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Few students can name a professor willing to go the extra mile to ensure their students finish their studies. Fewer still can say their teacher hired an elite team of mercenaries to save you so you can finish your Ph.D.

But a chemistry professor from Sweden did exactly that to rescue a student and his family from ISIS in Iraq.

Charlotta Turner, a professor at Lund University, in the city of the same name, took the unprecedented action after she received a text message in 2014 from her student Firas Jumaah, saying it was unlikely he would be able to finish his research due to threats from the terror group.

"What was happening was completely unacceptable," Turner told the university magazine LUM four years later. "I got so angry that IS [Islamic State] was pushing itself into our world, exposing my doctoral student and his family to this, and disrupting the research."
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"What was happening was completely unacceptable. I got so angry that IS was pushing itself into our world, exposing my doctoral student and his family to this, and disrupting the research."
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Jumaah told the professor to assume he would not be able to finish his thesis if he did not return within a week, because he was stuck in an Iraqi town being surrounded and shelled by Islamic State militants.

"I had no hope then at all," Jumaah said. "I was desperate. I just wanted to tell my supervisor what was happening. I had no idea that a professor would be able to do anything for us."

Jumaah and his family were particularly in danger because they are part of the Yazidi ethnoreligious group that was subject to brutal treatment by ISIS, who often tortured or murdered the men and sold women into sex slavery.

He voluntarily entered the war zone after his wife in the area told him that ISIS had taken over a nearby village, massacring the men and enslaving women, according to The Local.

The threat of danger prompted the professor to take matters into her own hands and contact the university's then-security chief Per Gustafson.

"It was almost as if he'd been waiting for this kind of mission," Turner told the university magazine. "Per Gustafson said that we had a transport and security deal which stretched over the whole world."
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Following a few days of preparations, Gustafson hired a private security company, which then moved into the war zone in two Landcruisers with four heavily-armed mercenaries and one goal: rescue Jumaah and his family.

"It was a unique event. As far as I know, no other university has ever been involved in anything like it," Gustafson said.

"It was a unique event. As far as I know no other university has ever been involved in anything like it."
- Lund University's then-security chief Per Gustafson.

After finding Jumaah in hiding, they sped to an airport in Erbil Airport, an airport in Iraqi Kurdistan, safely escaping the mortal danger.

"I have never felt so privileged, so VIP,' Jumaah told LUM. "But at the same time I felt like a coward as I left my mother and sisters behind me."

Luckily, according to the magazine, the rest of Jumaah's family survived the occupation of ISIS, which has since been decimated in the region thanks to pushback by the Kurdish forces aided by Western countries.

He successfully completed his Ph.D. and works at a pharmaceutical company in Malmö. The family also almost paid off the university for the mercenaries they hired.

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Professor hired mercenaries to rescue student from ISIS in Iraq after he said he wouldn't finish his thesis

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Few students can name a professor willing to go the extra mile to ensure their students finish their studies. Fewer still can say their teacher hired an elite team of mercenaries to save you so you can finish your Ph.D. But a chemistry professor from Sweden did exactly that to rescue a student and his family from ISIS in Iraq.

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In recent weeks coalition forces have more than tripled the number of strikes they made against ISIS elements in Iraq and Syria. But more ground operations in pockets of those countries are needed to flush out the remaining fighters, officials said.

Since the May 1 start of "Operation Roundup," Syrian Democratic Forces resumed offensive combat operations in the Middle Euphrates River Valley, according to the Pentagon.

In May the coalition conducted 225 strikes with 280 engagements. That was triple the number of strikes that took place in March, which was 74. And higher than the 183 strikes in April.

Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters this week that "it's still a fight." Partner forces kicked off an attack in one of the "last enclaves" of ISIS.

That fighting continues even after the Iraqi city of Mosul was retaken last July and Raqqa, Syria was retaken late last year.

Though airstrikes have increased, one expert says that might not be the best measure for sweeping out the terrorist organization from the region.

