LONDON — Britain’s most wanted female
terrorist is believed to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike,
according to local media.
Sally Jones, who recruited female jihadis to join the Islamic State, died in Syria in June, according to the Sun and other media. It is possible that her 12-year-old son Joe, or Jojo, was also killed in the strike, according to the reports.
The Sun reported
that CIA officials told British intelligence that Jones was thought to
have been killed by a U.S. Air Force Predator close to the border
between Syria and Iraq.
Jones, 50, a former punk
rock singer from the southern English county of Kent, traveled to Syria
in 2013 to marry computer hacker Junaid Hussain. Hussain, 21, was a
leading member of ISIS’s CyberCaliphate, the group responsible for
hacking the U.S. military's Twitter and YouTube accounts in 2015.
Hussain,
from Birmingham in central England, was reportedly killed by a U.S.
drone strike in August 2015, after which Jones was dubbed the “White
Widow” by some media.
Jones was prominent on social
media, recruiting a number of women to join ISIS under the pseudonym
Umm Hussain al-Britani, with stories about how great life was with the
militants. She also encouraged extremists to carry out attacks in the
West.
U.S. intelligence chiefs said they cannot be 100% sure Jones was killed, but are “confident” she is dead, the Sun reported.
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Originally published on https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/10/12/britains-most-wanted-female-terrorist-killed-u-s-drone-strike-report/756808001/
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