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In an interview with CBS News, a captured teen terrorist opened up about
life as an ISIS fighter.
When the Islamic State invaded 15-year-old Kareem Mufleh's village, he was
given two awful options: join the jihadists or experience the horror of
being beheaded.
Mufleh chose to join ISIS.
While ISIS fighters have caused hundreds of thousands of defenseless people
in Iraq and Syria to flee and are becoming the stuff of living nightmares,
Mufleh explained what makes them so detached and cowardly.
He claims that ISIS gave him the anti-anxiety drug Zolam before he went in
to battle.
"That drug makes you lose your mind," he said. "If they give you a suicide
belt and tell you to blow yourself up, you'll do it."
ISIS's move is nothing new, as militant groups drugging their recruits is a
common thing. Many child soldiers in Africa are drugged before going into
battle. In addition, terrorists who were involved in the Mumbai attacks were
allegedly on hardcore narcotics.
Mufleh's information may explain part of the psychological reason why ISIS
fighters are so willing to commit atrocity after atrocity. The Islamic State
knows its message doesn't have any real value. That's why they are using
brainwashing and drug addiction to build their terror-machine.
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