Captured in Iraq, Northern Va. man regrets choosing ISIL
Mohamad Jamal Khweis, 26, was prepared to become a suicide bomber and attack America when he left his life in the D.C. suburbs in 2015. He was headed for what he was led to believe was paradise, but after a circuitous sequence of events, he had second thoughts. Khweis, of Alexandria, Virginia, was charged in […]Mohamad Jamal Khweis, 26, was prepared to become a suicide bomber and attack America when he left his life in the D.C. suburbs in 2015. He was headed for what he was led to believe was paradise, but after a circuitous sequence of events, he had second thoughts.
Khweis, of Alexandria, Virginia, was charged in federal court Thursday in the Eastern District of Virginia with “providing and conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization,” as stated in the criminal complaint against him.
Khweis was detained by Kurdish Peshmerga military forces on March 14 in northern Iraq after leaving an ISIL-controlled neighborhood in Tal Afar, Iraq.
