Back in UK.. but I’m not a jihadi bride
world because she had concerns about rising Islamophobia.
And she said she was given access to documents relating to Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical US Muslim cleric of Yemeni descent.
Before he was killed in a US drone strike in Yemen on September 30, 2011, al-Awlaki was linked to a series of attacks and plots across the world, including the 9/11 atrocity in the US.
Bracht said: “It’s a modern witch- hunt. These are the oppressed people. They are in prison, then they are free again and then they are not convicted but treated for the rest of their lives as full- time terror suspects. They never had convictions.”
She also said she sympathised with terror bride Begum. Bracht said: “This girl was brainwashed on the internet, the intelligence services didn’t prevent her from leaving the country.
“She was only 15 years old – this should be dealt with by child protection.”
Bracht first hit the headlines in 2008, when she ran away from home in Sunderland with her then five daughters, fearing they were about to be taken into care.
Authorities released an appeal stating Bracht had a personality disorder and saying the police had “serious concerns regarding the children’s welfare”.
In 2018 ,Oban-born John Brown – an ex-Army paratrooper –begged for his daughter Bracht to be given a second chance after it was alleged she travelled to Syria.He said at the time: “We have forgivengiven her. The door is always open.” n.”
Bracht this weekk denied that Brown was her dadad – claiming instead that he was her stepfather.
She was found 122 months later in Munich. Tasnimeme Akunjee, Bracht’s legal representativesentative who also represents Begum,gum, said he was looking at a possible defamation claim against gainst a US firm that is saidid to have published her name as a ter ror or suspect. Yesterday, y, Cage said it had no o record of Bracht t volunteering.
The Home Office e said: “We do not ot c om me n t on individual cases.”