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Laura Passoni took her four-year-old son to Syria in 2014 to join ISIS and realized quickly she'd made a terrible mistake. "From that moment I did everything to try to leave so that my son wouldn’t become a terrorist,” she says.

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Laura Passoni went to Syria to join the ISIS terror group, taking along her 4-year-old son. She soon realized: “I made a very bad mistake.”

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