Who is Linda Wenzel? German Teenager Who Joined ISIS 'Wants To Go Back Home'

Cetus News ^ | 24 July 2017 | Shubham Kishore

[Steely Tom]

Sixteen-year-old Linda Wenze went missing from Pulsnitz village, near Dresden, on July 1, 2016. She left her home saying she would spend the weekend at a friend’s house but did not return after that.

German teenager Linda Wenzel, who joined the Islamic State group — also known as ISIS — in 2016, and has been detained in Iraq, said she was regretting joining the terrorist organization and wanted to go home and meet her family.

Four German women including Wenzel, who belongs to a small town of Pulsnitz near Dresden, were being given consular assistance in a prison in Iraq. However, the details such as where she was found have not been revealed, Guardian reported.

Sixteen-year-old Wenzel went missing from her home on July 1, 2016. She left her home saying she would spend the weekend at a friend’s house but did not return after that. The police found receipts of two plane tickets — from Dresden to Frankfurt and from Frankfurt to Istanbul — in her room after they began the search.

Before she went missing, she told her parents that her interest in Islam was growing. She also fasted during the holy month of Ramadan, her parents said. “We didn’t think anything of it, and even bought her a copy of the Qur’an,” said her mother, Katharina told Guardian.

After being radicalized in Germany, the girl changed her name to Mariam. She also posted her photos on Facebook wearing a headscarf, reports said. Her friends also claimed she had started learning Arabic and wearing conservative clothes. She was also carrying religious books to school.

She was also interacting with the followers of the Islamic State group through internet. Some reports claimed she might have fallen in love with a Muslim boy she met online. After she disappeared, Germany authorities listed her as a potential terror threat.

She was arrested by the Iraqi forces along with many other female supporters of the terror organization in Mosul last week. Other female members are from countries like Russia, Turkey, Canada, Libya and Syria. They reportedly barricaded themselves with guns and explosives in a tunnel.

Some reports also said Wensel was carrying a baby at the time she was caught by the forces. The malnourished baby was sent for treatment. It has not yet been confirmed if Wenzel is the mother of that baby.

It is also not clear yet if Wenzel would remain in Iraq or she would be deported to Germany to face trial. Earlier, an Iraqi judge said foreign members of the Islamic State group would be tried in Iraqi courts; however, since Wenzel is a minor, there are chances she may be deported, Telegraph reported. Only a few ISIS members from Europe under the age of 18 have been detained.

Hundred of Germans including many young women and girls have left the country to join the terrorist group in the recent past. While some of them died, and others came, many such Germans are still unaccounted.

[Steely Tom]

It is very hard to find background info on Linda Wenzel on the internet. I had to look quite a while to find this article, which talks a little about the circumstances of her disappearance and travel to Iraq.

It's almost like any stories about Ms. Wenzel from last year (when she left her home in Dresden, headed for the Frisco way) have been scrubbed from the internet.

[Innovative]

I don’t think she can be trusted.

[Lurker]

Let the Iraqis try, convict, and then execute her.

L

[Dilbert San Diego]

It’s a sad story. This has happened to other girls. For whatever reason, they become enamored of Islam and ISIS, and go to the middle East. They become slaves in ISIS territory. Then they decide they don’t really want to be ISIS slaves or in a forced marriage. This is likely what happened to her.

[rrrod]

Let her sold on the Sudanese slave markets

[Obadiah]

She also fasted during the holy month of Ramadan, her parents said. “We didn’t think anything of it, and even bought her a copy of the Qur’an,” said her mother...

Liberalism is a mental illness that sets aside one's ability to think and reason. No doubt this woman is a Liberal who was eager to virtue signal her tolerance and lack of racism. This liberal religion is so potent in its deception that it caused this mother to place her young daughter directly into harms way.

Sad.

[tired&retired]

Pic from before she went

German girl, 16, who ran away to join ISIS was found with a malnourished baby boy in her bombed out fortress German 16-year-old Linda Wenzel surrendered to Iraqi forces last weekend The young girl was found hurt, carrying a baby and screaming for help in Mosul The baby she was with - a malnourished boy - was taken to an Army clinic for medical attention before he and Linda were transferred to Baghdad It remains unclear if the baby is Linda's, though she is producing breast milk It was previously reported that Linda was married to a Chechen IS fighter Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4722078/German-ISIS-teenage-bride-baby-Mosul.html#ixzz4nmHE0QeJ Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

[aquila48]

I’m a bit conflicted on this one.

Should she be given a pass because of her age? I might provided she’s sincerely changed her mind about ISIS and Muslims. If not let the Iraqis take care of her.

The other option is to make an example of her for other teens who might be thinking of doing similarly stupid things. In other words, publicize her story and let the Iraqis handle it their way.

[JohnBrowdie]

you can’t scrub the internet. the stories are out there. it was less of a story when she first disappeared and there were fears that she had gone over to ISIS than when it was confirmed that she had gone over to ISIS.

[Steely Tom]

Liberalism is a mental illness that sets aside one's ability to think and reason.

[Cecily]

The Iraqis definitely need to try all such persons as terrorists or war criminals attacking their citizens and their country. These people are not really even POWs because they are completely unlawful combatants who are not part of any legitimate army.

[Obadiah]

Absolutely tragic. Rather than help this young girl, her mother poured gasoline all over her confused reasoning.

[Steely Tom]

you can’t scrub the internet. the stories are out there. it was less of a story when she first disappeared and there were fears that she had gone over to ISIS than when it was confirmed that she had gone over to ISIS.

True, and good points. Thanks.

[JohnBrowdie]

I said in another thread (this is a popular topic) the this was a the result of bad parenting, social media put to evil uses (as though social media has any noble uses), and way too open borders in the EU.

no 16 year old should be able to **** up her life this bad without someone seeing the trouble.

[dfwgator]

They become slaves in ISIS territory. Then they decide they don’t really want to be ISIS slaves or in a forced marriage. This is likely what happened to her.

Or they are committing Taqqiya to fool them into taking them back in and then allowing them to commit terrorism on their soil.

[JohnBrowdie]

yep. if she comes back to germany, she gets (comparatively speaking, at least) a slap on the wrist. if she stays in iraq, she gets executed — and probably in some medieval way, like stoning, or being burned alive.

[BBQToadRibs]

God knows teenagers make some amazingly bad mistakes. But this one takes the cake.

[dfwgator]

This was way beyond a “mistake.”

[pax_et_bonum]

That picture is horrible.

That little girl has suffered.

[dfwgator]

That little girl has suffered.

Ohh boo hoo...Stupid should hurt.