21 February 2015

Idiots (female division) for the day


NBC News has an article about three girls headed for disaster:
British counter-terror officials were urgently searching for three teenage schoolgirls they feared had run away from home to travel to Syria, police said recently.
The girls, all good friends aged fifteen to sixteen, boarded a Turkish Airlines flight at London's Gatwick Airport and arrived in Istanbul, Turkey later that evening, police said in a statement. Thousands of wannabe ISIS rebels have crossed into Syria through Turkey since the civil war there started four years ago.
The girls were last seen at their homes that morning, where they made plausible excuses to their families as to why they would be out for the day, officials added.
Surveillance photos (above) of the three teenage girls, who were last seen at Gatwick Airport in London, England; from left to right, sixteen-year-old Kadiza Sultana, a fifteen-year-old whose name was withheld by authorities, and fifteen-year-old Shamina Begum.
"We are extremely concerned for the safety of these young girls and would urge anyone with information to come forward and speak to police," said Richard Walton, counterterror commander of the Metropolitan Police. "Our priority is the safe return of these girls to their families."
Launching an appeal for information about the three, officials in London also said they were concerned about how many of young women traveling to the part of Syria controlled by the extremist group ISIS. "It is an extremely dangerous place," Walton said.
The girls were identified as Shamima Begum, Kadiza Sultana, and a fifteen-year-old who has not been named at the request of her family. Begum and the third girl were reported missing to police by their families later that evening when they did not return home. Sultana was reported missing by her family on Wednesday morning.
All three went to school in Bethnal Green in East London, according to police. Police said that Begum and Sultana had London accents, and also spoke Bengali, the unnamed fifteen-year-old spoke English and Amharic, a language native to Ethiopia.
Police said they were attempting to reach out to the girls through social media and the Turkish press.
Rico says they'll find out, unfortunately too late, that this was a dumb idea... (Rico had them, too, when he was fifteen, but never acted on them, fortunately.)

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