White Widow is wiped out by US drone strike
Jihadi bride killed as she fled IS stronghold
‘Behead Christians with a blunt knife’
THE British jihadi who became known as the White Widow has been killed in a US drone strike, it emerged last night.
Sally Jones, one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, fled the UK with her husband and youngest son, JoJo, in 2013 to become a recruiter for the Islamic State terror group.
She was killed by a Predator missile near the border of Iraq and Syria four months ago as she tried to flee the group’s stronghold in Raqqa, it is understood.
It was feared 12-year-old JoJo was being used as a human shield and was also killed in the strike.
British commanders were informed of the hit by the US but it is understood they did not disclose what happened in case her son had been killed.
Jones, 50, was believed to have been heading towards the border town of Mayadin. RAF jets are now focusing air strikes on the town amid fears an attack on British soil could be orchestrated from there.
Jones, from Chatham, Kent, was on a hit list of foreign fighters who US-led coalition forces were trying to kill amid fears they presented a threat to the West.
She became known as the White Widow after the death of her husband, Kings Heath terrorist Junaid Hussain, who was the leader of the IS ‘digi-jihad’ computer hacking brigade. He was killed in a drone strike in 2015.
Jones, who went by the name Umm Hussain Britaniyah, was believed to be the leader of the secret Anwar al-Awlaki battalion’s female wing. She was said to be responsible for training European female terror recruits.
The Mail has revealed how UK jihadis who have fled to Iraq and Syria to fight with the militant group have been killed by RAF air strikes.
They have not been deliberately targeted for their nationality but because of the threat they pose.
On September 28, 2015, the United Nations sanctioned Jones as an agent operating on behalf of a terrorist organisation.
She had used her Twitter account to spread propaganda for the group, and has tweeted of her wish to behead a Western prisoner in Syria and ‘blunt behead knife’. Christians with a
In one online post, she superimposed her face on a photo of a gun-toting nun.
In 2016, she wrote: ‘I just wanna say… have a nice summer. I wouldn’t go into central London through June or July. Well, to be honest, I wouldn’t go there at all by Tube.’
In July a friend said Jones was being desperate to return to the UK, but she was apparently being forced to stay by her husband’s comrades.
Jones had made threats on social media as a response to US-led coalition airstrikes on IS forces in Syria and Iraq.
Last year JoJo’s step-grandfather Terry Lynch, from Kent, described him as a ‘lost soul’ whose life was ‘finished’. JoJo had been used in sickening propaganda videos for the terror group. A nine-minute IS video issued last year appeared to show the boy executing a captured prisoner in a firing squad. Wearing military fatigues and black bandanas, a group of boys pointed their handguns in the air before aiming them at the captured Kurdish hostages’ heads and firing. JoJo’s father, who asked not to be named, said he thought the boy in the video may have been his son, adding: ‘It’s disgusting – he’s been brainwashed.’ The Government last night said it did not comment on national security operations.