Woman from Kansas who lead a female ISIS division in Syria has pleaded guilty
A female ISIS warrior from Kansas (United States of America) pleaded guilty Tuesday in an Alexandria, Virginia, courthouse to conspiring to offer assistance to the terrorist global organisation. She led and trained a unique battalion of over 100 women and children in Syria.
According to the plea agreement, Allison Elizabeth Fluke-Ekren, a biology student at the University of Kansas, moved to Syria around 2012 to wage a violent jihad after residing in Libya, Turkey, and Egypt and working with another terrorist group, Ansar al-Sharia. She joined ISIS with her second husband, who oversaw a troop of ISIS snipers in the nation until being killed in an attack in 2016.
Fluke-Ekren commanded a squad of over 100 female ISIS soldiers in Syria, some of whom were as young as 10 years old at the time, and trained them to wield AK-47s, grenades, and suicide belts. Fluke-Ekren stated during Tuesday's hearing that she was unaware that any of the female fighters she was training were juveniles at the time, claiming that "we didn't intentionally train any young girls."
Prosecutors added that some of these women may opt to speak during the sentence, adding that Fluke-Ekren caused them "life-long trauma".
Fluke-Ekren, according to her plea agreement with the Justice Department, assisted her husband at the time in analysing U.S. documents stolen from the Sept. 11 attacks on a U.S. mission and diplomatic annex in Benghazi, where U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. nationals were killed. The documents, as well as summaries of the material they had generated, were sent to the terrorist group Ansar al-Sharia by the two.
Fluke-Ekren also discussed ideas for terrorist strikes on US territory with ISIS, including parking a van full of explosives beneath a shopping centre, telling one witness that any assault that did not kill a huge number of people was a waste of money.
In January, she was caught in Syria and extradited to the United States, where she was charged with giving and conspiring to give material assistance or resources to ISIS.
Fluke-Ekren burst into tears as Judge Leonie Brinkema addressed her "quite a few children," wondering whether they were a reason she could feel pushed to plead. She faces up to 20 years in jail. Her sentence is scheduled on October 25.
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