An American ISIS leader

In 2013, six Bosnian Muslim immigrants in the US allegedly sent money, military equipment and other supplies to Salafi-jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq.
An American ISIS leader

In 2013, six Bosnian Muslim immigrants in the US allegedly sent money, military equipment and other supplies to Salafi-jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq. Among the jihadists they helped was a Bosnian-American commander of an Islamic State tank battalion—he had requested packets of hot cocoa

A Bosnian who fought alongside the Serbs
The Bosnia-born IS jihadist Abdullah Ramo Pazara began his career in combat by helping Serbs slaughter Muslims, write Seamus Hughes and Bennett Clifford in The Atlantic. Multiple reports by Bosnian outlets show he fought for an ethnic Serb paramilitary force in 1992, they add and note he possibly did not have a choice as antagonising the Serbs could have “resulted in torture”

Lonely in America
Pazara (centre) moved to the US in the late 1990s. Though he later stayed in St. Louis, home to a 70,000-strong tightly-knit Bosnian community, he is thought to have had only a handful of friends

Solace in Salafism, and later in the Islamic State
But Pazara found solace on social media where an “online community of Bosnian Salafists” created an echo chamber that laid out a ‘Muslims are under attack’ victimhood narrative, the piece adds. Eleven days after becoming a naturalised US citizen in May 2013, Pazara left to join the IS. He was likely killed in Kobane in 2014. The Bosnian-Americans who sent money and supplies to him were indicted in the US in 2015

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