Sudanese security releases student who sought to join ISIS in Libya
December 8, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) has released a college student who has been detained for seeking to join the Islamic State (ISIS) in Libya.
The same sources pointed that al-Majzoub, who is a sophomore student at the University of Bahri, left his parents’ home in Al-Doroshab neighborhood in Khartoum North under the pretext that he is travelling to offer his condolences on the death of his friends’ father in Gadaref State in eastern Sudan.
According to the sources, al-Majzoub has disappeared and his family informed the police and issued a criminal leaflet including his photo and circulated it in the social media networks.
It is noteworthy that al-Majzoub’s father is a leading figure of the Sudanese Islamic Movement (IM) and holds the position of the movement’s organizational secretary in Khartoum North.
A well informed source told Sudan Tribune that NISS have identified al-Majzoub after he crossed Al-Daba station along the North highway, saying he was detained inside a shed in the Great Desert (Sahara) before he reached the Libyan border.
According to the source, al-Majzoub was then transferred to a detention center in Khartoum where he spent about four months before he was released and handed over to his parents last week.
NISS organizes discussion rounds with the extremists inside their detention centers in order to review their thought. They usually pledge before their release not to seek to join any Jihadi movement abroad.
The flow of Sudanese youngsters- both males and females- to join ISIS has become a recurrent event this year with authorities in Khartoum seemingly unable to stop it.
In October, a college student who attends the Faculty of Medicine at the Islamic University of Omdurman has perished in mysterious circumstances on the borders with Libya while trying to join ISIS.
The list of Sudanese ISIS recruits included the daughter of former foreign ministry spokesperson Ali al-Sadiq who flew to Syria via Turkey with 17 others. Her father at the time reportedly accused circles in the state of facilitating her departure.
ISIS infiltration into Sudan among the youths has become known last March after British media outlets confirmed that nine medical students from Sudanese origins entered Syria via Turkey to work in hospitals under the control of ISIS.
Last October, the ministry of interior in Khartoum announced that about 70 Sudanese both males and females have went on to join the ISIS franchises both in Libya and Syria.
(ST)