Uppgifter: IS-värvaren ”Vita änkan” dödad av drönare
Den brittiska IS-rekryteraren Sally Jones uppges ha dödats i samband med en amerikansk drönarattack i Syrien i juni. Det rapporterar The Guardian. Den senaste säkra observationen av Jones gjorde när hon på försommaren flydde från Raqqa mot den irakiska gränsen. Hennes tolvårige son ska ha dödats vid samma attack.
Jones har kallats ”vita änkan” av brittiska medier. På sociala medier har hon intensivt spridit propaganda om organisationen, för att rekrytera nya medlemmar till terrorgruppen. Den aktiviteten upphörde för flera månader sedan.
Pentagon har inte kunnat bekräfta att Jones har dödats.
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Sally Jones
Wikipedia (en)
Sally Jones, also known as the White Widow or Umm Hussain al-Britani, is a British-born UN-designated recruiter and propagandist for the Islamic State (ISIS). She is believed to have been killed in June 2017, but this remains unconfirmed.
Jones was the widow of Junaid Hussain, the deceased British computer hacker (killed 25 August 2015) formerly in charge of recruiting new hackers to ISIS. After Hussain was reportedly killed by a U.S. drone strike in September 2015, Jones boasted that her husband was killed by "the greatest enemy of Allah."
Jones's activity online fell in line with her role as leader of the secret Anwar al-Awlaki battalion’s female wing. In this role, Jones was responsible for training all European female recruits, or muhajirat, in the use of weapons and tactics. These muhajirat were then trained and instructed to carry out suicide missions in the West, according to leaked ISIS documents.
According to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), Jones used Twitter to propagandise for ISIS. In July 2017, Jones was reported as wanting to return to the United Kingdom.
In October 2017, it was reported that Jones had been killed with her 12 year old son in an American drone strike in June 2017, having last been seen fleeing from a drone strike in Raqqa, but this has not been confirmed.
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