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Claim that Islamic State had captured Canadian fighter untrue!
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Reports that the Islamic State had captured a Canadian woman who was fighting with Kurdish peshmerga forces has turned out to be untrue.
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Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
12/2/2014 (9 years ago)
Published in Middle East
Keywords: Islamic State, Rosenberg, Iraq, Syria
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The rumors, spread on a jihadist-run website, that 31-year-old Gill Rosenberg had been captured on November 30 in the besieged Syrian town of Kobane are false.
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Rosenberg is fine, as she put it during a Facebook update: "Guys, I'm totally safe and secure. I don't have Internet access or any communication devices with me for my safety and security. I can't reply regularly and only happened to have a chance to log in and see these (expletive) news stories. Ignore the reports (that) I've been captured."
On the website that reported her capture, jihadists debated gleefully whether to kill her or attempt to negotiate a prisoner swap.
Rosenberg, a Canadian-Israeli citizen, joined the Kurdish militia fighting the Islamic State out of sympathy for their plight in early November.
Sources in the Kurdish militia also confirm that Rosenberg is fine and unharmed. A Kobane official, Idris Nassan, reconfirmed that she has not been harmed and was not even near Kobane in the first place.
After the reports first surfaced, both Canadian and Israeli sources said that the possibility of her capture was under investigation.
Fighting between Kurds and the Islamic State has been raging around Kobane since mid-September.
At one point the Islamic State looked as if it had the Kurds on the ropes and about to be overrun, prompting President Obama to intervene with a U.S. led airstrike campaign against terrorist assets in Syria.
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