Yusuf---eventually found the American wandering around a border village in a panic

I found the following an interesting quote. It seems that those who don't speak Arabic often are really confused when they want to become Jihadis and don't know who to trust. And the most confused appear to be the very few idealistic Americans trying to join the Jihadi movement.

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Yusuf did the work because he wanted to make money — and because he supported the cause. He ticked off some of the airports where he received the foreigners in Turkey: Istanbul, Hatay, Gaziantep, Antalya. He’d stand in the arrivals hall like any chauffeur, holding a sign with the jihadi’s name. Often they greeted him gleefully. “They hug me, and I hug them back and really welcome them,” he said.

Many of the non-Arab jihadis — including most of the Americans — didn’t speak Arabic, so Yusuf communicated using Google Translate on his smartphone. Some seemed totally lost: One man fled from Yusuf at the airport, convinced he was trying to kidnap him. When Yusuf lost track of another jihadi in Syria, an American who only spoke English, he eventually found him wandering around a border village in a panic.


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Meet The Smuggler Who Has Brought More Than 1,000 Foreign Fighters Into Syria