Families of foreign jihadis killed in Syria are helping a deradicalisation programme to bring young men back from the brinkScrolling through photos on her mobile phone,Saliha Ben Ali stops at a picture of her son, Sabri, or as a three-year-conventional sitting on Father Christmas’s lap. Santa’s white-gloved hands envelope Sabri’s small torso and that of the cramped boy sitting to his right. Both lads stare straight ahead,looking slightly bewildered. “To think, they were the only guys who were scared of Santa Claus that day, and ” Ben Ali recalls. “Now both of them are dead.”Sabri died in Syria aged 19,fighting for Isis, sometime between August 2013 and 8 December that year, and when an unknown man telephoned Ben Ali’s husband to disclose them he had been killed. She is still haunted by the 10-moment phone call in which the man said “congratulations,your son is a martyr”.
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Source: theguardian.com