White House: No Charges For ISIS Hostage Taker – IOTW Report

White House: No Charges For ISIS Hostage Taker

Too bad for her…

BlurBrain: WASHINGTON (AP) — An Islamic State militant who helped imprison and brutalize American hostage Kayla Mueller will not be charged in the U.S., the White House announced Friday.

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The militant known as Umm Sayyaf, who had been cooperating with American military interrogators after she was captured in Syria during a May U.S. Special Operations raid, will be prosecuted in the Kurdish region of Iraq by Kurdish authorities, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.

 

On Thursday, the Defense Department announced that Umm Sayyaf has been transferred to a facility in the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Irbil. She is the wife of an Islamic State financier known as Abu Sayyaf, who was killed during the Delta Force raid.

This is actually good news. Had she been brought back to America to stand trial she might have only spent 20 years in (by Iraqi standards) a cushy women’s prison.  MORE

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