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Rehabilitation or Beyond Redemption?

Lots of European governments are facing the same problem: what to do with their citizens - including women and children - who left to join the so-called 'Islamic State' in Syria and Iraq. Can they be rehabilitated into society? Phil Gayle asked Nafees Hamid from the Terrorism & Organized Crime Unit at University College London.

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