I have my doubts that he went there "backpacking" especially with a wife that was about 7 months pregnant at the time, and then they had two kids in custody.
Nobody goes to one of the most dangerous countries in the world to back pack, that was a destination for them.
And reading that story, my guess was that he went there to join.
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