Eleven medical students missing, feared to have joined IS.

Eleven medical students missing, feared to have joined IS.(BI).

A group of British medical students of Sudanese origin who went missing after travelling to Turkey are feared to have crossed into Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group as doctors, reports and sources said on Sunday.

The families of the students have travelled to the Turkey-Syria border in a desperate appeal for them to return home before it is too late, a Turkish opposition MP said.

According to reports in Britain's Guardian newspaper and the BBC, the nine young British medical students flew to Istanbul from the Sudanese capital Khartoum on March 12 and then overland towards Syria.

They have been joined by two other medics from the United States and Canada, also of Sudanese origin, the BBC said.

It is believed they are working in a hospital in Tel Abyad, which lies in the governorate of Raqqa - the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (Isil) de facto capital.

Mehmet Ali Edibogl, a Turkish opposition politician told The Observer: “These kids were born and raised in England, but they were sent to Sudan to study at medical school,” “I’ve asked the families why they sent their children to study there (Sudan), and as I understood it, they wanted them to experience a more Islamic culture and not to forget their roots.

“They have been cheated, brainwashed. That is what I, and their relatives, think.” Ahmed Babikir, students' dean at Khartoum's private University of Medical Sciences told AFP five students university were missing after travelling to Turkey.

"They all have British passports and are of Sudanese origin," he said.

"Their families have travelled after them to stop them from joining IS. We are not able to confirm they have crossed into Syria".

The group, who are all in their early 20s, had all moved to the Sudanese capital of Khartoum to study medicine several years ago, having grown up in the UK.Three had already graduated while the others were still studying.

Hmmm......What if any were their 'specialities'? Would they know how to implant bombs? Read the full story here.

Spain Detains 14-year-old Girl Going for Jihad in Iraq after radicalization by local Imam.

Spain Detains 14-year-old Girl Going for Jihad after radicalization by local Imam. HT: Rudaw.

BARCELONA, Spain – A 14-year-old Spanish Muslim girl was sent to a juvenile detention center after confessing she was headed for the Middle East to join the jihad.

The girl, who has not been publicly identified, was arrested last Saturday in the North African Spanish enclave of Melilla together with 19-year-old Fauzia Allal Mohamed, with whom she said she was going to join jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq.

The El Pais newspaper reported Tuesday that while the younger girl was sent to the juvenile center, the older woman was released on bail after denying any links to jihadists.

It was the first time Spanish security forces had arrested women trying to join the jihad. Both appeared separately before Supreme Court judges on Tuesday. They were arrested while trying to cross into Morocco, en route to Iraq.

The 14-year-old, who according to her family was just an “average” schoolgirl until four months ago, started to become radicalized by the sermons of an imam at a mosque in her town, El Pais quoted sources as saying.

The girl has also told Spanish authorities that she was not the only youngster to travel from Morocco to war zones. Other girls, whose identities she has given, were to travel with her.

She said she had contacted Mohamed for help to cross the border to Morocco. Mohamed, who denied any links to terrorism, was released on bail and will have to report every week to the nearest court to her home. She is also not allowed to travel outside Spain.

The two were arrested as they were trying to cross the border into Morocco to contact the cell that had recruited them. Their aim was to be taken to a border area between Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State (IS/ISIS), according to the Spanish Interior Ministry.

El Pais quoted police sources as saying the younger girl is from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. She reportedly disappeared a few days ago from her home and the family had contacted police, saying they were afraid she had joined a radical Islamic organization.

Over the past few months, Spain has arrested members of three jihadist recruitment cells in Ceuta and Melilla. Seven men from Ceuta have been reported killed in Syria fighting with the Islamists.

El Pais said police suspected the two girls had been radicalized through the Internet forums.

“They were going to a certain death,” the newspaper quoted a police official as saying.

Many of the radicalized Muslim women have been inspired by 53-year-old Moroccan Fatiha Mejjati, nicknamed the ”black widow,” who had been in Afghanistan with her husband and two children during the 9/11 attacks in the United States.

After an ordeal of imprisonment and losing her husband and a child, Mejjati recently escaped from Moroccan security forces and left to join the IS in Syria. A Moroccan newspaper has reported that she has married Baghdadi’s lieutenant.Hmmmm.....Don't let it worry you, this is just a segment your Islamophobia imagination.

US Airways Jet Held on Runway after passenger claims to have device surgically implanted inside her

US Airways Jet Held on Runway after passenger claims to have device surgically implanted inside her.(Yahoo).A flight from Paris bound for Charlotte was diverted to Maine on Tuesday after reports say a passenger claimed to have a device surgically implanted device inside.

US Airways flight 787--which left Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport shortly after 11:00 a.m. local time en route to Charlotte Douglas International--was rerouted to Bangor, Maine, shortly after noon ET, CNN reported. The Boeing 767 was carrying 179 passengers and a crew of nine, a spokesman for the airline said, confirming that there had been an unspecified "security issue."

A Homeland Security official told NBC News that the flight was diverted because a "passenger was acting suspiciously."

According to CNN, a French woman on board the flight handed a note to a flight attendant, claiming that she had a surgically implanted explosive inside of her.

Two F-15 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the flight over the Atlantic, NORAD said. The plane landed safely in Bangor.

Doctors on board the flight examined the woman and "saw no sign of recent scars," according to House Homeland Security Committee chairman Peter King's office.

The woman, a French citizen from Cameroon, had planned a 10-day visit to the United States, CNN added. She was traveling alone and had no checked baggage."[We are] aware of reports of a passenger who exhibited suspicious behavior during flight," the TSA said in a statement. "Out of an abundance of caution the flight was diverted to BGR where it was met by law enforcement."Read the full story here.