Radical ideology is able to destroy a life. This family is an example.
Our war reporter Evgeny Poddubny with the details from Syria.
Aniyat Seyidova is an ISIS terrorist's wife. A few years ago she came to Syria. The route was the same: first from Russia to Turkey, then an illegal border crossing, and finally the Syrian city of Manbij, which was controlled by ISIS radicals back in 2016. The husband promised the young woman a happy life in the Islamic caliphate. Aniyat heard, of course, that it was a terrorist group, but didn't believe it. The husband assured her it was only propaganda and that they were going to build a fair Muslim world in Syria. The young woman from Dagestan faced the harsh reality as soon as she arrived in Syria.
Aniyat Seyidova, an ISIS terrorist’s wife: “Everything is very rude, cruel, not the way they promise. Only after arriving there do you realize what you've done. You realize what you left your parents for.”
She was beaten only because she didn't want to attend a school of terrorists. She was put under house arrest and could not go outside. She then found out that her husband was a drug addict. He pretended to be ill to get free Tramadol — an opioid pain medication. And all of this is actually in the heart of the pseudo-caliphate.
Aniyat Seyidova: He didn't really want to kill people, he... how to say it, he wanted easy money.
- Easy money?
- He didn't want to work. He wasn't hard-working. He wanted something like this.
- So it's not about faith, it's about money?
- Yes.
Only later did Aniyat realize that her husband’s friends were ordinary murderers and gangsters who hide behind Islam to justify their own crimes. She decided to run away, but they threatened her with taking her children.
Aniyat Seyidova: "They could take away my child, my son and take him to a camp where they'd teach him how to kill people. That's not what I came for, I came to live. I don't remember the age exactly, but at 9 or 12 they take children, The boys are obliged to be taught whatever they teach them there: brutally murdering people and also oppressing them".
As a result of war actions, the ISIS terrorists were forced to leave Manbij. and the woman’s husband was imprisoned by other fighters from the so-called Free Syrian Army. Aniyat was helped to get into the territory controlled by government forces and officers of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria. Now the woman and her children are waiting to return to their homeland.
Aniyat is ready to tell her tragic story to everyone who has illusions and who have already become a victim of the radical propaganda of terrorists. She's not the last terrorist's wife.
Evgeny Poddubny, Ruben Mirobov, VESTI, Hama Governorate, Syria.
