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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: CNN: Man Interrogated by Kurdish Forces Says He's American [Watch (HLS stream): CNN: Man Interrogated by Kurdish Forces Says He's American](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/u6oDswdn.m3u8) (2:16)  _Published 2016-03-18_ --- Jul 27, 2023 7:47 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [A Brief History of the U.S. Backing Kurdish Fighters](/video/4T9tHCcc/) ### A Brief History of the U.S. Backing Kurdish Fighters [Fact Check: How Many Americans Are Out of the Labor Force?](/video/pGUb9xVH/) ### Fact Check: How Many Americans Are Out of the Labor Force? [Man Wearing Google Glass Removed From Movie Theater, Interrogated By Feds](/video/o55Xq7xL/) ### Man Wearing Google Glass Removed From Movie Theater, Interrogated By Feds --- ## Transcript The moment of capture. Interrogated by Kurdish forces, the man says he's American, that his father is Palestinian, and his mother is from Iraq. Where are you from? United States. Kurdish officials say he is 26 year old Mohammed Jamal Kawais. They say they captured him trying to leave ISIS territory in Iraq and flee home. Kurdish TV aired an edited interview with Kawais while he was in captivity. He said he traveled through Europe late last year to Syria, then to Mosul, Iraq. Khweis said he was put in a house just for foreign fighters, that life was hard, and that the people who command ISIS aren't good Muslims. He said he didn't agree with their ideology and that's why he wanted to escape. [ SOUND ] Analysts say he could be a gold mine for U. S. intelligence on the inner workings of the terror group. What I think is most interesting about this case is how we traveled. What routes do you take. And that will give us an insight how other Americans that's try to travel to Syria and Iraq. CNN went to see his father. It's a wrong information. Your talking to wrong person. But the man clearly seemed upset and later told reporters this. This all enough. I can not ask where is coming from [ UNKNOWN ] Not. I know he is here [ UNKNOWN ] [ UNKNOWN ] Graduated form Edison High School in Alexandria Virginia in 2007. Harrison [ UNKNOWN ] a friend from high school, recognizes [ UNKNOWN ] from the driver's license. [ UNKNOWN ] Says [ UNKNOWN ] was a normal teenager. Who made fun of people who were religious. What do you make of this news about your friend? It's really upsetting. It really sucks. It's something you feel for his family. It's not something that you would ever think would happen. Definitely wasn't the type of person, wasn't an angry person, wasn't an outcast by any means. He was just a normal guy. We did normal stuff in high school. Another friend who didn't want to be on camera told CNN Quice was a friendly and goofy kid, who often joked around. If Quice was with ISIS, why would he have abandoned them on the battlefield and walked into the arms of the enemy? The main reason was, it wasn't what they told him it was gonna be. They thought it would be this great so- called caliphate, and it's just not. And they saw the infighting and the killing of other Muslims. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"CNN: Man Interrogated by Kurdish Forces Says He's American","description":" ","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/u6oDswdn/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-03-18T11:32:51.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/u6oDswdn.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/u6oDswdn/","duration":"PT2M16S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/u6oDswdn/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```