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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

These 8 medical students are missing

Clockwise from top left: Hisham Muhammed Fadlallah, Tasneem Suleyman Huseyin, Ismail Hamadoun, Nada Sami Khader, Mohammed Osama Bedir, Rowan Kamal Zine El Abidine, Tamer Ahmed Ebu Sebah and Lena Maumoon Abdul Qadir
Hmmm hope ISIS never capture them ooooo.......The group, all in their late teens or early 20s, had been studying medicine in Sudan.
Some of their relatives, who have travelled to the Turkish-Syrian border, told the BBC they were gravely concerned about their welfare.

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The medics are believed to have entered Syria more than a week ago.
They have been named as Ismail Hamadoun, Tamer Ahmed Ebu Sebah, Mohammed Osama Bedir, Hisham Muhammed Fadlallah, Sami Ahmed Khader, Nada Sami Khader, Lena Maumoon Abdul Qadir, Rowan Kamal Zine El Abidine and Tasneem Suleyman Huseyin.
BBC Turkey correspondent Mark Lowen said some in the group had sent messages to their parents saying they were doing voluntary work to help Syrians.
Our correspondent, who described the group as British-Sudanese, said their families had travelled to Gaziantep in southern Turkey to try to find them.
One of the fathers said he was not getting enough support from British and Turkish authorities and did not understand how Turkey allowed such a large group to cross the border.
The Foreign Office said it was providing consular assistance to their families.

The agonising wait goes on for the British-Sudanese families hoping for news of their children.
The father of one of the missing medics has told me he no longer holds out hope that they are still in Turkey and is convinced they've already crossed into an area of Syria controlled by so-called Islamic State.
The group is 13-strong, mainly British-Sudanese and were studying at a faculty in Khartoum, where the fear is they may have been radicalised and recruited by IS.

The nine Britons are understood to have been joined by two Sudanese medics, one who is American-Sudanese and one Canadian-Sudanese.
The Observer newspaper reported that the students' parents believed they were in Tel Abyad and wanted to work with IS, but they were almost certain they did not plan to take up arms.
The medics are said to have been born in England but went to Sudan to study and experience "a more Islamic culture".
A friend of Tasneem Suleyman Huseyin in Khartoum told the BBC the young woman and her friends had "radically changed" a few years ago and started wearing the full veil, which "shocked a lot of their friends" in the British Sudanese community.
A Home Office source told the paper the medics would not automatically face prosecution under anti-terror laws if they returned to the UK if they could prove they had not been fighting.

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