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Wed Aug 12, 2015, 01:51 AM Aug 2015

Feds: Mississippi couple planned honeymoon to join ISIS in Syria

Source: CNN

"Our story will be that we are newlyweds on our honeymoon," the young woman allegedly wrote.

But in reality, according to a criminal complaint, she and her soon-to-be husband had a far more sinister trip in mind: flying from Mississippi to Europe, then traveling to Syria and joining ISIS.

Now 20-year-old Jaelyn Delshaun Young and 22-year-old Muhammad Oda Dakhlalla are facing federal charges after authorities arrested them at Golden Triangle Regional Airport in Columbus, Mississippi, over the weekend. They're accused of conspiring and attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS.

Ken Coghlan, an attorney representing Young, declined to comment to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Oxford, Mississippi, after a hearing there Tuesday. Greg Park, a federal public defender representing Dakhlalla, also declined to comment.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/11/us/mississippi-couple-isis/



I've flown into and out of that airport many times. One gate. The planes are the kind you have to stick your arms out the windows and flap when they take off. Anyways.
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Well at least in Mississippi they'll get a fair trial. oasis Aug 2015 #1
No Honeymoon Suite.... cynzke Aug 2015 #2
I still think and wonder about the 3 british teens that went to ISIS. Elmer S. E. Dump Aug 2015 #3
 

Elmer S. E. Dump

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3. I still think and wonder about the 3 british teens that went to ISIS.
Wed Aug 12, 2015, 03:36 PM
Aug 2015

I wonder if they are alive, how many babies they have, etc. They were really stupid, but it's just unfortunate there isn't much to be done about it.

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