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July 25th, 2017 
Awake Goy 
nsnbc : The 16-year-old German Linda Wenzel who ran away from home after converting to Islam was found by Iraqi troops in Mosul. The runaway teenager said she just wants to go home. She could theoretically face the death penalty.
Photo courtesy Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service, July 2017
The German runaway girl spoke with reporters in Mosul after she was discovered by Iraqi troops there. The 6-year-old girl said “I just want to go back home to my family. … I want to get away from all the weapons, away from the noise.”
She was interviewed by reporters for the German State broadcaster ARD after she was found earlier this month as Iraqi forces liberated the northern Iraqi city of Mosul from the self-proclaimed Islamic State.
Although it is unlikely, Iraq’s anti-terrorism laws stipulate that she theoretically could face the death penalty – an issue that not only would call German diplomacy but also provoke -unwanted – attention from the UN and rights organizations worldwide.
German officials reported that Linda Wenzel ran away from her home in the small eastern German town of Pulsnitz last summer, shortly after converting to Islam. She had been in touch with ISIS members online and was married to one of the extremist group’s fighters after arriving in the group’s territory.
The German State broadcaster ARD reported that her husband died shortly after the marriage. The girl said she had been hiding in a basement in Mosul when Iraqi soldiers captured her. She said she is “doing fine” despite a bullet wound in her left leg that she said “is from a helicopter attack.”
Linda is currently in a military hospital ward in Baghdad. It’s not yet clear if Wenzel can return to Germany or if she will be tried as an ISIS member first. However, even if she is sentenced to death in Iraq, she would not be executed before the age of 22.
Maria Adebahr, a spokeswoman for the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said German Embassy staff visited Wenzel and another German woman on Thursday. While Germany and Iraq didn’t have any official extradition agreements, the German government was looking into other ways of cooperation regarding the two German women, Adebahr said.
Photos of a disheveled young woman in the presence of Iraqi soldiers went viral online earlier this month, but there were initially contradicting reports about the girl’s identity. The soldiers initially mistook her for a Yazidi woman, but the teenager told them: “I’m not Yazidi, I’m German.”
Iraqi officials reported that Linda Wenzel was one of 26 foreigners arrested in Mosul this month. The Iraqis found three other women from Germany, with roots in Morocco, Algeria and Chechnya. Iraqi officials said the German-Moroccan woman has a child and both were arrested in Mosul about 10 days ago.
The Chechen-German woman was reportedly identified as Fatima. She is reportedly sharing a room with Wenzel and has an arm injury. The woman, according to ARD, had told them that her two children were missing after a recent air raid in Mosul.
CH/L – nsnbc 25.07.2017
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