The last group which joined ISIS didn’t travel through the airport and they didn’t go to Turkey but Libya. The last person who sought to join ISIS and decided to leave [the country] through Khartoum airport knew that measure and that is why he didn’t travel [directly] from Khartoum to Turkey but he instead went to Addis Ababa and from there he left for Turkey,” he explained.

Atta pointed that young person was arrested in Turkey and has been returned to Sudan, adding he is currently being held in detention with the knowledge of his family.

“We want to make sure that he wouldn’t seek to [join ISIS] again and this is the least thing we could do in this regard, ”he add.

It is noteworthy that NISS organizes discussion rounds with the extremists inside their detention centers in order to review their thought. They usually pledge before their release not to seek to join any Jihadi movement abroad.

The spy-chief further revealed that all persons involved in sending the students to join ISIS are “in our hands”, stressing that two recruiting cells have been busted.

He said that pressures have been exerted on his agency to release the first cell of ISIS operatives when they were arrested.