Confessions of an islamic state fighter
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CONFESSIONS OF AN ISLAMIC STATE FIGHTER FITIM LLADROVCI TRAVELLED TO SYRIA TO FIGHT A HOLY WAR. NOW BACK IN KOSOVO, HE CONTINUES TO CALL FOR JIHAD. ALEXANDER CLAPP IS GRANTED A RARE
INTERVIEW By Alexander Clapp The journey that led Fitim Lladrovci to become one of the most notorious men in the Balkans began in October 2013, when he was 23 years old. He pocketed his life
savings of $350, said goodbye to his wife and left Obilic, a grimy town in central Kosovo. In Pristina, the capital, he boarded a plane to Istanbul and then took a second flight to Hatay, a
province in south-east Turkey. He was met at the airport by a large Arab man in a black tracksuit and sunglasses who drove him to a single-storey house stacked with bunk-beds, where
Lladrovci was surprised to find six other ethnic Albanians. Two were men; two were women whose husbands had crossed into Syria months earlier; two were children, a boy of two and a girl of
six months who cried continually.