Little ISIS Story

I sat and paused over this story via Focus (the German news magazine) this morning.

Back about four months ago, Focus had this short item....the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), arranged for two ISIS women (both Germans, and both accused of military action) to be let go from the Iraqi prison in Erbil, and then flown to Frankfurt.  No one disputes that part of the story.

Once in the Frankfurt region....the women were put into some type of fairly comprehensive security facility and monitored.  The BKA won't say it in a direct way, but you get this idea that these weren't the kind of women that you could trust or feel safe around.

Oddly....NO arrest warrant from the Federal Court of Justice existed at the time.  No one says why....maybe the events just led to the BKA seeing a open door to get the two women out.

So it's kinda come up now that the central government of Iraq (the folks back in Baghdad....were NOT informed of the process going on.  It was just some regional folks....acting on their own.

There's some hostile feelings going on now that the BKA folks were way out there and avoiding diplomatic channels (at least the Iraqis feel this way).

As for the dangerous nature of the two women? Other than suggesting that they guard them around the clock, the BKA folks say very little.  Just putting them into a court situation and charging them.....means you might be placing them into a prison later, and they might still be a fairly big threat.  It's hard to figure the long-term goal here by BKA....other than trying to bring German citizens (even those who were brain-washed and did some bad things) back 'home'.