Mohammed Jamal Amin, 26, reportedly from Virginia, U.S., was arrested near the frontline in Shingal, also known as Sinjar, Iraqi Kurdistan after reportedly trying to defect from ISIS
Kurdish fighters captured an American man on Monday, reportedly trying to flee the Islamic State after spending two months fighting for the group
He was identified as Mohammed Jamal Amin, but the name on the Virginia driver's license he was carrying is actually Mohamad Jamal Khweis
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On Monday, Khweis' father got into an argument with reporters outside the family's Fairfax County home as he was leaving to go meet with authorities
One reporter also claimed that the father, Jamal Khweis, hit a camerawoman in his rage
He was identified as Mohammed Jamal Amin, but the name on the Virginia driver's license he was carrying is actually Mohamad Jamal Khweis
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On Monday, Khweis' father got into an argument with reporters outside the family's Fairfax County home as he was leaving to go meet with authorities
One reporter also claimed that the father, Jamal Khweis, hit a camerawoman in his rage
The father of an American-born ISIS fighter lashed out at reporters outside of the family's Virginia home just hours after news broke of his son's arrest.
Kurdish fighters announced Monday that they had captured an ISIS fighter trying to defect, and identified him as 26-year-old Mohammed Jamal Amin.
However, the driver's license and credit card the fighter was carrying identify him as Mohamad Jamal Khweis from Alexandria, Virginia.
Jamal Khweis, left, who identified himself as the father of the 26-year-old man fighting with the Islamic State group who gave himself up to Iraqi Kurdish forces in northern Iraq on Monday, and who said when he gave up that he is a Palestinian from the United States, reacts with another man as they walk outside a home in Alexandria, Virginia on Monday
After the driver's license was released, reporters showed up outside of the Fairfax County address listed on the license where they encountered an agitated man claiming to be the fighter's father, Jamal Khweis.
One reporter for WUSA even claimed that Khweis hit a camerawoman.
Witnesses said that Khweis became angry when one reporter asked him about his son, and he then told them it was unfair to hold him accountable for his adult son's actions.
'He's 26. Almost 27. He's a grown man, just like you,' he reportedly told a journalist.
In a video of the confrontation Khweis shouts, ‘this is the wrong information. I’m telling you’, while a younger man tries to shoo the horde of media away.
'Tell us the right answers,’ a cameraman says.
The younger man begins pushing the lenses of all the cameras away, walking down the line of media.
‘Stop taking the pictures’ the Khweis says
A reporter who was on the scene said Khweis hit a camerawoman who was outside his home on Monday. Above, a picture of Khweis pointing at a camerawoman. It's unclear if this was the same camerawoman as in the alleged hitting incident
Khweis told reporters at the scene that he can't be held responsible for the actions of his adult son
As the younger man keeps grabbing at cameras, one of the reporters says they are on a 'public sidewalk' and allowed to be there.
The younger man starts getting confrontational with one camera man who says, ‘don’t touch, dude’.
The younger man tells a reporter he's unable to park in his driveway because of the media crews, to which the cameraman responds: ‘I understand it’s a bad time but don’t do that’, referring to his camera being touched.
Khweis threatens that the police are coming and ‘they will take care of you’.
Holding up one finger, Khweis says ‘you have the wrong information. Leave the area right now.
'I’m not telling nobody anything. It’s the wrong information. You’re talking to the wrong person.’
Reporters begin asking him if he’s a relative of ‘Mohamad’, to which he acts like he can’t hear what they are saying and continues shouting it’s the ‘wrong information’
‘The people will talk because you’ve made this whole area about taking bad pictures of me,’ Khweis says in the video.
He continues to tell them to leave and that they have the wrong information, but the reporters continue to try and ask questions.
He tells them he’s just come back from the state department and is going to ‘sue them all’.
'This is my wife she’s not from Iaq. I’m not related to anybody. It’s a media mixup.’
‘All of this is a lie and all of this is false information,’ Khweis tells them.
Khweis said he was leaving to go meet with authorities about his son's alleged arrest in northern Iraq
The Virginia driver's license the ISIS fighter was carrying listed an address on this street in Fairfax County, Virginia
Two memebers of the media ask, ‘Do you have a relative that’s in Iraq fighting with Isis?’
Khweis and the younger man say they don’t and the information is wrong.
This enrages Khweis, who tells the reporter to ‘watch your mouth’.
On the phone he says he ‘needs the Fairfax police to be here’.
The younger man begins to repeat over and over again ‘I’m thankful’.
While on the phone to the police Khweis says, ‘they knocked on my door and now all my neighbors – they’ve made a bad picture of me’.
‘I asked them don’t take the picture’ he shouts as he slams his hand into the lens of the camera shooting the video.
It's not clear if at this point Khweis is hitting a camerawoman's camera or a reporter with a cameraman.
A woman responds, ‘I am on public property, sir. Do not tough my (inaudible)'.
Then a man’s voice is heard saying ‘Do not touch my camera.’
The older man responds ‘I’ll break it’ before the video goes dark.
The fighter reportedly told family he was vacationing in Greece when he flew to Turkey and then crossed into Syria to join ISIS. Pictured on the left on Monday when he was captured in northern Iraq by Kurdish forces and on the right in his Virginia driver's license
Mohammed Jamal Amin, 26, reportedly from Virginia, U.S., was arrested near the frontline in Shingal, also known as Sinjar, Iraqi Kurdistan after reportedly trying to defect from ISIS. According to Peshmerga forces, the captured fighter was born in America and is of Palestinian and Iraqi descent. He reportedly had been fighting for ISIS for two months.
Mohamad was arrested near the frontline in Shingal, also known as Sinjar, inIraqi Kurdistan after reportedly trying to defect from ISIS.
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.
Mohamad had entered Syria via Turkey two months ago, after which he had travelled to Mosul and joined ISIS
Kurdish TV showed him being paraded in front of the camera while being interrogated by a Peshmerga commander, during which he confirms that he is an American citizen
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.
When asked where he is from, he bows his head and quietly responds, in an American accent: 'United States'
Mohamad was arrested by Peshmerga forces after defecting from the terrorist organisation, reportedly believing that the Kurdish front-line was the Turkish border
The man's arrest was announced by Kurdish forces on Monday morning, but U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has yet to confirm the detention of an American citizen
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