In the summer of 2002, when Afnan was around 13 years old, her parents signed her up for a summer camp a few hours north of where they lived in Raleigh, North Carolina.

And we've been doing these forever. Like, as far as I can remember, we've always done the summer camps.

And this specific camp was going to be in West Virginia at Pipe Stem Resort State Park.

And we've been there many times.

And so it's a beautiful place.

It's up in the mountains.

For us kids, we loved it because it was a chance.

Like, a lot of times it was the first time we get to be away from our parents.

We would put up our own tents.

The camp was organized through her local mosque in Raleigh.

And she told us that there was definitely a religious element to the camp.

They'd pray five times a day together.

But mostly it was just like any regular summer camp, a bunch of outdoor activities.

We did a lot of hiking, canoeing, kayaking, playing volleyball.

It was just really fun.

It was a fun way to, like, connect with nature and then connect with like your fellow American, well, some peers.

So she arrives with all her friends, you know, all her camping gear in the middle of this

beautiful countryside with no real towns around for miles, just this one big lake and miles of

forest. And one of the first activities they had planned was to go canoeing. So we went that afternoon

and I remember we came back and I think we had just praying, like I'll sort of pray or something like that.

And we were getting ready to, like, do some other activity.

And, like, no joke, like, 10 black SUVs come rolling up into our campsite.

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