Captured American ISIS fighter, 26, told family he was going on vacation to Greece

Mohammed Jamal Amin, a 26-year-old from Alexandria, Virginia, was arrested near the frontline in Shingal, also known as Sinjar, in Iraqi Kurdistan after reportedly trying to defect from ISIS.

According to Peshmerga forces, he is American born of Palestinian and Iraq descent who had been fighting for ISIS for two months.

While the man identified himself by the last name of Amin, that name doesn't line up with the same found on the Virginia driver's license and credit cards found on his person which list a Mohamad Jamal Khweis.  

The discrepancy between the fighter's family name on the license and the one provided by the Kurdish general could not immediately be reconciled. His first name was also spelled differently.

An uncle of Khweis looked at the driver's license and confirmed to NBC News that the man was indeed his nephew.  

'That's him. I cannot believe it,' Kamal Khweis said. 'He doesn't even speak Arabic. ISIS? I cannot believe this.'

Khweis was shocked to hear that his nephew had gotten mixed up in ISIS, saying there was nothing in his lifestyle to suggest he would join the extremist group.

'He's a quiet guy... a nice guy,' he said. 'He had a car, he had a job. His parents gave him everything. No one knows what to think. His mother is crying.'

Khweis says the family was under the impression that Mohamad was in Greece on vacation.

Mohamad had entered Syria via Turkey two months ago, after which he had traveled to Mosul in northern Iraq and joined ISIS' mujahideen,Rudaw.net reports.

It appears that Mohamad was trying to defect from the terrorist organization, but confused the Kurdish front-line for the Turkish border.

After Peshmerga forces fired warning shots at him as he approached, Mohamad identified himself as an ISIS defector, and was arrested.

Kurdish TV showed him being paraded in front of the camera while being interrogated by a Peshmerga commander.

He asks the Peshmerga forces to stop filming him, to which the Peshmerga commander asks him 'Why no camera?!'

When asked where he is from, he bows his head and quietly responds, in a flawless American accent: 'United States'.

However, when he asks if he is of American heritage, he replies: 'No, Iraq', explaining that his mother is 'from here, Mosul'.

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has yet to confirm the detention of an American citizen, and the Pentagon said it could not immediately confirm the incident.

CNN, which also reported the incident, said the fighter was captured near Sinjar and handed over to Kurdish authorities in the region.

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