"The strikes alone won't eliminate residual ISIS presence," said Jennifer Cafarella, director of intelligence planning for the Institute for the Study of War.

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She said the ground advance is key, in part because ISIS fighters have been using tunnels and other subterranean structures to blunt the effectiveness of airstrikes.

A June 1 engagement that involved four strikes in Syria near Abu Kamal destroyed an ISIS-held building and tunnel. Shortly afterward a June 9 strike by coalition forces near Mosul, Iraq destroyed five such tunnels, according to the release.

Leaders are talking more about the ground offensive, as Mattis mentioned to media.

"At some point, we will continue to move against the other enclaves down in, what we call the MERV or the Middle Euphrates River Valley," Mattis said.

Another factor complicating the situation, specifically in Syria, has been that the factions supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime are present along the Iraq-Syria border, Cafarella said.

Officials included commentary on battlefield actions by some ISIS fighters and leaders.

"Daesh (ISIS) morale is sinking on the frontlines as privileged Daesh leaders increasingly abandon their own fighters on the battlefield, taking resources with them as they flee," according to the release.

But there might be more to understand with some of those actions and it may be harder to measure the strength of the remaining terrorist forces in the area.

"ISIS chose to cede terrain to opposing forces in strongholds like Hawija, (Iraq) in order to preserve capabilities while buying time and space to regroup," Cafarella said. "The scale of those residual capabilities is difficult to tell, but they're there."

Reports indicate that ISIS forces have survived numerous attempted clearings in areas near Kirkuk, Iraq, she said. Similar intelligence shows warning signs similar to the rise of the organization beginning in 2011 of local population extortion and fake security checkpoints.

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In recent weeks coalition forces have more than tripled the number of strikes they made against ISIS elements in Iraq and Syria. But more ground operations in pockets of those countries are needed to flush out the remaining fighters, officials said.

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La diferencia entre preterito y imperfecto es que preterito es usado con acciones completadas que tienen puntos de inicio y fin definidos. El imperfecto es usado con acciones en el pasado que no tienen fin definido.

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la diferencia de los dos es, imperfecto es en el pasado y presente es en el presente

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La diferencia es pretérito es en el pasado momento exacto y imperfecto es pasado pero no tiempo exacto

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Preterito es algo que ha existido o sucedido en el pasado y imperfecto es que no tiene todas las cualidades requeridas o deseables Lara ser bueno

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La diferencia de preterito e imperfecto es que los tenses

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La diferencia del imperfecto y del pretérito. Pasado y hora.

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Imperfecto no tiene fin en la acción.
Preterito es que la accion tiene fin y a estado terminada..

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preterito es la accion tiene fin y ya fue terminada y imperfecto no tiene fin.

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el preterito es mas es mas exacto y imperfecto es algo que solo paso sin saber algo exacto.

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imperfecto no tiene fin en la accion. Preterito es que la accion tiene fin y ya fue terminada.

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Preterito es exacto y imperfecto es es pasado y general.

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una de las diferencias son que pretérito es temporarios y imperfecto es permanente

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La diferencia entre los dos es que imperfecto es cuando algo se dice en general, no es exacto. Pretérito es mas precio y tiene un comienzo y fin.

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los dos son de pasado pero uno abla de personas y otrp de tiempos???

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La diferencia de pretérito y imperfecto es que pretérito tiene fin.

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La diferencia es que el imperfecto está en el pasado y es general el pretérito es mas exacto y tiene un fin.

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La diferencia entre preterito y imperfecto es que preterito es usado con acciones completadas que tienen puntos de inicio y fin definidos. El imperfecto es usado con acciones en el pasado que no tienen fin definido.

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Imperfecto no tiene fin en el acion. Pretérito es cuando tiene tiempo específico.

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La diferencia entre los dos es que el imperfecto es algo que ya ha pasado y es mas general. El pretérito es mucho mas exacto y tiene un comienza y un fin quién son obvio

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Cual es la diferencia entre los dos?