Bring Me Home: (Pt 4) Lessons from Europe
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The Times
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🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The UK is not alone in having to decide what to do with its citizens stuck in Syrian camps and Iraqi prisons. Thousands of European nationals travelled to the Middle East to take part in the conflict that has torn the region apart. How is the rest of Europe coping with the problem? Are they bringing foreign fighters back? And what do they do with them if they do return?
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Guests:
Arthur Snell, former head of the Foreign Office counter radicalisation programme
Thomas Schmidinger, University of Vienna Political Scientist and Cultural Anthropologist
Peter Conradi, The Sunday Times Europe editor.
Dr Neda Richards, counterterrorism psychologist.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:35.2 | deals exclusively for Health and Beauty Card members. End November 14th, T-Sensies of Play. thousands of former members of the Islamic State are now being held in squalid, overcrowded |
| 0:59.1 | camps in northeast Syria, camps which are far from secure. |
| 1:05.0 | It's out of control. |
| 1:06.0 | They don't know exactly how many people they think you've got that. |
| 1:09.0 | They think they've got about 64,000. |
| 1:11.0 | Just under 10,000 of those are foreigners. You want them just they getting radicalized in that dump. What should we do with them? The Supreme Court in London is now deliberating on where the Shimima Begum, the former |
| 1:26.2 | Bethnal Green girl who became a jihadi bride at the age of 15 should be allowed to return to Britain to fight for her citizenship. |
| 1:35.0 | Shamima Beggum is seeking to challenge the government's decision to revoke her British |
| 1:39.2 | citizenship. Lawyers for the Home Office argued there would be significant national security risk. |
| 1:45.0 | How is the rest of Europe coping with the same problem? |
| 1:48.0 | Are they bringing foreign fighters back or leaving them in Syria? |
| 1:52.0 | And what do they do with them if they do return? |
| 1:55.0 | The dialogue is never about trying to prove the individual wrong |
| 1:59.0 | in terms of how they think, what they think. In part three, we looked at how do |
| 2:05.0 | de-radicalization works in Britain and the times when it doesn't. |
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