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Regional Trini jailed in Iraq for ISIS links to be deported home
ATrinidadian woman who was jailed in Iraq for her affiliation to the Islamic State (ISIS), the terrorist group which has caused havoc in some countries for years, is set to be deported home after serving her sentence in July.
Guardian Media has been reliably informed that Sabirah Khadijah Waheed, who is currently serving a six-year sentence at the prison, is expected to be released in July and will be immediately deported, along with at least four children in her care.
News of her incarceration came to light after a social media video showing a boy in an Iraqi prison surfaced this week. The boy was seen behind bars and being fed in what appeared to be a cell block.
Guardian Media was reliably told that the boy’s mother is Trinidadian and his father a Guyanese national, who left the Caribbean to join the Islamic State around 2012.
His parents entered Iraq via Turkey. However, sources confirmed that the boy’s mother was killed and his