"We're trying to find out who were these kids, what were they doing and why were they doing it. Our primary focus is, let's get them back safely."

Some of the five were born in the United States, and all are U.S. citizens, local Muslim leaders said.

"Kids",that's great psyops to minimize the homegrown or citizenized threat.

What they were doing is joining the jihad mil div, undercover, sleepers,
while the empire used noncitizens (hoping to become) as merc/centurians.

Also, torture twitter came out.

Do not be a collaborator. Saboteur is up to you, but do not assist.