What’s more is that he was addressing European allies, meaning in this context he’s also referencing primarily\u00a0foreign fighters\u00a0<\/em>who joined the Islamic State. The foreign jihadists have long been considered to be the most extreme among the extreme. Here’s what Blinken said at a defense conference in Rome,\u00a0according to ABC News<\/a>:<\/p>\n Kicking off the ministerial meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in Rome on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u00a0called on countries to “repatriate, rehabilitate, and where applicable, prosecute their citizens” imprisoned in\u00a0Syria\u00a0fighting for ISIS<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n “It just can’t persist indefinitely,” he said of the problem of the cramped ISIS prisons run by the US-backed SDF in Syria’s Eastern desert.<\/p>\n One such camp is al-Hol, which has been a security nightmare. A recent report in BBC detailed: “According to figures released by al-Hol camp’s Kurdish-led authorities, almost 61,000 people are held at the site in Al Hasakah district, including more than 16,000 families.\u00a0About 2,500 of those are families of foreign IS fighters<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n It could be that Blinken primarily had in mind family members of ISIS terrorists who are held in Syria’s prisons, but regardless it’s shocking how bluntly and easily he\u00a0spoke of “rehabilitating” ISIS foreign fighters<\/strong>…<\/p>\n “We are seeing fighters of 13 and 14 years old, take up weapons to kill people, and we have to get at this from every possible angle,”\u00a0he said further<\/a>\u00a0in the remarks.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/blinkenisis.jpeg?itok=UBkCE8kS\")
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