matthew was taken to raqqa in 2015 by his mother, samantha sally and stepfather moussa elhassani.thinking of someone that basically has your life in their grasp. say one wrong thing, and they could easilyjust kill you. in the summer of 2017, as a us—led coalition attack to raqqa, the terror group used matthew to deliver a message of defiance. this battle is not going to end in raqqa or mosul. it's going to end in new orleans, when the will of allah will have victory. so get ready, for the fighting has just begun. some people will have seen the isis propaganda video of you. what is it that you would want people to understand ? that not all kids actually want to do that. that a lot of times they are forced. in december 2017, i travelled to syria and spoke to matthew's mother, who'd escaped with her children and was being held in a kurdish detention camp. she claimed she had been tricked into going to syria by her husband, moussa. i didn't know what was happening. i assumed that i was being lied to. i see my husband cross through a fence, and he just goes. he knows — he knows i'm goi

matthew was taken to raqqa in 2015 by his mother, samantha sally and stepfather moussa elhassani.summer of 2017, as a us—led coalition attack to raqqa, the terror group used matthew to deliver a message of defiance. this battle is not going to end in raqqa or mosul. it's going to end in new orleans, when the will of allah will have victory. so get ready, for the fighting has just begun. some people will have seen the isis propaganda video of you. what is it that you would want people to understand ? that not all kids actually want to do that. that a lot of times they are forced. in december 2017, i travelled to syria and spoke to matthew's mother, who'd escaped with her children and was being held in a kurdish detention camp. she claimed she had been tricked into going to syria by her husband, moussa. i didn't know what was happening. i assumed that i was being lied to. i see my husband crossed through friends, and he just goes. he knows — he knows i'm going to follow him. what am i going to do? her husband, who had become an islamic state group sniper, was killed. matthew and his