British jihadi trainer on most-wanted list
A white British convert who joined Islamic State in Syria with her young son in tow is training a brigade of jihadist widows to attack the West, anti-isis activists have said.
Sally Jones, 49, the world’s most-wanted woman terrorist, is thought to have travelled to Syria at the end of 2013 to marry a young former hacker from Birmingham who has since been killed in a United States drone strike.
Jones, a former Christian who played in a punk rock band, has issued a series of threats against the UK on social media.
She allowed her son Jojo, 11, to take part in a bloody propaganda video for the Islamist militia in which he was seen shooting a hostage in the back of the head alongside other young boys.
She gave Jojo the name Abu Abdullah al-britani for the brutal murder video. His stepfather, Junaid Hussain, was a key member of the recruitment effort and ran a hacking unit for Isis.
She is now thought to have taken a role as the head of the Anwar al-awlaki battalion, a specialist all-woman unit training Western widows to return to their home countries to carry out terrorist atrocities.
The news comes days after police dismantled an all-woman terror cell in Paris, arresting five women aged between 16 and 39 in connection with a plot to blow up Notre Dame Cathedral. One of the women had been set to marry two terrorists responsible for the murder of two police officers and a Catholic priest whose throat was slit.
In an echo of Chechnya’s black widows, Jones, who uses the name Umm Hussain al-britani, is now preparing the wives of dead fighters for suicide missions and giving them weapons training, according to activists and a former fighter.