BuzzFeed News examines the social media accounts of three Colorado girls who officials say tried to join a terrorist group.
Students catch the bus outside Highland Square Apartments, where one of the three teen girls who tried to go to Syria to join ISIS lived.
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BuzzFeed News identified the three teens by using the information provided in the redacted offense report from the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office, tweets from their friends and classmates, and the girls' personal Facebook accounts.
No charges have been filed against the girls, and because of their ages, BuzzFeed News is not using their full names. Like many would-be militant supporters, the three girls adopted a second name to use while online, known as a kunya, which will be used to identify them here.
Officials believe that the teenage girls were recruited online to join ISIS. An examination of the three girls' (now-deleted) social media accounts point to this possibility.
AP Photo / Militant Website, File
The girls — two sisters of Somali descent ages 15 and 17 and their 16-year-old friend whose family is Sudanese — had skipped school on Oct. 17 and fled with their passports and $2,000, officials said.
Umm Sufyan, 17, and her sister, Umm Suleiman, 15, told their father that they were not feeling well and planned to stay home from school. At around 10:30 a.m., they left their family home in Aurora, Colorado, telling their father that they were going to a nearby library to study.
Meanwhile, Umm Yassir, 16, got onto the bus at 6:30 a.m., but at approximately 10 a.m., her father received a call informing him that his daughter was not in school. He called his daughter's cell phone, and she told him that she was just running late for class.
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