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ISIS recruiter Sally Jones was reported to have been killed by a US drone strike

Report: British jihadi 'White Widow' killed by US drone

'White Widow' Sally Jones, infamous convert to Islam and ISIS recruiter, reported dead along with 12 year old son in US drone strike; Jones's husband was also ISIS member, killed by drone in 2015; her son, JoJo, starred in grisly propaganda video depicting shooting of Kurdish prisoners.

Sally Jones, a British jihadi who recruited online for the Islamic State group, has been killed in Syria by a US drone along with her 12-year-old son, The Sun newspaper reported on Thursday.

 

 

A convert to Islam from southern England, Jones was nicknamed the "White Widow" by the British press after her jihadi husband Junaid Hussain, also an IS militant, was killed by a drone in 2015.

 

ISIS recruiter Sally Jones, known as the 'White Widow,' was reported to have been killed by a US drone strike
ISIS recruiter Sally Jones, known as the 'White Widow,' was reported to have been killed by a US drone strike

 

Quoting a British intelligence source who had been briefed by US counterparts, The Sun reported that Jones and her son had been killed in June close to Syria's border with Iraq, as she was attempting to flee the IS stronghold of Raqqa.

 

US intelligence chiefs were quoted as saying they could not be 100 percent certain that Jones had been killed as there was no way of recovering any DNA from the ground, but they were "confident" she was dead.

 

Jones's son, also presumed dead, appeared in an ISIS propaganda video last year
Jones's son, also presumed dead, appeared in an ISIS propaganda video last year

 

Her son JoJo, who was featured in an ISIS propaganda video executing a Kurdish prisoner, was presumed to be dead too, although his presence with her was not known at the time of the drone strike and he was not an intended target, according to The Sun.

 

Other IS militants have been reported dead only to reappear. Furthermore, contradicting the claim of her demise, two American officials told The New York Times Jones was still alive.

 

JoJo Jones appeared in a grisly ISIS propaganda video last year

JoJo Jones appeared in a grisly ISIS propaganda video last year

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Jones, who before her jihadi days was once a singer in a punk band, has been the subject of years of fascination by the British press.

 

She was believed to have left her home in Chatham, in the southern county of Kent, in 2013 to travel to Syria, where she married Hussain whom she had met online.

 

She was active as an online recruiter and sometimes posted propaganda messages on social media, including a striking photograph of herself dressed as a nun pointing a gun towards the camera.

 


פרסום ראשון: 10.12.17, 12:16
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