Jamie Read and James Hughes, who have returned home to see their families, revealed they had panic alarms fitted to their homes for fear of reprisals by British extremists. The former soldiers decided to travel to Syria to fight ISIS after the British aid volunteer Alan Henning was murdered by militants. They said they could not stand by while innocent people were being killed. Read, 24, told Sky News that he and Hughes, 26, “felt compelled” to take up arms, adding, “I could not justify sitting back in the UK and watching IS pretty much do what they like.”...
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