To Syria And Back: How 2 Women Escaped Their Radicalized Husbands
Few have returned to the U.S. after traveling to Syria and Iraq, where they were linked to extremists. Two are women who say their husbands forced them to go, along with their small children.
By her own account, Samantha Sally had a comfortable life for years in Elkhart, Ind., with her Moroccan husband and their children.
But on a family vacation to Turkey in 2015, Sally says her husband, Moussa Elhassani, tricked the entire family into crossing the border into Syria.
She described that fateful moment in an interview with CNN last spring in Syria:
"The position I was in was to stay with my son or watch my husband leave with my daughter. I had to make a decision. I thought we could walk back across the border again," she said.
There, he declared he was joining the Islamic State. They moved to the city of Raqqa, which
