A US jihadist who is accused of leading an Islamic State female brigade and plotting attacks in the US has pleaded guilty today to “providing material support to a terrorist operation”, according to the Justice Department.
Allison Fluke-Ekren, a 42-year-old mother, admitted, among other things, that she provided military training to more than 100 women and girls, some of whom were just 10-11 years old. He taught them, among other things, how to handle assault rifles and explosive belts.
The former trainer was transferred to the US from Syria in January. Today he was brought before a federal judge in Alexandria, where he pleaded guilty. Her sentence will be announced on October 25 and can be up to 20 years in prison.
Fluke-Ekren grew up without much trouble on a farm in Kansas. In 2008 she moved to Egypt with her second husband and two children from her first marriage. Three years later, the family moved to Libya, where, according to judicial authorities, her husband stole documents after the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. Around 2012 they went to Syria because, according to a witness, “she wanted to get involved in the jihad”. She initially stayed there for six months but settled permanently in the country in 2014, along with her children. Her husband became an Islamic State sniper. As she knew very well how to handle weapons, something she had learned on the farm where she grew up with her parents, she was assigned to train other female fighters on how to shoot AK-47s and drop grenades.
To “get revenge” for the children killed in a bombing, she suggested organizing an attack on an American university. But because she was pregnant, the plan was canceled. Shortly afterwards, she decided to attack a mall in the United States, but her husband prevented her from doing so.
Her husband was killed in a bombing in 2016, and a few months later Fluke-Ekren remarried another IK fighter, a Bangladeshi man specializing in drone strikes. When he died, he married another member of the organization, a fighter defending Raqqa. At the same time, she organized a women’s brigade, the “Katiba Nusayba”, which took action in February 2017 to help defend Raka.
It is unknown where she went after the fall of the caliphate, how and when she was arrested and what happened to her children.
SOURCE: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
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