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Podcast: Seriously...
Episode: The Returnees
Description: On an August bank holiday in 2014, Shiraz Maher at the International Centre for Study of Radicalisation at Kings College London received an email sent by a disillusioned British jihadist from Syria."We came to fight the regime and instead we are involved in gang warfare. It's not what we came for but if we go back to Britain we will go to jail. Right now we are being forced to fight - what option do we have?"The man in his twenties claimed to represent dozens of other jihadists' desperate to return to the UK...