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Escape Catch

BY JACK MOORE

@JFXM

GENERATION JIHAD: Fethiya Charni holds a photograph and the passport of her son, Tarak Slimi, at her house in El Kef, Tunisia. Like more than 4,000 Tunisians, he is believed to have joined ISIS.
ZOHRA BENSEMRA/REUTERS

ON A COOL morning in March, the call of “Allahu akbar” (“God is great”) echoed from the loudspeakers of a mosque in the Tunisian border town of Ben Guerdane. Fighters for the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), most of them Tunisian, had arrived home from neighboring Libya, and now they were urging residents to join them as they launched an assault on local Tunisian military and police posts.

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