ISIS member, an American citizen, surrenders to Kurdish forces in Iraq

Seems he was dislillusioned with the whole ISIS thing. Fox News:

A Palestinian-American member of the Islamic State terror group has surrendered to an Iraqi Kurdish military unit in northern Iraq, a Kurdish general said Monday.

The individual was identified as Mohammed Jamal Amin, 27, from Virginia, a source in the Peshmerga forces told Fox News. Amin was born in Virginia to a Palestinian father and Iraqi mother from Mosul, the Turkish news agency Rudaw reported.

Maj. Gen. Feisal Helkani told The Associated Press that Amin surrendered on Monday morning at an inspection point near the town of Sinjar, which was retaken by Iraqi forces from ISIS militants late last year.

Helkani said Amin had been “lurking near the peshmerga lines” since late Sunday night, and his troops first tried to shoot him, assuming he was a would-be suicide bomber.  

“Then in the morning, he walked across and gave himself up,” Helkani added.

Helkani said Amin was carrying with him a large amount of cash, three cellphones and three forms of identification, including a United States driver’s license. He is currently being held by the peshmerga troops for interrogation.

Amin had mistaken Peshmerga territory for the Turkish border, a Peshmerga commander told Rudaw. The commander added that Amin had entered Syria from Turkey two months ago and traveled to Mosul in Iraq..