on ISIS-related terrorism charges.
How did this American mother go from a comfortable life in Indiana to the heart of ISIS’s self-declared caliphate in Syria, with her husband a sniper for the terror group and her 10-year-old son forced to threaten President Donald Trump in an ISIS propaganda video shown around the world?
FRONTLINE tells the inside story in
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Hank Stuever, The Washington Post
Dec. 14, 2020
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into. her husband became an abusive monster. before he used to spoil me, i love you we were very much in love. the romance never left. as soon as we came here, it was completely different. everything was completely different. i was a dog. i didn t have a choice. it was extremely violent. he beat s reporter: he beat sam at home but still had two children with her. the abusive relationship may live inside sam along with exactly what she knew and when about his radicalization. had he suggested they buy slaves captured by isis in 2013. they spent thousands of dollars on a boy and a girl to keep her company, he says, and to rescue the slaves to a better life. yet musa repeatedly raped the
all it took was a vacation for one woman s world to turn up side. she said she was duped by her husband to work for isis. now she says she just wants to return home. reporter: a story of how an indiana family went from a mundane life of sports cars and the delivery business to joining isis and to see their son here, the face of isis propaganda, against america is one of mystery, compassion and animal savagery that stretches belief. the fighting has just begun. all i saw was a bunch of drug-using thugs that came from their countries who had no place. reporter: we meet sam sally and sara aged fooiive, and her