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Palani dropped out of college as she joined the fight against militants in Syria. She trained as a crack-shot sniper and spent nine days at a time on the frontline, wielding a Russian-made Dragunov sniper gun
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In an interview with MailOnline, Palani revealed that she took up this fight to stop Isis from advancing and to keep Europe safe.
While ISIS has imposed a bounty, back in the Netherlands, she has alleged that the government is treating her as a 'terrorist'. In the interview, she recalled how she secretly returned to Syria in defiance of a ban on international travel imposed on her in 2015 because she was desperate to rejoin comrades in her battle-hardened Kurdish unit fighting ISIS in northern Syria.
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Palani was arrested on December 7, 2016, by Denmark's intelligence service. She was imprisoned for three weeks before being released on the orders of a judge before Christmas on December 23.
Palani, of Iranian-Kurdish ancestry, was born in a UN refugee camp and moved to Copenhagen when she was three-years-old. She learnt to fire a gun when she was nine-years-old.
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Speaking to MailOnline she said, "I live in one of the best countries in the world but I am hungry and homeless and freezing cold in bed at night, even though I am working full time. I don't trust anyone," she further added.
This article first appeared in Daily Mail
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