Jack Letts, who ran away to Syria in 2014, said he missed his mother and life in the UK.
“If the UK accepted me then I’d go back to the UK, it’s my home. But I don’t think that’s going to happen,” he said, adding that he doubts he would be released.
Letts, who is also a Canadian national, is currently being held in a Kurdish prison.
The man said he hasn’t spoken to his parents in two years, and doubted that UK and Canadian officials would “come and help me” because “no one really cares.”
Letts’s parents are slated to go to trial in the UK after they allegedly funded terrorism by sending their son money. They denied the charges, saying that their son went to Syria to help refugees.
“To be honest at the time I thought it was a good thing,” he said of the 2015 Paris attacks that left 130 dead, ITV News reported.
“Genuinely, at the time, we had this idea that when you’re living in Raqqa getting bombed every five minutes by coalition jets and you see literally, I’ve seen children burnt alive,” he stated.
Regarding the Paris attacks, he said, “At the time, you have this sort of—and this is what war does to you—you have this idea of ‘why shouldn’t it happen to them?’”
“But then I realized, they have nothing to do with it,” he added.
Letts also said he misses people in his home country.
“Even if I could just see my mum ... I would like just a phone call, I don’t know if Britain can do that for me here, but I'd like just a phone call to my mum—it’s been two years,” he added.
ISIS Women Want to Return
It comes days after two women said they want to come back to the United States and U.K., respectively, after they got married to ISIS terrorists in Syria.“We starved and we literally ate grass,” she was quoted by The Guardian as saying in explaining why she wants to return. “I would tell them please forgive me for being so ignorant, and I was really young and ignorant and I was 19 when I decided to leave,” she said.
The Guardian reported that she posted messages on social media calling for terrorist attacks against Americans on holidays.
However, President Donald Trump said she shouldn’t return to the country, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo agreed.
“People shouldn’t forget that Hoda herself right now and her family are not saying that she should just come back home, that she should get a free pass,” he added. “Everybody acknowledges that what she did was horrible, disgusting, unacceptable, but we also acknowledge that America is great because of our legal system.”
She said on Feb. 22: “I would like them to re-evaluate my case with a bit more mercy in their heart, you know.”
