US Teacher Pleads Guilty to Leading Women’s Jihadi Battalion

US citizen Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, pleaded guilty Tuesday to organizing and directing the Syria a battalion of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group made up exclusively of women trained in the use of rifles, grenades and explosive belts, the Prosecutor’s Office reported in a statement.

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According to court documents cited by the Prosecutor’s Office, Fluke-Ekren, also known as Umm Mohammed al Amriki, traveled abroad and between approximately September 2011 and May 2019 “participated in activities related to terrorism in several countries, including Syria, Libya and Iraq”.

The US Attorney’s Office in Alexandria, Virginia, announced last January that Fluke-Ekren was charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization.

The criminal complaint was filed under seal in 2019, and was not made public until early years after Fluke-Ekren was returned to the United States to face her charges.

As the leader of that battalion, the detainee allegedly trained the more than 100 members of the battalion, including ten and eleven-year-old girls, in the use of AK-47 assault rifles, grenades and explosive belts to carry out attacks. suicidal.

Fluke-Ekren moved to Egypt in 2008 and traveled frequently between Egypt and the United States for the next three years.

Prosecutors believe he moved to Syria circa 2012. In early 2016, her husband was killed in the Syrian town of Tell Abyad while trying to carry out a terror attack, prosecutors said. Later that year, prosecutors say she married a Bangladeshi IS member who specialized in drones, but he died in late 2016 or early 2017.

Likewise, the Prosecutor’s Office maintains that Fluke-Ekren raised the possibility of attacking a university campus in USA and spoke of a terrorist attack in a shopping center.

Source: Elcomercio

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