Mohsin said he left to fight in Syria in 2012. A school dropout as a teen, he said he "was virtually illiterate and couldn't discern good from bad." He said he was radicalized by people who showed him extremist videos "about the divine obligation to battle those who don't follow Islamic principles and to murder non-Muslims." 
A Mohsin ati anapita kukamenya nkhondo ku Syria mu 2012. Iwo anasiya sukulu ali wachinyamata ndipo anena kuti, "sanali ophunzira kwenikweni choncho samatha kusiyanitsa pakati pa chabwino ndi choyipa." Iwo anasintha kamba ka anthu omwe anawaonetsa kanema wa anthu ochita zinthu moonjeza "wokhudzana ndi lamulo lochoka kwa mulungu loti azilimbana ndi onse omwe samatsatira malamulo achisilamu komanso kupha omwe si asilamu."