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Turns out now that terrorist agents are radicalising bright girls
As security agents and social scientists grapple with the rising phenomenon of young educated men and women opting for jihadism in Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Iraq, The Nairobian can now exclusively reveal how these terror groups recruit gullible Kenyans to beef up their ‘army.’
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) fighters from Kenya are recruited at a base in California estate in Nairobi, then taken to a hideout in Runda, before travelling to Kampala by road in public vehicles. From Uganda, the recruits are then flown to Syria or continue their journey by road all the way to South Africa to catch connecting flights to the war-torn Arab country.
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