The video’s American branding, he added, destroys any chance that a potential foreign fighter would be persuaded to turn away. The video ends with “Think Again, Turn Away,” and the seal of the State Department. A report last year by the Albanian Institute of International Studies said the number of fighters from Albania who had joined the Islamic State in 2014 was between 90 and 150. In Tirana, Albania, Blendi Salaj, a radio host, was waiting to hear back from the State Department about whether his application for $9,700 for funding for a messaging project had been approved. There’s no tweet from the U.S. State Department that’s going to talk a young man out of joining ISIS.”Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMr. Lumpkin was more descriptive.

Source: New York Times July 29, 2016 00:56 UTC