‘White Widow alive’
‘Brit terrorist escaped airstrike and is fighting with IS fanatics’
A BRITISH terror suspect dubbed the White Widow is alive and fighting with a Islamic State fanatics in Syria, it is claimed.
Sally Jones, 50, was believed to have been killed alongside her 12-year-old son JoJo in a US drone strike last October.
But a Canadian IS fighter captured by Kurds in Syria insists she escaped the attack. Muhammed Ali, alias Turab, told research fellow Amarnath Amarasingam that Jones is hiding out in the country’s north-east.
Amarnath said: “Turab claimed she was still alive and probably in final ISIS holdouts of Hajin or As-Shafah. If true, we may find her captured soon.” The claim may confirm US fears Jones was still at large after they posted a list in April of top terror targets, with her name on it.
JoJo was also said to have been seen alive in As-Shafah, near the border with Iraq. But his whereabouts are unknown.
Former punk rock musician Jones, of Chatham, Kent, went to Syria with her son in 2013. A year later she married fellow Briton Junaid Hussain.
The pair, known as “Mr and Mrs Terror”, are accused of recruiting for and directing terror operations in the West.
Jones, said to be leader of the secret Anwar al-Awlaki group’s female wing, has boasted about wanting to behead Westerners.
Hussain was killed in a 2015 drone strike.