'I as well am a victim of ISIS': Woman who fled U.S. to join terrorist group gives rare interview

[Hortensis]

1. Yes, she is. This is tragic, she regrets a dreadful mistake, but she's not innocent.

I often think about the mass shooters as both murderers and victims of extreme toxic influences they took in. Less murderous but also tragic the far larger numbers influenced by political extremism they can't see or feel to support previously obscure anti-democratic figures who promised to steal elections for them. In another era it didn't happen. To them as well as their nonexistent victims.

It's terribly unfortunate that investigation and the courts decided she's not a U.S. citizen. We've repatriated others who are, some serving sentences for crimes committed while with ISIS. Extremely few Americans are known to have joined ISIS, or tried. Most never left the United States.