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Kosovo’s Jihadis

Linda Pressly travels to Kosovo and meets the sister of ISIS’ first suicide-bomber from the Balkans. How could Europe’s most pro-American state have fostered such extremism?

Kosovo is reeling from the release earlier this year of a jihadi video showing a Kosovan Albanian with ISIS beheading a soldier in Syria. Amid reports of increasing numbers of young people becoming radicalised and leaving for Syria and Iraq, the government in Pristina has responded with a series of arrests.

For Assignment, Linda Pressly travels to Kosovo and meets the sister of ISIS’ first suicide-bomber from the Balkans. How could Europe’s most pro-American state have fostered such extremism?

Produced by Albana Kasapi

(Photo: Blerim Heta, a Kosovan jihadi, who killed himself and 52 others in a suicide attack in Iraq. Â鶹ԼÅÄ copyright)

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