Seven orphaned children of Swedish Isis fighter rescued from Syria and reunited with grandfather
A notorious Swedish Isis fighter's seven orphaned children have been brought safely back to live with their grandfather.
Michael Skråmo, a known Isis fighter and recruiter, had seven children aged between one and eight-years-old, born in both Sweden and Raqqah.
Skråmo converted to Islam and became a notorious IS recruiter.
But after taking his wife to live in the caliphate, who died during fighting in January, the Is recruiter was killed in March 2019 during a battle in the village of Baghouz.
The children were orphaned and left alone.
His sister had stayed in touch with him once he had relocated and provided the connection between the children and their grandfather, who lives in Chile.
Following meetings conducted by Sweden, the children have now left Syria and are reunited with Patricio Galvez who was waiting for them in neighbouring Iraq.
Swedish diplomats were sent from Stockholm to meet with Kurdish counterparts to help smooth the way for the children.
The children were led across the Euphrates river and over the border into Iraq.
The cost of plane tickets and hotel rooms, plus other costs, is the responsibility of the family.
Sweden has become one of the first European countries to help bring back some of its child citizens in this way.
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Mr Galvez told ITV the children were 'very good', saying: 'I'd dreamed for this moment'.
The next step is to eventually take the children back to Sweden where some of them were born.
But the Scandinavian nation has not promised to help repatriate the dozens of other children living in Kurdish camps.
Days before Skråmo's death his mother urged him via a text message to 'let the children go'.
Responding with heart emojis, he replied: 'I'll contact you, mum, when I'm out, Inshallah.'
Following his death, Skramo's sister Skråmo's sister said he had died believing he had done the right thing.
She told ITV News: 'Yes we have a very close relationship and we talk very unfiltered with each other and he was telling me that he was going there and he didn't want me to say anything to my mum.
'He's a very determined person. He's a very stubborn person and nothing we say or want really affects him because he has his belief and he has this stubbornness to it.
'But I'm very thankful that we've had this contact because it means the world to me.'
